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We Interviewed the Band that Shot a Porno Outside the Westboro Baptist Church

Their bassist Laura Lush saw to herself on their front lawn.

Get Shot!, a self-confessed sleaze punk band from California, have just released a porn film shot entirely on the front lawn of the Westboro Baptist Church. You can watch it here, and if I have to tell you that link is NSFW then you don't deserve to have the internet.

The film was the brainchild of the band's bassist, Laura Lush, who wrote in her press release: "The Westboro Baptist Church are ridiculous and do nothing except spread hate and cause controversy. As a bisexual woman and the bass player of a ridiculous punk band, I wanted to spread my legs and cause controversy."

As you probably know, the WBC are almost hilariously terrible people, caricatures of evil layering irony upon themselves by claiming to be doing God's work. They hate anyone who has a lifestyle choice that differs from their own, run websites like GodHatesFags, and picket funerals of people they don't like. But why does that mean getting yourself off on their property is going to solve anything? We called up the band's frontman J.P. Hunter to find out.

Noisey: Hi! How's it going?

J.P.: A little overwhelmed but doing well, haha.

So you just filmed your bassist having a wank on the lawn of the most conservative church in the US. Was that just a spur of the moment, why the fuck not kinda thing?

We kind of had it pre-planned, we were on a tour and we played in Kansas City where the WBC is and we were leaving town.

So you just stopped the car and got out?

Yep.

What made you want to do it? Everyone hates the WBC, but few are willing to put their vagina where their mouth is.

Even though we're a heterosexual band, we've done some LGBT events and what not. We've also done a lot of stuff with feminist groups. We wanted to send a message and we know no one had sent it before, we knew it would ruffle the feathers a little bit, and it sure as hell did!

Did Laura find it hard to climax under the judgmental eyes of God?

She had a blast! She loved it. We were supposed to have two other girls to participate for a lesbian orgy in front of the church. We had contacted a well-known porn star but her agent wouldn't let her do it. Apparently it was a violation of her contract. The other was a local girl who just didn't show up. So we weren't going to leave empty handed and our bass-player wasn't going to leave without being sticky-fingered.

Did anyone see?

There was nobody outside expect for the mailman. The mailman was watching the whole time with a big smile on his face. We checked that there weren't children or passers-by outside because we don't want to end up as registered sex offenders or anything.

But you can't just have a wank on someone's lawn without repercussion. The cops must be after you.

Being in Kansas, even though they have quite strict obscenity laws there, they don't like the Westboro guys. None of the locals like them, the law enforcement doesn't like them and quite frankly everyone just ignores them even when people attack them and vandalise their stuff. Because we didn't get caught in the act immediately, I'm pretty confident there won't be any legal repercussions.

It's quite a statement. You also run a porn website. Is that also about ruffling feathers?

We're definitely making a statement. We feel that, especially in America, and I'm sure it's the same in Europe as well, society has very interesting standards as far what is deemed acceptable. You hear mainstream radio and there are a lot of derogatory lyrics, people referring to women as bitches and hoes, and referring to domestic violence. But once you sing about sex in a fun and positive way and you don't beat around the bush, all of a sudden you're deemed explicit and obscene. You break off into a whole different category. When sex and violence is in the mainstream media in the positive sense, it's deemed as wrong.

To be fair, you did beat around a bush, I just watched it. Arf arf. So when you're not making porn, you're making music, right? How would you describe your sound?

We're a mix between punk rock and 80s hair metal. We keep it fun. We want it to be fun rock and roll that people can laugh to. The party has been taken out of rock and roll and I'm determined to bring it back!

But it's not always shits and giggles. Sometimes undercover police try to bust your shows for indecent exposure and drug abuse onstage...

Last time we were on tour our drummer ended up sneezing in the middle of a song and a load of cocaine flew out onto his drum set, which he ended snorting back up off the snare drum. We have strippers come out at our shows. We believe in sexual freedom. If you want to sleep around and be promiscuous and have fun with your life and body parts, no one should shame you on that. We try to keep it legal so we don't get arrested. We've had uncover cops at three of our shows, I'm surprised we haven't been arrested already.

Have you done any other publicity stunts?

I claimed to be the guy that threw the hotdog at Tiger Woods that time. That was pretty big national news at the time. But nobody has seen anything yet, we've got a lot in store…

A masturbation tour of the holy sites?

That actually sounds like a really good idea. We're working with a company and we're going to make a series of masturbation videos with our bass player and maybe some other band members and girls as well. Here in the States there's a food chain called Chick-fil-A and it's owned by far-right extreme Christians. So we're going to go ahead and do a masturbation video outside of Chick-fil-A.

How're you guys planning to deal with the publicity and fame, are you going to get lost in a haze of cocaine and hookers?

I'm pretty level-headed and I've been managing the band for a while and I'm hoping I can wipe my hands of the media stuff and enjoy being a rock star for a bit.