exclusive interview with... By Jen @justjenrees Hi Matt, it is Jen, how are you going? Great! So let’s begin with a few background questions. The band took a while to come together, and you were the last addition, can you tell us the process of the band forming? Yeah, Dhani had been playing drums for a couple of years, I think he was about 14 and 15 and his dad was a band manager and had been in the music business for years and years. Dhani went to his dad and said I want to put a band together and he found us from different parts of the country. I am originally from the east of England and Tag and Rick are from the South, and Dee from Germany. So Dhani got the group together and we started writing music together and we started playing gigs together and here we are! So you guys are pretty young? Yeah we are, I am the oldest, I’m 23 now and Dhani is the youngest, he is 21. Your name, The Treatment, is there a story about how that name came about? Yeah we love a band called Dr Feelgood, a rhythm and blues band from England and we have always liked their name and we wanted to have a name like that and we were throwing around ideas and someone said The Treatment and that stuck a chord and we all said yeah that sounds good! So it kinda stuck and we are known as The Treatment.
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You all lived together in a house for 12 months and lived and breathed music. What was that experience like? Did you drive each other mad?
We still live together now so it must of been alright! Haha! Yeah we are all really good friends, we play music together, we live together and we have a good time. We don’t really argue, there are some things that we don’t really get on about, but not important things. If someone irritates someone, we ask them to stop and they say OK and we move on. There have never been any major arguments. As we live together 24/7 we’re very lucky! That is awesome! Very mature! You have supported some of the biggest names in the rock genre, which band did you enjoy supporting the most? For example, Motley Crue, Alice Cooper, Slash, Status Quo, Motorhead, Thin Lizzy and Steel Panther. I think the best one we have done is the Kiss and Motley Crue one, purely for the size of it. It was the first time we had been to America and the two bands have been massive influences on us, I mean they are two of my favorite bands and to tour with them was great. So the tour with them was the best tour. Any cool or funny stories you can share? Um I don’t know how much I can say! (Laughing) I had my 21st birthday on that tour which was a bit crazy, they decided it would be a great idea to get me two strippers and I don’t know how they found out that I am terrified of clowns so they dressed them up as clowns so I did not know whether to be turned on or turned off, I was literally sitting there like this is amazing but terrifing at the same time and they had them pour vodka down my neck and it all got a bit crazy so that was