Words With: Bullet For My Valentine

  Having spawned from the ashes of previous incarnation Jeff Killed John in the current hot bed of metal talent that is Wales, it's Bullet For My Valentine. Their eponymous debut mini-album released last year caused quite a stir upon its release and more recently they've been thrilling fans in the live arena with their visceral shows. Gigwise duly caught up with Padge and Jay from the band while they're in the midst of huge tour and with an album on the horizon to discuss all...   Gigwise: 10am….holiday inn, Rock and roll huh? Padge: Yeah, we know, rock and roll   G: So you've got a big tour coming up? Jay: yeah our first one, so it’s really important to us.   G: Has it been a struggle getting to this point? Jay: it was a struggle for years back home, you know, we were in loads of small bands that just didn’t get anywhere, but the last year has been incredible, our feet haven’t touched the floor. It’s moving so fast, we can hardly keep up with it.   G: Did you think you’d be at this point by now? With a big headline tour and big album coming out? Padge: well we all believed in it, we struggled, but we always believed that it would happen, so when we finally got a deal… we couldn’t really believe it.   G: Well you guys have been struggling for quite a while, has it been hard seeing other bands from your area, like lostprophets, funeral for a friend, etc, do well? Padge: We just kept thinking “what are we doing wrong?” `All these bands were getting signed up and we’d been going just as long, if not longer than some of those bands and we couldn’t figure it out. Jay: I remember seeing the Lostprophets play just after their first album came out, and they were so amazing, they were so heavy and had such great stage presence that it really pushed us, it should us what we should be like.   G: So other welsh band’s success motivated you guys? Jay: Yeah, I mean a year later they were playing the Carling Stage at Reading so it really pushed us to try and follow on from that.