First thing's first, the Saggy-pants crew were given a complimentary shot of 'Spirytus' 95% voltage Polish Vodka…
Gaz: That's got rid of my cold!
Steph: It's like central heating for the soul.
JoOp: I can see through to other dimensions!
Adam: Welcome to Spirytus!
JoOp: So you made the finals of the Junktion 7 battle of the bands, how do you think the night went for you guys?
Adam: It's the best show we've done and I think it was our favourite.
Adam: In the long run it's gotta be a show!
Andy: One of the main reasons we got Jo in the band was because at the audition and he was very quiet, he came in and we sat there and he scared the shit out of us!
Adam: The way you see Jo on stage is the way he auditioned. We're sat down and we've got this 6 foot tall lunatic jumpin' around infront of us!
JoOp: hehe, So what's the inspiration behind your name?
Adam: You just drank it.
Andy: …Like a potent vodka, once you try it you'll never forget, just like us! Once you see us, you'll never forget us.
JoOp: And your musical inspiration?
Adam: It's a wierd one because we all come from different backgrounds, Ben the bassist comes from a melodic death metal music background… I had to slip that in because I think it's the funniest genre of music ever! 'Melodic death metal'… I think I remember pissing myself for half an hour on that one!
Ben (Drums):
I love heavy metal, I love my rock music, I also like playin' drum n bass stuff aswell. But I prefer to play funk.
JoOp: What's the general response you have gotten from your live and recorded performances, in and around Nottingham?
Adam: First gig was sold out. It was at the Old Angel supporting Menz Raya and Tolerance and it was completely sold out, we were turning people away at the door.
People were squaring up to me, people coming up to me pissed off because I couldn't let their mates in.
JoOp: Anything your looking forward to?
Andy: Gig, Gig, Gig, Giggin'! Make ourselves known, get on everybody's nerves. We've been playing Nottingham and we need to expand on that soon.
Record an album, set up a tour.
Adam: The main priority is getting the name about and finding a balance between gigging and writing songs. But our aim for next year is to get into the studio.
JoOp: Give us a little info on how you guys formed, and any changes you may have done to your sound…
Adam: 2003, me and Andy came to the idea. I knew Ben the drummer as a bass player, he wanted to play drums and would be happy to find another bass player. I said why? He said 'because I've played drums all me life and I wanna do it again!' He was crying on his knees and everything.
Adam: *Looking at Ben the Bassist*
I bumped into you at Rock City didn't I? I was like 'you play bass, come play bass for us! Go on we're great! We had a song called, and he said 'Shit smells like shit' he sang 'Heee-ey-ey-eyey! Smells like shiiit!!'
Andy: And it's only because me and Adam when we first started the band were shit at writing lyrics. I mean our lyrics are like 'Oooh baby yeah!'…Really shit, so we were like 'shit smells like shiiit!' and that's it, that's all we sang, just 2 verses… Then we decided not to sing.
Adam: Then we were like 'we really need to find a singer now' which is when Jo came along after we plastered the fuck out of Nottingham with a singer advertisement, for a good few months wasn't it? We had piss take phone calls from like teenage girls going 'we wanna join your band! And we're gonna be on telly!'
Andy: This one girl rang up and she must've thought it was pop idol or something she was like 'I can't believe I got through!' So I asked her what stuff she was into and she went 'I like stuff like Greenday, emo stuff, but I can sing anything.'
JoOp: You guys like you know, have normal jobs, if so, tell me what your jobs are, other than the band… Cos people like to know this shit…
Adam: I must warn you incase you don't already know, there's basically been a few heated debates about our position in the J7 battle of the bands and what myself and Ben the drummer do for a living. I'm one of the managers at 'Sound Control' Ben runs the drum department. I said this very clear, when Jo rang up and says 'we're entering the battle of the bands' and I said 'we can't do it, because we're sponsoring the battle of the bands and stuff, the general manager wouldn't want us to be doing this'. I rang Junktion 7 and went 'We'd do it, but do you think it's gonna affect things, blah blah blah…' Junktion 7 said to me 'Look, there are bands on from the bar entering, so if you want to enter it, if it's ok with the others, it's fine'.
JoOp: Who do you enjoy giggin' with?
Andy: Menz Raya of course, they're a right laugh.
Adam: I liked errrm..'Emergency Funeral'. Emergency Funeral are wicked. They put on a stage show which is what we're all about. It doesn't matter if you play to one person or a thousand people, you go out and you do it as you mean to do it. Don't drop your standards.
Andy: We try our hardest, we put our heart and souls into it. It's what we love, it's what we wanna do, ideally we all wanna give up our jobs… We're all porn directors.
JoOp
Ahem! Right last but not least, any shout-outs you may want to give? In case you haven't already…
Adam: Jo cos he's not here, cunt!
JoOp: Where is he?
Adam: Jo? basically, we buried him in this big box, then before a gig we kinda' lift him out. That's probably why he's so irrate on stage.
Andy: He's in a cage in the back, and we poked him with sticks and at the last minute we open the cage and run!
Andy: Gotta gig with you guys 'Saggy-pants'! Have we not? on the 18th of November. Big shout out to 'Saggy-pants!'
Adam: Menz Raya, Zero from Tolerance is great at the blow job. Yeah, I had a bit of dust on my guitar and he blew it off, it's great. That's his job, he's a blowjobber.
JoOp: Thanx Fella's.
FIN.
