Who are The Spirit Girls and what are they a manifestation of?
Marnie Weber: It started by trying to fill a hole in my youth. I used to go to a lot of rock concerts of the theatrical kind when I was young and there were no women on stage at all. It would have been really nice if there were an all-girl prog rock band from the 70s because that would have been inspiring to me. I thought it would be interesting to do a conceptual art band, where the band had died in the 70s and hadn’t been given their chance. They come back and they run into problems because people can’t see or hear them, however the animals are aware of their presence. DD: Where does this limbo they are moving through come from? MW: It’s a fantasy world and to me it’s more interesting than the real world. That probably came from my childhood. I spent a lot of time alone put in the woods making up things that were more interesting than my life. I have kept that practice up my whole life and I can’t do reality-based work anymore. I feel like the girls just live in a parallel universe a
