RC: And it's a great pleasure of the Rock Circus to come
to the AJ Palumbo Center, it's been a while since
we've been here. We've come to hang and check these
guys out, the Music, a new band out. I'ld say the
new band of 2003. This is Phil, bad a** drummer.
Phil: Hi
RC: And this is Robert...
Robert: Hello
RC: ...the man with the body and vocals.
Robert: I like that. (laughing)
RC: And this is their new CD, which is entitled The
Music, a self-titled release. What made you go
with that? Did you feel like you weren't trying to
make any great statement or the name of the band
was good enough?
Robert: Just Lazy.
RC: Now you guys are from Leads, how did you hook up?
Did you got to school together or did you hook up
in local bands?
Robert: Well, I used to be in a band with Phil, before
this band, and I went to school with Stuart and
Adam I've hnown all my life basically. Me and Phil
left the old band and just started jamming with
these two and pretty much went from there.
RC: How long of a process was it til' you guys knew you
had something to work with, 5 or 6 months?
Phil: No, I knew the first day really. I know it sounds
like a cliche, but we wrote like 6 songs the first
time we were together.
RC: That whole rush, kind of like when you read about
Zeppelin and when they first jammed together. I
know that's the ultimate cliche what can I say, us
Americans like dwelling on sh**. Now you released
like 3 EP's in England, UK?
Phil: No just like one single that was kind of like a
demo but was a single. Then one EP, or were we
signed then?
Robert: Yeah, we signed with that EP and got really stoned
and had to drive home. We smoked a joint of refer
as long as my arm and had to drive home.
RC: It was as long as your arm?
Robert: Yeah, as long as my arm almost (points from
wrist to elbow), I wrecken it would be about that
long. When we last saw him, after we had smoked
it, he said he got home alright but he couldn't
remember getting home.
RC: What was it, some African Gange?
Robert: Don't know what it was.
RC: Here in America we like the pin, we got the Hydro,
the Midies, and then the Regee Miller. Which is
the not so good schwag.
Phil: Regee Miller, who's Regee Miller?
RC: Regee Miller is sh**, it's regular weed but we call
it Regee, it's just some slang.
Robert: But who is Regee Miller?
RC: Nobody it's regular weed.
Phil: Was that Roger Miller?
RC: Roger Miller yeah.
Phil: Football.
RC: Yeah that would be soccer to us. You guys get real
violent about soccer, or football, in England.
Phil: F*** OFF! (laughter) You've seen the Superbowl
right? When you win you go and trash the place
man, we don't do that when we win.
RC: I just see these riots at these soccer games, or
football games sorry, let's get back to your
stuff. Now you knew you hit it off from the first
time you jammed, six songs, now you did the EP or
the demo. Who got a hold of that? Was there many
labels, was it Capitol of UK, or you had a manager
send it out?
Phil: We had a manager help us, he just kind of spread
the word and then there were a few record
companies interested, it was just in England. So
we went to a meal with each of them. Went to like
a posh restaurant with one, then a posh restaurant
with another, and when we signed McDonald's. We
took him down there, he seemed well, so from there
it just went out and then to Virgin, and then to
Capitol in America.
RC: Now I read that you were kind of ridiculed for
having a high voice as a singer, it's a very
powerful voice but high. I thought I read
somewhere that that was a point of being bullied
in school when you were younger.
Robert: No, I didn't get bullied for having a high
voice, man.
RC: No, you're singing voice. I must have misread it or
something.
Phil: I know what you read, it wasn't about his voice.
Robert: Just about being skinny and ugly and just being
a fruit I guess.
RC: Well there's a certain part of society that's
stamped out to be blue collar workers and you got
the creative people that like to indulge in things
and the arts and stuff.
(laughter)
RC: Tell us a little bit about the video. The first
video off the album is "Take the Long Road and
Walk It," which is a really good song off the
album I must say. Tell us a little bit about how
that came together. Who directed it and what not,
how much fun was that to make?
Robert: The video was tough. We did it with a guy called
David Slade, an English guy working in LA. We
originally had it set out for two days. We ended
up trying to fit it all in to one, for some
strange reason.
RC: Budget cuts or something wierd like that.
Robert: I got up at like quarter to five, and was put in
to a harness at half past eight, and came out of
the harness at-I think it was like 12:53 or
something like that the following morning.
RC: That's an extensive day.
Phil: It was all day with like cycling shorts, harness,
jeans, t-shirt, top, wooly hat, pendant-bright
yellow for effect. All day in LA sun.
Robert: I kept doing it, getting dizzy as f***, then
somebody would hold me up and spot me some water
and then on the way again.
Phil: We wore the cycling shorts and didn't f***ing need
them at all.
RC: You'll find that out over the next couple of years,
there will be a lot of stuff that just doesn't
make the edit. I wanted to ask you about The
People, it's a track I really dig since I'm a
music head.
Robert: The People is kind of about mondaine nine
to five day to day stuff. I always had a b****
about that when we were younger so it was nice to
get it on record.
RC: Who were some of your influences as a singer? Who
captured your ears at first in your formative
years?
Robert: Michael Jackson did a lot.
RC: What do you think about all the stuff that's going
on with him now? Do you think it's kind of wierd?
Robert: I think they should just leave him alone.
RC: Leave him alone!
Robert: Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, the Drifters,
Morrison, about a year ago I really started
getting in to the Doors.
RC: Did he say jazz?
Robert: The DOORS!
RC: Oh, The Doors, f*** yeah, I am the lizard king I can
do anything. Did you ever see the movie? Val
Kilmer did an alright job.
Robert: Yeah, I thought.
Phil: I was hoping he'ld do the tour with them, that
they're gonna do in minute.
RC: You were hoping Morrison was gonna do the tour with
them (confused)?
Phil: WHAT?!
RC: They're touring right now with Ian Ashberry.
Phil: I was hoping Val Kilmer was gonna tour with them.
RC: Oh, sorry, I got confused, it's the accent barrier.
I'm trying to catch on. I dig the CD, love the music.
Now when you came up with the title for the band how
did it evolve to The Music? Did you think that was
kind of ballsy or a bold statement to make for the
band.
Robert: We thought it would be a good idea to call
ourselves The Music just because we enjoy playing
music. We're not trying to make any statement, it's
just funny seeing people react that way.
RC: Yeah, curious minds.
Robert: We were reading some press stuff from America
the other day and... a band called themselves The
Music and hmmm... let's see, the end of it got
positive. We're not cocky and we're not trying to be
something that we're not, we just enjoy playing music.
RC: Well it's great music so I suggest you check it out!
The website is themusic.uk.com, you can find out all
about these guys. Do you have other things on there,
more videos, live footage, and stuff?
Phil: ... it needs sorting.
RC: You really don't keep in touch with that, you have
somebody doing it for you?
Robert: We should be, shouldn't we?
Phil: We've been putting photos on recently, that's only
just come on.
RC: I'm trying to motivate you guys.
Phil: We're behind the times.
RC: You guys are just jamming all the time. Well thank
you guys, I appreciate you coming on the show.
Robert: Thank you.
For More Info Go To www.themusic.uk.com
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