Interview: The Friday Night Boys

September 30, 2009

The+Friday+Night+BoysWhile 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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Photos: All Time Low – O2 Academy, Newcastle, 25th September 2009

September 28, 2009

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 HERE.

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Live Review: All Time Low – O2 Academy, Newcastle, 25th September 2009

September 27, 2009

All+Time+LowTonight 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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Review: Cars On Fire – Dig Your Own Grave

September 24, 2009

Cars on Fire EP CoverBristol’s Cars On Fire offer to the world a big firm hello, in the form of mini-album, Dig Your Own Grave. Offering a snotty outlook on punk in places, it’s just as much akin to The Ghost Of A Thousand as it is Flood Of Red, mixing a great combination of melody and brute force. Sharks combining the two and making them flow like a new piece of artwork; a particular standout track, and the band’s initial sound could and should appeal to fans of both sides of the light-to-heavy spectrum.

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Review: This City – We Were Like Sharks

September 22, 2009

This CityThis City are a band with a very distinguishable sound. Appealing to fans of indie, punk, post-hardcore and good old rock, the band seem to somehow incorporate a bit of all of this into one record quite comfortably in debut full-length We Were Like Sharks.

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Review: Breed 77 – Insects

September 22, 2009

Breed 77Gibraltan flamenco-metallers Breed 77 have stepped straight back into the frame with their latest offering, Insects. Their fifth album to date, the record takes a much more darker, grittier and overall heavier shape than any of the quintets past efforts.

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Review: Tubelord – Our First American Friends

September 22, 2009

TubelordMuch akin to their UK and Big Scary Monsters counterparts Blakfish, Tubelord are part of a burgeoning UK music scene that involves some of the freshest and most insane bands of modern times. Their hectic wall-of-noise racket combined with catchy pop sensibilities makes for an interesting listen, to say the least.

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Interview: InMe

September 20, 2009

InMeFresh from releasing fourth album Herald Moth, Essex rockers InMe take to the road in its support. They take the stop in Newcastle, and George managed to have a chat with the guys; they talk about the unfortunate reason Newcastle is first on the tour, what they’ve been up to this summer, and, more importantly, discuss the new album. Here’s what they had to say…

George: Can you say your names, and what you do in the band?
Dave McPherson: I’m Dave, I play guitar and vocals.
Simon Taylor: I’m Simon and I drum.

George: Simon, you were involved in a car crash earlier this week, can you tell us what happened?

Simon: Well, it was quite serious, I think, we were driving down the road, and there was a car coming towards us, and without looking, they just turned into a junction we were about to come onto, and cut across our lane, and we went straight into them, didn’t get time to break really, I think they were going about 35, we were going about 15, and they went smack, head on, and then I had some really bad chest pains, which I’ve still got, and, unfortunately, our new guitarist has broken his wrist. But, thankfully, the people in the other car were fine. [laughs]

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Live Review: InMe – O2 Academy 2, Newcastle – 17th September 2009

September 20, 2009

InMeUnfortunate circumstances have made Newcastle the first outing for Essex rockers InMe since the release of new record Herald Moth – injuries to new member Ben Konstantinovic mean the band go old school tonight, acting as a three-piece once again. With drummer Simon Taylor shrugging off a chest injury and as frontman Dave McPherson puts it, “doped up on so many painkillers, he doesn’t know who he is”, the band look to be putting themselves back on the map tonight, setbacks or not.

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Interview: Broadway Calls

September 18, 2009

Broadway CallsA lot has happened since we last spoke to Oregon pop-punkers Broadway Calls, back in February, having just released their second album, the critically acclaimed, Good Views, Bad News, so we caught up with the rising stars as they visited Kingston, for the third time, during their recent European stint. We talked about the new record, their non-stop touring schedule, and a lot more with a band who is not afraid to hold back.

Faye: What have you been up to since I last spoke to you in February?
Ty Vaughn (vocals/guitar): As soon as we got back from that tour with Alkaline Trio, we went into the Blasting Room for three weeks and made a record, and it came out a couple of weeks ago, called Good Views, Bad News. Between then and now we did a tour with on the west coast with our friends The Menzingers, then a week of Warped Tour and just kind of waited for the record to come out, and now it’s finally out we’ll be touring forever.

Faye: You recently played a few shows with The Offspring as well, didn’t you?
Ty: Yeah, The Offspring was really cool, that’s a band that you’d never expect to open for and we got to open for them four times, so it was really cool. They were really nice, their audience was really nice, crazy audience and we all had fun.
Matt Koenig (guitar/vocals): Noodles would always pop down to our dressing room and stick his head in saying, “What’s up, guys?!” everyday.

Faye: You also played Leeds and Reading Festival, how was that?
Ty: It was cool, we showed up a day early in Leeds, so we could watch some of our friends play, we watched Polar Bear Club, Set Your Goals, A Wilhelm Scream, and just kind of hung out, and we kind of went that early so we could know what to expect, because we played first on the Saturday and we didn’t want to show up and be completely overwhelmed, so we hung out, kind of got used to the grounds and where everything was. The Saturday was really fun, we showed up, played first, it looked empty, but there was still a few thousand kids there for us, and that’s crazy, that’s a huge audience for us, then we were done by 12.45pm and we kind of just hung out and watched bands for the rest of the day, it was really fun.
Josh Baird (drums): Those tents are the size of a city, it’s crazy, there was Gallows, Frank Turner, The Gaslight Anthem, we were on a good stage.

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