While on tour with All Time Low, Faye recently had the chance to sit down with The Friday Night Boys ahead of their debut UK performance in Newcastle. We got talking about their first time over, signing to Fueled By Ramen, how dangerous they are, squashed those Fueled By Gossip rumours, and even got a rendition of Five’s When The Lights Go Out.
Faye: Can you say your names and what you do in the band?
Andrew: I’m Andrew and I sing.
Robby: I’m Robby, I play bass.
Chris: I’m Chris, I play the drums.
Mike: I’m Mike, and I play guitar, we’re The Friday Night Boys.
Faye: For those in the UK who are unfamiliar, can you tell us a bit of history about The Friday Night Boys?
Andrew: Yeah, we all used to play in a bowling league, and we met on Friday nights, we were called The Friday Night Boys, but we were all playing in different bands at the time. Then our other bands broke up, we won the championship and then were like, “Hey, we should start a band!”
Robby: So, the band was born, we’re the four most raunchy, disrespectful, reckless, drunken, filthy Americans the country has ever seen and now for the first time ever we’re being unleashed to other countries, so they can experience the madness first hand.
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Check out our photos from the first night of All Time Low‘s sold out UK tour in Newcastle, with support from The Audition and The Friday Night Boys. To read our review of the show, click
Tonight saw pop-punks All Time Low roll into Newcastle for the first time in over two years as they kick off their sold out UK tour. Demand is clearly high, having been upgraded from the 400-capacity Academy 2, to the 2000-capacity main room, and the hordes of screeching 13-year-old girls who have been queuing since crazy o’clock, make it pretty unbearable for anyone over the age of 18.
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