Devon Music - April 2015

APRIL 2015

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WE CATCH UP WITH THE RISING YOUNG STAR AHEAD OF HER SHOW AT THE LEMON GROVE

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Thanks for picking up the April 2015 issue of Devon Music Magazine, your one stop guide to the best music in the county and beyond.

This month we chat to rising young singer-songwriter Lucy Spraggan who brings her own brand of hip-hop influenced acoustic folk to Exeter next month. We also chat to madcap comedian Milton Jones, metalcore bruisers Bury Tomorrow and our favourite new band Zoax manage to out-crazy us in Dumbass Questions.

All this plus previews, listings and announcements from all of the best venues and events in the Devon area and a chance to win tickets to this year’s Arctangent Festival!

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FEATURE Singer songwriter Lucy Spraggan is probably best known for her appearances on TV talent show X Factor in 2012, not only for unusually performing one of her own songs ‘Last Night’ from her debut self released album ‘Top Room at the Zoo, during her audition, but also for her untimely departure part through the live TV programs due to illness, but prior to this she was arguably already an emerging star, following her success in the Live & Unsigned national competition in 2011, gaining her a huge online following, mass views on her Youtube videos and with her debut album crashing into the album charts at a number 22 slot. In 2013 Lucy released her second studio album ‘Join the Club’ through Columbia Records, to much critical acclaim and achieving her a top 10 album place. In a mere matter of weeks Lucy’s third album ‘ We Are...’ will be hitting the shelves, with her heading out across the UK shortly after in May. We jumped at the chance to have a chat with her to find out more about the new release and to find out more about what makes her tick.

At what age did you know you could sing?

Everybody’s been singing since they were three but yeah, I wrote my first song when I was 12, and it wasn’t very good but I did my first gig around that time. So around 10 or 12 I reckon.

You won Live & Unsigned in 2011...

Well I came second, which is kind of a win.

bored easily so I did quite a few things, but I like this one [singing], it’s good!

It’s always the runners up who do better though, right...?

Well yeah, so I’ve heard.

If you could choose any job in the whole world that’s not singing and not something you’ve already done what would it be?

I’d be a police officer, or a professional fisherwoman. I love fishing!

You already were a fairly successful artist at this point. We hate to say ‘Youtube’ successful, but you know what we mean. What made you decide to enter X Factor in 2012?

I took my cds to record labels, and they’d say ‘oh we love the songs but’, there was always a but whether it was ‘you need to change your image’ or something else, and I just thought ‘you know what I’m just going to try and get on one of these shows and play a song, and hopefully people like it.’ I didn’t even think I’d get through the first bit, I just thought I might get a couple more likes on my Facebook page. I think everything happens for a reason. I’m not sure if I would do it again but I don’t regret it.

That would have been one of our questions...whether you would do things differently now you know what the process is?

I imagine so, mainly because it’s mental. I don’t enjoy the celebrity side of things as I’d rather just play music. I wouldn’t do it again, but I don’t regret it.

I don’t really regret anything because there’s no point.

What one fact about yourself that people don’t know can you tell us?

That people don’t know...? I tell everyone everything - I have no secrets, but...my favourite food is frogs legs. I don’t really tell anyone that in case they think it’s odd. And I’m accident prone, but everyone knows that. I nearly lost my eye in a wildebeest incident. I bought a stuffed wildebeest head and put it into the back of my car, and I forget it had 2 foot horns when I was getting it back out and jabbed myself in the eye. A bleeding eye is a symptom of Ebola so when I went to the hospital I had to say ‘guys I do not have Ebola, I hurt myself on a wildebeest’. Haha!

You’ve done loads of different jobs [trainee fire fighter, apprentice plumber, a cave tour guide] and they’re all soo different...

I didn’t really have many friends when I was little so I got a magic set instead of having a mate. I got picked up by Rolls Royce doing all their corporate events and meetings. I was 12/13. I had this thing called ‘Lucy’s Magic’. I got

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Your new album is out on the 27th April, what can your fans expect from it?

The album is just like a diary of the last 2 years. There’s a bit of traditional me in there but also some new stuff and a lot more singy material...sonically more pleasing I think. It took ages to write but I think it’s important to really mean what you sing. It took a while to get my feelings into it.

Have you ever done any collaborations, and who would you like to do one with?

I’ve done a few colabs...one with Joel Baker, and I wrote some stuff with David Sneddon, and there’s a song with Boy George on my new album.

That’s something else you might not know about me, but that’s my claim to fame. He’s lovely! We didn’t really know what we were going for but it turned out really good. It’s a song about when you meet someone who’s really into you but you don’t really give a shit about them. It’s a bit of a Tinder-esque song.

