LS Interviews I Call Shotgun following their gig at The Faversham last week
LS Interview ExclusiveFollowing some Radio 1 coverage and a packed gig at The Faversham last week <i> I Call Shotgun </i> are the new Leeds band that everyone on campus is chatting about. The lads all got to know each other at Leeds College of Music, although front-man Joe De Luca and lead guitarist Iain Bolton first met back at school in Preston.
LeedsStudent caught up with Joe and Iain for an interview in Terrace Bar, talking about barmaids, Hugh Grant, Sicily, fleeces and smelling like fourteen year-old boys—

<b> LS: What was Leeds College of Music actually like? Be honest now. </b>

<b> Iain: </b> I really loved it, absolute class. I got really involved in the Union there, I studied Music Production

<b> LS: Do you have nicknames for each other in the band? </b>

<b> Joe: </b> My real name is Giuseppe, so Joe is like this huge nickname in that I’ve never told anyone my real name, it’s Italian.
<b> Iain: </b> I’ve never had a nickname.

<b> LS: You have a song called <i> Provocation </i>. Who’s the most provocative? </b>

<b> Joe: </b> It is, in fact, my middle name
<b> Iain: </b> Joe’s the most provocative definitely
<b> Joe: </b> Some of our lyrics are provocative. I always find it difficult looking at a crowd with teenage girls and singing “picture me with your face down in your sheets’.

<b> LS: That is quite explicit, but in a poetic way. So, If you could support any band in the world, who would it be? </b>

<b> Joe: </b> We were just thinking about this the other day actually, I’ve say Friendly Fires. No, actually, Daft Punk.
<b> Iain: </b> Shiny Toy Guns, give them a listen, you’ll love them.
<b>Joe: </b> We got asked to support Friendly Fires at Snow Bombing festival in Austria, they’re really good.

<b> LS: Other than Austria where have you guys ventured recently? </b>

<b> Iain: </b> I spent my summer working for radio stations.
<b> Joe: </b> I went to Sicily for the summer.

<b> LS: One of your most popular songs is <i> Indie Sweat </i>. When it comes to deodorising yourselves do you roll or spray? </b>

<b> Joe: </b> I would firstly like to clarify that we’re a hygienic band. That song is talking more about the crowd, about other people sweating.
<b> Iain: </b> I use Lynx roll-on, and Sure antiperspirant, I’m a sporty kind of guy.
<b> Joe: </b> <i> (laughs at Iain) </i>. I personally use Lynx. I love smelling like a fourteen year-old boy. I hate roll-ons, they’re shit, they like crust your armpit.

<b> LS: If you had to walk a girl over to a public house, which would it be? </b>

<b> Joe: </b> Haha, you’ve listened to our lyrics! Erm, I’d say it depends on the girl, Hyde Park Picture house probably, instead of just a pub.
<b> Iain: </b> I do quite like the Arc actually, or the Box
<i> (Both burst out laughing) </i>

<b> LS: What’s funny about the box? </b>

<b> Joe and Iain: </b> It’s a girl’s vagina

<b> LS: And then after the pub, favourite night out in Leeds? </b>

<b> Iain: </b> It changes. In first year Baja, I love Fruity too, and Bourbon on a Thursday for pound-a-pint. We had our first gig at Bourbon, the guy there loved us.
<b> Joe: </b> Kiss Da Funk, I got in free, it was because I was with my close friend Michelle who’s a model.

<b> LS: Do you have any rock’n'roll children’s’ names up your sleeves? Apple? Peaches? </b>

<b> Joe: </b> You know what, I love Apple, it has biblical relevance-like it’s garden of Eden-ish. I would have a child called Marxism, a shit musical reference that nobody cares about.
<b> Iain: </b> I like Maria, it’s not really rock’n'roll but it’s a really pretty name.
<b> Joe: </b> Oh, Maria, yeah I like that too, put mine as Maria.
<b> Iain: </b> One of my guitars is called Maria.
<b> Joe: </b> Yeah, our guitars are called Maria. I would love to have an illegitimate rock’n'roll child. Pete Doherty’s is well cool.

<b> LS: Josh Weller and Sam Holdstock, the other half of the band, aren’t here tonight. Want to say anything about them? </b>

<b> Joe: </b> Well Josh looked amazing on stage last week.
<b> Iain: </b> He’s really good looking like Hugh Grant.
<b> Joe: </b> He loves his fleeces, her got with a hotty too.
<b> Iain: </b> Yeah, a really hot girl was dancing with him at our last gig.
<b> Joe: </b> She didn’t know he was in the band though. She asked him what he did, and he said he was a musician—
<b> Iain: </b> —yeah and then she asked him if he was in a band, he was like “err, we just played five minutes ago’.

<b> LS: And Sam? </b>

<b> Joe: </b> Sam’s quite quiet but is probably the best musician in the band
<b> Iain: </b> <i> (nods sternly) </i>

<b> LS: Finally, LeedsStudent would like you to come up with a headline for the paper. What would you like to see on our front page? </b>

<b> Joe: </b> BLONDE BAR MAID FROM THE TERRACE SHAGS LEAD SINGER OF I CALL SHOTGUN
<b> Iain: </b> HEAD DEAN IN SEX SCANDAL
<b> Joe: </b> ICS SIGN A 57 YEAR DEAL, 72 ALBUMS
<b> Iain: </b> INDIE MUSIC FALLS FLAT ON ITS ARSE. ELECTRO MUSIC REIGNS SUPREME
<b> Joe: </b> No you can’t say that!
<b> Iain: </b> Nah, I’m joking.

<i> Get I Call Shotgun’s music from www.myspace.com/icallshotguntheband
Singles Indie Sweat, If You Like and Provocation are available on there. </i>

<i> Joe and Iain have their own electro show on LSR too, every Thursday from 10-11pm </i>

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