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Scene Three: Sitting in front of a less obvious door by the toilets.

Everyone immediately starts ignoring the last door and using this new one - aaargh!
Owen San Lorenzo comes down the stairs and trips over us.

Owen: What time are you on?
Chris: What time are you on?
Owen: We open because we're the least popular Gringo band.
Matt: No, you open because we drove.
Chris: Basically we've been driving for hours and hours and hours...
Owen: TOO LONG!
Matt: Took us about 7 hours to get here.
Owen: Lovely as Scotland is, it's a long way away.
Matt: We came through a great big valley of snow that looked like Narnia. We came by the most obscure road ever and it was like we'd gone through a great big wardrobe and it was all Narnia. We saw a house buried by snow! I went to try and investigate it and I tried to climb up this bank of what I thought was grass and fell up to my waist in snow. It was really cold and I got frostbite.
Chris: We were just amazed, as soon as we saw a hill, even if it didn't have any snow on it or anything, we saw what is basically like a minor dip, like a driveway or something and we went, 'oooooh!'.
Matt: Ooooh!
Chris: James was just driving along going [shocked voice] 'fuck...! fuck...!!'.
Matt: It took seven hours 'cos we kept stopping to take photos of hills!

What good second rate celebrities have you met?
Matt: That's a good question..ooh, Tony Hart! I met Tony Hart once. Oh, it was brilliant.
Phill: I met Carol Vorderman.
Matt: Yay!
Chris: No, you met Suzi Quattro.
Phill: I did as well.
Chris: You played with Suzi Quattro. You supported Suzi Quattro.
Phill: I wasn't allowed to speak to her for very long 'cos I was rude to her.
Everyone laughs
Matt: Yeah, I met Tony Hart 'cos my uncle was a BBC cameraman and he took me for a day out there when I was little and I went and sat in the audience for the Really Wild Show and met Tony Hart - he's a lovely man. Lovely man.
Chris: Apparently, according to my mum, I met Bob Carolgees once who is the ultimate B-rate celebrity. And I've met David Prowse who played Darth Vader. Not really B-rate that's kind of A-rate isn't it?
Phill: Ken Dodd, the Drifters, Bernie Clifton...
Matt: Showaddywaddy! We saw Showaddywaddy's girlfriends. They, w, w...
Everyone collapses into complete hysterics and can't talk properly
Chris: This is where we come from, Wisbech, Phill does the sound for people like Showaddywaddy.
Matt: And really dodgy bands like the Drifters come and play at the Empire and then Showaddywaddy came and played and they came out..and they came out and it sort of, sorry I get really excited, meeting Showaddywaddy's girlfriends - big thing for me! There's a kebab shop opposite and Showaddywaddy were in there and Showaddywaddy's girlfriends were running across the road going, 'waaaaah!', and they slipped over and fell into this car!!
Much hilarity ensues
Chris: This girl she just slipped over and she slid [Matt is doing sound effects and visual aids], went under the car and smacked her head on the bottom of the door.
Matt again collapses into laughter
Matt: Bob Mills came to Wisbech and he was talking to someone I know, Martin, and I went up to him and I was really drunk. And I went up and said, 'alright Martin, did you see Bob Mills? I heard he was shit', and I walked off. Which wasn't very funny or very good.
Chris: My mum has done really rude things with Jeff Beck when he was in the Yardbirds. She reckons it was Jeff Beck but the year it was, I reckon it was Jimmy Page. Either way, it's pretty..
Matt: He's secretly hoping that in some way he's got some DNA from Jimmy Page hanging around him.
me: My mum used to run the Beatles fanclub.
Matt: Did she? Wow!
Chris: Really?
me: In Holland.
Everyone laughs
Chris: Jason Graham's moving to Holland.
Matt: He's not, is he?
Chris: He's moving to New Holland. It's in Essex.
Matt: Oh!! Ho ho!
me: I fell for that one as well.
Chris: Yeah, I fell for that as well. Devious guy.

what things have happened that have made you feel famous in any way?
Matt: Being played on the radio.
Chris: I've got to say this. I went to see Eska at the Garage and they were fucking brilliant and I was really pissed, and I get nervous when I want to go and tell people that they're really good. I though Colin was really..he just blew me away - he was like the biggest, most aggressive guitar player ever. So I went, 'are you Colin from Eska?', and he said, 'are you Chris from Reynolds? You fucking rule!', and everything and he was really nice and I was like, 'mmmnmnmn thank you very much'.
Matt: I saw two Reynolds t-shirts at Reading - it was amazing.
Chris: And at the same festival I threw a sausage at Six by Seven and I freely admit to that.

The interview then degenerates completely into free-for-all nonsense until tape runs out.

Interview and photos by Marceline Smith

 
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