You’re touring the UK in May - silly question but are you looking forward to it? Got anything unusual happening?

Yeah it’s the thing that I’m about. I love it. I don’t think there’s anything I can tell to possibly describe how I feel about it. Playing to an audience is something I’m really passionate about. There’s going to be some new material and some old material, and hopefully people will enjoy it. We’ve yet to decide or release details but we’ve got some special guest vocalists coming for the shows, and I have a new drummer so everyone can welcome him.

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FEATURE

Milton Jones, the king of the one-liner and Mock the Week regular, is back. His new tour ‘The Temple of Daft’ will take him to some of the country’s bestknown venues including Torquay’s Princess Theatre but, in comedy terms, he’s embarking on uncharted territory. That’s because joke machine Milton, the man who can cram in up to 250 gags a night, is now a joke machine with a purpose. His new tour strings the quips together in to a broader story, one that sees Jones take on the mantle of Indiana Jones, don the hat and set off on a madcap journey in to surrealist comedy.

We caught up with Milton to talk about big hair, bad shirts, Mock the Week and his new direction…

Your new tour is called The Temple of Daft. Why? Basically, previous tours have been lots of jokes in different forms, but basically lots of jokes. This is more of a story, more like one of my radio shows. It loosely, and I say loosely, follows a kind of adventure-archaeology type story. It started off with me noticing that I had the same surname as Indiana Jones, and it has all transpired from there.

Do you wear a hat? Do you have a whip?

I do wear a hat at one point, not for the whole thing, ‘cause then people would never see my hair.

You talk about using a narrative style, and you say this is a bit of a departure. What brought that on?

Two things. When people see you on telly, they want to come and see the same sort of thing when they see a live show, but obviously not the same jokes. Moving to a narrative was a way of keeping the same style. It begins to mine other areas of jokes as well, in terms of, if you can do a scene where you’re talking between two people - even though I’m the only person there that’s a different sort of writing than just one-liner after one-liner.

How do you prepare for a tour?

After this tour begins, anything I write will go in to the next tour.

I’m amassing jokes from the moment my last tour begins, and then once it finishes, I begin to go to little out of the way places to test them. Generally speaking, the further you travel, the more pleased they are to see you. I will go with bits of paper and ideas,

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and it will be throwing mud against a wall and seeing what sticks.

Eventually I’ll accrue enough material to do try-outs nearer home.

So, it’s a trial and error process from the beginning of that. Years ago I started as an actor, and I’d quite like to incorporate more of it. For instance, previously the footprint of the tour has been I’ve gone on and done 15 minutes as a character, and then there’s a support act, and then I do the whole second half. There’s a different character this tour. Previously, I’ve done my granddad, but this will be a different relative.

Who? This is my uncle, my great-uncle, Sir Randolph Digby Jones. He’s an explorer, I quite like warming the audience up with an obscure character to begin with, then making it more of a show.

Your schedule is preposterous. How do you remain sane? Is there a Milton Jones signature workout regime?

Well, it is difficult, and there are some weeks, or some months, where you’re away from home quite a lot, and maybe it’s the winter and maybe you’re up north and it’s quite grim all round…

But it’s actually harder to write a tour, creatively, you know, that’s where the brain ache is. Once you’ve got a show that’s up and running, it’s more a physical battle. I try and see as many people around the country as I can, friends and relatives. Because there’s nothing worse than talking to hundreds of people, and then being the last person out of the car park, go to a hotel, and then the next time you talk to someone properly is when you talk to hundreds of people the next night. That’s a recipe for madness.

What do you do to reenergise?

Me and some other comedians get together - I did it yesterday and play football. We like it because we see each other, but also it’s one way of turning your head off, to become completely involved in something else.

Isn’t that football match full of people trying to outwit each other?

Well, to be fair, there are about five different running commentaries.

A lot of your comedy is quite word based - can you just come up with it?

No. It’s all about writing as much as you can, and then taking the top 10%. There’s lots of stuff I’ve discarded. The new show will

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have between 200 and 250 jokes, probably, but that doesn’t mean that’s all I’ve written; I’ve written another 100 that I’ve put in the bin, at least another 100, probably, maybe three times as much, and that’s the hard work. Even after all this time, I’m thinking I have just written the best joke ever, and I go and do it and it just doesn’t work - however, the thing I improvise off the back of it does work. But, I wouldn’t have got to that place had I not tried the first one.

Do you have books and books of jokes that you might return to? Do ‘the Jones files’ exist in a filing cabinet somewhere?

Never throw anything away, is my motto, in that if you thought there was a seed of something that was funny, keep it on file.

