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Alright, welcome to 'In The Tub' with Hawthorne Heights, Hello. How we doing? Are we comfortable?
Feeling great
Having a good time, that's fine. Alright, we'll start.
You're now coming to the end of your Autumn of Hope European tour. What have the audiences been like
and How have you been spending your down time?
Oh gosh, well we haven't had any downtime for starters. // What about this?
We've had one day off
in about forty days worth of tour
so we haven't had a lot of time to hang out
What did you do on your one day then?
...It's gonna get weirder
We went to visit Auschwitz
Well that's something to do on a.. Shall we talk about it?
It's a bit of a, it's dodgy territory.... Did you, enjoy it?
It was an... incredibly...
It's a very poignant place
Powerful place to visit. // What a great way to get a light hearted interview going
Well let's move onto more tragedies...
Yeah what have the audiences been like? They been good?
Some of them, yeah.
Oh, you've had bad ones? // Every tour there's good and bad
Poland...
of all places
Was probably the weirdest show we've ever played.
Kids got down on the floor
and made a row-boat.
And just started rowing in the middle of
the pit. And the whole time they were just going crazy... // I'm still completely positive
that we played someone's birthday party
and they didn't tell us.
It just had that feel to it. // Like a super sweet 16?
*laughs* I'm still convinced that that's what happened.
We can look into that can't we?
We'll just keep an eye on MTV and bring out the metal // MTV Poland
*accent* SUPER SWEET SIXTEEN!
Erghm
Accent wasn't necessary really was it?
What's the wildest party that you've been to?
That birthday party, was that one?
Yeah, uhm
Jeez
We played a frat party that was pretty wild
That'd be fun
There was a lot of drinking, and um,
A lot of spraying of perfume on stage.
Do you know what brute cologne is? It smells like a forest, it's terrible
We had it on stage and as a rule, we had it so if you got onstage
to crowdsurf
You'd have to dump it all over yourself just to make it more interesting.
They're wasted, they'll do anything we tell em too.
Well that would change the smell of a moshpit for once, to worse though
It was terrible, everybody would come up and
They wouldn't just dump it on themselves, they would
Throw it all over, so the entire stage
reeked of this ***
and uh...
That was kind of wild. // You could say it was brutal!
Let's call the interview off, I've peaked
You left windup records last year to start your own label called cardboard empire. What have been some of the advantages?
I think that...
We can
release music whenever we want
with creative packaging for our releases
do things like vinyl pressings of our albums
without weeks and weeks of e-mail chains
Going back and forth
Weighing up the cost
Benefits
of doing something like that
We can do whatever we want
Which is kind of, what we want from this band really.
Well it's a pretty big advantage, It's not just, like, oh we get biscuits...
Sometimes my tangents aren't good!
... digestives ... What's your favourite biscuits?
While we're on the subject
Are there in biscuits in England that take your fancy?
You mean cookies right?
Erghm, I guess
Because what we call biscuits is entirely different to what you call them
What do you call a biscuit?
You guys don't even have them hear, so I don't even know how to describe them
When you go to KFC, do you? // They don't have those biscuits here // ***, it's bread
It's bread?
It's real...
Flourery and salty and buttery
Like a pastry? // No...
No? I'm so not on the same page as you, I'm embarrassed.
You don't have them here so it's hard to describe
something that in your world doesn't even exist.
It's like we live in a narnia that doesn't even have biscuits // Anything with chocolate is a good biscuit
in England. You would never consider putting chocolate in a biscuit in the US // That would be CRAZY!
Which items would be included in your dream rider?
You must have had a few riders, what's something you always want on it?
Jet-ski?
World peace?
Oh we're going that crazy?
There's a water jet pack
Ah I've seen that!
Since you mentioned jet-ski
I mean, we just want water.
Tonight there's no water whatsoever
backstage, so we're sitting there
Well you can take some of this back with you
if you like, essence of in the tub, it would be nice.
Get people to pour that on themselves before they stage dive
And add an even better smell to the moshpit
So, water jet pack? That's fine, we'll take that as your answer
Oooh, this is the final question, congratulations // Oh no!
Oh no? That's a nice reaction, most people sigh with relief
Right you've got 30 seconds...
well I'll just read this...
You released Hope over the summer, which is part 2 of your EP trilogy
In 30 seconds say why should people go purchase your record // I was just hoping you wouldn't say name the songs
You can do that as well if you like, but, go!
30 seconds..
uh... Because we self released it
and it's awesome
Great, alright, 25 seconds left..
You can just rap if you like
Well we recorded it, we produced it, everything is exactly how we intended it
Well that's more of a longer version
Of the first thing, but ughm
Alright, ten more seconds
Ah, produced, yeah that's deeper
It's the best thing we've ever done.... 3.. 2.. 1...
Alright! Yeah! Well done everyone! That was full of information! // Thrilling!
We added in the timer to make it tenser but I don't think we even needed it
Alright well that's been In The Tub with Hawthorne Heights, wave everyone. Ohio Is For Lovers.
Saying Sorry. Erghm, what?
Niki FM. What do you...
What? to write love on her arms
What do you think is your most attractive physical feature?... Let's ask that in a bath. This is who we are
Somebody has stitched me up by writing that. the business of paper stars
Uhm, so what do you think pens and needles
the people dig? *drops stopwatch* rescue me
The stop watch is shocked. silver bullet
Eyebrows, come on. decembers
Eyebrows? hate
Well they are pretty standard eyebrows. I've got like one eyebrow added together as it just gets really faint. new song
So I couldn't say that, but yeah. Well done on the eyebrows. Good job. Okay. new interview 2012