The pair had met when the veteran Cali punks played Australia's Somersault Festival, sharing the bill with Dalle's all-girl teen punk band, Sourpuss. The same year Coral Fang dropped, Dalle was liberating herself from a turbulent marriage to her first husband, Rancid frontman Tim Armstrong. But ultimately, Dalle says, she saved herself.ĭalle is a survivor in more ways than one.
"I quit everything: booze, coffee, cigarettes." Raising Camille grounded her after years of feeling "unanchored, out of my body". She'd quit meth two months earlier, and the pregnancy galvanised her resolve. How has she managed to stay clean? "I got pregnant," she says pragmatically, "with my daughter, Camille." The Distillers had broken up, Dalle's husband, Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, was away on tour and Dalle was staying at her mother-in-law's when she discovered the news. Yet here is Dalle with a new album to talk about, 10 years on – a clear-eyed, fair-skinned picture of health, all platinum hair and chunky silver rings – stretched across a sofa at the Ace Hotel in east London.
I wanted to blow my fucking head off." Mortality rates for meth addicts are woeful. They were also on the eve of implosion, and unknown to her fans, Dalle was battling a crystal meth addiction. The last time the Guardian sat down with Brody Dalle, in 2004, her band, LA punks the Distillers, had released their third – and what would be last – album, Coral Fang.
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