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The wierdest trio this side of the universe return with their unfinished master album
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IMES WERE HARD and our manager wasn’t helping,” explains Cam Robinson. Next to him Bassist/vocalist Tom Severn is eating a bowl of rice crispies and tells me, “Recording is difficult enough, so when we fell out with the record label we had to drop out of making an elbum half-way.”
fit) I, erm, kind of run over a couple of cows.”
stricted us a bit saying some of our stuff was just a bit too wierd, this new album is just beyond anything we’ve done before, I honestly don’t think I can achieve anything more than this.”
“We don’t really know what happened after that, but we woke up back at Tom’s with a killer hangover and covered in potatoes,” Cam tells me. When I ask them them about touring “After that cleared, they are a bit less “Our stuff Tom wanted us too confident on the see his home-made was just a bit issue, Cam tells me: music room and “We wanted someIt suddenly hits me how where too wierd” recording studio. It thing truly mindI am, in a room with the most imwas pretty impresblowing, something portant band of the last decade back sive so we got a bit carried away which people havn’t seen before. The together after what seems like a showing eachother little bits of music whole live scene has gone so boring lifetime. But even thnking about their that we’d come up with by ourselves nowadays, we thought it was our duty break-up five years ago makes me during the break-up. Before we knew to put the spark back in. Problem is well up inside, nobody saw that comit we’d made two songs in one day things like helicopters on stage don’t ing. But then again nobody saw this and the wheels were rolling again.” sit too well with venue owners, and coming. They’ve secretely been jamTom, who was now eating a massive we don’t like stadium shows because ming together on Severn’s farmland, pile of toast (I am told that he has a we don’t think sitting down belong experimenting with new sounds and reputation to never stop eating) tells at gigs. We’ll sort it out though, look milking the talent out of eachother. me: “We had to make a very serious forward to seeing us at a festival desicion whether we should pick up or two, we really want to try some “It was Cam’s idea, just to get togeththe band again. foreign festivals because they’re so er because we hadn’t seen eachother different to things like glastonbury in ages.” Telling me this is Seung, “Basically we just jammed for the and reading.” the band’s guitar prodigy. These last rest of that day and few years he’s just “I, erm, kind decided that it WAS Rest assured though, The Flips disapeared from a good idea. The next headlining an English festival too, as of run over the music scene, problem was decided Seung explains: “The best way to end making no noise a couple of how to do it, our last a tour is with a festival. You can just until now. “We got manager and record enjoy yourself completely, especially cows” to his, ended up company screwed us in your home country.” drunk and stealand we wanted an album which was ing a tractor. (Tom and Cam at this truly ours. Other record labels repoint are on the verge of a laughing