Interview for Bolton Evening News 2006
BEN: Who are you?
Ste Robinson (spam) guitars and vocals
John Fearns guitars
Richard Whyte (YT) bass
Norman Cook drums
BEN: How did you get together?
Ste and Rich were in Lofthouse, John was in The Arch Dentons and when those bands split up in ‘94 we got together.
We have recently re-formed after a 5 year break and acquired Norman Cook, a drumming legend, (no reserve), off ebay.
BEN: And the story so far...
We did a lot of gigging ‘round Bolton and Manchester during the mid to late ‘90’s, supporting such bands as the Cardiacs and Half man Half Biscuit. We played the Hacienda, just before it shut down. Then it all kind of stopped happening, we got lazy and the momentum stopped. Then last year we decided to have another shot at it and at least get some of the songs recorded properly. As we prepared for the recording the BBC got in contact and asked if they could make a short film featuring the band in the studio.
BEN: What do you sound like?
Like a mixture of our influences The Chameleons, The Clash, The Jam, The Pixies and many others starting with ‘The’.
BEN: What's on your record player?
Ste: Interpol, Editors, raging kipper and Adam Green
Rich: The Village Green Preservation Society
John: Foo Fighters, Arctic Donkeys and David Gilmour
Norm: a pot plant
BEN: If you could play with one band, who would it be and why?
Girls Aloud, or did you mean musically? Probably somewhere on the line up at a Northern Soul weekender.
BEN: What's been the highlight so far?
Playing The Hacienda. Also being filmed by the BBC was smart. They have been showing the film on the big screen in Manchester city centre, you know the one by the Manny Eye. Folks, on the Ferris wheel, can view the video, whilst slowly rotating.
BEN: Day jobs?
Spam’s a DJ, fearns is a pipeline inspector, ric is a saturation diver and norm is a full time drummer.
Come and check out what all the fuss is about: Manchester Music demo of the week, Leeds Festival Unsigned Winners, Xfm Unsigned band of the week, Bob Magazines best new band and named ones to watch by NMEs Rick Martin
Live tomorrow @ Dpercussion (free all ages festival), Castlefield, Manchester
On Monday 4th June 2007 between 1.30pm and 3.45pm a rehearsal for Liverpool’s Big Sing will be held at Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral. Thirteen schools from Merseyside will be represented by their choirs to sing a new charity song called Warchild.
The song Warchild originally written by musician /actor Chris O’Neill, from the award winning film Backbeat, where he played the part of George Harrison. After seeing the plight of starving children shown on the ITV programme This Morning, when they were raising awareness for the charity Warchild.
The new recording will be available for a very small charge on download from www.indiestore.com/chrisoneill. For every £40 pounds made from these proceeds, incredibly, we can feed a child for a whole year who has been orphaned by Aids in Africa! A very small price to pay to save a child’s life. Peace and love to you all Chris.
You are KAMIKAZE SPERM's much loved myspace friend, and we thought we'd say hey.
You can download our new ep // album sampler, absolutely free!! **CLICK HERE!**
Hope you like it!
Our album will be out one day soon, Promise ;)
We are setting off on a massive DIY tour of the UK and mainland Europe throughout July and August this year. We still have lots of ugly gaps to fill, and WE NEED AS MUCH HELP AS WE CAN GET!
If you, or anyone you know can help us with a gig this summer, PLEASE GET INTOUCH!
Thanks so much, Speak soon, and we'll see you on the road. K*S
We've finished the new album, Life In General, and it's sounding kickass - if you can't wait for the launch party on the 12th May, you can listen to a track taken from it, The Decline, on the site - learn the words and let us know what you think!
Hi plainfield :)
Thanks for sticking with us. I'm pleased to FINALLY announce that the Out Of The Gray store is now online! You can now download songs, DVDs or buy your tickets for the OOTG Tour. You'll also find some new songs recently uploaded to our myspace profile :) Keep in touch :)
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Wow......more sell outs this last week, and some great gigs coming up.
Unfortunately we did have to re-schedule our gig for the Sunday in Wigan which will now take place on Sat 19th May,please accept our sincerest apologies, it's not something we like to do. More details will go live on our site.
Here's a little ad for a good friend of ours "Twink", he was The Jam's official photographer and has put together a book of never seen before Jam pics.
Hi plainfield :)
We've been working hard and have big plans for 2007 - we're recording in March and will be touring a new mini-album across the UK from 20 April to 6 May. The gig details are on our profile.
We really want to tour for our friends. We'd love to hear from you if you'd like to get involved in the tour. You may be able to help us advertise the gig as part of the OOTG streetteam. Or if you want to help design the album or posters. Or if you're in a band and would like to get a gig on the tour - email us and we'll pass on your details to the promoter (NB: only if you think you'll 'fit' with our sound :) ). Even if all you can do is lend some moral support we'd love to her
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