Having had the guys introduce themselves and their role in the band, there was lots of laughter, as they told me...
Grant: We said that in an interview, we were going to say we all played the bass…
Dan: I'm also Grant, and I also play bass…
Grant: You know, just to see if the interviewer is listening!
The Punk Archive: So are you guys looking forward to today?
Dan: I'm well excited.
Grant: Yeah, we really are. We played at Hammerfest yesterday and we travelled through the night to get here, so we're a bit tired…
The Punk Archive: You don't look it, you're looking good for it…
Grant: I've had a beer already… Yeah, we're really excited to play. We played last year, and it was brilliant.
The Punk Archive: How was Hammerfest?
Chris: Yeah it was really good, really amazing. It's quite a heavy festival and it's quite thrashy, so for us we were maybe a little bit out of place, but we went down amazingly well, had a great crowd, and had the only moshpit of the day in our place…
The Punk Archive: Do you find it a bit better when you feel slightly out of place on a bill? Almost like you've got nothing to prove?
Chris: I honestly feel that we feel out of place in a lot of places!
Dan: I think it was a good escape for people there, you know? Too much of the same thing could be a bit…shit!
The Punk Archive: How would you describe your sound? On listening I was thinking almost disco-metal…?
Chris: That's the best one!
Dan: That's a good one.
Grant: We should put that on the poster! Idiom: Disco-metal. We basically just play everything that we love. All of our influences are quite different. We take kinda nu-metally influences by what we grew up playing our instruments with, and sort of developed that into a new sound. We developed for quite a while: we've been a band for a while so have developed over the years. It's so hard to pigeonhole what we do, or what we sound like.
Chris: We just sound like Idiom. And finally there is actually a band like that: where they're just themselves. So many bands are ‘core’: like deathcore…
The Punk Archive: I think as well if you pigeonhole yourselves, you limit where you can go and you almost appear to ‘sell out’ if you do something different…?
Dan: We enjoy what we play. That comes across so that's the main thing. You don't have to put yourselves in a category.
The Punk Archive: So what are your plans for the rest of the year?
Dan: Our CD is coming out over three sets of copies exclusively to Metal Hammer magazine. The first one's already out, but is coming out again exclusively to WHSmith next month, then the next set of the album comes out in April to try and time it a couple of months later. Then, the whole piece will be available at the end of the year.
The Punk Archive: It's a really interesting way to release your record. Why did you decide to take that approach?
Chris: Mostly because it pushes out many thousands of copies of your music. People can like it, leave it, or whatever.
Grant: Already for this month and next month, for the first part of the EP we will have had about 23,000 copies gone out…
The Punk Archive: Which is massive…
Grant: Yeah, I mean Skindred got to number 3 in the Rock Chart and number 28 in the Chart with 12,000 sales. It shows how good it is to push that way of releasing.
The Punk Archive: So you guys are from the South West of England. What's the scene like down there?
Chris: Really good, really good. There’s a lot of upcoming bands from there, Napoleon, I Divide, Rat Attack, The Computers…
Grant: There's lots of upcoming bands, all from the same city (Exeter), which is a really small place, but there seems to be a big thing going on with bands from that area, which is really good!
The Punk Archive: I know Exeter, been to The Cavern a few times…
Chris: Yeah, The Cavern is basically where all those bands hang out! It's funny when you see people asking us “Do you know Napoleon”, when all of these bands are there on a Friday night!
Grant: We don't just know them, we see them every day! There's only one club!
Dan: Some people also have housemates who are related to the bands, or going out with them and stuff. There's a massive music family down there: all these bands are linked somehow.
The Punk Archive: So what can we expect from your live show today?
Dan: Lots of energy, even though we're fucked!
Grant: It's gonna be good, we're gonna give it a lot of energy and everything we've got!
Chris: We're going to be very energetic to say the least, it's going to be good!
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