Room 94
supported Lawson on their tour
earlier this year, and they must have gone down a storm because they have been
invited back to be the main support for the band’s biggest tour to date.
Est.1987
headed down to Manchester Apollo to check out what Room 94 were all about and we caught up with the cheeky four-piece
after the show to chat about their ever growing fanbase, fun on the road and
their favourite Instagram filter…
You’ve toured
with Lawson before, is it good to be
back?
KIERAN
[Lemon, vocals]- Yeah,
it’s great because we made good friends with them on the last tour, did a bit
of partying, hung out with them and got to know them as people rather than “Lawson”. So, when they brought us on
tour this second time it was like the first day of school, seeing your old
mates again.
SEAN [Lemon,
guitar]- The
fans have been really cool as well, they remember you and it’s great to be able
to play to new fans too.
Do you get
nervous at all playing to such large crowds?
DEAN [Lemon,
drums]- We
get nervous if friends and family are watching, definitely.
KIERAN- It’s weird, because it’s
more nerve-wracking playing to less people…
SEAN- Because you can see their
faces and if they’re not enjoying it [laughing].
The girls
seems to go crazy for Room 94- it
must be a total chore, girls screaming at you?!
KIERAN- [laughing] I dunno. In Poland they go
crazy. We arrived at the airport and there were like three hundred girls screaming
and grabbing us; that was scary. The police and the army came and, because we
can’t speak the language either, that made it even scarier.
KIT [Tanton,
bass]- Then
you have a security man with a hand-gun grabbing you as well.
We read that
the other night your hotel received 15 noise complaints…
ALL- Eighteen [laughing].
KIERAN- We’ve had to calm down
these past few shows. In the hotel they told us we needed to calm it down, that
we were playing “rock music” till late. We were playing Drake’s new album and we were out by 11pm.
SEAN- We had Andy from Lawson in our dressing room yesterday and
he said “I wish I was in your room because it sounds like a lad’s holiday in there”.
KIERAN- Set the speakers up, the
WKDs were out [laughing].
You guys have
over 70,000 followers on Twitter and the same on Facebook- guessing you love a
bit of social networking?
KIERAN- Yeah, big time. For
example, the Poland
thing, that would never had happened if it weren’t for Twitter and Facebook.
SEAN- It’s cool because we run it
ourselves, and that’s what works because the fans know they’re talking to us,
you interact more and we’d never change that.
If you could pick
only 1 social networking site to keep, which one?
ALL- Instagram.
KIERAN- You feel like you’re a
photographer, innit [laughing].
Insert much
deep conversation about which Instagram filter is their favourite.
There are three
brothers in the band, does Kit have to keep the peace or is it quite nice
having your brothers on the road with you?
KIT- Nah, there’s no arguing
between them really.
KIERAN- He doesn’t have any keeping
the peace; the opposite, he gets the stick.
DEAN- Do you know Slender Man?
That was his job for two years, hiding in the woods [laughing].
SEAN- The only arguments that
happen in this band are if someone’s breathing too loud, eating too loud or
snoring or smelly feet. Kit’s feet are the worst.
KIERAN- We’ve finally got through
to him, and he’s wearing socks.
Did you put
some socks on because you knew we were coming?!
KIT- Knew a lady was coming, so
put them on.
KIERAN- What a gent [laughing].
You’re touring with Union J and then your own headline tour- are you looking forward to the support slot and the headliner?
KIERAN- The support tours are so
much fun, playing to loads more people. But the headline tour, that’s going to
be sick because we get to play a lot longer and do what we want.
DEAN- We’ll be playing lots of
the new album too.
And finally,
what’s next for you guys?
DEAN- Yeah, we like to stay busy,
or we get bored [laughing]
SEAN- Although GTA V is good at
the moment.
KIERAN- Yeah, the album is the next
big thing because we’ve been waiting since we started to release that. We’re
really happy with it, it’s really honest…
SEAN- …it’s actually the best
album of 2013.
KIERAN- 2014 [laughing].
DEAN- The headline tour’s the
best thing, mixed with the album which comes out 10th March, so
that’s exciting.
SEAN- It’s like our little secret
at the minute, we all listen to it on our iPods [laughing].
