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Sunday the 3rd of April 2011 is an important day for two reasons. Number one, Bowling For Soup are playing their Norwich leg of the acoustic tour and number two, it’s Wrestle mania tonight. I was torn, I’ll give you that, but as I love the chaps quite a lot, I wasn’t passing up on the opportunity at a one to one with Erik, later to be turned to a ménage a trios with Jaret coming in with pizza.


I had decided as they always come to Norwich during holidays, they should get a present appropriate. This was in the form of four Easter eggs. Erik immediately leapt upon the Winnie the pooh egg, pronouncing it his and going on to tell me how he lives in an actual “Hundred acre wood” and used to tell his daughter the stories when she was young. “pooh’s one of my favorites” he tells me, “ actually it’s so fucking funny, I live in a wood that’s precisely one hundred acres. I bought the house two years ago, and the neighborhood is a little forest in the middle of the city, my daughter comes to visit and we go for walks in there. It’s not foresting enough for a rope swing, but it was part of a plantation and other than the fact that the man who owned the place had slaves and all the bullshit, he was actually a conservationist and said that the only things to be built on the plot was plots for houses, so we have trees dotted about, I have sixteen 140ft pine trees in my yard, so we live in a forest, but it’s been cleared out for us.”


Erik has always been a good interview subject, he speaks freely and openly and although I always get nervous around people I’ve been a “fan” of since I was fifteen, he makes it all so much easier. He remembers me from October and talks about what’s happened between then and now. “It’s been really good, we took some time off and October was our last official ‘tour’ so we had time off after that, our drummer


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