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or Nine Inch Nails would be another life ambition realised for us. We would love to get out and take our music further afield so a euro or world support tour would be pretty seminal. And what’s next for Officers? Any festivals coming up? JAMIE: We have a few European festival dates coming up. Germany and possibly Switzerland along with a European release of the album. We’d love to work some more with Numan and are planning some more special art and social collaborations with Stuart (Semple - acclaimed British Artist). We are already well underway with album number two which we hope to complete before the end of the year. Matt and I also want to start work on a score for an animation along with some possibilities for movie scores, which has always been one of our long-term ambitions. We are also looking for new artists to work with produce and release on our own new label, so it’s all pretty busy. All of us suffer anxieties at one time or another. What keeps you awake at night? JAMIE: We both suffer quite acutely with anxiety - mine is often from a fear of not being able to control everything, the unexpected and a highly
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active imagination and mind. Something I’ve battled with since a really young age. Meditation and visualisation techniques are something we both try to employ for healthier living. We had a really interesting conversation with Chris from Numan’s original band during the tour regarding acupuncture and Chinese medicine, which he now practices in France. We both agreed that western medicine is highly reliant on prescription and these techniques are overlooked despite their effectiveness. Chris was giving everyone amazing alternative therapies on the tour and acupuncture is definitely something we’re now looking into to help our nighttime worries! If you could sum up your rule for living life in one sentence, what would it be? MATT: Just be true to yourself, your family and friends. Realise what’s important in the now, as it’s usually the closet thing to you. Focusing on the simplest pleasures are the most fulfilling and rewarding. Don’t work too hard or put unrealistic pressures on yourself, as the mind is a fragile thing. More than one sentence we know, but all important! Visit Officers website for the latest tour and album news: www.officers.uk.com Or follow them on twitter: @OFFICERSMUSIC
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POTHEADS ARE NOT STARTING WARS. POTHEADS OFTEN STRUGGLE TO START THE CAR It’s a cliché to pull Bill Hicks out of the rhetorical arsenal these days. Every bloke and his bad columnist mates quote the killer rant on marketing men (“Seriously, kill yourselves.”). But I am nothing if not a man to harness clichés so here’s Bill on drugs stories and the media: “You never see a positive drug story on the news. They always have the same LSD story. You’ve all seen it: ‘Today a young man on acid thought he could fly…jumped out of a building…what tragedy!’ What a dick. He’s an idiot. If he thought he could fly, why didn’t he take off from the ground first? Check it out? You don’t see geese lined up to catch elevators to fly south…he’s an idiot. He’s dead. Good! We lost a moron.” Wouldn’t you like to see a positive LSD story on the news? To base your decision on information rather than scare tactics and superstition? “Today, a young man on acid realised that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and
we’re the imagination of ourselves. Here’s Tom with the weather.” Now that’s funny but it’s also true – the Venn diagram of lasting comedy at work. You don’t see positive drugs stories on the news in the UK and you never will. The prurient pushing of an agenda that says if you take drugs even once you’ll be on the fast track to dying in the toilets of a terrible club or diving Trainspottingstyle through a toilet bowl to recover a heroin suppository.
YOU DON’T SEE POSITIVE DRUGS STORIES ON THE NEWS IN THE UK AND YOU NEVER WILL.
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