It must be Wednesday

Portsmouth Evening News 
Friday 12th March 2004

Faced with a couple of years with no band, what else could Murderdolls frontman Wednesday 13 do than raise an old band from the dead? 
 The singer is returning to old material from his days with The Frankenstein Drag Queens to tour around Europe - and he's promising a ghostly graveyard experience for anyone who comes along. 
 'Visually we don't look anything like the Murderdolls, we look more like Night of the Living Dead' he laughs. 
 'Murderdolls is more glam shock rock, this is more monster movie, white faces and stitches.
 'I will be made up as well, I look way different - and I'm playing guitar live which is something I never did with Murderdolls'
 Murderdolls became a favourite with rock fans after singles such as Dead in Hollywood and a version of Billy Idol's White Wedding, but they've hit a hiatus because guitarist Joey has returned to his day job as drummer with Slipknot to record a new album and to tour it. 
 'I could give you a guess as to when we will be back together but it would be a guess,' says Wednesday. 
 'Slipknot tour next month in America and then they have festivals and more dates until about January or February next year. Joey will want some time off after that - the guy's going to pass out if he doesn't have some kind of small break.
 'Realistically it could be summer of 2005 before we have a new record out, or maybe even later and this is my job now, the way I live and support my family is to play music so I've got to do something else. 
 'I've been at home since July last year, so I'm going to go out and do as much as I can. I'm going out, keeping my name out there' 
 Wednesday 13's Graveyard-A-Go-Go Tour - with him backed by Florida graverockers Death Becomes You - arrives on the south coast next week and there's a new album called 6 Years, 6 Feet Under The Influence made up of mostly revamped Frankenstein Drag Queens tracks. 
 'The record is called that because the Drag Queens were together for six years from 1996 to 2002. I had started recording this album just before I met Joey," says Wednesday. 'we had recorded 20 songs, but when I met Joey I sat it on the shelf. The  last summer I realised I still had these songs and I thought I could put out a best of. So I finished them off and it sounds great, as good as anything I have put out before'.


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