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Electro kraut rockers Higamos Hogamos pigging out on the meaning of life
Words Daddy Bones
We last featured Steve Webster in The Stool Pigeon just prior to the release of his Arts & Crafts album as The Black Neon. Brilliant though it was, it didn’t get the push it deserved, if indeed it got pushed at all. “I don’t really have any answers about that,” Steve muses. “I guess there was just a mutual disinterest by the end of my time with Memphis Industries; they weren’t really interested in what I was doing and I wasn’t really interested in what they were doing. But there are no hard feelings.”
Since then, he says he has “opted out of consumer society, creeping around the fringes” to immerse himself totally in music-making for a new project called Higamos Hogamos with erstwhile collaborator, Toby ‘Zan Pan’ Jenkins. “I’ve tried to do it part time,” he admits, “but I find it difficult to switch in on and switch it off again. It’s a great quandary, but I can’t complain. I’m really enjoying life.”
He deserves to be chipper, too: the best part of another prog-kraut-synth-rock classic, which you can sample on MySpace, is shaping up nicely and he’s recently closed a deal for it with DC Recordings, whose owner has been a fan since Steve’s days in Fort Lauderdale. “It’s really refreshing to be on another label; somewhere with some enthusiasm for what you’re doing,” he beams.
In lieu of the finished product (“It might be January, so take a long time writing this feature), all we can offer at present is the tale behind the Higamos Hogamos name.
“It’s kind of nonsense really,” says Steve. “A friend of ours told us a story about this reasonably famous philosopher called William James from the early 1900s. Supposedly he’d experiment with drugs - nitrous oxide was one of his favourites - to aid his philosophical musings. One night he was sort of ‘out there’ and thought he’d discovered the meaning of life, which he jotted down on a piece of paper. When he woke up in the morning from his stupor, he was really excited as he searched for this paper. He couldn’t remember what he’d written but knew it was very profound. It just said: Higamos Hogamos. When I heard this, it seemed like a great band name in the progressive rock tradition. And it’s never been used.”
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