INTERVIEW


Our Kelly spoke to Jonny & The Baptists ahead of their gig at Norwich Playhouse on October 12th


With the tour already in full swing, which has been the best show so far and do you have a particular venue or city that you are most looking forward to playing? (Apart from Norwich Playhouse, obviously!) We can’t pick favourites as that would be completely unfair, however on a totally unrelated note we would like to tell you that the POOL full of LIVER which we swam in the other day was a beautiful and heart- warming experience. Our tour roster is now a pretty comprehensive list of every theatre and venue we love across the UK, so without sounding too saccharine we tend to look forward to all of them! A special mention does genuinely go to Norwich Playhouse, who saw us right when we first started out as an act and took a shot on


booking us every year to try and build us an audience in Norwich. Here we are years down the line and it’s one of our biggest, busiest and best stops on the tour. We’re delighted and honoured. Were you expecting the response you received from your UKIP video going viral? Tell us a little bit about the motivation for that track and the reactions you have had from it so far. (It made me die laughing by the way! “Free corn beef for the under 5’s!”) We weren’t really expecting to be noticed (let alone a massive response) but it turns out if you smoke near the barrel of petrol things can get pretty real pretty quickly. It changed the whole nature of the following tour, as we simultaneously had people regularly telling us they were going to come to the shows


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and attack us and people vowing to come to the shows and defend us. A few venues backed out, a few added extra dates - the audiences were wild and varied and exciting and terrifying. A lot of people came to that tour for a lot of reasons, and somehow we all came out the other side having had a lovely time. We just wanted to do a tour that had an anthem and encouraged debate. We think we achieved that. Your chemistry as a double act is really something to behold; you complement and contrast one and other so well in your live performances. I wonder, how does the creative process works for your material? Do you write the lyrics and them add the music to them or do you start with a melody and then start freestyling about


life and its hilarities? Thank you very much, that’s enormously kind of you to say and we’re glad people can see the love! We’re exceptionally close - unbearably so at times - and it’s definitely changed our process as we’ve learnt more about one another and grown together. Our roots and paths are very much intertwined at this point, and so writing is less and less about ‘try this chord, try this rhyme’ and scribbling down manuscripts and far more about just playing together. We dick about with guitars and sing to each other to try and make each other smile, and sometimes it turns out it’s actually good and then we set to work. When you are not on tour what do you guys get up to? Where is home and how do you like to relax and have


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