The Dead Weather’s Alison Mosshart: “I’m the luckiest person in the world that this is my job”

In the new, October issue of DIY (out Friday 2nd October), The Dead Weather and The Kills’ Alison Mosshart talks about what it’s like to work with no “deadline”.

“We’re not acting like a traditional put out a record, tour it, do all this press, do all these things… we’re doing it in the only way we can, like this, when we can do it we’ll do it, and when we can’t do it, it’s no big deal,” she says of The Dead Weather.

“It’s definitely an interesting situation, and one which makes it so much fun and such a pleasure to do. We really can make this music because we love making music, we really can put this record out because we really want people to hear it, and with all good intentions behind it. Not to say there’s not good intentions behind other things, but I think it’s different when you have a ‘main job’ that you’ve always got to do, and this is… it’s different. But the record holds up. It might be a side-project in the fact that everybody is in pretty successful bands, but it doesn’t feel like a side-project when we’re doing it. It feels like a band.”

Read the full interview in the October issue of DIY, out Friday 2nd October. Pre-order a copy below.