![]() ![]() Before the show we were in the pub having something to eat and we saw him walking up and down the road and talking to himself. This guy was just one of the thousands roaming the streets. We were playing outside the front of the shop and there were a lot of homeless people out there. So what went down at Rough Trade on Record Store Day when someone from the crowd took offence and tried to grab the microphone off you? I’ve never even heard of The Hold Steady. I’d seen the film Dig! before, but that was all. It’s been getting me back into guitar music. I’ve also been listening to a lot of his stuff since, which I hadn’t really heard until a couple of weeks ago. I went to meet him at the Rescue Rooms when he was playing there in June. We’ve been speaking a lot and we’re releasing a record with him. He even did an album back in the nineties with the Union Jack on the cover. What is it that they see in your music, which on the surface feels very British?Īnton is a lovely bloke and I think he’s very interested in English culture as a whole. Quite a few American musicians have vocally shown support for the band recently including Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), Anton Newcombe (Brian Jonestown Massacre), Craig Finn (The Hold Steady). You can either leave gracefully or I will block you.” So we send him back a message that said, “this music was born out of a hate for pretenders like you. I save my wrath for bands and musicians I don’t like repping us, such as Miles Kane. I don’t think I can really despise any fans - especially not our own. And i’m not that fussed by any.Īs the band grows do you think there’s a danger of attracting the kind of fans that you despise? But as for the rest, to be honest I’ve only recently started to have a quick listen when people mention that we sound like them. ![]() People have said Wu-Tang too, which I really like as I have listened to them a lot. I mean in truth, it was shit, but it worked - which probably is a bit like us. Original Pirate Material was a good album which I used to listen to a fair bit. Apart from The Pet Shop Boys, but that’s just because Andrew wears a baseball cap, and The Streets, who I actually really like. ![]() You’ve been compared to Suicide, The Fall, John Cooper-Clarke, The Streets and the Pet Shop Boys. We always knew what we were doing was good, but I guess we were just hoping for a fairytale to come true. There are people that have helped us though, like Steve Underwood at the Rammel Club and Simon Parfrement. I really resented that as they weren’t thinking about the music, they were just thinking about the career of it all. From the beginning I really resented people sucking up to those who would write about them or help get them exposure to a label. We had to wait until we were ready… until our music was ready. You’ve gone from relative obscurity to interviews with the broadsheets and national music press over the last twelve months. There were a few things that I needed to be educated on and over the last few years, thanks to good friends and my good wife, I have been. I just wanted to communicate that I was dysfunctional and quite amazed at how low I’d gotten in my life. I was trying to get across what I was going through at the time, but deep down I was aware of the fact that what I was saying was out of order. Before that I was very angry and misogynistic. After that we started making music together. He’d seen me before, playing solo at JamCafe under the name of Sleaford Mods. He was playing a record upstairs in The Chameleon, his remix of the George Michael song Careless Whisper, which I liked. What is it that makes you such a good combo? Sun MaLONDON Royal Albert Hall (with Pet Shop Boys)Ĭlick here to compare & buy Teenage Cancer Trust Tickets at us about Andrew. Sat MaLONDON Royal Albert Hall (with the Who) Thu MaLONDON Royal Albert Hall (with the Who)įri MaLONDON Royal Albert Hall (with Paul Weller) Wed MaLONDON Royal Albert Hall (with Romesh Ranganathan) Mon MaLONDON Royal Albert Hall (with Olly Murs) Teenage Cancer Trust Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows Tickets are on sale at 9am on December 2. The British rock legends previously confirmed they will help celebrate the 100th show performed for Teenage Cancer Trust with two special 'Tommy' acoustic shows at the London venue on March 30 and April 1, with Olly Murs set to be joined by special guests on March 27, a night of comedy hosted by Romesh Ranganathan with Kevin Bridges, Jo Brand and more on March 29, Paul Weller and special guests on March 31 and Pet Shop Boys with Johnny Marr and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra closing the series on April 2.įor further details head to. Olly Murs, comedian Romesh Ranganathan, Paul Weller and Pet Shop Boys will join the Who for a run of Teenage Cancer Trust shows at the Royal Albert Hall between March 27 and April 2. ![]()
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