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By GINA VIVINETTO
Published February 4, 2005
Joseph Garnett Jr./tbt*
Brian Repetto is the singer for the alternative rock band the Dumbwaiters, of Tampa. They perform at the Come the Freak On! festival on Saturday (2/5) at New World Brewery.
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This is a busy week for the Tampa band Dumbwaiters. The experimental rockers release their new CD, Musick, and perform Saturday at the Come the Freak On! music festival at the New World Brewery in Ybor City.
The Freak fest unites bands and DJs involved in Screw Music Forever, a musicians' collective begun 10 years ago in Tampa, now spread to New York and several other states.
Head Dumbwaiter Brian Repetto, who began Screw Music Forever with members of Home, the former Tampa Bay area band that returns from New York to perform Saturday, discusses everything from the dadaists to delivering pizza.
(1) There's a song, Vertigo, on your new album that sounds very cinematic and Hitchcockian. Actually, that's a really old song that never really went anywhere, but I always liked it. It's really personal. I was trying to capture with the music the moods of a person unraveling, of someone's psyche just coming undone. I do have a Vertigo poster in my kitchen that I see every morning, getting up bleary-eyed (laughs).
(2) You paint as well as write and perform music, right? I used to paint a lot. I haven't in a long time. I do all the artwork for the records. I like to mix it up. The band is my art right now. Like Vertigo is an artwork. It's something I couldn't paint. What inspires you? I love to read. I like to read about art movements. The dadaists and the surrealists, they interested me early on. Lately the conceptualists -- I apply all of it to music.
I'm always interested in any radical movement when groups of people got together with ideas involving art and music and philosophy and they discussed it all and did interesting things. I love books like (Greil Marcus') Lipstick Traces , books that cross-reference all kinds of artistic and historical movements.
(3) Explain what Screw Music Forever is. Well, straight up, it's a collective of friends and compatriots who enjoy each other's music and art, and also, luckily, enjoy each other's company enough to get together as much as possible. At one point, yes, we wanted it to be a record label and tried going in that direction. But, now, it's somewhat taken on a life of its own as a collective hub.
Is this weekend's festival the annual gathering of old friends? Yep, exactly. Also, I've always seen it (Come the Freak On!) as a way for all of us to spread our individual, um, flavors in a collective way to the public. ... Of course, we've normally done CTFO! in Brooklyn during the fall. But, yeah, pretty much everyone involved in it has roots and origins in Tampa -- or somewhere in Florida. Plus, it's SMF's 10th anniversary. It's also Dumbwaiters' 10th anniversary as a band.
(4) What is your day job? I deliver pizzas. In some ritzy neighborhoods of Tampa. I always deliver to celebrities, local newscasters and politicians. Buccaneers. They order some gourmet stuff. Wealthy people don't necessarily tip very well, no, but there are exceptions. The best tip was the guy from Hardcastle and McCormick, seriously, the curly-haired guy (Daniel Hugh Kelly). I guess he has family that lives around here. I delivered some pizzas to them. He tipped very well. He was very nice.
- Gina Vivinetto gina@tampabay.com
PREVIEW: Come the Freak On! festival stars Dumbwaiters, Home (New York), Unrequited Loves, Leels (College Park, Pa.), Baby Robots (Austin, Texas), Bound (Gainesville), Errant Strikes (Baltimore) and more. It all kicks off at 6 p.m. Saturday at New World Brewery, 1313 E Eighth Ave., Ybor City. $7, with all proceeds going to the Red Cross. (813) 248-4969.
[Last modified February 3, 2005, 13:55:17]
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