The Plague helped usher in this trend of music that spoke of the desolation of the streets as well as the forlorn melancholy of love-gone-wrong. Margot Day, then as well as now, remains a glittering living muse; inspired as much as she is inspiring.

In the lower East Side of New York’s Greenwich Village, the avant-garde and artistic realm merged with the upper echelons of society in one of the many bizarre parties or performances that required one to be “in the know” in order to be a participant. Andy Warhol and many other luminaries still held court and helped to dictate the form of tomorrow’s fashion and trends by incorporating some of them into the day’s daily living. It was an elite world made up of the disenfranchised and free thinking people that “polite” society seemed to have frowned upon and/or had forgotten. Conceivably, this was the birthplace of goth as it was of punk rock.

Margot Day dreams wild dreams; each with a palette that has colors yet to be named. Her musical characteristic, as a forerunner to an emerging style made more popular years later by Lene Lovich, plumbed the depths of the psyche to emphasize some of the more dark and taboo subject matters of the world. Her element was Manhattan’s Lower East Side, which helped to inspire and spawn a multitude of songs, which are now a part of our musical history.


Upon meeting Ms. Day and Kurtis, one cannot help but notice the warmth and sincerity of their personalities. There isn’t a façade or pretension that requires an inordinate amount of digging. Margot Day is unique and playful in her visions and is just as likely to live her visions rather than merely paying lip service to dreams.

To some, Margot Day is a new artist they are experiencing for the first time. For others, she remains a friend from the ever-evolving music scene whose early contributions helped to mold and shape the underground into what it is today.

KM: Can you compare and contrast the underground music scene from your days in "The Plague" till present. How does this effect your musical creation now?

MD: The underground music scene today is vast, internationally inter-connected, webbed, and welcoming. When my band The Plague played we were trampling on untouched haloed new ground. This was exciting but much harder. How does this affect my music? Now I can spend more time on the music, and less time on trying to reach the world – because now there are more gateways, and sentient people, and so many easy to find kindred...

KM: Why do you perform more as a solo artist as opposed to headlining in a band?

MD: I had the SACRED! CD songs haunting me and following me around. In doing a solo project I honored the songs by creating, recording, and performing them the way that they came to me. With programming and technology I was able to capture the songs in their essence. I did collaborate with Kurtis Knight and a few others, but the SACRED! CD songs remained with my own vision. A band is a special connection and a deep union – a marriage of sorts – that is what The Plague was. I now have a new band; our songs are collaborations with a brilliant guitar player and powerful drummer joining Kurtis and myself. I am deeply inspired with these new musicians that the muse has brought to my door…as inspired as I was with The Plague..a concept album is being born..and shows are coming soon…

KM: How would you compare the Vampire scene to the Gothic scene?

MD: I don’t compare them, I embrace them; to be immortal, to dance with the fairies and elves, to metamorph into a bat or a butterfly, to wear all black always or to choose an antique dress with lace instead, to be a tanned nomad with silver and bone beads from the ancient near east, to be pale, pale, pale with sharp pointy teeth – all are mysterious – all are other realms. Mostly I ask for unification, less fighting within the tribes, we are stronger together than apart.

KM: How do you feel about being adored in both scenes?

MD: I welcome and greet both the dark and the light, the fire in the mist, the goths and the vamps – to be adored is to be heard and understood, held and loved, caressed, to know that I’ve reach into someones soul and helped them remember who they are, to be adored is always a pleasure and a gift.

KM: How did you become acquainted with Kurtis Knight?

MD:In the double-rainbow café on Haight street in San Francisco.

KM: Since you have worked with so many notable musicians in the past. Who would be your dream collaborator?

MD: Gabriel and Ben Watson

KM: Why do you think so many talented musicians (like yourself) are over looked by mainstream record labels?

MD: Mainstream labels are big businesses run by big business men. Mainstream label Artists must fit into a safe predictable mold that is similar to previous successful acts. The mainstream labels invest huge sums and they don’t want to shake things up or make any real changes or take any chances. Only sure bets that can be securely invested in, not someone original and different and risky.

Very very rarely (and probably either a family member or a sex partner) the mainstream labels will take a chance on something different. Or, sometimes an artist will become so strong in the underground that they will be picked up by the big guys - if some label (big or small) wants to pour money into my songs helping the music to reach more people- I could welcome it. But we don’t need the big labels. Even without the help of labels (independent or major) my music is heard on radio stations all over the world.

Many people visit my website at margotday.com and there have been over 22,000 downloads of my songs in the last year at mp3.com/margotday – this is with the help of wonderful promoters who push the music and help to build the scene just for the love of it: such as Mike V of the Hidden Sanctuary, or Alda of The Rifters, Althea of Alchemy, Jett Black, and Bob from “the shape of things to come” on 89.1 WFDU radio, and all of you fabulous radio and club DJ’s, and of course Kim who is doing this interview, many thanks to them and to all of you…

KM: Your remix of "Wicked & Wise" has received a lot of positive response in NY. How has the feedback been elsewhere?

MD:I haven’t distributed Wicked & Wize elsewhere. But Wicked & Wize is available for free download at mp3.com/margotday…and I appreciate the brilliance of GITM in creating this remix.

KM: Have you been featured on any recent compilations?






MD: There where a couple of compilations in Germany a little while ago..I am always glad to contribute to people’s projects…

KM: Can you in detail give us your continuing exodus all over the continent?

MD: There will be shows on the east coast this fall and winter. And the next live show may have a few Plague songs in it! But it is unknown when we’ll go out west next. There are some thoughts of Montreal and Europe. Keep checking my website at www.mp3.com/margotday, or email me at margotday@yahoo.com to join my emailing list.

KM: Since you are a mother are you presently settled down in one place?

MD: I live in the NE Kingdom of Vermont on Gateway Drive with Kurtis, our 2 little girls, a horse, 2 cats, 2 dogs. We drink pure spring water from the magic 7 springs in our forest, next to our meadow and pond. The fairies and elves dance by day, the bats fly by with the fire-fly’s at night. I am truly home at last.

KM: How has motherhood changed your approach to music?

MD: Motherhood taught me the secrets of womanhood, creation, metamorphises, immortality, and the womb – this has enriched and deepened myself and therefore my music.

KM: Do your children show any inspiration to follow in mom's footsteps?

MD: Both of my daughters, Morgana and Julifer play the flute, dance, and sing. They might soon be joining us on-stage, perhaps even this fall.

KM: What are some of your quirky personality traits that your fans do not know about that you would like them to know?  Quirky Secrets?

MD: Hmmm.. I make jewelry from bird skulls and deer bones that we find in the forest..…I like to bathe naked in our waterfall, and make-love on a moss bed… I love peacocks, we’ll be getting some soon... I don’t make-up the song lyrics I find them inside the multi-dimensions, or the muse whispers in my ear, and then I put the words together like a puzzle…

KM: What can we expect from Margot Day in the near future?

MD: Themes have been brewing within for myself and Kurtis for a very long time and suddenly just a few months ago when we where joined by these new musicians the music came together with lightening speed, merging the past, present, and future, blending improv and ritual theater... from this realm and the other, the songs are forming into a concept album. Similar to the geneses of The Plague in its power and synchronicity, this new phase that we are creating and beginning has the hope of Altering The Prophecy.

KM: Are there any other pertinent comments you would like to leave the reader with?

MD: I would like to add this excerpt from the coming album:

Anoint me with myrrh and lotions of mother-of- pearl
Ancient near east hears the coming of our beast
Fire to ashes and ashes to the mother- of -pearl
          We will heal the wound when we delve into the womb
          We will heal the wound when we delve into the tomb…

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