1.
How did
the name Two Faced Serenade come about?
A – Ellis: Basically a lot of people
are two faced (laughing) Er it was sort of partly random, we hated our first
name
Jack:
SOS even I remember that. There was Here Are flying then it was Seeing other
signs and then it was Two faced Serenade.
Ellis: Anyway and then I guess a lot of people were
two faced and we were playing music (laughing).
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SO ITS
LIKE YOUR SERENADING ALL THE TWO FACED PEOPLE
A – Jack: Yeah you just finished his
sentence for him
2. Where did you all meet?
A - Ellis and Jack met in secondary school
and the others were introduced through each other and college.
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YOU KNOW
IN BANDS WHEN YOU GET THE PERSON THAT IS SILENT AND DOESN’T SPEAK VERY MUCH IS
THAT YOU?
A - Yeah, pretty much.
Jack: to everyone else yeah
Ellis: Dylan is the silent one
Jack: He looks that way to everyone on the
outside, but once you know him he’s a really weird.
3. Who’s your biggest inspiration collectively
as a band or if not your individual inspirations?
A – Ellis: Jesus Christ! That’s a tough one
Ryan: I mean I don’t think as a band we
have someone we aspire to be because we are all really different musicians
Ellis: Our bands quite weird
Dylan: I think it’s probably the Red Hot
Chilli Peppers
Ellis: I knew you were going to say that
Dylan: Or it’s like Jimi Hendrix or
something like that, I like blues as well.
Ellis: I like a bit of K pop (laughing)
Jack: I wouldn’t want really to be the
music taste I like, like I wouldn’t want Jazz or something like that to aspire
to be something jazzy or progressive or anything like that which is my sort of
taste.
Ryan: But you sort of bring elements to
that
Jack: Yeah I like to include bits of that,
just to make things more exciting and a little bit less mandating
4. Who is your favourite artist right now?
A – Jack: I’ll go first then, Tasaracked by
far at the moment
Ellis: It’s funny because no one is going
to know who they are!
Ryan: I know who they are!
Jack: Ryan knows who they are! Tessaracked
are SICCK
Ryan: I’d probably say the world alive or
cross day because metal core is bae
Ellis: I knew you were going to say
something along those lines.
Ryan: Paramore (in a sarcastic voice)
Ellis: No I’ve gone through my Paramore stage;
I’m out of it now.
Jack: Like a bit of hasinku Minku now?
Ellis: Who’s that?
Jack: I thought you like k pop
Ellis: It was a joke, um I don’t know,
Dylan what about you?
Dylan: I like loads of old stuff and they are all dead. I don’t know I’ve got
so many. Gary Clarke Jr is pretty cool. Eric Gales also they are just
guitarists really
5. You’ve played at places like; The 02
Academy Islington, The garage London, Chinnerys Southend, where is your dream
venue to play?
A – Ellis: At the moment I’m looking at O2
Brighton or something like that.
Jack: YEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS! Anywhere is
Brighton, I REALLY WANT TO GO TO BRIGHTON
Ryan: I’d probably say Brixton
Dylan: I don’t know where I want to go, um
probably the same as Ryan, yeah Brixton would be pretty cool.
Ellis: It’s like to against two here they
can go to Brixton and we can go to Brighton
Ryan: A bass player for the entire show
Dylan: What’s the biggest venue in the world?
Jack: Yeah! That. I don’t know like other countries
that would be exciting, on the road sort of thing you know different sort of
things yeah.
6. You were also on BBC introducing, how did
that feel to hear your selves on the radio?
A – Ellis: It was a bit weird
Dylan: I was playing GTA I think we were in
the same call Jack.
Ellis: Um yeah it was pretty cool.
Dylan: It was weird hearing the guy go Two
Faced Serenade
Ryan: He did mention this band and the fact
we spammed him the hell out
Ellis: But we didn’t spam him at all
Ryan: We did a little bit.
Ellis: I didn’t! And I’m the only one that
uses the twitter
Jack: He did say though “yeah they’ve filled
up my letter box haven’t they” so, or whatever he said
Ellis: So basically we forced him to play
our song
Ryan: We sent him loads of letters, “dear
Mr BBC introducing, play us please yours faithfully two face serenade!”
