About a month ago, right before seeing their live show at the Metro, I had the honor of interviewing Gossip drummer Hannah Billie. She's got lots of ink so I had to ask about them. To read the entire interview head on over to AfterEllen.
Mia: So, can you tell me about your tattoos?And my mental note has been made to not get Hannah's face tattooed anywhere on me, for both our sakes. Go out and get the new Gossip album, Music for Men, you won't be disappointed.
Hannah: (laughs) I have so many now since I kind of started making money with the band! I went really wild because I always wanted to have full sleeves. It was always a dream of mine but I just never had money to get tattoos. Now in the past two or three years I've just gone crazy.
The two main pieces I've got on both arms are paintings by an artist named Tamara de Lempicka. She's a 1930's art deco era artist. They're two women on either arm and just really cool deco-ish pieces. I have lots of flowers, horses and birds. I just got my left arm totally filled so I'm excited about that. I got a giant chess piece. Oh man I've gotten so many in the last couple of years. My mom is kind of freakin' out!
Mia: I can relate, I'm Jewish so my family is going a little nuts. But it's like, after one, I'm not getting buried in a Jewish cemetery anyway, might as well keep going!
Hannah: That's right, might as well go wild! I definitely am going to get more but I'm kind of running out of room so I need to come up with new ideas.
Mia: That's the only problem is running out of any skin area.
Hannah: Yeah and just coming up with more ideas. I've been really into traditional tattoos lately. Just bold, because I think they age really well. There's a lot of tattoo trends, like right now, the Kat Von D really light portraiture stuff with light gradients. And I think it looks cool at the time, but it probably looks like a blob in about ten years (laughs). Like, "What is that?" "Oh it used to be a face."
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