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Like all rock band bios, The DC3 is bullshit. ‘DC’ doesn’t mean anything, and there’s not really 3 of them. Sometimes it’s 4. Sometimes 6. Sometimes some of them don’t even play instruments. The DC3’s singer is Damian Cowell. He was once the creator of TISM. He says things like nobody else does. Here’s some: ‘There’s suicide bombs and pogroms, ethnic cleansing, Richard Wilkins.’ ‘Life is to live but we entomb it, in tiny incremental movement, to ignominious denouement. It’s called Continuous Improvement.’ ‘Honore De Balzac said envy is the most stupid of vices. I wish I was him.’ The DC3’s guitarist is Henri Grawe. Expat German. Builder by day. Deconstructionist by night. The DC3’s bassist is Douglas Lee Robertson. Once glacially cool in The Ice-Cream Hands. Sometimes The DC3 are joined by a drummer. Sometimes by a team of carpenters. The DC3 began when Damian Cowell was commissioned to create a body of work for the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in 2011. The work - ‘Vs Art’ - is