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Moscow Drive Interview
1. Hello to Simon Jones, lead singer of Moscow Drive, formally known of Amanacer. How are you doing today?
Hello! I’m doing marvellous, i’ve just actually got in from seeing a Graham Coxon gig down the road, which was a belter. We missed the first few tunes of his set cos we were watching the Chelsea V Barcelona game on the TV, but his new stuff is sublime.
2. Why did you change the name?
Aside from the fact that hardly anyone could say the name, the new tunes that we were writing were naturally leading to a different direction, which didn’t sit well with the old band name, and we decided that it was perfect timing, as the mis-spellings and mis-pronounceations of the name were getting beyond a joke. For example we played a gig in Carlisle, a good 500 miles away from our home-town, and the promoter spelt the band name wrong on the poster… half idiocy on his part, and half ours (or mine) for picking such a shite name in the first place.
3. Are you working on any projects at the moment?
We’re gonna be releasing our debut single in early September, which is taking up a load of our time in terms of getting things sorted. We’re finalising the details at the moment, and we’ll be touring the single quite extensively so all will be busy ahead.
4. Any news on the next album?
Well seeing as though we haven’t even released our first record yet, i’ll stick with talking about the debut single…! We’re in and out of the studio a lot, recording a load of tracks, some of which will be made available online pretty soon, probably in sample form until we get round to actually releasing an album.
5. Any gigs coming up that you’d like to shamelessly plug?
Never one to shy away from a shameless plug, we’re playing a show at the Dublin Castle in Camden on the 8th June… which will be a quality one. Or look out for the dates we’ll have around the single release. Or if you’re in the St. Louis area in September (to anyone reading this in the States), come and see us play at the STL: festival. Enough plugs?
6. SPEED ROUND!
a/ favourite song
Your Mother Should Know, The Beatles
b/ favourite film
Full Metal Jacket
c/ favourite food
Indian
d/ favourite colour
The red of Liverpool
e/ cats or dogs
Cats
f/ labour or conservatives
Both of them are a joke at the moment…
g/ girls or boys
Girls
h/ hot or cold
Hot
j/ chinese or italian
Italian
k/ guitar or bass
Guitar
l/ sweet or savoury
Sweet
m/ facebook or myspace
Both are connected to the devil, so neither. Evil things.
Make sure to check out Moscow Drive on myspace
2 Responses to “Moscow Drive Interview”
July 1st, 2009 at 3:47 am
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