How did you feel about South By?
It was our first time in America, and we had to raise all the
money ourselves to do it. It was kind of intense. It was really
fun in lots of ways. You had to do 3 shows in a day, it’s a little
bit intense. Lots of industry people — not really like one for the
punters that festival, showcase, is it a festival? what do you
call it, South By? More of an industry hoedown, yeah. We were
just trying to work out a deal over there I guess. I enjoyed it it
was all a novelty I’d never been to Texas.
Yeah, Austin’s cool.
Yeah it was fun, man. Although things don’t stay open late
enough. Everything shuts at 2.
Yeah, here bars stay open until 4 so that’s nice.
You can pretty much keep drinking for as long as your body can
take it in New York.
You guys did some recording here in New York, do you count it
as your favorite city?
Yeah, I love New York, New York is great. It’s more fun than
London in lots of ways, it’s kind of compact, you know, there’s
a lot more going on in a smaller space. Whereas in London, it
takes you forever to get from one end to the other, you know.
How do you travel in London?
You don’t travel by cab because it’s too expensive, so you have
to go on the bus, the tube closes at midnight, so you can’t get
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back home from wherever it is you’ve been drinking.
We’re here in KGB Bar, how did you find this bar?
Interior is great, I’ve never been in a place quite the same as
this... a collection of Soviet paraphernalia unmatched by any
drinking den. It’s a nice place to get wrecked.
We came here the first night we were in New York, after our
show in Pianos, somebody brought us in here, can’t remember
who, we’ve been coming here ever since.
...we got pulled over by the cops,
by some good cops, and they let
us off, even though we were
going about 100 miles per hour.
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