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THE RILLS INTERVIEW
from CLUNK Magazine 002
CHIT-CHAT
It’s a cold winters night in London as I make my way to Heaven where I am to sit down with the ever-popular band The Rills. Currently, they’re supporting Bloxx but there is no doubt that they will be headlining shows across the UK in no time at all. Especially as they aim to spend much of 2022 touring and releasing new music, of which they have their debut EP out ‘Do It Differently’ out May 6th via Nice Swan Records.
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We caught up with the young scallywags to chat about all the questions you’re dying to know, such as their favourite breakfast, best meal deals, and first kisses.
WORDS: WILLOW SHIELDS PICTURES: SOPHIE JOUVENAAR
What’s your favourite breakfast cereal?
Mitchell: “That’s tricky, I’m not a huge cereal guy, you know, I’m more of like a savoury… but to be honest if I had to pick one. What did I have the other day? Curiously cinnamon. I love them.”
Callum: “I’m the guy you need to ask about this. Mitch is wrong, well you’re half right, it’s malted wheat - the cheapest cereal you can get - with cinnamon on them. And then you make the same cereal for a fraction of the price.”
Mason: “I’m gonna go Weetabix, classic.”
Callum: “You’ll be lifting up buildings and things today you know.” Callum: “If you have Weetabix for breakfast you can just do superhuman things.”
What’s your favourite meal deal?
Mitchell: “It changes quite a lot, to be fair.”
Callum: “Mine’s quite infamous, we once had a podcast that we did one episode of and we spoke about this very topic, it angered a lot of people. Mine is very simple. I like it as simple as it gets sometimes. I like to awaken my inner child and get a cheese sandwich with a Ribena and maybe just some ready salted crisps.”
Mitchell & Mason: “WRONG!”
Callum:“I do like it though it reminds me of going to rand farm, you know those farms you’d go to as a kid and you’d have a packed lunch that your mum would make.”
Mason: “You’re not making full use of the meal deal there.”
Mitchell: “See, the objective of the meal deal is to maximise items, right? You wanna basically wanna be getting a meal deal and going ‘oh my god this should’ve cost me about 10 pounds’, but it hasn’t. It’s cost you 3 pounds 50 depending on where you’re getting it from. But yeah, it’s always a Tesco’s, that’s the best place to get it. Recently the highest I’ve got it, was up to 7 pounds because they were doing the extra-large iced coffee things. I didn’t even want a coffee that day, but I
I thought ‘I’ve got to get it because it was about 2.50 worth of a drink, it was outrageous.”
Callum: “Without people like me though, Mitch, meal deals wouldn’t exist. If everyone was like you, meal deals would stop happening and we’d be like Europe. Whereas we’re not like Europe because people like me exist.”
Do you have a favourite item of clothing?
Mitchell: “I had a pair of monkey boots. I actually got them from Fred Perry when I worked there, a bit of a devious lick actually as they asked for me to return them, but I returned a different pair.”
Mason: “My Air max 95’s. They’re a classic!”
Do you have a favourite park?
Mason: “Gloucester Park in Basildon that’s a good walk, erm I like Hyde Park but that is a bit gimmicky.” Mitchell: “I really like Hinchcliffe park in Sheffield, it was right at the bottom of our road. There is chaotic energy about it as when the sun would come out the whole of Sheffield would go there. It got so bad they would have to shut the toilets, which on reflection is a bit weird. One-time people were climbing up this tree and around the toilets and just going toilet there, it was disgusting actually. It was all very primal. It took me back to year one, just like that infamous Jack Black film with Michael Cera.”
Mason: “Didn’t you have your first kiss in a park?”
Mitchell: “No! But I did once have a kiss in the back of the Bradford Odeon, which was alright!”
What’s your favourite gig you’ve played so far?
All: “Reading and Leeds!”
Mitchell: “Although saying that, if we go back in time maybe Kendal Calling, as we had such a great time. It was our first festival and we were on golf buggies backstage. However, the weather was wet, and it was raining constantly, I got mud all up my leg and by the time I got on stage, I was like the Tin-man from The Wizard of Oz. It was still so much fun though!”
What makes a good gig to you guys?
Mitchell: High energy, that is always great.
Callum: Mechanically, having a good sound is always great. However, I do feel we have played shit but the energy has been so good that it’s made it great. We like to bring a lot of energy to a show and we have found that it is almost always reciprocated from the crowd. You can’t just come on and expect the audience to just have the energy.
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