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Jamie, Nick
How has the tour been so far? You played a hometown gig last night to coincide with the single release last night didnt you?
Jamie: It's been hectic! It's been fun but definitely hardgoing. As for last night... we've all got sore heads today!
How would you describe your sound?
Jamie: Rock and roll. It's just honest rock and roll music I think. You can't really pigeonhole it, I think we're more of a timeless band.
Nick: I think we've got a big sound with an edge to it which makes it very fresh.
Quite a few people have been surprised when they've seen you, as upon hearing the name "The Glitterati" they seem to assume that you'll be a King Adora type band with feather boas and eyeliner, who chose the name and was there any particular reason you chose it?
Jamie: It came from an old review of one of our old bands, it made sense to us as we didn't want a band name that people could forget. If it does wrongfoot people or give them the wrong impression then I don't necessarily see that as a bad thing!
Nick: Keeps them on their toes!
You've said in the press release that you get a lot of female attention after your gigs, what's the strangest proposition that you've had?
Jamie: A girl offered to piss on me last night! It was odd.
Nick:Did you accept?
Jamie: I said she'd have to go into more detail than that but she didn't.That was probably the strangest thing!
Nick: I can't top that!
What would you say is The Glitterati manifesto?
Jamie: Have a good time all the time.It's just about having fun and getting onstage and doing it.
Nick: Be shameless!
What has been your best gig?
Jamie: One of the Jet ones definitely.
Nick: I think Jet are the ideal band for us to play with as their fans really get it, 2,000 crowd and it was fantastic. We did two gigs with them and it was fantastic.
Jamie: It's toss up between that and a gig we did in a fish and chip shop.
How about your worst?
Jamie: We turned up to this place in Scotland and we it had a stage that was minute.
Nick: Inverness wasn't it...
Jamie: We were warned it was small but we weren't expecting it to be THAT small!
Nick: It was just full of drunken aggressive scottish people.
Jamie: It was so small, but we managed it somehow! Nick was standing on a chair, people wandered in stealing your mic
Nick: Pulling it off you and singing into it badly.
Jamie: It was an experience basically!
Nick: Character building!
You had a rather risque video for "here comes a close up", what was it like making it? Weren't you embarrassed at all and has your mother seen it?
Jamie: My mum has seen it actually! She said you can do anything except show your grandma! It was actually really bizarre as you had these two big fat fifty year old camera men bouncing up and down on you and you've got to pretend you're - urgh.
Nick: and you couldn't look at the naked girl behind you!
Jamie: It was more embarrassing for her as they made her take her knickers off, the idea was meant to be that they filmed her so you could just not see anything but the shot that they used she may as well have kept her knickers on!
Nick: Yeah, feel sorry for her in that respect.
What would you say are the best and worst things about being in a band?
Jamie: Best is being able to do what you want all the time, that's the best thing for me.
Nick: I can't think of any bad things! You get the odd gig that's difficult but you think it could be worse.
Jamie: Could be at Mcdonalds! I worked at a hospital as a linen porter, that's the lowest I've ever gone.
There seems to have been an increase in the amount of british bands around at the moment, do you think there is a particular reason behind this, a backlash against american nu-metal bands for example?
Nick:I think England got bored of nu-metal before America did, whilst America was slower on The Strokes etc that we caught onto quicker, so it's natural we'd start to try and do something else first.
Jamie: I guess we've got few really big bands like Coldplay, The Darkness that have really become huge in America, which gives people something to say "british music is back."
If you could tour with any band past or present who would you choose and why?
Nick: The Stones
Jamie: Elvis Presley, that'd be good.
Nick: Guns N Roses.
Where do you get inspiration for your songs from?
Jamie: We all write, it all comes together and we just jam out someones idea.
Nick: We all live together as well so I think we always feed off of each other.
Jamie: We all listen to the same sort of music.
What new bands do you rate at the moment?
Jamie: I like The Distillers.
Nick: The Killers, The Stills, once you're in a band you can't really listen to music in the same way! It almost becomes harder to get into new bands, it doesn't have that lifechanging effect anymore.
Jamie: You can't really get into it anymore, you concentrate on your own band so much.
What do you prefer, recording, filming videos, or performing live?
Both: Live!
Nick: That's why we do it!
What are your ambitions for the coming year?
Nick: Touring, then we're doing festivals and recording the album. Keep touring, keep profile up and get another single, get the momentum going. Rather than disappear for a year then come back we want to keep going.
