BW&BK; scribe Carl Begai recently spoke to vocalist Bif Naked about working on her new album, The Promise, while battling breast cancer. It features several collaborations with producer / guitarist / ex-NEUROSONIC frontman Jason Darr. Following is an excerpt from the story.

"Oh my God, I was sick," Bif says of the recording sessions. "I wouldn’t have been able to do it with anyone else, and I’d never worked with Jason before except for touring. It was the first time I ever collaborated with him, I never anticipated collaborating with anyone, never mind Darr, and I just don’t think I would have been able to do it with anybody else. No one would have been as effective as Jason. It’s not that Jason didn’t give a fuck that I was sick so much as if he didn’t feel I was giving my best that was it, he’d send me home. I was yellow-skinned and fucking hairless, like a baby rat. It was heinous, man. I had this thing sticking out of my chest like a garden hose that they surgically implanted under my collarbone. It’s called a surgically implanted port, and the catheter from it they threaded up my jugular vein, so I had this catheter in my jugular vein and this big fucking two-inch-in-diameter hose nozzle sticking out of my chest. It was fucking crazy, and that’s where they put the chemo every three weeks, and I had that in me for 10 months. Jason had to see that, and not only was he undaunted – you’ve got to keep in mind he’s the world’s biggest South Park fan, so he doesn’t mince words – he was like ‘Put your dog away, cover that shit up…’ He didn’t give a shit; we were there to work and that was the end of it. I was never treated like I had special needs, I was never treated like I was sick. Nothing like that at all."

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