Hellfire Boys Club -the abyss and back

here's another gem that almost plunged into a binary clusterfuck. NY's Hellfire Boys Club have been purveyors of the long island dark arts scene for quite some time now. what started as an std ala THE CLAP ..the breakout manifested one hundred fold into a whole other entity..blasting sarcasm and political ideas guide a sea of wayward souls towards a light of redemption. choke on this, pop consumer!

LEWD: Hellfire Boys Club? Is this like a place where disenfranchised Satanist teens can get together and meet?
SHAWN CLAP:If by "meet" you mean "fuck", then yes, I'd call that an accurate description.


LEWD: So let’s discuss the name change. You used to be THE CLAP and now you’re not, what lead to the decision of changing the name?

SHAWN CLAP:Well, The Clap was a band, and a very good one at that, but the Hellfire Boys Club is a gang.


LEWD: Okay now do I still call you Shawn Clap or Shawn Hellfire?

SHAWN CLAP: Since so many women have "Property of Shawn Clap" tattooed on them, I figure it best to just keep that name.


LEWD: The name suggests elements of Magick and Necromancy? Do any of the members subscribe to those belief systems or belong to any secret societies or anything?

SHAWN CLAP: The first rule of the Hellfire Boys Club is: You don't talk about the Hellfire Boys Club! The second rule of the Hellfire Boys Club is....


LEWD: Have you ever resorted to thumbing through a tome like the Necronomicon to perhaps find a hex or something of the sort to use on those goofy Long Island post core emo philips bands that are currently touring and polluting this godforsaken country with girlie bangs and bad songs?

SHAWN CLAP: I don't spend much time worrying about that sort of music or American Idol or contemporary jazz or, for that matter, anything that is utterly devoid of a soul.

LEWD: Are you guys going to keep drawing from the Clap song catalog during your live performances?

SHAWN CLAP: We'll do Clap covers, so long as the song is worthy of a Hellfire Boys Club rendition.

LEWD: Now what do I do if say I, wanted to get a copy of The Night The Condom Broke are those still available or did the other Clap make you take them off the market?

SHAWN CLAP: You go to where all the 'carpe-diem, live each night like it's yer last' punks go - the internet! www.hellfireboysclub.tk


LEWD: Should we expect to see more live appearances from the HBC than say the live output of your previous incarnation?

SHAWN CLAP: Granted, we've been notorious for our '12-minute-and-then-storm-off-the-stage' sets. I wish we had some deep, meaningful explanation for this sort of behavior, but it's basically just contempt for theaudience. I have nothing but contempt for my audience.


LEWD: Hopefully my add doesn’t annoy the shit out of you. Do you ever feel that people on the Island were glad to see The Loiterers pack up and split, so that they could disguise their “my mom cooks cookies while the kids have shows in the basement” nouveau Americana as something more decadent, and perpetuate that illusion unchallenged?

SHAWN CLAP: The Loiterers were a fine gang, pioneers on Long Island. In the beginning the kids who hung around were the real deal, no parents giving a shit about them at home. No expectations of a pleasant future some day. Kids who escaped from Juvie and would survive on their wits and courage. Those were the types of boys and girls that originally gravitated towards The Loiterers. But it couldn't survive, not with Ian Nihilate's all-encompassing lust for children. It clouds your judgment, you let outsiders replace insiders and, eventually, you have no choice but to flee into the night, under the cloak of darkness.


LEWD: I remember going to some Food Not Bombs benefit and the kid’s living room was bigger than Abc No Rio and Ground Zero combined. The funniest thing was his mother kept walking around and she wasn’t wearing a bra and had her high beams blaring. I think that was the only time I thought, “You know this isn’t so bad.”

SHAWN CLAP: Indeed, being wealthy, living in a large home and having a trophy wife with large mammory glands is quite underrated. I'm surprised more people don't try it.


LEWD: My old therapist stated that it was necessary to develop short term and long term goal plans, so with that said. What should we expect from Hellfire Boys Club this year?

SHAWN CLAP: I heard that your therapist mentioned you quite often in her Suicide Note.


LEWD: Okay for a closer I was just wondering, have you ever taken one of those craps where it’s caked inside your ass for days even after three days of wiping and showering? I dunno.. I really need to change my diet.

SHAWN CLAP: So, do you write these 'joke questions' yourself, or do you farm that sort of work out to professional comedians?


LEWD: Let’s say one of my readers wants to shit in a bag and mail it to you, where should they send it?

SHAWN CLAP: Haha, good one. We both know you don't have any readers.