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Stephen (Pep-Rock): If you guys can introduce your voice for the recording? |
| Ollie: Hi, I’m Ollie. I sing |
| Matt: I’m Matt. I Play Bass |
| Lee: I’m Lee I Play Guitar |
Matt: I’m Matt. I Play Drums |
| Curtis: I’m Curtis. I Play Guitar |
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| Stephen (Pep-Rock): Sound-Wise you guys seem to create a lot of confusion. This is especially evident with emo being anything by a band with tight jeans and a few tattoos. What or who do you guys think you sound like and who influenced you to pick up your respective instruments? |
| Ollie: We all sort of grew up on different stuff. Me and Matt both grew up listening to straight-edge hardcore stuff. Basically, a lot of American hardcore stuff from the time. The two guitarists basically grew up on states metal like Metallica and shit like that. And the drummer listened to A Static Lullaby |
| (Laughter ensues) |
| Matt (Drums): Dude they didn’t exist while I was growing up |
| Ollie: So I guess all that together sorta made our sound. I guess you could say a lot of influences or at least we certainly used to but now we kinda have our sound now so its hard to say we sound like anyone. I don’t know who we sound like. |
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| Stephen (Pep-Rock): For BMTH it’s been a big year. The big one being voted Best Newcomers by Kerrang magazine. Did that come as a bit of a surprise? |
| Ollie: Yeah man definitely. It was like mental. We just couldn’t believe it cause no one told us. And it was like people knew that we’d won it but we didn’t know, we didn’t think we’d win it. |
| Lee: We thought the Automatic were gunna win it. |
| Ollie: It was weird cause we were up against such big acts like the Automatic who’d just had a top 10 single and shit. And mended who’d sold thousands or albums. |
| Matt (Bass): Yeah I mean we didn’t even have an album |
| Curtis: And Enter Shikari of course |
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Stephen (Pep-Rock): How close to the day did you actually find out? |
| Ollie: The night of it |
| Stephen (Pep-Rock): So you were just called to the event and then told? |
| Matt (Drums): Yeah! |
| Stephen (Pep-Rock): If you guys hadn’t won the award who do you reckon should have picked it up? |
| Ollie: Mendeed. Oh and Enter Shikari certainly do well for themselves too |
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| Stephen (Pep-Rock): Just over a week till the new album comes out. After the mini-album getting such rave reviews, pretty much 5/5 across the board, did you guys find any pressure when going in to write the new material and do you feel you had a lot to live up to? |
| Ollie: Nah cause the first EP was complete dog-shit |
| (Laughter) |
| Matt (Bass): We wrote that one when we were 16 years old. So it’s been out like 3 years to us. We are just fed it up with it. |
| Ollie: Well yeah it was hard writing an album |
| Curtis: Well I thought we had a lot of pressure to be honest |
| Ollie: Well yeah not pressure because of the EP. It’s just we aint really good at writing. |
| Curtis: Yeah just takes us an age. |
| Ollie: Just as you’d know we had to have it done for a certain date so that’s where the real pressure was. |
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| Stephen (Pep-Rock): Compared to the EP do you feel your sound has progressed? |
Ollie: Yeah as I say with the first set of stuff we were 16. I’m not even sure if we cared if it was good or not |
| Stephen (Pep-Rock): You basically just wanted to get it out? |
| Lee: We just didn’t expect it to do good or anything. |
| Ollie: Basically we just wanted to be in bands and get some music out there. Obviously with us getting bigger we do care a lot more about how it sounds. |
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| Stephen (Pep-Rock): You moved Label to Visible Noise. Was there any reason for that choice and were there any other labels in for you? |
| (Laughter) |
| Ollie: We would have liked to have signed to summit bigger but we sent CD’s out but no one really seemed to care. |
| Lee: And also in England there ain’t much bigger than Visible Noise. |
| Ollie: It was a bit weird to start with. They approached us and we were just like ‘they got prophets and bullet. Why would they wanna sign us’ sorta thing. But they came to us and sorted everything out and signed us. |
| Stephen (Pep-Rock): You speak of signing to a bigger label. Do you feel comfortable at Visible Noise or do you see it as more of a stepping stone with the idea that you can achieve even more at the next level? |
| Ollie: Label-wise we are cool with it. All the people at Visible Noise are amazing. We certainly get along with them all. Also we ain’t looking to be superstars or anything but I certainly think we can progress from here |
| Curtis: Its more America we are now thinking of now. Really looking to get something sorted over there. |
