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Push to Fire Interview: Anterior
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James: yes (they all laugh) Leon: no, no not really, not with where we are from. James: no because of where we’re from. I mean there’s a big scene in Cardiff but we’re 20 miles from there in the valleys and there’s just nothing there. It’s quite funny now though because within a 20 mile radius there’s us, The Blackout, Prophets, Bullets and Wales has had a lift. (All start to laugh as Luke chokes on the neat Sainsbury’s rum he is swigging from the bottle) Luke: sorry I can’t do an interview sober! | |||
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Your self promotion of your demos and being spotted on MySpace played a big part in you getting a record deal. Was it all a lot of pressure with you all still being so young? L: no not really. There was no real agenda to it; we just wanted to make music, we were lucky enough to have the right friends who knew where you should go with it, like spending a lot of money on a really good sounding demo. So we did all that and then literally just put it on MySpace and that’s the magic of the internet these days I suppose! J: that guy with the moustache found us! L: (laughs) yeah a guy called Benjamin Nibbler 2nd found us! J: yes that was his real name! L: and he wanted to sign us in a kind of gentleman’s handshake of a management deal. We did, and he basically shops around at all the labels and one of them was Metal Blade. It’s not really that simple but to break it down that’s basically what happened. |
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J: I was going to be a doctor Were you really?! J: (laughs) no. L: ask us in 10 years and then we will be aw shit, I’m still driving my Nissan Almera around and I’ll think I should have been a farmer or something with my chickens! At 18 you kind of pick a career at that age or someone picks a career for you, some of the boys went to University and they could have done a degree you know, but there’s plenty of people who can do a degree, not everyone gets opportunities like this. This kind of experience is unique to a small community of people; it’s nice to do that instead of the generic 9-5. J: Plenty of time to do that when you’re dead! L: exactly! There’s not many people who could be drinking Sainsbury’s rum on a big fucking tour bus at half past 5 in the afternoon! (All laugh) Where did the name ‘Anterior’ come from and what inspired you to pick this as a band name? J: that is actually the tale of an Irish farmer, who basically married an American woman who’s family didn’t want it to happen, and the long and short of it is they got married and raised 7 beautiful daughters (All laugh very loudly!) L: Actually it was a medical dictionary, literally opened the book and bang, picked a name. J: but you can use the farmer story if you want, it’s a bit more ore inspiring! L: or the one about that great beast who rescued a Romanian orphan from a river, and his name was Anterior! (All laugh very loudly) I think I’m going to use the orphan one! It’s been quite a while since your last album ‘The Age of Silence’ in 2007, why have we had to wait so long for more material from you guys?! L: drummers keep disappearing J: we actually don’t have a drummer on this tour. He left us in the lurch literally 11 days before we were supposed to start the tour. He decided that he didn't want to do the tour, so we had a fill in for 3 or 4 days and then he couldn’t do it, we were in complete desperation, and last Monday we actually pulled out of the tour. But then we found Barry, from one of our mate’s bands and he literally learnt the set in 2 days! We had to miss the first 2 dates of the tour to practice. And that’s why really, we keep tearing through drummers and getting tours we couldn’t really turn down, so we’re gonna have to start so we’re looking to record in June/July this year. The lyrics in Age of Silence seem to have an Egyptian theme running through it with mentions of Jordan and ‘the Gods’. Has this always been an interest for you? L: yeah, its sort of like a religious fetish, it doesn’t really matter which religion, they all just fascinate me a little, I’m not really screaming about it, there’s no real points in the album, no real pros and cons about it, its just a religious interest really not an agenda. | |||
Do you draw on personal experience when writing songs or is it all about other things? L: it totally depends, it’s full of opinions, you can’t really draw from personal experiences with those. Has it been hard to tour without new material or will you be showcasing new songs for your fans tonight? J: we could have been showing new stuff tonight but because the drummer was last minute we can’t. Is it true that you will be releasing a new album the end of this summer? L: it should be winter hopefully; it depends on the schedule the label has really. Can you give us any clues about it like the album name? L: (laughs) no! (Laughs) corruption, rape and filth? J: and a banjo solo in there somewhere! L: nothing yet, it’s untitled as of yet. Maybe the black album, or the pink album (laughs) or the off teal album!
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You’ve supported some amazing bands in a short time of being signed including The Ocean, Dying Foetus and 3 Inches of Blood, is there any one you would like to tour with in the future? J: Strapping Young Lad I’d love to tour with L: Machine Head J: Shirley Bassey (laughs) Conway Twitty What’s it like playing to such large crowds? Was it daunting when you first started out (being so young) or did you love it from the start? J: it depends L: it’s easier Leon: I think its second nature, the bigger the crowd you play in front of the bigger impact and the more you get back, you go for it a lot more. And what about festivals? Will you be joining the rock festival circuit this year?! L: we won’t, straight up, we just wont. Writing the new album needs to come first, next year we’ll be there, we’ll have a bigger touring schedule next year we want to double up on the shows we’ve done this year. All the festival next year!! | |||
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