Laura
20-01-2008, 03:17 PM
Hello Irwin. I have just been watching your new video. Its nothing but the band in the shed.
Er, yes. It could have been better, but we ran out of time and couldn't do the other bits. A bit of a quiet turn-out in terms of how everyone expected it.
So it was supposed to have some interesting bits in it?
Absolutely. There were two other bits which were supposed to be really interesting.
You need to get the song on to a soundtract so some exciting bits from the film can be spliced in.
Yes like Girls Aloud had Hugh Grant in a video
During my extensince reasearch of your band I have read that you said, "we want to be indie, but we're not cool enough." Surely in an age where Johnny Borrell is considered cool the bar has been set suitably low?
That might be a quote from the fourth member, who was sacked for saying stupid things in interviews. I guess we try to be as silly as possibe, while playing music. We're not really bothered about being cool. It's guitar bands with a swagger that are a probelm I've had it up to here with swagger. I mean, we might swagger a bit in our band - we might swagger our way to a mug of warm milk - but we tend to focus more on tunes than swagger. Do I sound like a twat?
A bit. The twat siren was about to go off.
How high was it on the twat richer scale? Lets say 6.8. It only goes up to seven. I'll have a real classic for you by the end of the interview.
At the other end of the cool spectrum a comment on your shed video on YouTube says that The Hoosiers are, in fact, TOO cool.
Well I dunno. Perhaps we're hip to be square, like Huey Lewis. But what is cool, Peter? Is it cool to be 12 years old and pregnant? Is that what's cool? All the kids are doing it. Oh, I dont know. I just don't know anymore. I can't keep up with the kids.
Which is why you have a stylist.
Well, we're more DIY B&Q fancs, but we'll basically take anything we can get if it's free. I got a free bra the other day - it was thrown at me by someone from the audience. That was a turning point. Unfortunately, it was thrown at me by an adolescent boy, which sent off a very mixed message. But it was thoughtful. I've still got it.
You nver know you might need a bra. Let's talk about Martin from your band.
Lets not, hes boring.
Perhaps, but he also used to be a Swedish fireman. How does that work?
Well, it sounds like bollocks, but it's not. There's a sort of national service over there where you ahve to do that sort of thing.
You don't really think about them having firemen in Sweden, do you?
No, you;d think it was too cold. Although they do have cats and trees.
Do they set fire to cats and trees in Sweden?
No, I meant cats getting stuck in trees.
If someone gave you a cat on fire, what would you call it?
FLAMECAT!
Flamecat would be a good name for a slightly mediocre rock band, would'nt it?
It's better than The Hoosiers. We need to change that name. We we're going to shoot ourselves on stage and end it all at the peak of our fame but that was proably three months ago, so we missed our opportunity.
Have you started work on your dissappointing second album yet?
Well, what we did was record two albums in one go and release the second one first. So what we've got out at the moment is actually our disappointing album, and the next one will be the good one. We might call our second album 'Debut', actually.
That's almost as bad as when bands call their debut 'Greatest Hits'. The world of music isn't the same without Goldie Lookin' Chain, is it?
No. It's very sad.
Your second album's just going to be more of the same, isn't it? Appealing to slightly fewer people than your first, but still a big enough proportion to justify an arena tour?
It'll probably will be, really. Don't rock the boat. Know your place.
Are you going to do something stupid with puppets at The Brits?
I don't think we've been invited to perform yet.
I suppose the 'stupid with puppets' has probably been allocated to Mika.
I think if we get anything from The brits at all, we'll end up being chucked on as the warm-up act before they even start showing it on TV. We could find out what the headline act is doing and do a really shoddy version of it.
Do you think you coudl make a career out of doing badly what other people manage to do quite well?
Perhaps.
Well, I think this interview has gone quite well.
So do I
It's a good job we're doing it on the phone or there might be an awkward, 'Do we kiss, do we not kiss?' moment right now.
Maybe. I kind of get off on that.
Er, yes. It could have been better, but we ran out of time and couldn't do the other bits. A bit of a quiet turn-out in terms of how everyone expected it.
So it was supposed to have some interesting bits in it?
Absolutely. There were two other bits which were supposed to be really interesting.
You need to get the song on to a soundtract so some exciting bits from the film can be spliced in.
Yes like Girls Aloud had Hugh Grant in a video
During my extensince reasearch of your band I have read that you said, "we want to be indie, but we're not cool enough." Surely in an age where Johnny Borrell is considered cool the bar has been set suitably low?
That might be a quote from the fourth member, who was sacked for saying stupid things in interviews. I guess we try to be as silly as possibe, while playing music. We're not really bothered about being cool. It's guitar bands with a swagger that are a probelm I've had it up to here with swagger. I mean, we might swagger a bit in our band - we might swagger our way to a mug of warm milk - but we tend to focus more on tunes than swagger. Do I sound like a twat?
A bit. The twat siren was about to go off.
How high was it on the twat richer scale? Lets say 6.8. It only goes up to seven. I'll have a real classic for you by the end of the interview.
At the other end of the cool spectrum a comment on your shed video on YouTube says that The Hoosiers are, in fact, TOO cool.
Well I dunno. Perhaps we're hip to be square, like Huey Lewis. But what is cool, Peter? Is it cool to be 12 years old and pregnant? Is that what's cool? All the kids are doing it. Oh, I dont know. I just don't know anymore. I can't keep up with the kids.
Which is why you have a stylist.
Well, we're more DIY B&Q fancs, but we'll basically take anything we can get if it's free. I got a free bra the other day - it was thrown at me by someone from the audience. That was a turning point. Unfortunately, it was thrown at me by an adolescent boy, which sent off a very mixed message. But it was thoughtful. I've still got it.
You nver know you might need a bra. Let's talk about Martin from your band.
Lets not, hes boring.
Perhaps, but he also used to be a Swedish fireman. How does that work?
Well, it sounds like bollocks, but it's not. There's a sort of national service over there where you ahve to do that sort of thing.
You don't really think about them having firemen in Sweden, do you?
No, you;d think it was too cold. Although they do have cats and trees.
Do they set fire to cats and trees in Sweden?
No, I meant cats getting stuck in trees.
If someone gave you a cat on fire, what would you call it?
FLAMECAT!
Flamecat would be a good name for a slightly mediocre rock band, would'nt it?
It's better than The Hoosiers. We need to change that name. We we're going to shoot ourselves on stage and end it all at the peak of our fame but that was proably three months ago, so we missed our opportunity.
Have you started work on your dissappointing second album yet?
Well, what we did was record two albums in one go and release the second one first. So what we've got out at the moment is actually our disappointing album, and the next one will be the good one. We might call our second album 'Debut', actually.
That's almost as bad as when bands call their debut 'Greatest Hits'. The world of music isn't the same without Goldie Lookin' Chain, is it?
No. It's very sad.
Your second album's just going to be more of the same, isn't it? Appealing to slightly fewer people than your first, but still a big enough proportion to justify an arena tour?
It'll probably will be, really. Don't rock the boat. Know your place.
Are you going to do something stupid with puppets at The Brits?
I don't think we've been invited to perform yet.
I suppose the 'stupid with puppets' has probably been allocated to Mika.
I think if we get anything from The brits at all, we'll end up being chucked on as the warm-up act before they even start showing it on TV. We could find out what the headline act is doing and do a really shoddy version of it.
Do you think you coudl make a career out of doing badly what other people manage to do quite well?
Perhaps.
Well, I think this interview has gone quite well.
So do I
It's a good job we're doing it on the phone or there might be an awkward, 'Do we kiss, do we not kiss?' moment right now.
Maybe. I kind of get off on that.