OR: Beirut, yeah. I wish our recordings sounded exactly like theirs do. Big band, in a big room.
Who would you love to tour with? JM: At The Drive-In? GG: I’d love to tour with Sigur Rós. At the end of their set, we’d all come on stage with the other support band and just jam with them. JM: Me and Nick have always loved Thrice, we grew up listening to them since we were 12 or 13. We’ve seen them seventeen times and their support has always been shit, I’d love to tour with them. They are one of the most incredible bands ever, they made me get into music and inspired me to pick up a guitar. I’ve learnt so much from them, they are true musicians. Thrice, end of. OR: Same with me and The Used. I’d choose them, the only reason I got into playing drums was because of The Used. NC: Aren’t they a bit crap now? OR: Nah, they’ve got softer though.
What are the best or most memorable live experiences you’ve had? JM: We’ve played quite a few crap shows. NB: I’ve got to say it - when we play the first song of our set, it starts with one guitar and a vocal, then the keys and bass come in, but when the song really kicks in, John once played the completely wrong note and it was SO obvious. So he proceeded to turn around and blame his bass amp. OR: It was genius. JM: I stopped singing as well, like ‘Nah, it MUST be the amp…’ OR: We haven’t played that many shows to be honest. JM: We’ve played some really good shows though. NB: At the end of the 93 Feet East gig, that was good. Usually we know quite a
few people, but we didn’t know any of the crowd and we got such a good response. Re- ally cheered me up. OR: One of our first shows was in our home- town, and I had never seen the place so packed in my life. There were about 150 of our friends there, (and we were all so drunk) and it was so much fun. That was probably my favourite gig, even though it was in a crappy little pub. NC: Festivals are hopefully on the agenda for next year. OR: I would love to play at Reading, just to be able to tell my kids. ‘Top that!’
Where do you see the band in five years time? OR: Dead… NB: We’d be in Iceland man, definitely. JM: We’d be on our third album, in Iceland, in the same studio that Sigur Rós record at. OR: Still self-produced. JM: Doing what we want to do, but still moaning. OR: Still shouting at each other… Nah, I just want to be able to write the music that we’d like to, and to have the financial capacity to be able to. NC: Like most bands, just to be able to sup- port yourself through your music. I’d love it. OR: Even if I had to get a shitty full-time job at some point, if I could do that for a short period of my life I’d be happy.
Any particular life-long dreams – no mat- ter how silly or far-fetched – you’d like to achieve during your time making music? JM: MEET JOHN MAYER. NB: What about supporting John Mayer? OR: BE John Mayer’s guitar? NB: I’d like to fly a plane. I’ve always wanted to.
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making music...?’ NB: Well, Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden) did it! GG: I just want to take mushrooms and slay dragons on an island. OR: In Iceland. GG: It’s like when people ask you what you did on New Year’s Eve. People that are with you will be like ‘Oh yeah, we got so drunk, went to a houseparty. What did you do?’ ‘Well, I slayed dragons.’
And finally, was music the industry your dreams revolved around as a child or do you have other dreams - if you weren’t musicians, what would you be doing? OR: I’d like to be a director or something. I’m doing a Media degree, so I may as well use it eventually. JM: I love the fact that we’re all going to have degrees, but we’ll still just want to be in bands. Music is my life, for sure. GG: Plus, if we weren’t in bands, our lives would be in completely different places. The degree I’m doing is all about music, so if I wasn’t doing that, I don’t know what I would be doing. JM: Probably just crappy office jobs or some- thing. GG: I’d be a fisherman. OR: I think I’m the only one who is different. I loved media at school, and now I’m doing it at uni but I’ve always been in bands as well. I like both things, I don’t have to choose one or the other. If music doesn’t work out for me, hopefully I’ll still be able to do something I enjoy doing.
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PORTRAITS © ROSIE WADEY
The band are featured in the debut WOLF Spotify playlist, out soon.
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