Especially one-liners because one syllable, one word, changing the picture in people’s heads, can suddenly make something work that didn’t before.

Has being known as the king of the one-liner ever been an encumbrance at all?

Yeah I mean, in a way, I’ve got to be grateful... people want to put you in a box, so that originally it’s people who are booking gigs; they want to know what type of comedian you are to fit on a bill.

And I think that’s true of television as well, to some extent. On Mock the Week, I sit in the one-liner chair, and if it’s not me, it’s Stewart Francis or Gary Delaney - you know, it’s the ‘odd’ bloke, so that has gone in my favour. I’m sort of grateful for where it’s got me, but if I go for an audition for another show, albeit a sitcom or something, it’s quite often as the crazy neighbour. You think well, I’m glad I’ve got this audition, but it’d be nice not to have to do that role forever. So, I suppose this show is me trying to move things on.

look?

Well, I did use to use wax, but actually under TV lights that’s not so good – it wilts, because it’s hot, and that’s not good. So now I use something called Backcomb Dust, which is actually far drier and keeps your hair higher for longer.

Sounds like an advert.

It does a bit, doesn’t it? I’m not sure I’m the image the company would want, necessarily, but it’d be nice to get some kind of sponsorship where I get free stuff. I usually say, the higher the hair, the thicker the crowd. Hopefully, on my tour, I won’t have to have it too high.

And finally, we have to ask - where do you get your shirts from?

Usually retro shops around about. It’s tricky with shirts because people think, ‘Oh zany shirt!’ but actually the zaniest of shirts is too much. What I like are shirts that people go, ‘Oh that looks… hang on, is that good or bad?’ It needs to be quite subtle, in a way, and I’ve got 100s of them. But yes, they are usually from Oxfam or retro shops where the old lady says, ‘Oh, that looks just you, that does,’ and they’ve no idea who I am.

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Tell me a little about Mock the Week. Do you have to mug up, read all the papers beforehand?

It’s a bit like doing an exam in that we actually get some stuff beforehand, but the list is so long that basically it’s every story that happened in the news that didn’t involve someone dying over the last week. So, there is no way I can cover all of it. You just hope, like an exam, that the bit you’ve revised comes up, because it records for nearly three hours for a half hour show. You hope that the 10 minutes you zoned out for isn’t the 10 minutes that appears on television. When I know I’ve got Mock the Week in the diary, I think, oh, it’ll be nice to see those people again, but it is hard work, there’s no escaping that, especially after you’ve done quite a few.

When you get a group of funny people together in a programme is it competitive?

I’ve known lots of those guys for years and we all get on and it’s fine. But the way it’s set up, it’s always seven people trying to get through a door for two. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had a joke that would have fitted, and I just couldn’t get a word in.

But I suppose from an outsider’s point of view, that is where the dramatic tension is, because you’ve got all these people trying to get a word in. It kind of makes for absorbing television.

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Out of the three skills that Spiderman has, being able to crawl up things, being able to shoot out webs and being incredibly agile, which would you like to see him ditch and what would you replace it with?

Well if someone said to me that they could do those three things I would be the least impressed with being incredibly agile. So let’s get rid of that and now instead Spidey has the power to transform into a dragon, who then goes on to find Jon Snow’s ridiculously irritating deadpan face and blows fire into it.

If you had one last day on this earth would you rather do 50 adrenalinepumping things that could kill you instantly, such as skydiving or bungee jumping, or 1 thing that was rather mundane but sentimental?

Well if the first one of 50 things kills me, that’s pretty shit. UNLESS!!!!!!! one of these things is me headlining Wrestlemania’s main event against Stone Cold Steve Austin, who then goes on to stone cold stun me right out of this life. What....a.....way.....to....go.

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Would you rather have a photographic memory that can only retain disgusting thoughts for life or have a 1 minute memory where you constantly introduce yourself to everyone?

If I am still in ZO/\X, then constantly introducing will do just fine. The lads in the band could control me because they would know the situation and could then use it to our advantage such as those awkward moments of when bands meet each other for the first time. I would go on to then be known as “The Icebreaker”. Great wrestling name if I do say so myself.

What’s the best gig you’ve ever been to (not your own)?

Well aren’t we getting serious all of sudden?!?! Calm down.

Bruce Springsteen in Kilkenny on the 27th of July 2013 What would you most like to see David Attenborough do a voiceover for that’s unrelated to nature?

An audio introduction to every live ZO/\X show.

What can fans expect from your live show?

A David Attenborough audio introduction.

Who in the band would make the best girl?

Douglas Alexander Wotherspoon, why? LOOOOONNNNGGGG HAAAAAAAAIR. What’s the best thing about being in a band?

