Spooner casey

fischerspooner’s 
post-electroclash performance 
comeback 

photography by RINALDO SATA
interview by OLIVIER ZAHM

The new FISCHERSPOONER album ‘SIR,’ produced by Michael Stipe and Boots will be released in February 2018.

FISCHERSPOONER AT BROOKLYN STEEL, BROOKLYN, OCTOBER 27, 2017

OLIVIER ZAHM — What about the new Fischerspooner show? Are you still together with your partner?

CASEY SPOONER — Mm-hmm. I’ve been working with Warren Fischer since the summer of ’98. Almost 20 years. Michael Stipe is the producer of our latest album. He was my first love, when I was 18. He was my first boyfriend.

OLIVIER ZAHM — Really!

CASEY SPOONER — Yeah. [Laughter] And my first gay lover. He was 28. I was 18. We met in Georgia on the dance floor. He was just about to release Green [R.E.M.’s sixth studio album]. I was with him just…