Hello, Nine Black Alps!
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Tell us, what's the One worst thing you’ve ever found in the bathroom?
Dave: Like all bands, we’re not allowed to shit on our tour bus, so it’s never too bad in there. We've seen some things backstage that would make your teeth fall out if you thought about it too much though...
What's the furthest you’ve travelled Two play a gig?
Sam: That'll be Japan. The Japanese fans are really nice, they smile a lot and they give us presents and letters saying they are into sex and masturbation. Well, one person did, and she asked us if we liked marijuana, but she was the one outlaw fan of society. She really latched onto us.
Martin: Japanese fans are rich and they dress brilliantly.
Name your Three favourite things about Manchester, your home town.
Sam: The Stone Garter: we played one of our first gigs there.
James: It’s an indie disco. And it’s a hell hole.
Martin: The Starbucks on Market Street is my favourite thing. They give you coffee and you plug in your computer. It’s where coffee meets the future.
Dave: Rock World. It’s a world of rock! But another hell hole.
Sam: We wasted a lot of our lives there.
Busted went to school for Miss McKenzie. What did you go to school Four?
Sam: No one noticed if I was there or not. At one parents' evening, my mum and dad sat down with my science teacher and he had no idea who I was.
Martin: We didn’t have any nice teachers at all.
Dave: Music lessons were shite. We were just sat in front of keyboards and we’d just bang out tunes using gunshots and dog barks.
Being famous and all that, you must have a lot of celeb mates. What Five people or bands are you Just Friends with?
Dave: The Cribs. We like them. Sam’s got the singer from the Seahorses in his phone, how cool is that? He’s knows Rick Witter from Shed Seven as well.
Sam: I know the drummer better. We’ve supported Weezer and Kaiser Chiefs before, but we’re not exactly mates with either.
Dave: Supporting Weezer in Dublin was one of our worst gigs ever. Halfway through the set people started shouting for them.
Sam: We just gave them what they wanted and we started playing Weezer songs.
What do you want to achieve before you’re Six feet under?
Sam: Our one big ambition is to get an ambition. At the moment we’re still a bit directionless and we’re standing around thinking: ‘What are we doing?’
James: If we had to choose between a hit record and making loads of cash right now, we’d probably go for the money.
Sam: I’m on the same wages now and I get the same repetitive strain I used to get inputting National Insurance numbers. This is more fun though.
There are Seven deadly sins, but which sin are you most guilty of?
Sam: James is the most vain! Greediest? That’d be Martin. His catchphrase is, “Have we got time for food?”
Dave: I’m the lazy one but when it comes to lust, the ladies love cool James. It’s because of his grooming routine and that he doesn’t smell like shit like the rest of us.
James: I’m the angriest one too. We played a Kerrang! gig and the monitors weren’t working so I went off stage and started screaming at everyone.
Which other bands do you really Eight? Arf!
Sam: Maroon 5 embody all that is wrong with music. It's slick, trying to be sexy and it’s all about fake soul, singalong hell. Their clothes are horribly stylised, their songs are shit, their words are shit, even the way their bass player sways is shit. They should be shot.
Them’s fighting words, but are you really rock'n'roll or are you tucked up in bed by Nine every night?
Dave: Well yesterday I didn’t wake up until eight at night, so I guess I was in bed before nine. You get a lot of people who act like they live a rock and roll lifestyle but then you meet them and they don’t drink, they don’t do anything. McFly are probably more rock and roll than we are.
Sam: I’m never gonna throw a TV out of the window, I don’t watch TV, I read books. I might throw a book out though.
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