Lee Walker Interviews
Thanks for taking the time out for a quick interview. Obviously you played early on today. How do you think your set went? Steve - We enjoyed it. Dave - It was great fun and I had a good time. Oli - It was funny playing sober to be honest. Usually you play after a few beers and with going on at quarter past one in the afternoon and the suns still out it was a bit different.
to the band, but how would you describe your style of music? Oli - There’s so much really. We are all into different types of guitar music, but there is such a mixture of metal, grunge, punk and rock. We call ourselves heavy rock as we don’t like to put ourselves into a genre
You mentioned during your set earlier that you had a CD coming up. Can you tell us about it? I think you are starting your tour aren’t you? Oli - We were at a gig in January 2012 and we How’s the tour been going? thought should we write an album, so in January we started writing an album and booked time in May. It Oli - Today is the second day so far. We played Bradford last night which was really good and is was an amazing creative time for us and spent pretty good as tours go. It was great. We have a few those four months writing an album and went in and dates ahead of us and we are looking forward to it. recorded it. A lot of it we had hardly rehearsed. The drums on the album are the first takes on playing them. It was very spontaneous. Obviously you have quite a strange name for the Dave - And scary at times. band. How did you come up with the name for it? Oli - Yes as we had never done anything like that Oli - We spent about four months thinking of band names and we went back and forth through different before. Me and Steve had written the album so we knew the songs a little bit better, but that’s how things and eventually we came up across Ritual Craig came along. We actually lost our bassist Spirit., Steve came up with it and we looked into it and found that there was already a band in Germany because he didn’t know the songs and he couldn’t called Ritual Spirit, but they weren’t going any more play them in the studio, so me and Steve actually played all the bass tracks on the album and Craig so we thought lets add the A so it abbreviates to came along ARS (laughter) Craig - I played on one. Facebook seems to attribute various music styles Oli - Oh yes he managed to play on one. It was great
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