Fighting and cuddling.

If you had to cover a nursery rhyme, which one would it be?

Wheels On The Bus, BIIIIG TUNE. What’s the response been like to ‘Is Everybody Listening?’?

Shit.

What’s the worst thing about being in a band?

Not originally starting out as a nursery rhyme cover’s band.

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FEATURE

Are you looking forward to the April 2015 tour and the rest that might come after it?

We’ve recently come off a tour for 21 days, no days off. We had four days to recuperate then straight on this tour so it’ll be nice to go home and hang out for a little bit, we’re pretty busy all year!

Are you guys mostly touring at the moment or do you have other stuff planned in?

We’re basically doing our fourth studio album, we go into preproduction literally straight after this tour. We don’t really have much time to relax but it’s all good, it’s part of the job.

Are you guys hitting up the festival circuit as well this year?

Yeah, we’re taking like a little downer this year as our album won’t come out until the latter part of this year/early next year, so it’s kind of like this is the build-up year for us, and we hit a load of the big festivals last year. So this year we’re kind of like keeping it a bit more low key, just to build it back up and get into some territories we haven’t been in before, or haven’t been to for a long time. It’ll all gear up to next year being the biggest year of our band’s career. It should be pretty insane and exciting.

You must be quite excited about writing the album. That’s got to give you that buzz.

It’s a stressful process but it should be pretty sweet. It’s one of those things where we all know what we want to sound like and where we want the album to take us, so it should be relatively painless.

I imagine it’s just a progression of yourselves so far, you’ve got quite an individual sound...

Yeah you know, we all grew up listening to metalcore music. We grew up listening to the Killswitch Engages, the As I Lay Dyings, the Darkest Hours’, they were our favourite bands in the world. That’s kind of where we gear our direction. But there’s a new school kind of edge on it, if you will, but yeah. We all know what we want to do with it, we’re just five dudes that want to play our instruments; we don’t have any backing tracks, we don’t have any fakery or trickery, it’s just five dudes making music.

Has it taken you a little bit by surprise how well you’ve been received outside of metal? You’ve had national radio play, and doing a lot of things that scream heavy bands don’t tend to get at the level you’re doing it.

It’s pretty sweet to be honest, it’s nice to see that the metal scene in the UK is striving so much that corporate companies that maybe would only go for mainstream artists or rock music have taken notice of this abrasive, heavy, in your face kind of music. For me it’s a complete

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success for bands like Architects or While She Sleeps, and Bring Me The Horizon, who have absolute global domination, you know, and it’s nice to see that we’re a part of that British front of music. It’s awesome, and we’ll continue to fly our flag. The thing is we’re not afraid to go for those offers of those mainstream festivals or radio slots because we know that we’ll do a good job, and we know that there’ll be enough of a fan base for it to take hold. Some bands I think are maybe a little scared to do those mainstream things, because they feel it may well backfire when they play them, or they might be received badly. But we’re never scared of things like that, you have to just play what you do and stay true to yourself.

Have you had any of those things which have gone appallingly wrong?

It’s one of those things. I mean, this tour is kind of a classic example of it, in that it’s a very rock based tour, and it’s quite a strange line up. I mean you’ve got bands like Don Broco and We Are The In Crowd and Young Guns that are on the lighter side, a bit more mainstream rocky kind of feel, but it seems to work, man. It’s really cool to see a newer generation of kids that might never have thought about liking abrasive and heavy, pissed off music. This tour for us has really been a success. It’s the most well received tour we’ve ever done, it’s crazy. The ages range from 11 years old, to like thirties. To see 11 and 12 year olds into this kind of music just harks back to when I was younger, listening to people like Papa Roach Limp Bizkit, and Slipknot. So for me it’s crazy to be part of that and part of their life when it comes to introducing them to metal music. We’re not a ‘saviour band’ that’s preaching a message, but we’re a band that can hopefully be a stepping stone into these kids really immersing themselves in the metal genre.

Have you had any stories from tour in the last year that have been a bit weird?

We don’t go too crazy if I’m honest, we’re quite a boring band in that sense. First day on this tour, Brandon from Beartooth decided to get completely buck-naked and try to climb in our guitarist’s and singer’s bunks. That was the first travelling day on the tour, so that was pretty intense for a first day. But we’ve known those guys and met them before so...

Did he succeed?

He tried, but he didn’t get in, no, he was kicked out. But this tour has been great, it;s the first tour we’ve been on where we know 95% of the crew and every band. We grew up with Don Broco, and Young Guns.

