Twitter Q & A

So last week we opened our twitter page up to any questions you guys wanted to ask us, for one night only. Here are the best of the best, with our answers. We’ve kept them anonymous but feel free to comment below if you want to own up to them…. Click ‘Read More’ below to get to the rest!

When are you guys coming to [insert country here]?
Someday. We aren’t adverse to touring anywhere, but without proper distribution of our CDs it’s impossible for us to get to some countries at the moment. We are trying our best to stop that being a problem, so right now the best thing you guys can do is to spread the word however you can. If we’re on tour and we stop short of your country, well, sometimes we have to get back to our day jobs / girlfriends / lives before a certain date. It really is nothing personal, and we do EVERYTHING WE CAN to stay on tour for as long as possible.

Can I get the stems to your songs to remix?
Maybe. Sometimes we’re allowed to give them out under special circumstances. Best thing you can do is email the man at the end of the internet (band@maybeshewill.net) and send us some remixes you’ve done before. Then you’ll be on the list to get them when we are able to.

Would you consider a collaboration album with another similar band?
I think we’d consider a collaboration album with any band that wasn’t similar to us.

Have you had your phones hacked by the tabloids?
Right at this point, it looks like most of Britain has. So yes, twice. Mind you, we’re not dead, ill or vulnerable, so maybe we don’t figure on News International’s radar as worthy victim. That whole business is messed up.

Daddy or Chips?
Chips.

What does my band have to do to support you?
We like listening to music, so first send us an email with some music – we don’t check our myspace inbox. That said, we RARELY get to pick local supports, so the best you can expect is really that we’ll listen to you and send a nice email back if we get time. So, the best advice is to find out who’s putting on the show we’re playing in your town and then email them.

What’s your favourite place for gigs and do they already have one of your guitars on the wall?
We call a venue in Leicester called  ’Firebug’ home, so i guess we should pick there – They have our picture on the wall, along with ones of our bro’s in Her Name Is Calla, You Slut, Public Relations Exercise, Tired Irie, This Town Needs Guns, Tellison and Minnaars, as well as a really shit drawing of &U&I – it’s a pretty bad ass. I don’t think we could afford to give someone a guitar to put on the wall – that’d be a bit too decadent.

Are your religious?
No.

When will you guys sell out and release an album of pop ballads with guest vocals by Nicole Scherzinger et al?
We would totally LOVE to do that.

Batman or Superman?? Think Carefully.
Batman. No Superman. No Batman. Definitely Batman.

What might she do?
Our name is one word for a reason, and that reason is that we don’t have a clue.

Would you eat 24 hard boiled eggs for charity?
We’d throw our drummer out of a plane for charity, so pretty much, yes. Wait – is that each or altogether? One of those is too easy, surely. Man, the problem with this twitter Q &A is no clarification. We’ll think this through better next time.

When you sample films in your songs, is that the message of the film that inspired the song, or you felt that the sample fit the mood of the song?
Both, but usually the later.

I saw you playing and you wore an &U&I T-Shirt. Can I have it?
No, we like our &U&I Tees. You can get one from their website though i believe.

If you built an instrument from scratch, what would you name it?
The Catastrophonium.

Will Maybeshewill vs Food ever happen?
It already has, and surprisingly, John didn’t win. We used to do the Pizza Hut Buffet challenge on tour with Worriedaboutsatan and they always beat us. AND THERE’S ONLY TWO OF THEM.

Who’d win in a sonic Leicester fight between you and Kasabian
I’d wager we’re louder. I’d wager they’re richer. So it depends if they bribed the judges or not.

Can you do a guerrilla gig on the Friday of 2000 trees – i can’t get there until Friday morning?
Yeah, it’s lame that some people can’t get in to see us. If you bring a massive generator and some guitar cabs and a PA, we’ll do it. In your tent.

Would a good or a bad review from Pitchfork make you feel better?
Either would be lovely. We just like it when people acknowledge that we exist.

When will you merge with ASIWYFA to become the most epic band known to mankind / When will you tour with ASIWYFA again?
One day. One day. Last time we toured with those boys we shook hands on the fact that it would inevitably happen again. So one day.

If we harass you enough would you listen to our music and give us critical feedback?
Totally. Don’t harass us though, we’re busy men! If we have time, we will! band@maybeshewill.net is the place to go.

Would any of you dare to use some of your own vocals if you thought it necessary?
If we ever need agonisingly out of tune vocals, perhaps.

Who is your favourite Spice Girl?
Emma. Closely followed by Mel C. Mel B was the worst, right?

Can we count the interesting sounding post rock bands on one hand?
it is certainly true that a lot of bands people call post-rock, we find tedious. There are some good ones, but not many sadly.

Who’s the Alpha Male, Who’s the biggest wet blanket?
Jim is good with tools and fixing things. Robin and John both get real drunk real quick. Jamie falls somewhere in the middle.

When your amp is floating 6 feet in the air and you have a 2 foot stick to bring it down, how would you do it?
You. are. a mental. person.

Have you ever seen Paris Hilton’s Sex Tape?
Yup. It was disappointing at best. That’s the mood we were going for with the song.
P.s. The second bit of that answer was a joke.

Are there plans to publish Jamie Ward’s words of wisdom?
Ha Ha Ha! That would be simultaneously incredible and disasterous. For those that don’t know, Jamie has a knack of summing up situations in an incredible way, and we tweet them when we think to, so follow the twitter account for the best ones. His story about listening to Godspeed You Black Emperor whilst sunbathing on holiday is a personal favourite. Who does that?!

Would you rather drink a cup of the sun, or put your heads in a cement mixer full of glass?
Who let you in here? What. The. Fuck.

Do you still go to Derby’s rock club Mosh whilst on tour? (from Worriedaboutsatan – @teamsatan)
We haven’t bee to Derby for yonks, but that was always a tour low point / high point.

Which Band in Leicester has, as a median, the biggest cocks? (from Tiernan from Codex Leicester – @codexleicester)
You immediately go for Codex Leicester ‘cos, you know, they’re big guys – but the more we think about it, the more likely it is to be someone like Buenos Aires or Without Fire… That said, Her Name Is Calla are fond of nudity – but they’ve got Sophie who lets the side down…

Which are your favourite bands that are not instrumental/post rock
We don’t really listen to a lot of instrumental bands, with one or two notable exceptions, so ‘almost all of them’ would be an acceptably generic answer to this.

Do you guys do Bar Mitzvahs?
We nearly did a wedding once. I don’t think the parents of the bride or groom would have been happy about it though.

If you were a cheese, what would you be.
Camembert. It’s the best cheese for summoning bears out of caves.

What’s your favourite Pub in Ashby de la Zouch?
We have to defer to Jim on this one – but even then it’s a tough call. The Shoulder, The Plough, The Bowling Green and The White Heart – but it depends on the company you’re with.

What would you prefer, 40 degrees and no humidity or 26 degrees and 90% humidity?
This is genuinely the question we discussed for the longest. Tough one. The first one, although isn’t the second one a swimming pool?

If the band had never formed, what would each of you probably be doing?
Jamie would be running his studio, John’d be putting on gigs and running the record label, Jim’d be session drumming or still playing with Fight Fire With Water and Rob would like to be writing music for film. It’s hard to imagine though – We all make compromises to be in the band, which affects our ‘real life’ jobs, but at the end of the day it’s totally worth it. We’re putting our lives on hold for as long as this bands got breath in it’s proverbial lungs.