THEGAYUK WINTER 13 /14 Issue 1
moment that’s happening for men in fashion
and we celebrate that and indirectly we’re
part of that – it’s lovely.
Darren: We love it! On a Friday night - go
down Old Compton Street or any of these
trendy streets in London and you’ll see all the
gents so slick now!
people in the aisles having a brilliant night,
with great songs that we try and do as best we
can – so 3 gays who gives a sh*t?
Darren: I hope it encourages artist or kids
who want to be in the industry to be
themselves and not have to put up a front and
lie, because, stereotypically in the industry
you have to be straight, but I think we’re
So with their busy schedule I ask if the boys
proving that’s not the case.
are dating and mating?
Timmy: I remember doing that interview
(their first interview with Attitude) and I
Darren: Currently the two straights are
remember thinking, “oh here we go, are we
taken…
going to be talking about this all the time? Are
Mark: And the gays are single…
we just going to talk about gay gay gay?” But
it made me feel comfortable, because we are
Would they be up for a bit of dating?
in 2013 and it’s really not a big deal.
Lachie: We recently did an interview, and
Timmy: Yes please...
about ¾’s of it was about dry humping our
Mark: We are busy boys, but we do get out to tour manager and sound engineer in the foyer
Soho – as Vine obviously shows, but we’re not of a hotel at 4:30 in the morning and guess
online, we’re not part of that and it feels like
what… It was the straights that we’re doing
gay guys aren’t open enough to chat maybe?
the Dry Humping! Dry humping at sunrise,
What I’m saying is
on a marble floor.
that I feel like gay
Whoops! You’ve got
guys are losing the
to have a giggle…
art of conversation.
In a polite way. I like
We’re getting to the
to talk! A chat over
end of the interview
tea or a coffee!
and the conversation
Timmy: I’m not
turns to fans and I
dissing it, we’re on
have so many
our phones anyway,
questions to ask,
but I do think it
after Toners (The
makes ourselves go
Overtones’s faninto ourselves a little
handle on Twitter)
bit.
tweeted their
Darren: You need to
questions to us.
do it the old fashion
way. If you see
Lachie: Which ones
someone you like,
tweeted?
you need to ask them
out for a drink!
Their eyes light up as
I mention a few of
So does the gay thing
the names. Lachie
come up much in their promotion and the
even starts to list the most involved fans...
way in which the band is marketed by their
label?
Timmy: There was one that wanted to suck
Lachie’s toe at one point!
Timmy: I’m so proud of where we’re at and
Lachie: That was beautiful!
that we can, as a band, do an interview with
Timmy: Ah that was beautiful! He wanted to
you and talk about it first of all, and for there suck your toes.
to be no mention about it or strategy at the
label. It’s 2013 and we’re so comfortable in
One particular fan who had been particularly
our workplace. To be who we are. We’re never forward with Lachie over the internet, finally
told to be anything else but ourselves and I’m met his object of desire, randomly in Dublin
very proud of that. We never get any jip for it. and was a little bit star struck and nervously
When we first started I was a bit nervous.
retreated: ‘You were like “I WANNA SUCK
Lachie: If we were a group of 16-year-olds
YOUR TOES” online!’ remembers Lachie,
and we were trying to sell an image to a
‘Well, here’s my hand first!’
bunch of 14-16 year-old girls, then that might
be an issue for the marketing department, but Who would you like to write with dead or
every year we do a big tour and we stand on
alive?
stage and we put our heart and soul into
everything we do. You could wring-out the
Mark: Burt Bacharach.
jackets. But we’re working really hard and
Darren: Frank Sinatra.
you look out and there’s a few thousand
Lachie: Gina G.
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LACHIE:
Dry humping at
sunrise, on a
mar ble floor…
Whoops! You’ve
got to have a
giggle.
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