Kill Hannah's Mat sets FemaleFirst alight (page 2)

6 November 2008

What do you think of the music industry at the moment with all the downloading?

It seems like technology in general helps bands lots more than it hurts bands. All people have to do is think back to 15 years ago when the only means you had to reach a new audience was to tour or stand outside shows handing out flyers.

I think that piracy is just one of the few negative side effects to having that tool at hand. I have always been a fan of exposure; I think that the greatest challenge to the music industry and to bands in general is not whose stealing music, it’s more like who’s making good music and who isn’t because it seems like nobody is.

I have always believed that if you make good music, the more people who hear it the batter and ultimately the music comes from them buying your album, or single or T-shirt or badge then the focus MP3’s is a little short-sighted.

When we began we would press thousands of full albums and whenever there was a queue for a concert we would hand out 2,000 full albums with artwork and everything to the people in that line because it’s an investment.

What has been your proudest moment so far?

One of them has to be standing on stage at the Astoria in London it was a sold out show and it was only four days after the bus fire and being in such a legendary room and being 3,000 miles from home and seeing the fans sing every word was a really defining moment.

I also think that seeing our poster in Kerrang! Was also a really proud moment because I used to pull the posters out myself. Even though we’ve been working every moment of every day for the past ten years those are really benchmark experiences.

What would you be doing if you weren’t in a band?

I don’t know; I’m pretty good at other things but I just don’t think I’d be happy doing them. I imagine it would be something a little bohemian because I come from a very conservative family that are incredibly tight and very supportive but I was born with sort of a disease where I can’t do the same thing every day and I want to be in a different place all the time.

I’d probably be a drifter or a criminal or a fisherman. Just a vagabond or something.

If you had one last thing to do before you die and money was no object; what would it be?

I would probably spend $100 million for NASA to fly me and 100 Kill Hannah fans to the moon.

So they could all watch you die? Great!

We would also have cases of the most expensive wine on Earth.

It takes months to get the moon though, so you’d be dead before you got there.

I would used $100 billion to create the fastest rocket or teleportation device!

Ah, good plan! So, we ask everyone we interview to come up with a question for the next person and Cancer Batss want to know if you prefer AC/DC’s new album or Metallica’s?

I can’t say that I’ve heard much of either of them. The artwork on the new Metallica record is not that great. AC/DC are just like a cartoon to me too. I can’t answer it because I don’t know it… can I say the new Cure record?