| Stephen (Pep-Rock): As a Label what do you feel Visible Noise offers you? What opportunities did they open for you? |
| Lee: They are very established. Certainly one of the biggest indie labels in the UK. More people know bout it |
| Ollie: They can do stuff most labels can’t cause they have power. Definitely helps with promotion. It gets us out a bit more and took us that step further really. |
| Stephen (Pep-Rock): A lot to do with the power that comes with having Visible Noise on your CD’s too? |
| Ollie: Oh yeah. There’s been plenty of people out there that wanna hear us simply cause we’re on Visible Noise because of the bigger bands on the label. |
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| Stephen (Pep-Rock): After this set of dates coming up you step onto the Lost Prophets tour. How big of a test do you feel this will be with not playing to your own audience every night? |
| Ollie: I really dunno to be honest! |
| Matt (Bass): Its definitely gonna be hard |
| Ollie: To be fair we know it’s probably gonna be dog shit playing wise. I dunno what these kids are into these days. It could go one way or just as easily go another way. You just gotta look at the situation. You don’t turn down touring with Lost Prophets cause you know its gonna be a great experience. |
| Curtis: I think that’s the main reason we are doing it. Just basically for experience. Playing nine really big shows |
| Ollie: Its just gonna be a laugh huh? |
| Curtis: We know fine we will go down like a lead balloon but its just gonna be to have a good time. |
| Ollie: We just gonna go on stage and play more heavier stuff. We ain’t gonna change or nout. If they hate I just don’t care |
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| Stephen (Pep-Rock): You listened to a lot of American bands and you speak of looking to America. Is this the next logical step for BMTH? |
| Ollie: Oh yeahh. That’s essentially what we are waiting for now. We’ve played in the UK enough times now. We also seem to have a rather large fan base over their just through our myspace page and stuff. So, we are just eager to get out there as soon as possible. Just wanna play somewhere new. When we first got out in the UK it were proper good cause we were like a new band to everyone and everyone went mental. We were also a very small band and for me this was a lot better. I just wanna re-live that in America now. It would be cool to be the new band again |
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| Stephen (Pep-Rock): Myspace. How influential has it been for BMTH in the sense of getting a fan base and just to music in general at the moment. |
| Ollie: Yeah man it’s awesome. |
| Matt (Bass): It helps us a lot internationally. Just means people from everywhere in the world can hear our songs. We ain’t got a CD out in America yet or even in Europe but we have fans in these places due to our Myspace. |
| Curtis: Even kids in Indonesia are hearing us etc |
| Ollie: To be honest even kids in the UK may never have heard of us if it weren’t for Myspace. We wouldn’t be on Visible Noise if it weren’t for Myspace. Don’t think a lot of bands would be where they are without it. You just need it. Everyone knocks it. I know what its like on a personal level but for bands and business’ it’s insane. |
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| Stephen (Pep-Rock): Also it’s almost a lazy tool for labels looking for bands. Suddenly touring the UK isn’t as important and building a great myspace fan base is. |
| Ollie: I certainly hope that ain’t totally true. You gotta build up your reputation through touring but then again you wouldn’t have a tour if you didn’t have a Myspace cause people wouldn’t know you had a tour. That’s how people find out about shit these days. It’s like how else do you find out shit these days? I mean if you ain’t in a magazine then you ain’t got much of a chance huh? |
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| Stephen (Pep-Rock): Lastly, People who are coming are coming out to your shows across the country from now until the end of the year. What would you like them to take away from these shows? |
| Promoter Steve: Sweat! |
| (Laughter) |
| Stephen (Pep-Rock): Apart from Sweat! |
| Lee: Bleeding and lots of it! |
| Ollie: What do we wanna take home from the shows? |
| Stephen (Pep-Rock): Yeah, What do you hope to put onto these people and prove? |
| Ollie: I wouldn’t mind taking home some pussy |
| (Laughter) |
| Curtis: Nah what do we want them to take home dude! |
| Stephen (Pep-Rock): So you just want them to take you home? |
| Ollie: Yeah! On the serious note….Have a good night out. Have a dance and a sing |
| Lee: Have a good night out |
| Matt (Drums): Just come and have fun |
| Curtis: And suck Ollie’s dick |
| Ollie: I’ve got Chlamydia |
| Stephen (Pep-Rock): Fantastic that’s everything. Have a good evening! |
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