We had the pleasure of having the Towers of London play at the student union at the university I'm at last night, and I got to interview them for the student paper Heres a copy of the interview for anyone thats intrested Interview with Towers of London 31st Oct 2005 - by Roach and Carly It’s 6:30pm and Towers of London have just finished sound check. They’ve been in Wycombe all morning getting wasted and now they are about to continue doing so; except we’ve come along to ask them a few questions at the same time. Describe students in 3 words… Dirk – Total Lazy Bastards. Tommy – BROKE Lazy Bastards Donny – Can we have 4, can we add smelly as well? Total Smelly, Lazy Bastards. Is it true that one of you got fined for not paying your fare on London transport? Tommy – We haven’t been kicked off any transport. Donny did you get fined? Donny – Yeah I’ve heard this story and it’s not true. Basically I got on a bus and I wanted to pay for this ticket, so I asked the bloke for a single and he said no you’ve gotta go back and get a ticket, being all smarmy about it so I just thought no, sod this, and walked off. Steve Jones (The Sex Pistols) apparently loves you guys; is there any other big names that are into you? Snell - Nicky Sixx (Mötley Crue), Noel Gallagher, Liam Gallagher… Donny – Bob Geldof Tommy – Ally McCoist Is this true? The Rev – Nicky Sixx is true. We toured with Mötley Crue in Germany and some Spanish magazine asked him what bands he was into at the moment and he said Towers of London. He said that we reminded him of Mötley Crue in the early days. Noel Gallagher is true as well. He said we were one of the best new bands around. What’s your beef with indie kids? Donny – That’s rubbish we haven’t got a problem with indie kids, that bit on our website was put there from a review someone had done about us and they hadn’t bothered to change it but we don’t hate indie kids, we’ve got nothing against them. Do you remember playing at The White Horse last year? What is the story behind you trashing the place? (laughs) Donny – That place was wrecked a long time ago really wasn’t it. (laughs) Donny – Nah we didn’t wreck it, it’s just not very stable. What’s your favourite alcoholic beverage? (A consecutive answer of vodka followed by…) Dirk – with Red Bull Donny – Stella’s good Ok let’s make it a little more interesting; what’s the nastiest concoction you’ve had to drink? The Rev – Vodka Red Bull with Night Nurse. Donny – Yeah Rev has to drink that to sleep these days. He gets nightmares otherwise. He’s getting addicted though, it sends him off to a whole different planet (starts flailing hands around). Any good tour stories from the States? Donny – We got to make a video out there for Fuck It Up acoustic, have you heard it? No Donny – Well the acoustic version is going to be a b-side to Fuck It Up and we shot it in Los Angeles in this ghost town which was a bit surreal, took about 45 minutes. Dirk – Yeah the song sounds like Johnny Cash on crack. Speaking of recording, is there any release date for the album yet? Snell – Next spring I’d say. Dirk – Yeah it’s not finished yet, we’ve gotta re-record some tracks and we’ve found this new bloke to help us out with it. What’s his name? Dirk – Stacey Jones. He’s assistant to Bob Rock, have you heard of Bob Rock? Yes Dirk – Yeah well Bob Rock is Metallica’s little bitch and we’re gonna make Stacey our little bitch. Are there any bands around at the moment that you really despise? Tommy – I wouldn’t say we despise any of them, if you don’t like them just turn them off. Dirk – One band that gets under my skin a little bit maybe is Kasabian because they are fake. They play techno music but wanna be rock n’ roll and it doesn’t quite go. That gets under my skin. But I don’t hate them…plus they said something about me. What did they say about you? Dirk – They said I was the second best looking one in the band. If you weren’t playing tonight and you got to go out trick or treating, what tricks would you most like to play? The Rev – We were gonna go out and do some after the gig. Donny – It would have to be the classics wouldn’t it. Tommy – I’d wanna put fireworks in people’s letterboxes. The Rev – Or shit in a paper bag and setting it alight, that’s always a good one. We looked on the website for your label, TVT records and noticed that you are the only band on it that isn’t either hip hop or R&B, what’s that about? Dirk – Yeah we’re on a label with the bad boys. Donny – We’re the baddest boys on the label. Tommy – It’s good being on the label because at least we know we’re doing our own thing. If a major label offered to sign you right now, would you say yes? Dirk – Depends how much they offer. 10 million each would be nice Tommy – 2 million would do Donny – Whoever made the bigger offer really.
