The Rise Of A SixNationState

Once again Gerry confidently steps in: “We’re the best band in the world, it’s just that no one else knows it. We’ll make an amazing album and everyone will go my god they’re the greatest band in the world and that will be it.” At this, the rest of the band start laughing at Gerry’s unflinching blind optimism, but the front-man is adamant “The whole world will work it out… at some point.”

Neil briefly manages to get a word in: “You put your whole life into something and there’s no walking away from that.”

But Gerry has got the bit between his teeth and we’re now on the subject of marketing: “If we had the fan-base that Coldplay has and could sell out tours and earn a couple of million each, do fuck all for the rest of the year, record an album and just give our music away, then that would be amazing. But as it stands our fan-base isn’t big enough for us to give our music away.”

John picks up where Gerry left off: “The bands that have already got their profile big enough should be releasing their albums for free, because by doing that you can push people elsewhere, to see them live and that’s really what being in a band is all about and that’s why we’ve been on tour for the last 18 months because that’s we most enjoy and what our fans most enjoy.”

Once again Neil manages to briefly get a word in: “We’re quite happy for the money to come eventually but it’s all about just having fun and trying to be as good as you can be and going out there and playing music.”

John carries on undeterred: “We’re still going to make music even if we weren’t gonna make a sausage out of it. It wouldn’t really change our habits that much because we don’t make a lot at the moment anyway.” John continues “At the end of the day we live like rich men and we haven’t got a penny to our name, but we’re never short of a drink, we’re never short of friends, we’re never short of a fat night out and we’re never short of a bed to sleep in. We’ve always got everything we need.”

“More food would be good though” Adds Rich.

The rest agree and the conversation rapidly deteriorates into food porn before concluding as randomly as it began; apparently Rich once got his head stuck in the glove compartment of a Morris Minor… but that’s a different story.