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| INME InMe's Simon talks spandex, and the egg throwing abilities of festival crowds. Left: Simon from InMe - show us your thumbs! No, your THUMBS! No, your... oh, I give up! Photo by Ruth Midget ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The last 12 months have been a whirlwind for InMe. Loved and loathed in equal proportions by their fans and the music press, but never far from the limelight; this year�s success has been capped by appearances at some of the biggest rock festivals in the country. But despite the double headf**k of fame and notoriety, InMe seem remarkably unruffled by the kickbacks. At Leeds Festival 2003, Ruth meets a band (the odd penchant for spandex aside) unrecognisable the shy na�ve new signings she met 12 months ago. And you are..? �I�m Simon from InMe and we�re here at the Leeds festival 2003.� So you played Reading last night � how was that? �It was fantastic. I was quite surprised, the amount of people there for the time of day, cos it was the very ungodly hour of 12 o�clock. The whole crowd were up for it. But today, I think everyone was more hungover from last night, and it was great. Yesterday I was watching bands from the side of the stage, just watching the crowd go further and further until Linkin Park came on, and you couldn�t see the end of the crowd. It was just mental.� So is this the first time you�ve done the Carling Weekender? �Yeah. It�s the first time we�ve ever been to the festival!� Really? �(laughs)I�m always busy doing something. I always missed out and wanted to go.� Pfft! You were just too broke! �Yeah alright (laughs). So my first ever Reading experience was stepping out on the main stage!� That�s quite a decent first Reading experience! �It�s not a bad start, yeah!� People seem to be divided into a kind of love-hate relationship with you guys at the moment� �Yeah� ughs) How do you feel about that? �Well we can�t expect everyone to love us, and you can�t expect everyone to hate us, so you just sort of go with it. I�m not going to try and really push it on anyone. We�re just going to put our music out there. If people want it, they can have it, and if they don�t, they can throw eggs at us like they did today. They threw eggs? �We got an egg thrown onstage. It was a really awful shot, actually, It was completely miles away from anyone in the band.� Who are you most looking forward to seeing today? �Well, all the bands that are on today, I watched yesterday.� Okay then, which ride are you most looking forward to going on today, then? �That one up there, the big one that spins round. You can�t see it. The band I�m most looking forward to again is The Darkness. Huge huge fan of The Darkness. You can never see them enough. It�s cos I like my old rock as well, my old classic rock. I�m a big fan of my classic rock, and they replicate it with some sort of new edge to it. And it�s just great! You can�t beat a bit of spandex (laughs). How can you like spandex? It mings! �It�s great! Being a Maiden fan, and Kiss, and Black Sabbath, you get to see all of them and you get sort of used to the spandex thing. I mean, you�ve seen Spinal Tap, the film? There�s spandex in there! It�s great! There�s loads of it. I mean I�m not the kind of person who would wear it on stage. But it�s great, just seeing people�s spandex. It just shows they don�t care about anything. They just go and do what they want.� What are your Top Five Tips for a great festival? �Make sure you bring at least three crates of alcohol. And a caravan, because I can�t stand tents anymore � I�ve been in enough tents in my life. Third one� Don�t wear dark trousers, and pack some spare underwear.� What�s your favourite festival? �Favourite one I�ve been to? Probably the Glastonbury�s I�ve been to. They�re cool. But the favourite one this year that we�ve played, is probably Download. Because this is the first year we�ve started playing festivals, and Download was our first ever festival. And we played in front of 50,000 people or something stupid. And that was a major endorphine rush, so that was probably my favourite one this year.� What do you think about when you�re onstage? �What Joe will hit in next. That�s about it, really! (laughs) Any last words? �Errr� I�m really bad at this sort of thing� Improvisation� Erm� I dunno. Keep rocking and go and destroy some more venues with your insane moshing that you lot do.� Thank you very much! by Ruth Midget |
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