Jack: And we got more aggressive with each
letter until it ended up with “play us you ****”
Dylan: Death threats (laughing)
Jack: Ill skin your cat if you don’t play
us (laughing)
Ellis: and yeah overall it was pretty cool.
7. Do you guys find writing songs hard and a
long process or do lyrics just come along easy for you? Are your lyrics about
things that have happened to you or just ideas?
A – Ryan: Sometimes we really have to work
at it and sometimes everything sort of clicks and just falls into place
Ellis: We all have sort of selective roles
in song writing I think, we have, if we just jam or something we expect the
other person to play because like obviously we know how each other works.
Jack: It’s mainly just like a matter of fun
you know? We will write a song and then jam out and find a really god riff that
we like and we work on that till a point where we are happy and then it gets to
the nitty gritty where its less fun but it’s like we really have to perfect
this now because it’s a proper song, it’s on the way.
Ellis: We play it to death until we are
sick of it and then it’s alright then.
Ryan: And then we write another song and do
it again.
8. Where do you see your selves in five years’
time?
A – Ellis: Um well Dylan will be playing
GTA
Me: To be a character in GTA
Jack: Yeah to be in GTA!
Ellis: Um for my I’m not sure I mean I’m
planning to go to Uni and what not but I have no idea
Ryan: Wait what the time right now?
Ellis: What is the…Oh because you’re going
to say I’m going to be in bed (sarcastic tone)
Ryan: Completely that
Jack: Hopefully in a pub, I’ll be in the
pub with a pint with my mates, I don’t know! I have no idea!
9. Favourite album of all time?
A – Ellis: That’s really difficult
Jack: I can give you one for right now, but
I can’t pick an all-time one
Ryan: I suppose my go to album would be
something by Fall Out Boy, just any of their albums
Jack: I though you said stomach by Fall Out
Boy
Ellis: Ur I would say sex magic, because
that a pretty fine album
Dylan: Or dark side of the moon by pink
Floyd
Jack: I, my favourite album for a long,
long time was the black album by Metallica
Dylan: But that was when they were amazing
Jack: Yeah!
And now they are just like (weird guitar noises) you know there are like
no leads at all.
10. Do you think growing up in Essex
specifically Southend has been hard for an up and coming band like you?
A – Ryan: Yes and no, because if you are
open about the music you listen to and like the bands you like you kind of get
ridiculed for it as soon as you sort of leave school you meet loads of people
that are actually alright.
Jack: Like Chinnerys being just down the
road, that’s like everyone loves Chinnerys it seems you know? And you’ve got
loads of other places like The Railway and O’Neil’s, from what I hear not that
its anything special, but yeah you’ve got lots of starting places and Chins is…I
love Chins to bits
Dylan: I do hate it when you say chins
Ryan: You don’t mention it when me and
Ellis say chins
Dylan: It’s just his voice, he thinks he’s
so cool
11. Have you got any albums or singles in the
process of being released?
A – We just released our second EP and we
started writing again today I guess.
Jack: Yeah, literally today, so I guess
this is the very start of another one.
12. Is there any band/artist that you would
love to see live? And what band would you love to support?
A – Jack: I wonder what you’re going to say
(to Dylan) Red Hot Chilli Peppers (sarcastic tone)
Ellis: No to be honest I would be up for
supporting them
Jack: Yeah Chilli Peppers their good I
could go all progeny but I’ll say Chilli Peppers because they are good. But can
you imagine trying to keep up with that (fast guitar) and then we are there
like (slow guitar) “yeah”.
13. Where has been your favourite venue to
play?
A – Ellis: I’ve got to say Islington main
stage that was the best we have ever played
Dylan: What was that really bad place?
Ryan: The Railway
Dylan: That’s my favourite (laughing) No
I’m the same
Ellis: Islington was insane.
Jack: But then I like Chinnerys because its
home turf, and it’s just nice, feels like home
Ryan: Yeah but the floor is really sticky
Jack: and you’ve got a layer of gunge on
your foot.
Ryan: If you’ve got wheels, like where I
had wheels on my drum case, as soon as you hit that carpet they just slow down,
then it’s literally like a massive boulder! It’s horrible.
14. Favourite gig you’ve been to?
A – Ryan: I’ve been to more of our gigs
then I’ve been to any other gigs.
Ellis: I’d say Lincoln Park, Of Mice and
Men, that was probably the best gig I’ve been to, that was pretty awesome!
