Back in August (our
logistics suck) we saw Australia’s The Decline bring their sunny skateboard
punk rock to Kingston’s The Fighting Cocks. The Grab Bag is always out of
control in that venue so it was only right it attacked The Decline whilst they
were over the water!
Describe yourself in
one sentence.
Pat: One time…
Harry: You’re just describing yourself, you don’t have to
tell a whole story.
Pat: I know but I want to tell a story that describes me. There
are so many sentences. One time I borrowed this cat off of somebody and I had
to give it back so I got another cat to replace it but then I got given the
other one, so then I ended up with two cats, also, I really like cats.
Harry: That was two sentences.
Pat: No! They were all commas man. They were all commas. Two
cats COMMA I like cats.
What is your
favourite song to play live?
Harry: Do you remember the name of the songs?
Ray: I do now. I’m new to the band but I do know the song
names. I think… I Don’t Believe.
Harry: You don’t believe what?
Ray:…the song is called I Don’t Believe. It’s probably one
of my favourite songs on the new album, and there’s a section that I get to
sing.
Harry: We don’t let him sing much.
Pat: Just one section on I Don’t Believe.
Ben: So in that song Ray is actually stepping in for Cam (Cameron
Baines) from Bodyjar, who actually sings it on the album. So he doesn’t sing
often but when he does it’s in the most important spots.
Ray: And Cam’s one of my favourite singers as well.
Pat: Ray has a Bodyjar tattoo, they’re one of his favourite
bands!
Where is the worst
place you have woken up?
Ben: I guess in the van after sleeping for half an hour. Or
maybe a park…but I can’t remember how I got there. Maybe I was bird watching…drunk.
What is your
favourite venue to gig in?
Pat: Do we have to of played there before? Because if not
then Wembley Stadium.
Ray: I don’t think I’m ready for 60,000 people.
Ben: We could play to 5 people there…
Pat: Yeah, be realistic now.
Ben: We’ve been pretty lucky on this tour. There was a place
called Bar Ceferino in Barcelona that was pretty cool. It was a small capacity
venue, maybe you could fit 40 or 50 people in there max. We played there after
playing Resurrection Fest to a few thousand people, which was something we had
never done before, and then we played to a small group and that was amazing.
Ben: We should open a bar in Barcelona called Bar-celona.
You’re feeling ill
and can only have one home comfort, what do you choose?
Pat: This is hard because I really like pizza, and I really
like cats, and my girlfriend so….pizza.
What is your
favourite memory of being in this band?
Ben: Erm…waking up in the van? I don’t know, maybe the
second show of this tour playing Resurrection Fest which was fucking insane, I
had no idea what to expect.
Is there anything you
know this week that you didn’t know last week?
Pat: UK traffic is pretty bad. That’s one thing.
Ray: Something from Karl Pilkington maybe?
Pat: Oh yeah! Karl Pilkington has some good stuff. He said
that every time you remember something you’re actually remembering the last
time you remembered it and not the first time it happened. I mean he didn’t say
that but…
Have you ever had an
epic fail on stage?
Pat: One time I fell over on stage. We were playing this
weird bar like 5 years ago, but there wasn’t that many people there so it was
okay.
Ray: At Resurrection Fest, in front of thousands of people, I
was playing and I must have jumped and stepped on my leg. For like half a song
we may have played without any bass.
Pat: I keep on forgetting to play this song called Wrecking
Ball that we have. I keep forgetting that it’s on the set list so I just go
straight into the next song where I start singing by myself and the rest of the
band just doesn’t play. I’ve done that maybe 2 or 3 times on this tour.
Ben: It’s only been on the last third of the tour, so it
doesn’t quite make sense because it was never an issue before.
Pat: It’s because we started adding this old song to the set
and I always think that’s instead of Wrecking Ball but it’s not, it’s as well
as Wrecking Ball!
