They played a show on a bus, kicked off a
headline tour and released an album, Ones and Zeros, the day after they went right back to where
it all started, The Fighting Cocks in Kingston, where the band played their
first ever show and where we managed to catch up with 4/5 of them.
You can read what we thought of the gig and the new album here.
You can read what we thought of the gig and the new album here.
ADVANCED WARNING: There’s a reason why this interview is on the
brief side and that reason is that it was less of an interview and more of a…hostage
situation. Whilst the guys were chatting with fans after the show I all but
cornered them and forced them into answering some ridiculous questions for you!
Aren’t I kind (to you, not to bands. Clearly.)
Summer or Winter?
Ben Jolliffe (Drums):
I would usually go Summer but because I just played the hottest show of my life
and I would do anything for some cold water right now, I’m going to go winter!
If there was an extra
hour every day what would you do with it?
Fraser Taylor
(Guitar): That is quite easy.
Ben: Sleep!
Fraser: I would
sleep yeah. We last slept about, three
years ago maybe?
Ben: I got a solid
two hours last night but…
What was the most embarrassing
thing to happen to you at school?
Simon Mitchell (Bass):
Errr, so many. So many things! You know in the canteen when you use to get
trays of food? Well there was a girl I really fancied and I just couldn’t stop
staring at her and I just tripped straight over my best friend’s foot. The food
went all down me! I fell down, I looked like a twat and I didn’t get the girl
in the end so errr, that was a real shame! I spent the rest of the day looking
like that, no wonder she didn’t fancy me!
McDonald’s or KFC?
Gustav Woods (Vocals):
Neither! I’m a vegetarian! HA! I picked that one by accident, I just pulled
it out!
A huge thank you is owed to Young Guns for allowing me to grab some pics and stick a dictaphone in their faces. We also want to say thank you to all of the fans for not telling us to get lost.
And, as we're thanking people, both Banquet Records and The Fighting Cocks are performing a vastly important service to the music industry and we are eternally grateful that you both exist.
First year of highschool I was going to run up to my friends and didn't look where I was going so I fell down actual hole in the ground, landed on my stomach, in front of all the older kids (including my crush) of course....
ReplyDeleteFirst year of sixth form, towards the end of the year, our school had a "vintage sports day". For some reason there was a 'space hopper' race that I was a part of...during the race, I was quite far in front of everyone else, pretty much guaranteed to win...but what I had failed to realise was the fact that I had split my shorts pretty much in half...When I won, I jumped off of the space hopper and stood up...whole of the sixth form started laughing, I had no idea why...When I finally realised that it was because I had split my shorts, I had to fashion a new pair out of a bin bag, because I had nothing else to wear. For the rest of the day (including the walk home through town) I had to wear a bin bag to cover up the HUGE hole in my shorts...
ReplyDeleteThe most embarrassing thing that happened to me at school is kinda like a combo : I was in English lesson, and the teacher asked me to come to the board saying 'Miss Léa, you'd better come to the board, whereas telling your friend about your love story !'. That was already embarrassing…. So, I got up and walked toward the board. But when I passed next to a friend, she told me ' Léa you have a spot on your pants '. Yeah, I had a big chocolate spot on the back of my pants. Ashamed, I ran towards the board to hide the spot, but when I reached the teacher's desk, I just fell down the floor in front of every students of the class….. That was the most embarrassing thing that happened to me at school :')
ReplyDeleteAnyway, if anyone wanna get my Instagram, it's lea_lsr, my Twitter is lealittlelea, and thank you guys for this amazing giveaway ! :D
I had just entered my first year of secondary school and I was in science class. I had recently turned 13 and I thought I was absolutely brilliant, I mean I thought that Hannah Montana had nothing on me! Anyways in science class we were doing that first chapter everyone does on cells and living things. The teacher asked the question "what is another name for a living thing?" And me thinking that I was some sort of biology prodigy decided to shout out the answer at the top of my voice to show the others what they were up against. However it completely backfired as instead of saying the word 'organism' I shouted out 'orgasm' to a class of 30 people. This was at an age where one would not even dare to utter the word 'sex' so you can imagine my embarrassment! You would think that this would eventually be forgotten but it went on to haunt me for the following 6 years as that particular teacher dedicated his existence to making sure no one would ever forget that day.
ReplyDeleteDuring my GCSE maths exam, I forgot to bring in a ruler. I got to a trigonometry question and noticed my teacher walking by. For some weird reason, I raised my hand and shouted "Mum!" Bearing in mind that there was pin-drop silence, the whole room turned to me and laughed. I have never lived that moment down. It was awful.
