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interview with rody protest the hero show off in every song how amazingly talented they are on their instruments so with this in mind it is no surprise as to why they have built up a huge following all across the world their latest album `scurrilous is another one of our personal favourites from 2011 so please get yourself down to a show when the band tour the uk shortly as you will be blown away by their awesomeness what can you tell us about your latest album scurrilous with this album we left behind some of the metal-cock-stroking ways of our past and went for a more honest reflection of who we are as people and as musicians some have called it a more progressive record but what does that really mean the answer is nothing what was it like to work with julius butty again can you tell us what he brings to creating a protest the hero record it s always great to work with juice since our first record he s become such a close friend which has its downsides as well one major downside is that when we get together we d rather just get stupid drunk than actually do any work but ultimately the work that gets done is first class in my opinion speaking for myself juice has an excellent ear for melody and harmony if i m struggling with anything he has a very simple way of explaining it to me in terms that i can understand also if i m ever unsatisfied with a melody that i ve written he s really quick to suggest a way better alternative how would you say this record compares to your previous release fortress again it s not quite as deeply rooted in metal we tried to explore some things outside of that ridiculous genre while still maintaining a heavy and aggressive presence the biggest difference though is the lyric shift i primarily wrote the lyrics on scurrilous whereas arif had written the lyrics on all of fortress so the voice changes quite a bit he has a much more complex style than myself i tend to be a little more blunt possibly due to my failing intellect you recently did a video for hair-trigger which is the second single off scurrilous and the video looked really fun to shoot can you tell us a bit about how the video came together and maybe what you wanted it to mean to followers of protest the hero we really don t like shooting videos it s tedious and laborious and really taxing on the body however this video was considerably more enjoyable though still quite taxing our videos are often quite light-hearted and don t often match the music very well but that s kind of the point we like to make ourselves laugh and hope to make others laugh a little the true purpose of the video is this not everything should be taken so fuckin seriously.

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the musician jadea kelly also appears on the track can you tell us how this collaboration came together she has also appeared on some earlier material as well right correct she also sang on our first record i ve always had a certain affinity for male/female duets and although i don t think a full song would be entirely appropriate for our band a feature at the end of this track suited it quite nicely we grew up with jadea and it seems as though we ve always known her we tried another girl for the part she had a more paramore-esque kind of thing going on and she was great but jadea brings a certain maturity to the part that we just couldn t deny chris hannah also appears on the new record can you tell us how this collaboration came together since the dawning of our stupid band s creation propagandhi have always been our biggest influence and though it s not always incredibly apparent it s always there we had the opportunity to open for them in the uk in 2010 i believe and we struck up a pretty good friendship with the fellas one night during the recording of scurrilous luke and i had a few drinks and sent chris a ridiculous email essentially begging him to sing on the record and he responded quite quickly and to our surprise was willing to do it it s my favourite thing that i ve ever been a part of and i m still pissin my jeans that it s on there the front cover artwork for scurrilous is really amazing can you tell us the story behind where the image came from and what you wanted it to mean to your fans the art was done by arif s grandfather jafar petgar some 60 years ago we had all grown up practising and playing at arif s parents house and we were surrounded by his paintings including the one that adorns the record s cover it seemed fitting based on the themes of the record that it should be the cover also it s kind of a neat little piece of our history and something of an ode to arif s family and his family s history at this point what songs have you enjoyed performing live the most from the new record and why we haven t yet played all of the songs on the record live but at this point my favourites to perform have to be hair-trigger and dunsel they re both quite challenging vocally but still fun to play however tongue-splitter is proving to be quite the challenge for me it may be my opening to a blossoming rap career joking of course i m sure when i ve fully mastered that one it will become one of my favourites because i seem to be drawn to the more difficult songs we must ask what s it like to have your songs feature on the legendary video game guitar hero it s cool i suppose it s somewhat of an honour we re all quite fond of video games to some degree however none of us have ever really been much good when it comes to playing guitar hero and i think it s pretty hilarious to see kids playing the songs better on a video game than we could ever hope to do live how excited are you for your upcoming uk tour and what should attending fans expect i m excited to get back out on the road we ve had quite the long break and i m sick of sitting around with my thumb up my ass i know some of the guys like sitting at home and biding their time but i can t fuckin stand it we ve afforded ourselves the opportunity to travel the world and get paid while doing it not many people can say the same so when we sit around for lengthy periods i feel as though we re wasting an amazing opportunity that being said i m very excited to get back to the uk where my drinking habits are not considered anything out of the ordinary and where i can gorge myself on chips and cheese until i want to shit my bed but can t due to dairy product-induced constipation.

