| 3 words to describe the new album� JOE: Hot, heavy, fun TOM: I don�t know really, that will do. Has Justin injured himself jumping off anything yet? JOE: He did his back in the other day, he�s probably injured more people landing on them in the crowd then he�s done to himself. We played the other night and people were landing on the monitors in the most unfortunate places, and you sometimes see him diving off a 6ft speaker and in to the crowd and on to someone�s neck. What are your plans for next year? TOM: To tour the record. JOE: Release a few more singles, talk to good people like yourself. ME: You tour quite a lot don�t you? JOE: Yeah, we haven�t stopped since May, It�d be nice to have a week off but once a week off has been over it�d be good fun to get back on the road. I enjoy it, the bit before the gig, loading and setting up the equipment is a bit of a pain but come gig time the rest of the evening is good fun. ME: Do you still feel nervous before you go on? TOM: Personally it just varies from shoe to show, sometimes the smaller gigs are more nerve wreaking then Papa Roach and Germany, I don�t know why that is. Do you plan to go to America? JOE: It�d be nice, our management�s out there so they�ve probably got a couple of tricks up their sleeves but it would be great to tour out there. What kept you going as teenagers? TOM: Music defiantly for me was everything just going to shows, listening to music. JOE: I thought it was a hard time being a teenager I didn�t really enjoy going to school at all. I had my mates obviously which helped keep me going as well good friendships and just getting something you could get hold off, a album or a band. I defiantly wouldn�t go back to teenage years I kinda started to enjoy late teens then I did 13-17. Just being part of something other then school and career advice. Do you think nu-metal is on the decline? TOM: Yes, I think so it would be interesting to see what the new Limp Bizkit album does because if that doesn�t do to well then that could be the end. There will always be strains of metal but I think nu-metal is very particular only a few bands really are nu-metal and they�re not doing too well anymore so I suppose you could say it is. JOE: I think all the bands I listen to apart from a couple of mainstream success�s I�ve always been more cult and underground. REM for instance I know they�re not nu-metal but bands like that got there on their own terms and nu-metal could be a little bit fetish. I think they will all be able to drive their fast cars and live in their mansions. When are you going back to Sweden? TOM: I would like to get back there as soon as possible but I don�t know when we�re going to go. JOE: We had a good gig in Sweden when we played there last time and we did a festival in our producers home town, so yeah it would be great to go out there. What was Reading and Leeds like? TOM: Cool JOE: Better this year then it was last year I was chatting to my mates who came to see us and they were stood about 15 rows back outside the tent. From where I was sitting, the tent was rammed I couldn�t see out of it that was great. What do you feel about the smaller rock bands coming through? JOE: Really strong I think it�s really healthy, there are bands which we�ve toured with this year Copperpot Journals, Kids Near Water, these two bands (Tyler and Reuben). They�re just all doing their own thing and it�s really strong, hopefully after the nu-metal rush companies will be keen to invest in some of this. I defiantly think there is more to these bands, every record which they�re making. There are masses of good bands about, it�s really healthy. |