20 Questions with… Slow Club

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Slow Club’s Lets Fall Back In Love EP is out now, whilst Charles and Rebecca have recently toured with Tilly And The Wall, before heading out to do some Belgium dates in November followed by a recently announced headline Xmas show at Union Chapel on the 1st December. Let’s see how they copy with these…

1. Describe your sound in 3 words.
Boy girl duo.

2. What was the first record you ever bought? And where did you buy it?
Cher HMV.

3. What’s the best cure for a hangover?
Coke. Cherry Coke. Diet Coke. Not Pepsi.

4. What’s on your rider?
Strawberries and vodka.

5. How do you get ready for a live show?
Tune up.

6. What’s your favourite song to play live?
At this moment… It does have to be beautiful.

7. What’s your guilty pleasure?
Killers.

8. Who would win in a fight, a stoat or a goat and why?
I am not sure how big a stoat is. Is it like an otter?

9. Who’s your favourite new band at the moment? Tell us a bit about them.
Wave Machines. They wear masks.

10. Who would play you in a film based upon your life?
Ric.

11. Dead or alive, what 5 acts would you have play with you at a festival?

12. If push comes to shove, what is your all-time favourite album?
Bringing it all Back Home – Bob Dylan.

13. What’s your most memorable on the road story?
We hit a rabbit on the A66.

14. If your life flashed before your eyes, what would be the highlights?
All the bits before we hit the rabbit. Since then I cant sleep.

15. What’s the best piece of advice someone has ever given you and did you take notice?
Always wear sun screen. Yes.

16. If you had to leave a body part to science, what would it be?
My fingers. To see if with future technology they could make them look slightly less like party sausages.

17. What’s the best book you’ve read and film you’ve seen in the last 6 months?
I am reading the Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S Thompson which very good. But slow reading plus a lot of pages equals library fines. I saw in search of a midnight kiss.

18. What three things could you not live without?
Parties
Chicks
and Andrew WK

19. Tell us a fact about yourself we probably don’t already know.
Everytime FIFA meet they have a catch phrase they say which I invented. That’s true.

20. And finally, we’d like you to make us a mix-tape. Pick five tracks with a theme of your choice.
Gone for Good – The Shins
Ragged Wood – Fleet Foxes
Jealous Guy – John Lennon
Declare Independance – Bjork
Alas I Cannot Swim – Laura Marling