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EofE
London Hoxton's Underbelly
15/09/2015 |
Never, in its
entire existence, has anybody returned to face the Grab Bag for a second time.
Until now.
Last month (we’ve
said it before but, our time management sucks) we saw EofE in Hoxton’s
Underbelly ahead of the release of their incredible new self-titled album. It
was there that EofE vs the Louder Now Grab Bag, round 2, happened.
You’re bored.
What do you do?
Luke:
Err…I…
Dan:
Is he allowed to say?
Luke:
I just play some games on my laptop.
Reece:
What do you play on your laptop?
Luke:
Football Manager usually!
Ever had an epic
fail on stage?
Nicky:
Every. Night.
Louder
Now: Last time we saw EofE you were up on top of an amp. You must have fallen
off of that at some point right?
Reece:
I haven’t!
Nicky:
Ahhhh now you’ve jinxed it!
Reece:
I haven’t had an epic fail, yet. In Rock City I did stand on my amp and I was
wobbling a fair bit and everyone was laughing at me. I did think I was going to
fall over I must admit.
Tom:
I think your epic fail was when we were at the Great Escape and you stepped in
that puddle. That was your birthday as well.
Where is the
worst place you have woken up?
Tom:
Reece’s mums bed.
Reece:
You can’t say my mum’s bed.
Tom:
For comedic value.
Reece:
But you’ve never been in my mum’s bed.
Tom:
I have.
Reece:
You definitely have not.
Tom:
I HAVE!
Nicky:
We’ve all been there.
Who is your
musical hero?
Dan:
Slash. When I first got into guitar, I heard Sweet Child O’ Mine and was just
blown away by his playing and that’s what made me really want to get into a
band.
What is your
favourite album?
Reece:
It’s got to be the EofE one that you can get on iTunes.
Nicky:
Nice plug, yeah!
Reece:
It’s shit.
Dan:
You mean the one that’s out on the 9th of October?
Reece:
Yeah that one Dan.
Dan:
It’s our debut album if I’m not very much mistaken.
What country
would you most like to visit?
Luke:
Germany.
Reece:
Why?
Luke:
I dunno, just always wanted to go to Germany really.
Reece:
Boring.
Have you ever
broken a bone?
Tom:
No, I haven’t.
Dan:
I have!
Reece:
I have, I fell out of a tree.
Dan:
I use to skateboard religiously.
Reece:
Yeah, not very well obviously.
Dan:
I broke my tibia playing football. I didn’t know for months. It was a crack,
but if you imagine bending plastic until you get that white line, just before
it snaps, that’s what happened. So I carried on playing for like three months.
Nicky:
God, you’re so hardcore.
Dan:
I was kickboxing, snowboarding…
Reece:
Ha! Running marathons and fought a bear once…
Dan:
It actually started to bend out, where it kept healing and breaking again. I
went to the doctors and they just said “oh it’s fine, it’s just a bit of
swelling” and then had an actual scan.
Reece:
This coming from the guy who has to cover his hair from the rain.
Dan:
What are you saying?
Reece:
You make yourself sound really hard!
Dan:
Well I am. Or I was.
On a scale of 1
to 10 how weird are you? Explain.
Dan:
Probably say a 7.
Reece:
You’re weird because you can break bones and carry on.
Tom:
That’s pretty weird.
Dan:
I day dream quite a bit.
Tom:
You do day dream all the time.
Dan:
It sounds big headed, but I can start a conversation whilst thinking about
something else, and then just carry on.
Reece:
No, no, no. That’s just called being rude and ignoring people.
Nicky:
And yes, you do have a big head.
Is there one
thing that you want to become better at?
Reece:
Definitely guitar for Dan.
Dan:
Your suppose to be answering for yourself.
Nicky:
This is a hard one, because we’re so good at everything.
Tom:
What’s the question again?
Reece:
Listening for Tom.
Dan:
Yours has got to be drinking.
Nicky:
I’m great at drinking.
Dan:
Hmm.
Nicky:
No, because I get drunk really fast then don’t have to spend as much
money. I have a great time! I’m a happy
drunk, friendly.
Reece:
You abused me at Download.
Nicky:
Well we went out for my birthday, me and Luke. Reece was there.
Tom:
I was there as well. You were smashed when I got there and you’d only had four
pints.
Dan:
I’d like to be better at getting up early in the morning, because I really struggle.
I have to pick these guys up for practice at about 9:30 and it’s hard.
Louder
Now: Driving whilst tired is probably not the best idea.
Dan:
It’s better than driving hungover because that’s horrible.
Reece:
You’ve never done that Daniel because you abide by the law.
Dan:
Everyone drives hungover.
Reece:
If everybody jumped off a bridge would you do it?
Dan:
Probably.
Reece:
If it was going into water…
Nicky:
What kind of bridges do you go across?
Reece:
Have you never gone over a bridge with water underneath it?
Nicky:
Oh WITH water.
What is your
favourite memory of being in this band?
Nicky:
Mine would be Download Festival. That was a highlight for me.
Reece:
Yeah Download, or the process of recording the album. We had a great time doing
that. We bonded, we cooked…
Nicky:
I was sick in the sink.
Reece:
You were sick in the sink.
Tom:
We got that picture right at the end with Johnny Rocker to say that we had
finished the album.
Nicky:
It was over five weeks but we spent weekends back at home.
Reece:
It was pretty intense, we would be in the studio for 10 and then we would come
back at 2 Am sometimes and then back in pretty much straight away.
Dan:
Some of the songs came together in the studio. You figure out the small bits.
It’s like you go in there with a jigsaw piece and then you put it all together,
and that’s when you see what can really happen.
Tom:
You can see what you’re missing that way as well because you have pieces that
you think might work but when you hear it back, and you’re building up the
layers it makes sense.
