KITTIE Frontwoman MORGAN LANDER: 'I Have Never Been This Happy'

Bob Suehs of Rock N Roll Experience recently conducted an interview with KITTIE. A couple of exceprts from the chat follow:

Rock N Roll Experience: Does KITTIE have a record deal yet?

Morgan Lander (guitar, vocals): "No. We are still talking to people."

Mercedes Lander (drums): "This stuff takes time."

Morgan: "I think, though, by the end of this tour, we will have a better idea as to what possible choices there are."

Mercedes: "We have been talking to a lot of labels; it's just a case of finding the right home for the band."

Morgan: "And a lot of times, people really need to see the band in order to kind of 'get' where we are at now and where we are going... I mean, a lot of people still have the same idea about the band from the first album and all of that stuff and so we took this opportunity also to have people come out in New York and L.A. and so we will be able to make the decision after this tour as to where we are going to go and within a year's time, I think the album will be out, so I would say it will probably be out in less than a year...we are looking for like January, February or March of 2007, so..."

Rock N Roll Experience: I have to ask about [former guitarist] Lisa Marx. How was the split with her?

Morgan: "I don't know. I mean.... Basically, it had to do with money than enjoyment or our music or any of that stuff. Like I said, we got off the road at a very bad time. At least [former bassist] Jenn [Jennifer Arroyo] was cool about it. A lot of it had to do with Artemis [former record label] not being able to help us financially. We were out spending our own money, paying these two girls out of our own pockets, at least to give them some sort of benefit from being in the band, and after we had gotten home, it wasn't looking so financially good and we said, 'Hey, we're going through a rough spot. Are you cool with that?' It was cool for a while and then it wasn't for Lisa. She had gotten pretty upset about it and she wanted to know where her money was and all of this stuff and it was like, 'Well, sorry, there is none.' I mean, Mercedes and I do not get paid, do you know what I mean? Like, people have to understand that… we have sacrificed everything in our lives..."

Mercedes: "We don't have anything."

Morgan: "To do this... for other people, and to pay the crew, and to keep the fucking shit running and all of that stuff... So whatever… All of that is behind us now, but whatever."

Mercedes: "We have two lovely ladies in the band now that are very appreciative of what is going on and stuff like that."

Morgan: "And it's a better place now, things are... Truthfully, I have never been this happy and I have never felt so just able to not have to worry about other people and things, and not having to humor people and not having to fucking appease people... it's a good feeling."

Read the entire interview at this location.