Natter on the Dog and Bone with Jill from Speedway
R : How does it feel to have your first single looking like it is going in at 10 in the singles charts?
JJ: Excited, yeah. You know we were hoping for a top twenty, if it was top fifteen then it was a bonus. 'Cause it's really hard for a new band to break, you know 'cause there's so much stuff coming off to challenge now, I mean it's a brand new band and nobody's heard of us.
R: Where were you when you heard?
JJ: Umm I was in my bed.
R: In bed?
JJ: Yeah. The day that the single came out we did like three gigs in one day. The last gig of the day was in Glasgow it was a pretty late one and it was all a bit mad, party night you know. So it was the next morning I got a phone call 'it got to number ten'.
R: And what did you say?
JJ: I was like; I was in that sleepy morning voice 'are you joking?' (laughs). I was just excited and I couldn't believe it.
R: What did Jim say?
JJ: Funnily the same thing, I think. He phoned me later on that day and he was like 'that's really cool isn't it?' And I was like 'yeah!'
R: Is it everything that you thought it was going to be?
JJ: Um it's early days yet. You know because we've done like Saturday Top Of The Pops and things like that, and been noticed a couple of times and that's quite exciting. But I think we've still got a way to go yet before you know, before things start happening. Sell more records, get the album out, and go touring and stuff. I think that's not all but very exciting.
R: What was making the video like with Adam and Simon?
JJ: Um it was absolutely brilliant. Because obviously it was the first video it was really exciting and things like that. It was just a mental day, we were really tired and them things, it was just crazy. They were really nice guys.
R: So run us quickly through the day, where were you and what happened?
JJ: We went to a place called Bury St Edmonds to film. We had seventy crazy kids ready to sort of jump around to 'Genie' in the middle of the wall of death playing. It was just 13 hours of constant filming in the middle of this hot and sweaty wall of death. The kids were absolutely lovely; they were brilliant you know they worked really hard the whole day. We just all had a laugh and then we all went up to the bit of the top of the wall to watch the bikes going in and obviously we weren't actually playing when the bikes went it. It was absolutely mental and one of the riders kept saying 'come on I'll take you round' and I was like 'I'm not allowed'. You know the record company were like 'don't go on the bikes'! |
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