I think anyone who has maintained success throughout their career. I think that bands who have stuck around and are still going strong are who we look up to; bands like Green Day, U2 and Aerosmith have all been doing what they do for a long time and even though we might not sound like them it’s cool to see that they have been making music forever and people still care!
Very true, so it that where you would like to be in five years time?
Yeah, I think the main goal now in longevity; we enjoy what we do and we’ve had some success doing it and we have a lot of fans around the world and we enjoy playing shows and it would suck if we couldn’t do that anymore; if we went to a venue we had played before and the fans didn’t turn up would just suck. I think the main goal is to keep doing it and have the fans come back and enjoy the music.
So are you going to do a big tour any time soon?
We usually try to hit the main cities, this time around we didn’t do Manchester; we have a lot of places to go around the world so we can’t always concentrate on doing every single city of the UK but I think we’ll probably do more when the next record come out or maybe some festivals this coming summer, it should be fun.
So if you could just listen to one CD for the rest of your life, which would it be?
That would be a very difficult choice! I would say a record that I really love is Thrice, The Artist In The Ambulance. It’s quite heavy but I really like it and I think the musicianship is really awesome and it’s one of those albums that you never get sick of.
What was the last CD that you bought?
The last one I got was actually a band that opened up for us, Kids In Glass Houses. I downloaded that to hear what they sounded like and it’s really good!
When was the last time you felt truly inspired?
Good question, I guess a lot of movies do that to me; oddly enough after seeing a good movie I can feel inspired. I don’t remember before then, that’s kinda sad.
We ask everyone we interview to come up with a question for the next person we interview and Jonathan Ansell wants to know; “If you could have any animal as a pet, what would it be?
Just recently I was in Australia and I went to a Wildcat sanctuary where they raise and breed Wildcats and there was a Cougar and she was about seven years old and she was one of the smaller of her breeds and was half tame; so she was a pet but still kinda wild and I was able to pet her and she sat on me and that was a pretty cool moment so I think I would like to have a cougar.
Wow, that’s awesome, I want one in my life! So finally, can you come up with a question for the next person I interview?
Sure, lets see, what would be your favourite city to live in?
And what would be yours?
I would say San Diego I think, I like how it sounds.
Ooh, exciting, I just like how Americans sound! Thanks for your time Pierre.
Bye!