Jack: I’ve been to one that wasn’t our own,
it was My Chemical Romance before they split up obviously and yeah and that was
actually really good and I think Los Alone and The Black Out supported them.
Ryan: I’d have to say because the only
other gig I’ve gotten into properly was Iron Maiden but that was like “ohhh
Iron Maiden” “ohhhhhhhh”.
Ellis: Didn’t you go to see August Burns
Red? (To Dylan)
Ryan: That was your first gig wasn’t it?
Dylan: Yeah that was something else that was! Nah I saw Jeff Beck at the cliffs
pavilion, he’s cool and a guitarist I like so he’s cool.
15. You hear horror stories of how unsupportive
parents and friends can be when you start a band, where people supportive of
you or were they a bit unsure?
A – Ellis: Most of my family members ever
Dylan: My dad’s a musician so he’s happy
Ellis: No um noooo (laughs) but here we are
Jack: Everyone for me was like not
supportive or unsupportive its juts middle ground
Ryan: I think the only people that have
been unsupportive of me is my grandparents but they support me now, like at
first they were like “oh what are you going to do in a band, you’re not really
going to make anything” and they were just like you know here’s £20 for a
ticket, we are not going to go just here’s the money. So I guess that’s their
way of being supportive
Jack: And now we have played a main stage
the tables have turned ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Ellis: Uproar. Like sitting on their porch
deck with bulletin signs.
16. What made you want to start a band?
A – Jack: Love music
Ryan: Kills time
Ellis: The first thing you sort of, well
for us when you first learn an instrument the first thing you think I want to
do this with other people
Jack: Yeah sitting in your room playing
guitar is great but, obviously when you’ve got a drummer and in my case
guitarists to play along with obviously that’s something else isn’t it.
Ryan: It’s also nice to have a group of
people that hate other people as much as
you
Ellis: Yeah we do have a lot of gossip
Jack: Oh yeah yeah, It’s not right if we
don’t bitch about someone so. It’s all fun.
17. Who plays what instrument?
A – Ryan: (points at Dylan), triangle,
(points at Jack) Gong
Ryan: Okay, drums
Ellis: Um vocals and guitar
Jack: I play bass in this band so
Ellis: It’s like your bragging
Ryan: Yeah, you said in this band
Jack: Yeah because I do play some other
instruments but I won’t mention them.
Dylan: I play guitar and sing sometimes
Ryan: If you feel like it
Jack: I sing when my voice isn’t dying so.
18. What’s your favourite song that you’ve made
so far? Or one that you have regretted making if there is one?
A – Jack: Regretted making! I know what
Dylan: Outcast
Ellis: You can’t regret the first song you
write, as a starting point
Ryan: It was a bit naff, it was generic it
was pop punk mixed with like pose hard-core.
Dylan: It wasn’t even that it was just
Jack: S**t
Ellis: No
Jack: Oh you loved it
Ellis: No it wasn’t even that it’s just you
are a band that has never played before and that is your first song
Ellis: Anyway well the best song we have
written musically is run away or
Jack: Yeah just the end of runaway gets me
every single time, its soooo good
Dylan: No my favourite is, it’s got to be.
Jack: Parachute (sarcastic tone) laughs, no
that’s actually alright
Dylan: Yeah it is, but what’s that one that
has your favourite one on it (points at Ellis) oh um two weeks to love me
Jack: One that I regret is everyone say it’s
okay
Ryan: I like that
Jack: I don’t
Ryan: I think it’s alright. There isn’t
like one I completely regret.
19. Favourite thing about playing live?
A – Jack: The energy and the feedback.
Ryan: Not the feedback
Ellis: The feedback from the crowd
Jack: Yeah that’s yeah what I meant
Ellis: Um I think it’s just that moment
when we are playing live and we all just look at each other, it only happens I
think once or twice
Ryan: It’s when you realise you’ve all
clicked together, and you sort of do something you wouldn’t usually do and then
you like look at each other and you’ve got a little grin on your face, or when
I give you that dirty smile
Jack: Yeah and your just like
orghhhhhhhhhh, check that out! Yeah and it’s just yeah everything is better.
Okay that is everything thank you for
letting me interview you awkwardly.
Band: That’s all right
Jack: Speaking of awkwardness, who looked
at the camera because I did that quite a lot
Ellis: I was staring at the camera to be
honest, I was like (pulls face).
