Puzzled by this? I certainly was. Drawing back to the days where Slipknot were know as 9 idiots in masks with people embracing the fact they had no talent. Well having have a recent 10 year anniversary I guess, the jokes on the people that didn't believe they could make it big.
Trying to make themselves a band I was joined by 2 of the band. "Locked out." Matt Barton and Dom Cowels two Shropshire boys know only by the music they play and the great entertainment they provide.
Entering the room you would think the world's next break through band would do all they could to create the perfect song and get started to creating it. From what I set my sights on it was highly doubtful. If you were to enter the room yourself you would have thought it was a place to dump your children from the havoc they created. "Can we get this over and done with. Cowels moans, I have a lot to get on with". With Dom getting agitated I turned my head to notice Matt gleaming at his nails looking around the room. Obviously in an uncomfortable position, it didn't help that it was to be their first major interview.
This child like behaviour included moments of the boys pretending to attack each other with their instruments, to me this seems rather quite funny and no physical harm was done showing they have a close relationship towards each other.
So lets start off on the pleasant side off life, in questioning where did you find the inspiration and time to form a band? Is it true that you feel you can make it to the high ranks of fame in the click of your fingers?
Matt seemed like the dominate leader, with no hesitation answering my questions one by one. "I can remember from a young age I was always passionate about music, my parents bought me a guitar when I was 6 and forcing me to play and never give up because I will never get anywhere in life."
I then turn my head and have a quick glance at Dom giving him a look on insisting him to answer my question. He slowly looked up and answered shyly, " I suppose I got into music when I was 10. walking by a music store begging my parents to buy me a guitar. The problem being we didn't have much money and my parents said the sentence all children dread...No! If you want something so bad then you have to earn a living to buy it for yourself.
Of course being at a Young age I threw a fit and smashed everything in my room, I can then remember turning my music up full blast and screaming along to the lyrics. From then onwards I can remember that every time I got in a mood the music would increase and the singing to calm me down came out.
I permanently got into singing by a simple mistake, this is the way it goes, got in a mood at school had my MP3 sat in the corner and sung, this being coincidental in a music lesson. After which my teacher mentioned of music lessons after school in which I took up singing such as joining the choir. Me being me I denied that and she then offer that I should at least take lessons and from there on I never looked back".
The story bought a shock of surprise to me, and made me and the boys sit in silence for a moment or 2, then the lads grinned at each other "We both met in college and we knew that the college were looking to form a band, they gave us a try out and noticed that e and the other lads had a great chemistry and announced that we would be the band.
How did such an odd name come to mind?
The lads both grin and fall to the ground in fits of laughter, as I looked at them fall to the ground now crying in hysterics. As they rose they instead that the other one told the story of how it came to be. "My girlfriend sent me a text years back clamming that she was left outside the house, her mum had gone shopping. She didn't have a key to the house her phone battery was almost dead, it was snowing and she wasn't wearing the most sensible clothes. I knew this from the text in capitals saying "I HAVE BEEN LOCKED OUT SIDE MY HOUSE, I HAVE NO KEY, ITS SNOWING AND I'M SO COLD..AND TO MAKE THINGS BETTER MY MUM WONT PICK UP HER PHONE!!!! CAN YOU HELP IN ANY TB LY xXx
From this I was devastated and in the end she waited and her mum came to pick her up. The following day, me and Matt were asked to think of a name, as we sat there I was looking back on my old texts. Then it came to me I can remember sitting up and shouting out 'LOCKED OUT.'
The album 'Give me 10 reasons why I should let you borrow this CD' is their first and yet will it stay that way. Looking back at their history the boys have never been on the same side and have always had their consent arguments 'I hated his guts at one point in life, he really drew the band apart and always saw himself as number one. It was brutal I couldn't cope but I knew that we can only get good music with great expectations and then I knew we had to solve our separate ways.
Barton sights his anger towards Cowels and looks ashamed at saying that to, after that bitchy comment was created they lads once again apologised to each other and told me 'In a time like this we need the band to be as one.' (THIS COMMENT WILL BE ENLARGED UNDER ONE OF THE PICTURES SO THAT YOU GET A PREVIEW INTO THE INTERVIEW)
I heard that the both of you were bought up in Shropshire (know as a small commune town). I have heard random descriptions from other people and it sounds like a bore. Has this had any effect in the music you produce.
The boys just shake there head, of course this confused me a little what part of the question was being answered. "We have been living in Shropshire all our lives, and like we said we know each other from college however our up bringing never really put us into the musical direction. I would have to say my pure inspiration was when I was sat watching Kerrang! T.V. and there was a new band playing. After the song finished we got an exclusive interview with the band, they said they grew up from a difficult home town. Their parents abbused them so they had music to solve their issues. As soon as I knew it I sat there, and realised that if I try to play an instrument then I can make it big like the band." Matt then grins picking up his guitar to play.
"Shropshire isn't the best up bring, when I came into my teens I was very depressed and my parents were near breaking point. To calm my anger like I said it was me singing, and boy did that pay off. Our first ever live show was in my girlfriend's hometown 'Clun' and yes I have to say it was a very dull place almost matches your description of Shropshire" Dom chuckles.
The majority of the songs sound like they were past memories towards your lives. "And maybe someday you will grow Maybe someday you will know Maybe someday you will end these tears
A little piece of me grows old I keep on walking down this road I've seen a million people change but I will stay the same And I know you, (Know you, know you) always steal and borrow And I know you, (Know you, know you) Never catch, you're never gonna catch tomorrow". Was this linking towards a bad relationship.
In such triadic cases the world is neither a pleasant place for your band or all that surrounds it. To Matt and Dom it seems the world is their playground and yet they still know what they are doing and seem to produce top quality music
"Never catch?" Explain
Bad relationship (Sigh), I had announced that I was going to be in a band and she simple said if that was going to happen then the fame and success would rise to my head.
I suppose really when you join a band the worst is just around the bend.
Exactly but I have someone new, and she respect's the demands that music have such as my constant gigs but the way she See's it is, she gets free tickets all the time and shes very happy with that. The lyrics are staying that in the end, anything you are desperate for you're never going to get/catch as I wrote down the lyrics.
Are the majority of your songs about this one relationship that went down hill.
No just the one song the others are about, well I guess Dom turns to Matt to think what the right words are to say. Matt fishes Doms thinking towards the track listings "They can have mixed reviews people can either love us or hate us but that will never draw us to a close
The album was know to be created in Matt's back garden with the help of his parents. I question the boys and they both grinned at each other and simp. A peculiar place to have a CD made but I huess its early days and thinks could be looking up. These boys know what they are letting them selves into, with a near split its almost as if they have been to hell and back.
After they have a little laugh about the story of it being Matt they explain the funny side of it, passing me a free copy of the CD I sill don't understand the funny side of it all. "To be honest nothing really is that funny its more of the case of the amount of fun we have had doing this in my garden. Into the latye of night just thinking of random songs and listening to previous artists for inspiration. The main funny side of it was the time we got dunk." Matt turns to look at Dom and again the laughter starts, they were really antogsisng me to hear the story. In a desperate measure I ask for the answer. "I cant remember half the story but the first track on our CD was created while we drunk. When the song was created we celbrated and got even more drunk and for some strange reason we wanted to see if we could have a guitar battle. In which we woke up to smashed up instruments and a burnt down house.
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