![]() Everyone left right after,” Smith remembers, laughing. The band played their first show last spring at a space on Sunset that de Wilde describes as “a closet.” They packed 40 people in, another dozen peering in from outside through the window. Was he eager? “I was late,” he says, deadpan. He rode to his first rehearsal on his bike and arrived dripping in sweat. Franco was the only person de Wilde knew who played bass. She spotted him carrying a tuba case and asked if he played guitar. performing arts school they both attended. “We hung out a few times and thought, 'You're not terrible,'” Smith explains. Starcrawler began two years ago when de Wilde and Smith connected via Facebook and started jamming. She modeled for Teen Vogue and Paper and had appeared in a Bleachers video directed by Lena Dunham by the age of 16. Elliott Smith would hang around when she was a kid. I didn’t know that was still possible.” -Arrow de Wildeĭe Wilde was born into Echo Park arts community royalty, the daughter of drummer Aaron Sperske (Beachwood Sparks, Ariel Pink) and photographer Autumn de Wilde. “Have you seen that video of Keith Richards hitting a dude coming after Mick Jagger onstage with his guitar?” He looks to the others. “They've got the guns,” she says.Ĭash pipes up. If ever there were an attack on Starcrawler, de Wilde assures that the rhythm section would defend them. “I thought Tim looked like a prick ,” Cash says. His rhythmic partner, Franco, is the quiet one. Smith, the eldest, carries the air of a Venice skater but grew up in Hollywood. At the Echo last year, he broke his nose onstage and didn't realize it until he saw his disfigured face at a photo shoot the next day. He's often so lost in adrenaline he doesn't know his fingers are bleeding. Today, he could rival his idol Jack White. ![]() “Nobody got it,” he says.Ĭash has played guitar since his hands were big enough. When he was in preschool, he had a Ramones anthology and showed it to the other kids. The youngest and chattiest, he's a baby take on George Harrison by way of Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous. ![]() Hours earlier, a genteel Cash greets all for soundcheck. Upstairs in the dressing room, de Wilde sits peacefully. Together with bassist Tim Franco, 20, Starcrawler are tonight's opening act. Fuck you all,” adds guitarist Henri Cash, 16. ![]() Eventually, drummer Austin Smith, 22, throws his sticks into the crowd. And it tastes horrible.”Īt MOCA, the foursome's set climaxes when de Wilde jumps from the stage and scurries through the crowd, inciting a punch-up in the mosh pit as her bandmates wage war with their instruments. “People think it's real blood,” de Wilde says. One woman was so upset by it that she rushed the stage with a knife. Last month, de Wilde spat red at the crowd at Pappy and Harriet's in Joshua Tree. Chances are you'll hear about their fluid-secreting rock & roll before you see it. for a year, often with fellow glam-punk revivalists The Lemon Twigs. Starcrawler have been gigging around L.A. Eventually she strips down to them and flaps her arms like a bat - perhaps mimicking the one her hero Ozzy Osbourne once bit into. Beneath the hospital gown are sparkly Y-fronts. ![]() Her onstage persona is like a fictitious escapee from Arkham Asylum, or the spawn of Nick Cave and PJ Harvey. It's some party trick.Įarlier in the set, de Wilde ran amok onstage in a hospital gown, offering crazed facial expressions cribbed from studying footage of schizophrenics. It's sundown at the MOCA parking lot and a group of four misfits (one yet to finish high school) launch into their song “Pussy Tower.” (“It's about giving head, whatever,” shrugged Starcrawler's frontperson Arrow de Wilde, 18, at a sushi joint earlier.) Once the song gets underway, de Wilde disappears from view, then re-emerges and spews blood over the audience. ![]()
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