If your house was on fire, what one thing would you save?
“Probably my vinyl player, just because I don’t know what else I’d save. My vinyl collection’s not massive but music’s probably the most important thing that I have inside my house.”
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
“I’ve not had any really terrible ones but when I was younger I worked in retail and it drained the life out of me. I also worked in a call centre, but we worked out how to call each other’s phones so we’d literally be sitting there chatting to each other. One lunchtime we all took our acoustic guitars in, went and sat in the park and decided never to go back.”
Have you ever seen a ghost?
“No, but I’ve seen a UFO. I was at a theme park in America and it was this silvery-grey disc in the sky – it looked almost like a smoke ring but pale in the middle. It hovered for a bit and if it were smoke it would have dissipated. It stayed very solid and gradually moved away. It was really strange and to this day I’ve no idea what it was.”
If you had the power to turn the internet off, would you do it?
“Yes, if just to see what would happen. In terms of music there are loads of pros and cons. When I was a lad you couldn’t check out a band beforehand. It felt a bit more naïve, like you wanted to go out and experience new things without seeing them through someone else’s eyes first. A lot of my friends have kids and now they’re doing this thing where they watch someone else gaming or doing something online. I’m sounding like an old fucker I know, but for my generation that just seems mad.”
While She Sleeps will tour the UK and Europe with Every Time I Die and Vein this month. Get your tickets here.
While She Sleeps UK/Europe tour 2020
January
16 Paris Cabaret Sauvage, France
17 Brussels AB Box, Belgium
18 Cologne Live Music Hall, Germany
19 Munich Backstage Werk, Germany
21 Solothurn Kofmehl, Switzerland
22 Wiesbaden Schlachthof, Germany
23 Amsterdam Melkweg, Netherlands
24 London Brixton O2 Academy, UK
26 Manchester Academy, UK