Jamie: It's been hectic! It's been fun but definitely hardgoing. As for last night... we've all got sore heads today!
How would you describe your sound?
Jamie: Rock and roll. It's just honest rock and roll music I think. You can't really pigeonhole it, I think we're more of a timeless band.
Nick: I think we've got a big sound with an edge to it which makes it very fresh.
Quite a few people have been surprised when they've seen you, as upon hearing the name "The Glitterati" they seem to assume that you'll be a King Adora type band with feather boas and eyeliner, who chose the name and was there any particular reason you chose it?
Jamie: It came from an old review of one of our old bands, it made sense to us as we didn't want a band name that people could forget. If it does wrongfoot people or give them the wrong impression then I don't necessarily see that as a bad thing!
Nick: Keeps them on their toes!
You've said in the press release that you get a lot of female attention after your gigs, what's the strangest proposition that you've had?
Jamie: A girl offered to piss on me last night! It was odd.
Nick:Did you accept?
Jamie: I said she'd have to go into more detail than that but she didn't.That was probably the strangest thing!
Nick: I can't top that!
What would you say is The Glitterati manifesto?
Jamie: Have a good time all the time.It's just about having fun and getting onstage and doing it.
Nick: Be shameless!
What has been your best gig?
Jamie: One of the Jet ones definitely.
Nick: I think Jet are the ideal band for us to play with as their fans really get it, 2,000 crowd and it was fantastic. We did two gigs with them and it was fantastic.
Jamie: It's toss up between that and a gig we did in a fish and chip shop.
How about your worst?
Jamie: We turned up to this place in Scotland and we it had a stage that was minute.
Nick: Inverness wasn't it...
Jamie: We were warned it was small but we weren't expecting it to be THAT small!
Nick: It was just full of drunken aggressive scottish people.
Jamie: It was so small, but we managed it somehow! Nick was standing on a chair, people wandered in stealing your mic
Nick: Pulling it off you and singing into it badly.
Jamie: It was an experience basically!
Nick: Character building!
You had a rather risque video for "here comes a close up", what was it like making it? Weren't you embarrassed at all and has your mother seen it?
Jamie: My mum has seen it actually! She said you can do anything except show your grandma! It was actually really bizarre as you had these two big fat fifty year old camera men bouncing up and down on you and you've got to pretend you're - urgh.
Nick: and you couldn't look at the naked girl behind you!
Jamie: It was more embarrassing for her as they made her take her knickers off, the idea was meant to be that they filmed her so you could just not see anything but the shot that they used she may as well have kept her knickers on!
Nick: Yeah, feel sorry for her in that respect.
What would you say are the best and worst things about being in a band?
Jamie: Best is being able to do what you want all the time, that's the best thing for me.
Nick: I can't think of any bad things! You get the odd gig that's difficult but you think it could be worse.
Jamie: Could be at Mcdonalds! I worked at a hospital as a linen porter, that's the lowest I've ever gone.
There seems to have been an increase in the amount of british bands around at the moment, do you think there is a particular reason behind this, a backlash against american nu-metal bands for example?
Nick:I think England got bored of nu-metal before America did, whilst America was slower on The Strokes etc that we caught onto quicker, so it's natural we'd start to try and do something else first.
Jamie: I guess we've got few really big bands like Coldplay, The Darkness that have really become huge in America, which gives people something to say "british music is back."
If you could tour with any band past or present who would you choose and why?
Nick: The Stones
Jamie: Elvis Presley, that'd be good.
Nick: Guns N Roses.
Where do you get inspiration for your songs from?
Jamie: We all write, it all comes together and we just jam out someones idea.
Nick: We all live together as well so I think we always feed off of each other.
Jamie: We all listen to the same sort of music.
What new bands do you rate at the moment?
Jamie: I like The Distillers.
Nick: The Killers, The Stills, once you're in a band you can't really listen to music in the same way! It almost becomes harder to get into new bands, it doesn't have that lifechanging effect anymore.
Jamie: You can't really get into it anymore, you concentrate on your own band so much.
What do you prefer, recording, filming videos, or performing live?
Both: Live!
Nick: That's why we do it!
What are your ambitions for the coming year?
Nick: Touring, then we're doing festivals and recording the album. Keep touring, keep profile up and get another single, get the momentum going. Rather than disappear for a year then come back we want to keep going.