In America you can’t have high expectations because it’s so radically different over there with the way it works.ĭ: Yeah, when we were at the Q Awards a guy from Athlete introduced himself, and he was like, “you must be absolutely massive in the statesâ€, and I was like, “no, no, not at allâ€, and he was like, “how’s that possible?â€, and I was like, “are you massive in the states?â€, and he was like, “oh, good point!â€. I’m very happy with where we’re at over there, we make money touring over there, and we have a really good time doing it too.ĭ: It’s done well, but more on a college level over there. I think there’s always a spill over from having a certain amount of success over here (in the UK), it does translate. G: How’s your fan-base in the U.S going?ĭ: I was really surprised with our turnout at Coachella. People appreciate it if you bother to go to your Preston’s and your Aberystwyth’s, instead of playing London and Manchester then going home.
G: That’ll be why you’ve got a good fan-base in England at least…ĭ: We must have played 200 shows here last year. They’re good on record, but you see them live? We’ve always wanted to put a show on live and worry about a record later. G: You’ve got a unique selling point then…ĭ: That’s what we’ve always strived for, I think there are a lot of bands that are good, but are not entertaining. There aren’t a lot of rock bands like us… G: Are there any bands that hold a similar sound to you in Detroit?ĭ: No, not around Detroit. We recorded the first record in Detroit too. G: Where have you been recording your new album?ĭ: Back in Detroit. I don’t think we’re doin’ a ‘Gay Bar 2’, but we do have a couple of blocks left on the album, we’re pretty much close to wrapping it up, but we need to record 3 or 4 more songs, so maybe it’ll find it’s way in there. I think the next should be ‘ Gay Bar 2: You’re Not Gonna Believe Were We Take You Now’. G: Is the rumour of ‘ Gay Bar 2’ true?ĭ: I think that was Tait joking around, but that is a good idea. For these five shows (in Europe) we’ve got Reuben…it’s worked out well.ĭ: Yeah, we met Ladytron last year at the Reading and Leeds festival, they played right before us, so we’ve been friends ever since. G: What’s the deal with Reuben from Ladytron playing keyboards with you at the moment instead of Tait Nucleusĭ: Tait was was working in his office in Detroit and a deer walked in his office and bit him on the forehead - he has lime disease now. You should have seen what they did to their own dressing room though, I guessed they pissed and defecated all over it, so that could have been a good story too. We were just kinda pissed off that the 5-year old daughter of one of our roadies got hit in the face, but she’s fine. So in retrospect it was a really funny thing to do, but at the time we kinda took it badly, but I’ve become more appreciative of Steve-O’s work since then. They had no idea who we where, they had no agenda with us, they just said throw the eggs at the next band that happened to be us.
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G: Jackass, yes…So Download then, what happened with Steve-O and the egg attack on the Six?ĭ: We just kinda won the lottery of being the band that follows them. I’d feel like a jackass, you might as well take the money and run. D: Oh yeah! That’s the thing about our band, you can’t possibly play the intergrity card when you got a song like ‘ Gay Bar’ or ‘ Danger! High Voltage’, I mean, like what are you gonna do, you’re gonna be sitting in a bar one day saying, ‘yeah, I wanted to preserve the integrity of ‘Gay Bar’ so I turned down a lot of money’.