J: But these guys from Renegade Soundwave were a bit of a fuckin' liability right?

John: No, they were quite amusing actually, they sat on the bus and we had a great laugh. They were quite amusin' in their stupidity.
Jay: They were kind of headin' for splitting up time...
John: Their singer flew in 'cos he couldn't get the bus, turned up at the gig and got on the stage and had a fight with the rest of the band - there was a punch up in their dressing room!
They were the one's everyone was really lookin' forward to, but when they played the gig there was such a bad vibe coming off the stage that they totally blew it. It was weird, 'cos the day before everyone was going "Renegade Soundwave are comin'" there was a big excitement about it, (but) they really pissed it away, they could have had a really top show y'know.
Jay: Despite no-one knowin' who the fuck we were they all went completley crazy. They were so starved of live music, seein' anything like that blew their minds so much.

J: When you're on tour do you come really close to killing each other?

John: All the time, yeah, especially when we're on stage.

J: When you're on the bus and it's 4am and you're all completely knackered...

Rob: Well we're all so highly trained it's too dangerous (Laughs). Like in the wild when walruses fight, it's all ritualised 'cos if they actually fought they cut each other to ribbons (Laughs). It'd just be too dangerous, so we kind of go through these ritual posturings so it never breaks into punch ups.
John: About four in the morning we all look like walruses.

J: You eat a lot of fish then?

Jay: Meat eater!
John: That's why we eat donuts to have our walrus size build.
Jay: We poke one on each tooth.

J: You don't do any drugs and you don't booze at all, is that right?

Rob: Keith does, yeah.
Wayne: Keith drinks, he doesn't do any drugs.
Jay: Alcoholics Anonymous! We're on methadone!
(Everyone cracks up)
Wayne: He doesn't do any drugs, 'least that's what he told us... (to Keith) You don't do any drugs do you?
Keith: Not since I was a boy...
Rob: If you believe that you'll believe anything.

J: Before you go onstage I take it you don't neck seven cups of coffee...

Goldblade: No, no,no.

J: Do you psyche yourselves up, like?

Wayne: Kinda, yeah, we do a little mantra and we jump around a bit.
John: It seems a bit weird how you can get on stage stoned...
Rob: If it's not exciting enough for you - the fact that you're gonna go on stage and people are gonna come and see you show off, well, y'know...


Back to Channel Idris Main Page      Previous Page    Next Page