Interview with Stone Gods
Posted on Apr 1, 2008 by DevotedToMusic
Stone Gods are a band formed from British Hard Rock band The Darkness. They formed in 2007 and have already scored number 2 in the Radio 1 Rock chart ..you wouldn’t have thought they are an unsigned band eh!?
I Alexandra McLoughlin was lucky to grab an interview with them at the Brighton Centre to talk about their EP, The Album and much more…
Hi Guys how are you doing?
Richie- Very well Alex.
Toby-We’re having a lovely time.
Dan- We’re very well thanks.
Your first release is called ‘Burn the Witch’ why did you name it ‘Burn the Witch’?
Toby- It’s a song about burning a witch so the title is not a cleaver metaphor or anything it’s quite literal. The chorus goes ‘We’re going to burn the witch’ so it made sense to call the song ‘Burn the Witch’.
Dan- We could call it something fancy and arty instead that isn’t in the lyrics but…
(Laughs)
Richie- …We’re not that cleaver!
Dan- ..Or Arty.
According to your website it sold out within one day. That must have amazed you guys…
Dan- I think there was a lot of pre-orders. People buy a lot online these days so we kind of knew that was going to happen actually. We were pretty sure it was going to go because there was a lot of demand for it. That was kind of cool.
Richie- Good feeling ya’know? Anything could have happened really…It was very exciting actually when we found out that it had all gone.
You must be very happy with the EP itself isn’t it?
Richie- Yeah yeah very much so. It’s good.
Dan- I think it’s a quality first product.
If you got an opportunity to re-do the EP is there anything you would change?
Dan- Erm..No.
Toby- I might have slightly shorter sideburns but other then that no.
Richie- Erm..I don’t think so. I think it’s did it’s job. It’s a good collection of music, really well packaged. And it gave anyone who bought it a value for money, unless they bought it off eBay for £30 which I saw some people selling it for which I thought was disgusting but people cash in don’t they?. Evil Evil b******s!
Yes they do. They do it with festivals as well don’t they?
Richie- it’s absolutely shocking really when stuff like that happens. Ticket places are kind off clamping down on it and finding ways to get around it like having to take I.D to get in and they’re saying bring the card that you bought the tickets with which is kind of good. It’s just a way of making money.
It’s not very fair when you go to a venue and you’ve got the touts outside and they buy a ticket from whoever then they sell it for lots more money..
Richie- I know..It’s shocking really. The same thing with the EP ya’know?! Because it was limited it sold-out so there was a demand there and people just cashed out which I don’t agree with because obviously the person who bought it is a fan of the band and they’ve been royally ripped off and if I could have given them one myself I would have done…for £3.99 I would have …
(Laughs)
Richie- I wouldn’t have just given it. I would be stupid.
(Laughs)
Richie- That’s career suicide!
(Laughs)
Not only did it sell-out within one day but it also hit number 2 in the Radio 1 rock charts. That is an excellent achievement! What is the first thing that went through your mind when you found out about that?
Richie- Why on earth are Nickleback number 1 and we’re number 2? It should have been the other way around..surely! That’s the first thing that went through my mind..no actually that Nickleback song is a really good song I like it.
Rockstar?
Richie- Yeah. I really like it! I love the video as well.
What about you Toby?
Toby- I went “What does that number 2 mean”?
(Laughs)
Richie- You did actually (laughs) you sent me a message going “What’s that number 2 mean”? (Laughs) We’re number 2 in the charts man!
Toby- And they left a couple of numbers of the end of it and I put 211 with a bullet!
(Laughs)
How about you Dan?
Dan- To be honest I was like “What is this chart based on?”
(Laughs)
Dan- ..But..yeah I’m still wondering that actually. I was like “wow” that’s cool. Number 2 early on in anything is cool.
Richie- Defiantly the other new entry as well was…we were the highest new entry at number 2 and the second new entry beneath us was at number 21 or something.
Dan- Bloody Hell!
Richie- So I mean yeah it’s pretty good really.
Ed- I was the same as Dan really. I didn’t know..Back in the day there used to be 1 chart so I was trying to work out exactly what that chart means. Number 2 is great anyway.
Dan- Ed and I are still struggling with that.
(Laughs)
Dan- I don’t understand anything. I don’t understand what’s going on.
(Laughs)
Apparently your debut album is due soon. How’s the recording going?
Richie- It’s gone. It’s finished.
(Laughs)
Toby- It’s all finished and ready to go. Ready to pop.
Dan- We finished a while ago.
Richie- September we finished it.
How did it feel to support Thin Lizzy on a few of their UK tour dates?
Dan- Very cool. They are a really good band. I think John Sykes did a really good version of Phil Lynott.
Richie- He did sound just like him. It was great! It was a lot of fun. They were the first gigs we did as a new band so they were a bit special anyway. It felt good. It was a lot of fun.
Dan- It’s been nice of them to have us. We’re a totally unknown quantity as far as their concerned. We respect them a lot for letting us play with them.
Richie- Defiantly. Yeah.
What’s in the pipeline for Stone Gods?
Richie- Touring and releasing records and erm..Summer festivals.
Dan- We got Download festival, Isle of White and we’ve got a fair few festivals across Europe. We’re looking at doing a tour at the beginning of the festival season that’ll be May/June our own headline tour and we have the album coming out shortly after that and then continued touring for the rest of 2008 and 2009.
Thank you for letting me interview you.
All- Thank you.
Interview Information
Taken At:
Brighton Centre
Taken On:
March 27th, 2008
Interviewees:
Richie Edwards (vocals/guitar)
Dan Hawkins (guitar)
Toby MacFarlaine (bass)
Ed Graham (drums)
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