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interview with justin collier recently man overboard were part of the epic pop punk s not dead tour in the usa with the fantastic new found glory as well as this their self titled newest record has gone down a treat with both fans and critics so get yourself excited as these pop punk newcomers are heading to the uk to tour with save your breath and the story so far if you love your pop punk then this tour is not to be missed how was the pop punk s not dead tour and do you have any memories from the tour that you would like to share with us holy crap this tour ruled even the worst show was still amazing we had a true blast there are tons of memories from this tour some i can share some i can t haha the philadelphia and new jersey show were particuarly memorable for us because they are at venues we grew up going to shows at so it was a pleasure and an honor to be able to play those venues with bands we love and respect since we last spoke you now have your new album out with this in mind can you tell us what the themes and inspirations are behind your latest release there isn t any huge overlying theme apart from just normal life experiences that our lyricists have gone through and that lead them to write the lyrics in these songs some light hearted and some a little more heavy and deep.

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how come you wanted this album to be a self titled release we couldn t settle on a name and eventually decided that no name was good enough for this album so we self-titled it what was the recording process like for this album we did some demoing/pre-productions at niks studio in new jersey steve klein was in nj for a couple nfg shows around bamboozle so he came down for two days and we did a bunch of work and continued on our own throughout may we recorded the album at cannon found soundation studios in north jersey all of june 2011 with steve klein as well as jesse cannon and mike oettinger it was then sent out to be mixed in la by paul miner and mastered by kris krummet what would you say was the hardest track to record and why there was a couple days that the air conditioner was broken so there was some guitar parts that got recorded in insane heat so that was certainly hard but i know there are some harmonies on the album that challenged zac and nik but they killed it how would you say this record compares to your first release real talk i don t think it is wildly different but shows some growth and a few new elements that we haven t really experimented with before what songs are you enjoying playing live of the new record the most and why we played dead end dreams and somethings weird on the pop punks not dead tour somethings weird was especially fun because its fast and has some fun riffs how is your record label lost tape collective going also is it ever hard to maintain at the same time as the band it is going well we have some new rereleases from strike anywhere balance composure man overboard and more coming out so keep your eyes peeled we take things slow and keep it kind of low key so we can balance the work while on the road plus we have some buds do the mail-order so we don t get behind how excited are you to be back in the uk for a headline tour and what should attending fans expect i am really excited we start rehearsal in a few days for the us uk headline tours we are working on a nice and lengthly setlist so everyone gets to hear what they want to hear also you have the story so far and save your breath on the tour how did you end up choosing these guys as support we always like to have a us band and uk band when we tour the uk tssf is killing it right now and we have known some of those guys since last summer when we played with them in san francisco so we found it fitting to bring them over for their first uk tour syb did some dates with nfg this summer so we thought it would be fitting to have them along for the ride as well what do you want 2012 to do for man overboard improve upon how awesome 2011 was thats all i can ask for haha

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interview with dave mcpherson what made you want to use the the pledge campaign again well with inme this time of course because it s a fantastic idea they re an amazing bunch of passionate people to work with my solo campaign was so successful ridiculously fun absorbing it s the best way to purchase an album for the listener the band the charity the wonderful pledgemusic themselves i ve spent the last 6 months devising a list that i believe gives great value for money whilst bringing us closer to our audience which is something incredibly important to us how did you get to the album title the pride and what does this mean to you i was toying with the idea of a pride of underwater lions for whatever strange reason then i discovered a title with a double meaning on the one hand it sounds cheesy but we feel kind of like a pride of lions in that we stick together remain defiant via our passion ambition for music on the other hand we have a lot of pride in what we do musically as people we also thought it d be a cool way of getting people involved in that they become part of the pride in every way they help support us can you tell us about some of the lyrical content on this record and if there is a theme or certain direction that you are heading in as a band maybe lyrically i wanted to try something completely different i d describe it as very poetic with lots of imagery the majority of the album is very positive i m in a good place in my life right now i wanted to spread that feeling a bit the music is in places a lot more optimistic than what we ve done in the past herald moth was really heavy for us quite dark technical whereas this album focuses solely on melody hooks it sounds arrogant of me to say but it s very epic still progressive it s easily our proudest effort jam packed with raw emotion can you tell us a little bit about the recording process for this record it was done in a whole new fashion for us as we recorded it in separate sessions over around 5 months we used mike curtis from fei comodo at cds studios i can honestly say it s the best production we ve achieved for our band we work together really well we re also great friends so it was a right laugh.

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