We don’t know We Are The In Crowd, but that’s the only band we don’t know. Beartooth we toured with on Kaleb’s old band Attack! Attack!, and a lot of the members of Beartooth are made up of the crew from Attack! Attack! It’s quite sweet that we just get toi have two weeks with our friends really.

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Stefan Grossman Mon 6 Apr, 8pm, £12 (£10) A former student of Rev. Gary Davis and Mississippi John Hurt, with a seemingly infinite knowledge of forgotten styles, techniques, and tunings.

Everything Everything

Tue 7 Apr, doors 8pm, £15 Art-funk which has been shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize and received three nominations for the Ivor Novello Award.

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Bury Tomorrow

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Arguably one of the best live bands in the world and over a thirty year career, Simple Minds have been responsible for some of the most enduring anthems in rock music, including ‘Don’t You (Forget About Me)’ and ‘Alive and Kicking’.

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SIMPLE MINDS

Post Hardcore & Metalcore

Bury Tomorrow are back, heavier and more powerful than ever before! The highly anticipated return of these Hampshire lads has created a huge buzz! Dani says “It will be the most intimate and mental set of shows in Bury Tomorrow’s career!

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DECADE

Decade’s debut album Good Luck cemented their position on the scene, and their live show promises to be a doozy! Known for pulling a crowd and their excellent stage presence, come sing your lungs out to the infectious British pop punk sound of Decade.

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Plymouth has a vibrant underground rock scene right now and Lastoneout are a band that really stand out from the pack. We caught up with them to find out a bit more...

Who are you and what do you do in the band?

We are a five piece polite post-hardcore band from Sunny Plymouth. We have Sam Cudmore on Lead Vox, Mike Norton on Guitar and Vox (clever lad), Chris Booth shlapping da bass, Liam West on the Guitar and Lou Male is the token female, or Drummer as she is known to the rest of world.

How did you guys get together?

The original four of us have, in different forms, been together in various Plymouth bands over the last 10 years. Sam has only been with the band since November last year, but he is fitting in with the lame jokes. We took him on a few gigs with us last year to be our merch guy, and he started to sing some songs with us, and the rest is just romantic history.

How did you pick your band name?

Halo is a big part of all our lives, be it through love or hate.

We have spent so many hours of our lives chasing the covenant around, so when it came to naming the band, a halo reference had to be made. We took the name from a chapter title, ‘Last One Out, Get the Lights’, which coincidently also provided the name of our first EP. On that EP, we also had a track called Nothin’ but Jackal, which also came from the same thought pool.

What do you guys have coming up?

We are going to be hitting the studio in April to get some new material down on tape with Sam heading up the Vocals.

We have just finished a Tour, and will be looking to hit the road, and announce our festival season activities soon. As far as our next live outings go, we are pretty chuffed to be supporting Zoax and DEAD! on the Plymouth Date of their UK tour alongside those sexy ladettes in Your Last Day. Keep checking back to www.lastoneoutuk.com/shows for all our latest shows.

If you could tour with any band, who would it be?

Well, this is hard. The obvious choice for us would be A Day to Remember or Enter Shikari, but there are so many other bands that we would love to hit the road with from large

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touring acts, to just getting out and spending some time with friends. Not that we would admit it to them, but we would quite like to go on a few dates with Your Last Day. If they ask, big us up!

Tell us 5 things that we should know about you guys?

So, the fairest way to do this is to probably list each of us, and give you something disturbing about us as people: Sam – Sam has ketchup with everything. A lot of ketchup. He will order a plain chicken burger from Wetherspoons (other pubs do exist) cover the bottom bun with ketchup, cover the top bun with Ketchup, fill his plate with ketchup, and dip his ketchup into the ketchup.

Mike – We played at Sonisphere last year, and Mike saved Fred Durst from tripping and possibly savagely injuring himself over the unnecessary evil that is Liam’s Pedal Board. Your feelings towards Limp Bizkit, is definitely how you should mould your feelings towards Mike.

Lou – Used to be Goth. Now likes colours, ish.

Chris – Gives of a miserable vibe that often paints him as an arrogant so and so. Its pretty much spot on, also resembles Randy from My Name is Earl (other sitcoms are available).

Liam – There is a little known fact about Liam. He got engaged on the stage of Wembley Arena during a Paramore Set. Don’t believe us? Search Liam Wood Paramore engagement on Youtube.

Why should we come see you live?

You shouldn’t. Jokes. We are fun band, who are just glad to play and share our music with people. We take a lot of influence from music released during the 2004 to 2006 era, so if you are just dying to straighten that fringe, don the studded belt and Finch t-shirt and have such an emotional night that you need to buy a diary, then we are the band for you! www.facebook.com/LastOneOutUk

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