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ReplyDeleteI was about 14, I was sat in the school hall with my friends one lunch time and this guy I really fancied came and sat next to me and started to talk to me. I'd not been feeling very well all morning and as I went to talk to him I throw up in his lap. He never spoke to me again after that and I was devastated and so embarrassed I ran and hid in the toilets until the end of lunch then went home and cried
I can't believe I'm actually telling you guys this but I fuckin love your music so I guess it's worth it! So I was sitting my final A-Level exam last month and because my surname is at the bottom of the register I had to go into the hall last, which was embarrassing enough as EVERYONE looked at me at I walked into the silent room. This boy (who I had never seen or spoken to in my life) was sat in my seat number, the room was silent and I was too scared to ask him to move so I simply just sat in the empty seat behind him thinking it would be okay. It was about 5 minutes before the exam was about to start, the hall was still silent and the exam lady was walking up and down the rows making sure everyone was in the right seats (she looked like she hated her job). When she got to me she looked at her paper, looks at me, back at her paper then says, "You're in the wrong seat". Like she didn't even whisper it, she said it out loud, in a silent exam hall and everyone heard. I was completely embarrassed, I couldn't bring myself to speak so I just nodded in acknowledgement. I think she expected me to move or something because then she was like "Well, hurry up and swap then". I was aware at this point that EVERYONE was looking at me, my seat was at the front of the hall so I couldn't really be missed. As I went to stand up, I let out the LOUDEST fart ever... I think it was either because I was nervous for the exam or because I felt awkward because everyone in the hall probably thought I can't read and sat in the wrong seat by my own error. Basically: Loud fart + Silent exam hall = disaster. It echoed off the walls, I don't think I've ever been so mortified. Safe to say I probably failed that exam and I am dreading results day :-( I've never wanted the ground to swallow me up at a more convenient time. Dammit.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Jess! We have read all the entries and decided that your story is the funniest (but we are gutted that this happened to you!). Hopefully you're SIGNED copy of Ones and Zeros will start to make you feel better! E-mail us at loudernow@hotmail.co.uk with a name and a postal address so that we can get your prize to you!
DeleteHalfway through my 3rd year at uni,I had a little toilet/pants disaster. What happened was during a lecture for 1 of my modules, I stepped out to go use the little boys room as you, coming back out I forgot to button my boxer briefs and also my zipper on my pants. I washed my hands like I normally do, stepped out and went back to class. When I walked back into my lecture room, all eyes were on me which was weird at first. I continued to my seat, while a group of girls were giggling at me.. This made me feel kinda of important since I thought they were checking me out. I got to my seat and my bro who I was sitting with said "YO WTF SEG' I Can Fully See Your Dick". I immediately looked down south and noticed that as I walked my pennis was showing. So basically I let my whole class see my pennis for free + that shit embarrassing (not my pennis) , even my lecturer saw it X_X
ReplyDeleteWe are loving these (but our hearts are slightly breakin for you all). Make sure you follow us on Twitter because we will announce the winner over there! @LouderNowX
ReplyDeleteI've always been known in school to be a big fan of chicken nuggets (pizza to the YG boys is what nuggets are to me) - I mean, they sell packs of 20 in McDonalds under the impression that it contains 'four servings', because the common nugget consumer only plans to consume around 5 nuggets (I do A Level maths, clearly this is v. good maths and science). Those 20 nuggets serve one, in our friendship group, and that one person is me. I know, not very embarrassing but, on a moment of pure impulse, I decided to buy 100 of their nuggets - because clearly I am that much of a crazy kidda AND CAN EAT THAT MANY NUGGETS GOT DAMMIT MUM DON'T TELL ME WHAT DO TO. So, I walk up to the counter with my slightly very drunk friend Beth and she leans her hand on the counter, leans into the counter as is like "100 nuggets, puh-leaseee' before running off to pee, leaving me to fish the dolla out of my bra to give to the cashier... Only to then realise the lady stood there used to go to our school, and is judging me quite hard. Instead of doing the sensible thing and just giving her the money, I then proceed to leave over the counter and inform her that 100 nuggets was, in fact, 5 boxes of 20, like the helpful little teenager I was (because I did a level maths, dontcha know). The whole thing was a nightmare, with my friend running back from the toilet in wake of the 100 nuggets, only to get distracted talking to strangers about how they were an 11/10 and insisting she'd add them on facebook. Suffice to say, the whole restaurant was staring at us...
ReplyDeleteTo make matters worse, we then had to return five minutes late because someone decided they needed a diet coke. Nightmare.
My worst embarrassing moment at school was a day when there was a show. I was presenting the show, and so I got up and walked through the public down the stairs to go in the middle of the scene. Then I started speaking, when I felt a hand pulling on my skirt. I returned, and saw a guy, that said to me 'Your skirt was stuck in your panties'. People in the audience were looking at me and laughing, but I was sooooo ashamed !
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in year 10 my maths teacher had asked me to come in to school a few times over the Easter holidays to take some booster classes with a teaching assistant. We had exchanged numbers before we broke up for the holidays. Somehow the numbers on my phone got a bit mixed up and I ended up texting him one night In the holidays saying 'I love you babe, good night xxx' thinking this was my boyfriends number, when I didn't get a reply the next day I continued to text my teacher throughout the whole of the two week break saying typical teenage soppy things and begging him to reply to me. Needless to say when I got back to school after Easter I was pulled in to a meeting with my headteacher and my maths teacher facing some serious accusations and consequences.. It wasn't easy talking my self out of that one. Fml
ReplyDeleteI was about 10, and it was my first swim lesson with the school. Every body had a one piece swimsuit, but I had a bikini. When we were all together to make groups, the teacher asked me to change my swimsuit. So I phoned my mother, so she could bring me a new swimsuit, and when she arrived at the pool, she said 'Sweety ! Here is your swimsuit ! I took the black one, I suppose you didn't want your Mickey one !". Argh, awful : I couldn't even remember I had this Mickey swimsuit ! So I ran to stop my mother, but I slipped on the wet floor, in front of everyone....... Just, horrible !
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