We Are The In Crowd have built a strong fanbase over in the UK and are not only over here to play Hit The Deck Bristol and Nottingham but also to embark on tour with Never Shout Never over the next few weeks.
We chatted with the band before they went on stage in Nottingham. They told us about playing festivals, working on new material and their love for British food. To read the full interview and see what we thought of their live show click below...
How’s it going guys? How was Hit The
Deck round 1 in Bristol
ROB [Chianelli, drums]- Yeah, it was really good.
MIKE [Ferri, bass]- Yeah, it was a successful night; we hit the deck
[laughing]. A little hungover but we paced ourselves because we’re saving
ourselves for tonight.
You’ve been playing in mainland Europe
and have got Hit The Deck before another headline leg- is it quite nice having
a 2 day festival in between and catching up with other bands that you know?
CAMERON [Hurley, guitar]- Yeah, it’s cool. We don’t get to sound-check, but
apart from that it’s cool because there are all these other bands on the
festival and it brings a lot of people in.
MIKE- We haven’t played a headline set in a little while
either, so it gives us a really nice way to transition in to it. We did a
support slot in the states so forty minutes and then co-headline Europe with Never Shout Never which was like fifty
minutes. And now we’ve got Hit The Deck (which is an hour) and then starting tomorrow
headline sets so we’re in better shape for it now. Rob looks real good naked,
real good [laughing].
ROB- Thanks! We don’t have a lot of friends on this festival to be honest,
apart from We Are The Ocean and Never Shout Never so we need to go out and make
friends.
MIKE- There are bands that we like a lot here, like “Title
Fight”. But we’re anti-social [laughing], we just hang out together, our
comfort zone, and hug.
So straight off the back of Hit The
Deck you mentioned you're starting your UK
JORDAN [Eckes, guitar]- Yeah, really looking forward to it. We were in Europe
last week with them and that was the first time we’ve been to mainland Europe
properly; we’ve only played Paris and Amsterdam
You have a really strong fanbase over
here- what do you like about coming over to the UK
CAMERON- The kids over here are awesome. It’s been about two
years since we first came over, and ever since that first day at Hubfest in
Liverpool kids were just screaming our names and we were just like “yeah, the
UK’s cool”; a good solid response from them. We played our first headline show
in London before we played a headline show in America
MIKE- It’s funny too because the first time we came here we
were like “the food’s so bland”, and now we’re like “f**k yeah”.
Where are your favourite places to eat
over here then?
MIKE- Gourmet Burger Kitchen; it’s pricey, but good.
CAMERON- I love fish and chips
MIKE- We did a lot of Nandos first time, traditional “let’s
go to Nandos all the time” but now we’re a bit over it.
CAMERON- And a lot of kebab shops, a tour of all the kebab
shops and it would always be at like two in the morning.
You released Best Intentions in 2011
and to your credit still touring it, people are still enjoying it
MIKE- I like that they like, that they’re still liking it
[laughing]
ROB- Yeah, there’s lots of liking
Do you ever get bored playing those
songs?
CAMERON- We do what we can to spice it up and change little
things.
MIKE- We have a high energy sound I guess, so as long as
the crowd is good, hey I’ll play “Rumor Mill” thirteen times, I don’t care.
ROB- That’s what as an artist, makes the live experience, rewarding, just
seeing people connect with it. Maybe the emotions we put into it two years ago
have faded then you see these kids that are so pumped on it and brings is back
for you.
MIKE- Your job is a monotonous lifestyle anyway, if you
can’t handle that every night then you’re in the wrong career [laughing].
And you’ve already said you’re working on a new album; how’s that going? Can you tell us anything?
MIKE- It’s mostly under wraps right now, but in the
last year or so Rob and myself have started doing this hip-hop thing on the
side. We’ve never put a record out but we’ve recorded some stuff, so I think a
lot of that has seeped into what we’re doing. It’s called “Mikerobe”, because
I’m Mike, he’s Rob [laughing]
CAMERON- And Jordan’s going to do a lot of whispering on the
album. He’s been going to a vocal coach for whispering [laughing].
And we saw you doing the PINK cover which
we loved. If you could cover any song with any other artist of your choice who
would it be?
ROB- I would actually love to play drums for The Starting Line, that would be
cool. Every time I see them I’m air drumming on the side; you know what, I
don’t even need to be front of house, I’ll just sit on the side and play
[laughing].
MIKE- I want to play triangle for Meat Loaf [laughing]
They then break out into song, the Meat
Loaf hit “I’d Do Anything For Love”
To read our full review of Hit The Deck Nottingham [including We Are The In Crowd] click HERE
