A little favour for our friends over at Bella Union means you get two 20 Questions this week, you lucky people! The Beach House crew are about to start a little tour around the UK and will hit many a fair town, including Cambridge, on Saturday night. Should be a good night if their live act is as interesting as their answers to our questions…

1. Describe your sound in 3 words
Do, You, Care (of course we do! - Ed)
2. What would be your ideal holiday?
Halloween mass with hot dogs.
3. What’s the best cure for a hangover?
Ibuprofen before 5am, constant pissing and rehydrating all nite long. Tiring work a hangover is. Lots of bread, cheese and sausage. Mtv one hit wonders on tv till you pass out.
4. What’s on your rider?
We haven’t had a rider cause we don’t matter.
5. How do you get ready for a live show?
Fuck a lot, 10 orgasms right before we play. Not with each other of course.
6. What’s your favourite song to play live?
You came to me in my dreams. New one. Yea.
7. When was the last time you told a lie?
Read 1 thru 5. hahahahahha.
8. Who would win in a fight, a stoat or a goat and why?
What the fuck is a stoat ??????
9. What was the last album you bought?
Every Oasis album. Today.
10. If you could rid the world of one song - what would it be?
Sting.
11. Who would play you in a film based upon your life?
For Alex it would be Billy Bob Thornton. For me it would be Julie Delpy.
12. Dead or alive. What 5 acts would you have play with you at a festival.
velvet Underground. Iggy Pop. Fleetwood Mac. Vashten Bunyan. Dusty Springfield.
13. Desert Island Disc? Pick only one.
For both of us? No fucking fair. Okay, here goes: For Alex, Foreigner. For me, Boston.
14. What’s your most memorable on the road story?
I puked into Niagara Falls after eating at the home of the orginal buffalo wing. hmmm.
15. If your life flashed before your eyes, what would be the highlights?
My life flashing before my eyes. And then the terrible spots that don’t ever go away after.
16. File sharing and Myspace - Sign me up or cold shoulder?
Sign you up, mofo. Deny you if you send a gift card from Macy’s that is now the Devil store.
17. If you had to leave a body part to science, what would it be?
My tit or my ass. Alex says, “My hair bone”.
18. What’s the best book you’ve read and film you’ve seen in the last 6 months?
Arizona Dream is the film. Books come and go, we don’t have much time to brew.
19. What three things could you not live without?
Music, sleep, food and sexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
20. Tell us a fact about yourself we probably don’t already know.
I have a black hair on my chin that grows back every couple of weeks. I am related to Napoleon. Alex has a million black hairs on his chin yet manages to find long blonde hairs on it and doesn’t know where they come from. Yea right…

Links
Beach House [official site] [myspace] [album review]