Our friends and families, Oasis, blue skies, summer days, nirvana, beer, Salvador Dali, the good times and the bad times, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, a good whiskey, strange people that you meet in pubs or while travelling, Kasabian, Nick Drake, Marmite-love it, Troy MacLure, those weird dreams that you can't quite remember all of, The Stone Roses, tequillia, The Arctic Monkeys, Debbie Harry, Marmite-hate it, a cheeky smile, women, rum and coke, Blur, The Goonies, sunrises, The Godfather, Kings of Leon, The La's, Gin and Tonic, The Godfather pt 2, Klaxons, instruments that make good noises, sunsets, Teenage Fanclub, The View, books that make you miss your train stop, The Charlatans, vodka, good nights out, Muse, films with Bill Murry in, bad nights out, crisp winter mornings, girlfriends eyes, The Doves, My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream, stars in the night sky, interesting art, good music, bad music, most alcoholic beverages, a good story, that bit between dreams and reality, not necessarily in that order
Sounds Like
Guitars, bass, drums and some vocals all creating a wonderful noise together
A brief history of The Whole Grand Scheme
Matt and Graeme met at school, where they also met Alex. They left school and went their own ways for a while. They then came back and started a band. Needed a drummer, they met Chris through a mtual friend. The three were a four and they set about creating great sounding music
A brief-er history of The Whole Grand Scheme
They all met and set about creating great sounding music
Some random questions:
What's playing on your stereo?
Matt-Jeff Buckley
Chris-Whitesnake's "Live in the Heart of the City"
Alex-A new CD of a band who's name I forget. They're from Australia.
Graeme-The Sunshine Underground
What is your favourite Whole Grand Scheme song?
G-Obviously all of them, but for this I'll go with Against the Odds.
M-Belong
C-Tough call, my favourite to play is Heathens Come On. From a drummers point of view it's got a good beat.
A-The second one we played tonight. (That'll be against the odds then-the rest of the band).
What's your porn name?
A-Tansy Johnson
C-Robbie Green
G-Suki Bird
M-Blossom Ashcroft
What's your earliest memory?
G-6am
M-Mum's white Maxi not starting in the rain, outside playgroup.
C-Breakfast, it was good.
A-Getting lost on Northumberland beach, when I was 3. Then in a vision of logic, I realised all I'd done was walk in a straight line down the beach. Therefore, all I had to do was turn around and walk in a straight line back. Always the spod.
If you weren't in The Whole Grand Scheme, which band would you be in?
G-So many good bands; The Clash, The Stone Roses, The Rolling Stones. Any of them would be cool.
C-I'd need a bit of practice but Led Zep.
A-Girls Aloud
M-The Velvet Underground or The Doors
Who's the worst driver in the band?
M-Me
G-Me
C-Probably me to be honest, on my 3rd rehearsal with the band I reversed into a tree.
A-Not me I'm a brilliant driver, everyone else is shit.
What animal would you be?
A-Dolphin
G-A lion or a penguin, or a crazy mix of the two-a lioguin.
M-Cat
C-Animal from the muppets
This week I have mostly been drinking..........
M-Beer.
C-Guiness, the best thing to happen in 1759.
A-Brown booze, it's great.
G-In no particular order; Water, rum and coke, lager and finally blackcurrant
The drugs don't work. Discuss
C-Would love to but it's past my bedtime. It's a school night.
M-The drugs don't work because it's hard to level with who you are.
A-Today's musicians abuse drugs dreadfully. A couple of lines and then rehab, wet bastards. Get rich, take drugs, get richer, take more OD a few times.............(Al ranted on for 3 hours-we couldn't be arsed to write it all down)
G-Must be a placebo then.
Stuff we learned
You don't want to get in a car with us.
When asked we were all wearing black undercrackers, apart from one who was going commando.
We would all rather live in a boat rather than a tree, so we could do our appalling pirate impressions.
When we were little we wanted to be: a racing driver, big, a spaceman, a musician.
Just to say good luck for tonight's gig.
Vivienne and I will be there, yes, we've given up watching The Apprentice just for yous!!! Think that deserves a dedication....
Damn these university computers for not having sound cards (quiet those at the back shouting that i should be using uni computers for work, and not piddling round on MySpace for hours) I can't hear your new tune. When are you gigging next?
xx
You see i wanted your myspace viginity but that greedy nate seacourt took it. Ah wel i'll take his seconds! Hope all is well lads, looking forward to Chill out on sunday.
