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Video Interview with Beat Magazine (Australia)
This Town Needs Guns’, Tim & Hank have a chat with Beat Magazine while over in Australia for Harvest Festival.
Beat Magazine Interview
With band members including an ex-librarian, ex-graphic designer, ex-website publisher, and a current school teacher, it’s no big surprise that UK newcomers This Town Needs Guns are raising the bar in complex, mind-bending math-rock. Kicking off 2011 with their debut on Australian soil as part of the Soundwave Festival, guitarist Tim Collis says TTNG are on a mission to cover all four corners of the globe by this year’s end.
“Last year we went to America for the first time and we were quite frightened to be honest,” laughs Collis. “You just don’t know what you’re going to get when you’re going to a place for the first time, and we were actually expecting the worst. We had no expectations for the shows, we figured probably nobody had even really heard of us, we thought we’d get there and nobody would show up for the gigs… But it was awesome! Actually it was quite overwhelming because we ended up having a couple of sold out shows. It was quite a crazy welcome.”
Collis hopes the same will apply to the boys’ first ever Australian visit this month, but more than anything he admits to his strange fascination with our native wildlife…
“Well, I am a primary school teacher so I really hope I get some time off to go see the traditional wildlife of Australia!” he laughs. “I admit that I’ve actually quite enjoyed the big break from school especially over Christmas and with touring. I’m not sure how everyone has survived the amount of traveling that we’ve done but it’s been a fun ride so far and it pays the rent! For me, Soundwave is going to be quite a milestone for the band just because we’re on the bill with so many big bands. Who wouldn’t want to see Iron Maiden? There’s a lot of bands that I’ve never heard of before so hopefully I’ll be blown away by some new music too.”
Likewise - Aussie crowds are likely to have the same reaction over TTNG’s own jaw-dropping brand of complex drumming, emotive melody and dizzying guitar work. First making their mark on the UK underground with debut album Animals two years ago, Collis says the band’s follow-up album has been taking a little longer than expected. As the guitarist points out, it’s been a case of trial and error.
“With my favourite bands in the past, I’ve never understood before how you could possibly take so long to release an album,” he laughs. “I totally get it now… We’ve already spent a few years now on this album and we’re hoping it will come out later this year, but we’ll see. We’ve been realising how much work actually goes into recording this second time now; we’ve fallen behind a little bit because there is so much to juggle between just the four of us. Sometimes you hear people talking about that ‘dreaded sophomore’ album, and now we’re kind of getting what they mean - there is so much to live up to, it’s the second album that has all the expectations looming.”
