Singer Dave Havok and guitarist Jade Puget of Southern California punk outfit AFI will use the spare time on their upcoming U.S. tour to draft material for their new, electronic side project Blaqk Audio.
"Everything's electronic, no instruments," Puget says. "We've been experimenting -- everything from industrial to ambient stuff. We're just going to see what happens. Dave and I listen to a lot of electronic music. I like all the EBM [electronic body music] stuff, Covenant, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, [Paul] Oakenfold, DJ Shadow and BT."
The duo has eight songs completed for an album targeted for next year.
AFI themselves head into the studio next summer, and Puget says they started writing material last month for the follow-up to this year's Sing the Sorrow, some of which might reflect his electronic fixation. "I have a lot of stuff already written," he says. "I've been working on a lot of electronic elements that would go into AFI . . . but I don't want it to go too far. AFI -- it's guitar-based and it's instrument-based, but there's a lot of room for that. I love electronic music so much, and that's something I want to explore."
AFI tour dates:
9/24: Fresno, CA, Rainbow Ballroom
9/26: Las Vegas, House of Blues
9/27: Salt Lake City, Utah State Fairplex
9/29: Albuquerque, Sunshine Ballroom
9/30: El Paso, E9 Nightclub
10/2: Austin, La Zona Rosa
10/3: Oklahoma, OK, Brickstown Events Center
10/4: Sauget, IL, Pop's
10/5: Chicago, Aragon Ballroom
10/7: Milwaukee, The Rave
10/8: Green Bay, WI, Riverside Ballroom
10/10: Fargo, ND, Playmakers Pavilion
10/11: Winnipeg, MA, University of Manitoba
10/12: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Doris Knight Hall
10/14: Saskatoon, SAS, Canada Praireland Park
10/15: Edmonton, ALB, Canada Red's
10/19: Seattle, Paramount Theater
10/30: Los Angeles, Universal Amphitheater
11/2: Irvine, CA, UCI Bren Events Center
JOLIE LASH
(September 4, 2003)