We recently had to opportunity to chat with Jamie Cibej – bassist and 1/3 of Bluejuice who recently announced they’d be calling it quits at the end of 2014 after 13 years together.

In true headlining fashion (and not always for good reason!) the band has embarked on one last KILLER farewell tour called, Retrospectable.

Warning: Language & wet-your-pants-laughing responses…

Q: What won’t you miss about touring and being in Bluejuice?
A: Being in a band with these guys is so bittersweet. On one hand they’re so irritating that you want to shoot them dead and strip their lifeless bodies of skin and make handbags out of them to sell at the Surry Hills market, and on the other hand… free booze.

Q: Are you pulling out anything unusual for the tour, knowing this is the last chance you’ll have as a band?
A: Not really actually. We’re trying to focus on playing the bests shows we can, without the spandex gripping our balls, or weird masks and capes everywhere. It’s our last chance to be taken seriously, so there might not even be any incest jokes between songs.

Q: You guys have always been known for on stage antics, what’s been the most memorable?
A: Off the top of my head, the time Jake broke his wrist on stage. Or the time Jake got arrested on stage. Or the time Jake puked on stage. Or the time Jake spat directly onto a photographer on stage. Perhaps it’s for the best we’re not playing anymore.

Q: Have you ever sat down after a gig and thought, “Hmmm. That wasn’t a great idea…”
A: There was a bit of controversy when we introduced the next song as “Wake Up Jeff, you FUCKING C#NT”, at a family festival in Caloundra. I think Jake got arrested for that too.

Q: Will you miss the gold leotards?
A: I’m incapable of missing them, because they’re festering in my house as we speak. I haven’t decided whether keep them as a fond reminder of an interesting time in our lives, or to douse them in gasoline and set those biohazards on fire.

Q: Speaking of gigs, what’s the best (or most surprising) one that you’ve played?
A: It’s hard to remember specific gigs, given they’re all lightly coated in a thin layer of inebriation. Generally though, any gig without a glaring fuck-up in it can be considered a triumph.

Q: You guys have collaborated with a lot of different artists over the years, who made the greatest impression on you as a band?
A: We have a natural tendency towards self deprecation, so we’re likely to think most bands we play with are better than us in some way. The Jezabels, Dappled Cities, and The Philly Jays all forced us to play better when we toured with them. We also collectively took a lot of creative inspiration from that video of Tyra Banks violently contorting her body and screaming about Vaseline.

Q: Got any weird stories from Dizzy Rascal backstage? He’s pretty loose, huh?
A: When we supported him in Sydney, we were hated too much by the crowd to really hang around and be sociable, but during BDO a few years ago, he handed me my runaway ping pong ball, which was nice.

Q: If you weren’t a musician, what would you be doing now?
A: I honestly have no idea. I never expected to have a career in music, though I probably never expected to have a career in anything particularly.

Q: And is that what you’re up to in the next chapter?
A: I’d like to do some writing. I’ve been doing all the written and online stuff for Bluejuice for 13 years, so maybe I can put that to good use somehow.

Thanks for all the fun memories with Bluejuice. Good luck with the final tour and please don’t rule out a comeback…

Jake, Stav & Jamie would LOVE for you to come have one last party with them at their gig at ANU Bar on Saturday 18 October. We have a few double passes up for grabs so fill in the competition form and tell us why you want to party with Bluejuice to be in the running to win!.

Winners announced Tuesday, 14 October 2014.
Must be 18+