Brightest Young Things

Me and drums Darren went to get a juicy wrap filled with chicken and things today in Arizona and there was a guy walking around with a gun attatched to his belt. I aint used to that.

Went to Hooters in LA. Nothing quite like 4 lads in Hooters. I got a grilled chicken burger with cheese with curly fries. I also got a strawberry margarita which cost more than my meal.

We aren't getting asked that much about it anymore - so I'll say one more.

Yeah. We look young for our age I think anyway. We are 22 and 21 but get asked our age quite a lot. I still can't even come close to growing a beard.

The worst part about touring with The Twilight Sad is when Andy gets drunk and just puts whoevers closest to him in a headlock and it can be quite sore. So even when I've had a drink I need to keep my wits about me. Apart from that its an absolute pleasure touring with them.

I dont think we are reaching for as big an audience as possible. We are reaching for a bigger audience but not one as big as possible. I quite like our use of rhythm from all instruments. No-one seems to make the Dr Dre connection either which baffles me.

I bought that Destinys Child album when it came out and I think I still have it. I was buying the first Gorrilaz album and I was young and buying it on my own in a shop. The checkout guy was like you can get another album for a couple quid with this Gorrilaz one and gave me a few options. I liked Bootylicious so I bought that. I think I've still got it. I'll put it on next time I want to get riled up about my own personal space and right to independance and right to do what I want without no guy telling me what to do.

We finished school this summer. We had been looking forward to finishing as we knew we were doing this after. I was doing politics.

I have no idea about myspace fading or what's important for bands. Bands should concentrate on being better bands.

Drummer Darren owns about 25 Superdry shirts and other shirts that are all checked and all disgustingsly similar.

No, the opposite. We aren't a very sexy band.

They are doing suprisingly well. I can still talk. Some days I wake up and its sore but usually after a few cups of tea and honey and not talking much for a few hours it starts to feel better. I always put singing before drinking. If I feel well and the voice is good and the gig is done I'll have a drink. If we were travelling in your average tour van I would say it would be the big drives between shows that was the worst thing about touring the states. But because we have a proper tour bus as there are 3 Fatcat bands that really isn't a problem.

I'm not sure if we've quite settled on a core audience back home. Its all new to us having people come to our rock concerts and its only really in glasgow and edinburgh where people show up in the UK. Its quite a mixed bag of friends, family and all sorts of people. In europe we seemed to get a lot of middle-aged folk which we were so happy about. Its great when people of a different generation can get into what we are doing. the states is pretty mixed to.

I fucking hate skinny jeans. That might be because I'm too big to wear them but they get on my tits cause to me its not just a pair of jeans. Folk trying to be cool gets on my tits and I wish people with skinny jeans would pull them up so their arse isn't hanging out.

No idea.

We have about 5 dvds on the bus and we've watched 4 of them. The Fog is the last one we've got so probably that.

The Twilight Sad soundcheck.

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