This Town Ain't Big Enough: This Town Needs Guns

Despite being dissed by their hero, the band has actually toured with Make Believe. Dan says, “The first time I heard Make Believe was when we supported them. I really struggled with the album. It took me a while to get used to it.” TTNG have also toured with Rolo Tomassi and I was a Cub Scout not too long ago, and have been tipped to play with Les Savy Fav. We ask if TTNG feel like they’ve been subject to any hype recently. Dan admits, “I think we had a little bit of hype about us after the ‘I was a Cub Scout tour’. There were lots of things going on, especially on the internet that we hadn’t really worked for.”

TTNG have been around for a few years now, but they really got serious last summer when they produced and released their first single (a split with Cats and Cats and Cats). Their album is due for release in September 2008 and a tour is beckoning. With talk of the new album, the guys inform us that all the songs on the album will be new songs. There will be no recycling of old material, even the legendary ‘26 is Dancier than 4’ (Stu’s favourite song) will not be featured on the album. All working titles of new songs are currently named after animals. They have recorded 5 songs already and are currently in the midst of two more. Stu says, “It’s all going to be totally new. It’s mainly because a lot of bands we know have toured forever with the same songs. And it seems as though they get bored of playing them, I’m pretty sure we’ll still play ‘26’ because everyone wants to hear it. And we still like playing it, so we’ll be playing it for ages.”

The band has no firm plans to do a headlining tour, even after the album’s release in September. Stu says, “I think we’re going to avoid doing one of those for a while. And try to drum up some support (hopefully) off the back of supporting ‘better known’ bands.” Chris adds, “Yeah, We’re hoping to leach as many fans as possible!” We’re not sure they’ll need to. If their new material is a notch on their old stuff, they’ll be fighting the fans off with brooms.