Bob Mould and Rich Morel host July 4 BLOWOFF dance party at Vinyl

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Chad Radford: You are coming to DJ a dance party at Vinyl in Atlanta on the Fourth of July... -

Bob Mould: Yes, The party on Saturday is called BLOWOFF. It’s an event that Rich Morel and I have been doing for about six and a half years.-

CR: So, you aren’t playing music, just DJing?-

BM: Yeah, it’s a series of DJ sets across the entire night. It’s a pretty fun party, I mean it’s club music. House music for lack of a better term, but I think within that there is a lot of variety to what we play.-

CR: DJing is one of the most rewarding gigs out there. You don’t have to load heavy equipment; you’re just spinning your tastes and your ability to keep a party going and people treat you like a hero.-

BM: Yeah, it is kind of like a rock star without moving stuff. The real heavy lifting is the amount of research that I do. I have to spend a lot of time keeping up with new music and I find that if I put in a lot of work up front, it makes the work part of the party a lot easier.-

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CR: You used to work as a script writer for professional wrestling, correct?-

BM: It was for WCW, which is Ted Turner’s wrestling company out of Atlanta.-

CR: When I think of Bob Mould I think of Hüsker Dü and Sugar, and things like that. Did working with pro-wrestling, which is meant for entertains a mass audience teach you anything different from what you learned playing in Hüsker Dü and Sugar?-

BM: Pro-wrestling is like a Madonna concert or Nascar. Those kinds of grand spectacles. You know? With Madonna, what you think is happening may be really isn’t happening. With Nascar it is a lot more dangerous than it looks.-

CR: Things like Hüsker Dü __or Sugar have a little more punk rock, or artistic credibility lent to them as opposed to something like pro-wrestling which is meant for a larger, dumber audience. It’s an interesting juxtaposition for you.-
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BM: When I went to WCW I tried to bring my taste in there and um, was met with a little bit of resistance.-

Bob Mould and Rich Morel’s BLOWOFF comes to Vinyl on Sat., July 4. $15. 10 p.m. 1374 W. Peachtree St.__