They are so
good in fact that we decided another road trip to Glasgow was in order so that
we could catch them on aforementioned sold out UK tour. Let me tell you, we
danced our little tartan socks off.
Also, my Mum
and Nan watched them on The Paul O’Grady Show and they both said that they were
very good, so...
What is the worst place you have ever
woken up in?:
Nick: I’ve just thought of some highly inappropriate places
that I could say.
Kev: I have one not about me, but about someone else. They woke
up in a bathroom, in a fraternity, with a guy standing over them with a sledge
hammer in his hand threatening them. He had gone out for a crazy night after
a gig and I went to go to the apartment that he thought he was in. He wasn’t there
and I didn’t know where to go so I just started walking around the streets.
Finally he just came running out of a house. It’s not about me but that is the
craziest story.
Nick: That’s better than anything I’ve got. Well, before Kevin
and a couple of the other guys were in the band we travelled around and played in London in 2009. I use to study at Goldsmith’s in London so we stayed
at a buddy’s house but he didn’t tell us that he didn’t have any couches, he
didn’t have any towels and he only had cold water. So I remember we were
groggy and got in after playing a show that night and anyway, I woke up on the hard
wood floor in my clothes just shivering.
Do you have any phobias?:
Nick: Fear of heights. I am terrified of heights. It’s not
about how high it is but more about if you’re secure. I love rollercoasters and
high buildings and mountains and stuff but if I’m on the edge of something and
there’s no barrier…
Kev: You’re just gonna jump???
Nick: Well I just feel like someone could come and push me
off at any time and that I would fall and die.
Kev: I love heights, I get excited by them. We went to the
grand canyon and there was a railing that people could stand nicely behind but
I’m the one who was 50 feet out on the precipice with my leg out over the big
drop. People were like “you’re an idiot!”
Nick: I get weird just thinking about it .
Kev: I use to be really, deathly, afraid of dark water.
Water I can’t see into like the deep end of the pool. I was the one who was always
like “there’s probably an alligator that has got through the pipes.”
You’re bored, what do you do?:
Nick: Recently I’ve taken to writing raps on the drive to
and from various cities. I secretly, not-so-secretly, really want to be a
rapper actually. It’s all just about sex, big dicks, ya know, rock ‘n’ roll.
Kev: Slamming chicks…
Nick: Yeah! Sex , Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Kev: We need to make that new track that you’re going to rap
on…
Kev: Lately I’ve been listening to albums that I assume I’ll
hate or that I have never listened to in the past because I thought they were
dumb or whatever. So diving deep into and analysing music that I never thought
I would like lie the new Miley Cyrus album which I assumed I wouldn’t dig that
much. I love pop music, but for some reason I thought I had seen it all as
far as Miley Cyrus was concerned. Usually it’s pretty random, Spotify, Browse,
go down to the 40th song on the list.
Tell us the best joke you have ever
heard:
Nick: Oh man, I never remember jokes.
Kev: Donkey dick?
Nick: Ha yeah! Donkey dick! No, I can tell you a terrible
one that I love but that only 1 in 10 people think is funny. So, these two guys stumble out of a bar. They’re wasted, drunk, they’re seeing shit, far gone.
This nun walks by and one of the drunk guys goes “wait a minute, check this
out.” He runs over to the nun, BAM, he
punches her in the face. He roughs her up a little bit and picks her up, she’s
in full nun habit. He looks her in the face and goes, “not so tough now are you
Batman?”
What is one thing you would like to
become better at?
Nick: Diplomacy.
Kev: My surface, quick answer would be golfing. Blake (Tour
Manager) is really good at it.
Nick: Blake is good at pretty much every sport.
Blake: That’s not true.
Nick: Well in comparison to us.
Kev: Golfing is something that my grandfather was passionate
about. I wasn’t as a kid before he passed away. My dad really liked golfing. I
guess my father and my grandfather had that classic, old school, father and
son-in law relationship where it took my grandfather a really long time to
trust my dad y’know? It was a father of the bride type situation. It wasn't until
they played golf together that they finally connected and then it was
EVERYTHING. They were both good at it.
Nick: How appropriate for Scotland.
Kev: I would love to become good at golfing but it’s a very
time consuming sport.
Nick: Diplomacy is way better than golf.
Is there anything you know this week
that you didn’t know last week?
Kev: That is a good question.
Nick: That is a great question. I learnt that Sheep…uhm…they
have a life expectation of 10 or 11 years but after...maybe 5 – 8 years their teeth
deteriorate and they aren’t able to eat well and make good wool.
Kev: We were driving through the country and looking at the cute
little sheep and we were like “let’s look up the BEST possible fact right now,
when we’re in love with the sheep.”
Nick: I was just wondering, oh how long do sheep live? And
then they were like well they live this long...but they actually only live THIS
long because who wants a ratty sheep?
Kev: And then we were yelling at all the sheep WE WILL FREE
YOU!
Nick: Save the sheepies!
Kev: This week I learnt how in love with the new music the
fans are here. This is the first time we have had a headline tour in the UK
since the last album. Our new album, Talking is Hard, is not even out yet
here but everyone in the room is singing along to every song. We would love to
find out how they all learnt the words.
Talking Is Hard will be released here on June 15th.
P.S: We really, really love Scotland and are over the moon
that we
have had the opportunity to visit the country twice in the past two
weeks. It’s a beautiful drive, a fantastic breakfast and boy do they know how
to do gigs. If all of that wasn’t enough, we decided to stay on another night
so that we could get ourselves to Edinburgh Zoo, so here’s a picture of a
panda. I know how much the internet loves a panda.
