| 1. What are you currently up
to? |
We are making up songs for our second record...we are also about to
start promoting the release of remixed first record and getting ready
to do a tour and stuff...
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| 2. Who were your
influences? |
The biggest influence on our career is seeing the wasters who live in
our hometown who have never escaped -we strive to never end up like
them - this gets stronger everyday.
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| 3. Your live show is very intense and the vocalist is a whirl of
energy. How do you approach each gig?
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It is best not to play, but more like beat up a live show, it
really is one of most amazing things a human can do, without being
too egotistical. We try and express our joy physically rather then
verbally.
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| 4. Could you take us through some personal highlights of your debut
album? How do the band go about writing material? |
Myself...my highlight is the looongg gap of silence in the
track Boxcar Trends right at the end of the track, this makes
me smile. Why? If I could explain then it wouldnt be any good. The
way we write songs? Get in a room and just hit stuff.
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| 5. Brief history of your work to date and the style of music you play.
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...we recorded a demo in a goths attic, got noticed by
the notorious Jo Hunt, recorded a single for her label Complete
Control...glimpses of genius led to us making the album on a
shoestring, got signed to Gut Records and r mixed the album blah - we
play punk rock.
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| 6.
What have been the highlight(s) and low point(s) of your career to
date?
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The highlight is yet to come hopefully
the lowlights...today.
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| 7.
What has been the live highlight(s) for the band? How easy/hard is
it to get gigs and promotion for the gigs?
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Live highlights...we used to play gigs in a shed in the middle of
nowhere where we live.The shows were just full of the weirdest people
you could meet big fat Australians hippies and Irish smack heads - eye
opening. I think the difficulty of getting shows all depends on how
good your band is live - in Cardiff shows are promoted well - spesh the
posters.
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| 8. If you could create a fantasy band - what would be the line-up and
why?
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Fantasy band? ON THE DRUMKITS-John Bonham and Clyde Stubberfield
(James Brown's drummer) ON BASS-Cliff Burton or that bass player from
The Rapture-ON GEETARS-Kevin Sheilds (My Bloody Valentine) and Andy
Gill (Gang Of Four)-ON VOCALS-Bjork-maybe Prince or Dr John on the
piano and keys-oh yeah, and call the band apples. WHY?..jeez man,
where do you start? It would be an amazing sound!
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| 9. What state do you think rock music and live gigs are in at the
moment? |
Rock music is in a good state, always was, always will be. A kid in
Russia will pick up a Led Zep album tomorrow and might not have a
clue of its origins, but the feeling that kid will get when he puts
the record on will be so amazing and exciting - that kid might then
hear a new band like Lightning Bolt or The Mars Volta and feel the
same way - it's all timeless.
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| 10. What CD's do you currently have available and where can they be
purchased?
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Our recorded long player, entitled Jarcrew is out in October - it's
tougher and louder and makes less sense. All your good record shops
will sell it - or even better, come see us live and do whatever you
can to get a freebie, haha.
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| 11. Message to your fans... |
They dont love you like we love you.
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| 12. What CD's do you currently have available and where can they be
purchased from? |
