but we settle on just calling it damn sweet. In quotation marks, so “sweet”.


We also talk about being ill on tour, as my previous subject was Good Charlotte as you loyal readers know (where Joel had a high fever for the first few dates of the tour) Erik tells me how it feels when he’s on tour with a bug.


“There’s nothing you can do to make yourself comfortable, when you’re ill, the only thing you want to do its take, the American equivalent of lemsip, with a shot of Vodka and drink that and pass out and sleep for four days. But you just can’t do that on tour.”


I ask Erik if he has the old adage of “when home, I want to be on tour, when on tour I miss home” and it’s true. He explains it’s that “exact dichotomy” that can plague bands, with a feeling of itchy feet, in either place, “when I’m at home, I’m busy working, but it’s all on a computer or writing songs, and I miss being around friends” - at this point, Jaret enters with a giant pizza “oh my word, you, you are just a lovely man.” Jaret then struggles to read a very British letter from a fan requesting their autographs, which I read for them, as to be frank it is very British. “They were writing in an English accent” says Jaret. And then signs the card and eats his pizza.


I always love interviewing these guys because as I said previously, they make it so simple for me. I own up to not having written any questions, and ask what’s coming up next.


“Well, we’ve got our album coming out on April 26th” says Erik, “I believe on the 28th we’re back touring, out all of May, then back here in June for Download,


In July we’ll be in Asia, Japan. We’re doing a tour of naval bases. As of right now it’s kind of up in the air, trying to settle things see if we can do it. Then we’re back


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