I N T E R V I E W
The LP is named after the song of the same name. All the subjects
covered in the LP are summed up in that one song (love, sex, death,
temptation, lust etc), so it seemed appropriate. And it gave us a chance
to dress up Harry in silly clothes and humiliate him again.
Robert Johnson had a major influence on those who influenced us. People
like Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton were all influenced by RJ, and through
them so were we, a generation later. Hopefully we can continue that.
Luke and Chris came up with the concept.
The whole legend surrounding RJ is that he was supposed to have sold his
soul to The Devil in return for his amazing guitar playing skill. Our
song Robert Johnson's Tombstone covers all that in the lyrics, so was
obvious to us to have Harry dress up as The Devil.
Yes well that's where we came from, those bands all played a part in
defining our attitude towards how we play music.
British bands have an edge that US bands don't have. Not sure why that
is, but it's definitely there, and always has been.
There are a few good bands coming through, but it's very hard right now.
In fact I think it's going to get harder, but the world is changing so
fast, the music business and all those in it are going to have to adapt
to survive.
If people buy our records (which they are doing), and people like you
want to ask us questions (which you are doing), there is always going to
be a place for quality rock bands that can play great shows and make
great records.
This LP is the continuation of the work, not in any planned sense.
Merely in that we write songs and record them when we think we have
enough. We can do what we like nowadays, so we're much more relaxed
about the song content, and the recording process is easy for us, so the
end result is always going to be better than if we had to rush to get an
album out because our label were yelling for it. We are the label so we
do what we want.
Luke writes the songs, I can't help you there. He says it's never the
same twice, it comes from the song, so sometimes it'll be music and
sometimes words or phrases that spark the creative process.
It's a great record, and not many people make great records nowadays.
That makes it stand out I guess.
Yes, we're in talks now for shows in late February 2007, and if there's
a promoter in France that wants us we'll come.
No more DVDs for a while. We've filmed, produced and released 4 DVD
titles in 3 years, so we're going to wait a bit before we do the next
one.
Please buy our new record. If you buy it you'll make us more popular,
and the promoters will pay us to go there, and then we'll play you some
great exciting old fashioned rock'n'roll shows
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