Dire Wolfe Interview!

Dire Wolfe Interview!

Oxjam @ Bumper!

 

 

Anyone for a strawberry … tuck in boys!

 

Hi ya! So formal introductions first I’m Sally and you are?

 

Dan – Front man and lead guitar

Tarek – Drums

John – bass

Joe – guitar

 

Can we take our shoes off?

Yeah please you’ll be much more comfortable if you do strip off it you like I don’t mind.

 

Why Dire Wolfe?

Dan – I went through a stage of Greek mythology. One day I thought I would type in to Google ‘Greek mythology’ and Dire Wolfe came up as a mythical creature. It’s apparently a black wolf that roams America.

John – it also goes with his t-shirt,  he is always wearing wolf T-Shirts.

Everyone – wolf Boy!

 

Who would you least like to be compared to?

John – As a band or individually?

As a band, individually or both if you like.

Dan – Millhouse

Everyone – yeah Dan looks like millhouse

Joe – Dan wouldn’t like to be compare to millhouse or postman pat

Why not postman pat? He is amazing!

Dan – Where’s Wally and Gok Wan

Tarek – I Don’t want to be compared to anything indie like the Artic Monkeys

If you don’t see your self as being indie how do you see your selves?

Joe – We are quite indie but we just don’t want to be seen as it.

Fare enough.

Dan- it’s more ‘indiecore’. Its not mainstream indie its more alternative indie.

Joe – it has got pop sensibilities, as someone said

(Who is this someone?)

Dan – its charismatic

Charismatic is definitely the right word to use in my opinion.

Dan – hopefully!

 

You must know each other pretty well by now so who has the worst habits?

Tarek – lying. My habit is lying.

Dan – Taric is a terrible compulsive liar and Jo is always late –

Joe – I’m like the queen I’ve got my own time zone.

Do you have 2 birthdays as well?

John – Seriously I’m talking hours late like not just minutes.

Not good then?

Joe – if there is a way round it I’ll get around it and I’ll push it to the limits of taking the piss.

 

What’s the inspiration behind some of the songs you have written?

Tarek – Dan writes all the songs but when we practise them we all come together and tell him what’s good and what’s not good.

John – Dan sort of gets the ideas and we kind of take them and manipulate them.

That cool. So there’s no particular song you could pick out to say that that was influenced by such and such…?

Dan – What ever I am doing at the moment.

John – what’s red room about Dan?

Everyone (except Dan) Whey hey…!

Dan – Red rooms about my room

John – and what happens in that room?

Dan – (in a Marvin Gay ‘esk’ voice) I make love. I make love in my red room!

Nice! Your going to have to stop your making me blush

 

Which do you prefer recording or live gigs?

Dan – Playing live.

Yeah I think everyone does don’t they?!

Is there a reason why?

Dan – its nice to see people enjoying the moment and the music.

Tarek – you really don’t want to mess up on stage so …

Jo – its builds up the pressure

John – yeah

Joe – I like recording come to that and we should like recording and record more because were sound techs.

Tarek – when we go to record were quite experimental and some items we cant really and don’t really put that into our set which is a bit bad so were trying to get around that so when they hear our recordings they see like ….

 

Cool

 

Shit I lost my place and trail of thought …

Band all together – oooooooooooo!

It’s terrible!

Ha Ha!

 

If you weren’t musicians what would you be?

John – a drug dealer

Good choice, lots of cash – dangerous though

John – no lots of drugs, which is also dangerous may I just point out.

Tarek – a wild life ranger, yeah! A wild life ranger or a pilot.

Dan – I’d be a gigolo

Joe – there’s quite a lot of money in that

Dan – I’d collect wild animals.

Joe – I’d be a dustbin man. It’s surprising how much stuff you find.

And you get really good tips at Christmas

Dan and Joe – do ya?

Yep really good, Think of all the old ladies who give the bin men a little 50p tip every Christmas and add them all up you’ll see.

Joe – No you don’t

Yeah maybe your in the wrong business!

Dan – I’d be a super hero or a comic book character, where stripy tops and hide from people

Joe – like where’s Wally Ha Ha!

What would be your super hero or comic book character name?

Tarek – Slut man!

Dan – cheers man!

John – shit bastard

Shit bastard. Ha ha! Not very child friendly is it?

Joe – hey kids here comes your favourite super hero shit bastard!

Tarek – I’d be boogie brown.

 

What’s your band of the moment?

 

Joe – mine was vampire weekend

 

Was … why not anymore?

 

Joe – oh it probably still is I’ve just gone off them

 

(That’s a contradiction in terms I think)

 

John – band of the moment, band of the moment, hummmm. Hot club de Paris. An epic Liverpool band!

Dan – I’d say Youth Movies

Never heard of them.

Tarek – king tubby, he’s a dub artist. King tubby.

 

Never heard of the last to how sad I am … get with the programme!

 

What’s the most embarrassing thing you’ve done whilst intoxicated?

In chorus – OoOoOoO that’s a good one.

Joe – that’s a good one for me

Tarek – when he (jo) got really, really drunk

John – by the way this was in my room

Tarek – his 2 friends stripped him down, put shaving foam all over him, tooth paste in his hands

Joe – and up the oraphisises as well

Tarek – in his bum hole, shaving foam. Gaffer taped his all over and when I came home I had to shower him with my own hands, I didn’t touch his willy.

Why did you have to shower him?

Tarek – then his mum saw the pictures on facebook the next day,

Joe – yeah she was really upset

I can imagine

Joe – my mate nicked my camera and took pictures of me so I chased them out into student halls court yard, naked.

Taric – and everyone saw it

You still look a little embarrassed now just talking about it.

Joe – and then er

Jonh – it was in his bum and his foreskin

Everyone together in an almighty roar – errrrrrrrrr! No! Yuk! Ahhhhhh! Ha Ha Ha!

I wish this was a video camera not just a Dictaphone, If only I had the know how to describe the look of sheer horror that was on Jo’s face when the bassist said foreskin.

 

Any plans for the future?

Dan – make it big and make lots of money.

John – make lots of babies. Lots of band babies.

That’s your aim to make lots of babies?

Bassist – Yeah-illegitimate babies called shit bastard.

Joe – I just want a family, yeah that my ultimate aim.

Really?

John – and have a pet dog.

Joe – yeah and move to the West Indies

And have a family … so this is just to keep you occupied for the time being?

Joe – yeah!

That’s a good enough reason.

 

Where you playing next?

Dan – The Caledonia! 4 other bands are playing, 2 rockier ones and 2 acoustic ones. It should be good and it’s free so it should be a good turn out.

 

Lastly I’m going to play a game with you. I’ve got 10 questions and the winning team wins either mini eggs of a kinder surprise! Each team has to come up with a buzzer noise to answer each question, if you shout out the answer without the buzzer noise the point will automatically be given to the other team.

 

The winners were Jo and the bassist!

Dan and Taric were very sad and Dan Croll is a terrible loser! I wanted the sweets, he said. Better luck next time my darling.