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Well-spent,
Miss-spent Youth = TR8R
"Well, I saw the audition poster and thought
I'd give it a go. After some practice, and becoming friends
with the guys I thought 'Yeah, I want to be a part of this',
and that if I wasn't, I'd miss it".
George is quick to answer. "There were
a few moments, where we all found ourselves looking at each
other during songs and thinking 'This is happening'". (Mikey
leans back and laughs), "Initially the song writing process
was a bit overwhelming for people with minds as tiny as ours,
but then we started to think 'Great - we don't mind doing this
for another year!'". Victoria is resolute; "There was definitely
a moment in rehearsal when we felt we'd come together as a band".
They all laugh and answer simultaneously:
"Paramore!" Conor leans forward and stresses "Though we don't
sound anything like them". George elaborates: "All bands start
as sums of their influences, and then with time they start to
make their own sound". Victoria is wearily a little more dismissive
of the Paramore reference; "They would all say that -
as they're boys, and I'm a female singer".
"Because it's sexy!" Conor says defiantly.
Victoria is equally enthused; as though I've said something
preposterous: "I loved it! It's brilliant! The main reason for
doing it was just to do something different for a cover.
Somebody once said that Hotel California is a 'guilty pleasure'". "Its a good cover to do in pubs," George
adds thoughtfully, "It’s a mixed crowd in a pub; a lot of people
older than us in some audiences, so we played to those
audiences. And everyone loves Hotel California". Mikey
admits with pride: "We like doing odd choices for covers. Makes
things a little different". (Indeed - at their Xmas gig they
covered The Pogues "Fairytale of New York").
Conor leaps in with "Big bus... big chicks...
big spliffs". That’s disconcerting from someone almost a third
of my age and half my height but: he's the drummer, that's what
they do isn't it? George furrows his brow as he hears that,
and wants to offer the more serious answer: "Definitely more
gigs... and more songwriting. We've got enough for an album,
but we need to keep on working". Victoria is comfortable to
be a little more bold, "If all goes to plan, the band will be
a success in the next year, and I will hold off going to university". Conor's straight off the blocks again:
"Mikey. No - it's actually George". The question was supposed
to illicit an answer like 'waiting for sound checks',
or 'waiting for ages between sound checks and actually playing'.
"Shouting at them!" Stresses Victoria, laughing further;
"Just to get things done sometimes. We'll be at a rehearsal,
Mikey will start playing some riff, Conor knows it and starts
and then George follows. I sometimes have to call them back
to the job at hand".
The musicians are all quick, and happy
to admit, almost in harmony; "Me!" Victoria is quite calm and
collected as she simply says "Mikey", very 'matter-of-fact-ly'.
But it's all in good humour. It's like talking to Buckinghamshire's
own Beatles or Monkees in an interview. Because they'd rather play songs than
Playstation. TR8R can be found at www.tr8r.co.uk
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