Can Cut Off Your Hands cut it in the music industry?
20 October 2008
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Cut Off Your Hands have released their soon-to-be smash hit, Happy As Can Be, today and as always, FemaleFirst had to catch up with the newest kids on the block to pick their brains about the music industry, their tour of the UK and Radiohead VS the Foo Fighters.Hello, how are you?
Good thank you
What have you been up to recently, anything exciting?
We’ve been on tour around the UK on university fresher’s tour and we have a new album coming out and then we’re going back home for like one show and then coming back over here to do a Christmas tour.Ooh, very busy then, and so can you tell me a bit about the new album?
It’s sort of a documentation of who were are as a band and where we’ve come from and so there’s a couple of old songs on there but the majority of the songs on there are completely new. There are a few more avenues opened by this album and it seems far more dynamic than we’ve done before.
Where has been your favourite place to play in the UK so far?
With this crowd it would have to have been the other night in Preston
You’re just saying that aren’t you because you know that’s where I went to university!
No I promise! It was actually really fun and I really enjoyed being able to play around Edinburgh too.
How would you compare yourself to other bands?
I guess there are a few bands that would be obvious comparisons to ourselves such as Mystery Jets but I think that we might be a little bit different to a lot of the pop bands out there at the moment. I don’t know really, but I have heard comparisons with We Are Scientists because I think we’re slightly more serious than they are.
Who would you list as your influences?
I get a lot of my influence from the sixties with everything from the classic pop of the Beach Boys and Beatles to the punk rock crowd as my favourite bands have always been energetic and exciting musicians such as At The Drive-In and The Buzzcocks. It’s kind of an amalgamation of those two that have brought about the sound of the band.
What do you think sets you apart from all the other bands around at the moment?
In England? [FF: Yeah we can start in England] The fact that we don’t sound like the Libertines. Everyone seems to want to sound like them or Oasis. With us being from New Zealand we have a completely different outlook on what we do in music and we’re not doing this to be on Radio One or in NME magazine.
We have very strong work ethic and we’re all about achieving out goals and having a really good time as we go along and I don’t think there are many bands in the music industry that can say that, especially the ones who play pop-rock like we do. There are a lot of bands out there who are writing similar songs but you can tell a bands integrity when you get to know them.
Where would you like to be in ten years from now?
I’ve never thought that far ahead with this band. Hopefully we’ll still be together and still be fresh and I’d hate to think that if we were still going in ten years that we would have succumbed to a commercial goal and be ‘selling out.’ I’d prefer to be in a Radiohead situation than in a Foo Fighters situation.
Ooh, controversial! So what do you think you’d be doing if you weren’t in a band?
I’d probably be studying as I’ve wanted to get back into studying for a while now and I want to learn English Literature and I’m still pretty keen to do that at some point.
Okay, so we ask everyone we interview to come up with a question for the next person we interview and One Night Only want to know how many times you change your socks when you’re on tour.
Definitely once a day for me as I really don’t like dirty socks.
Very good, I’m proud of you. So finally can you come up with a question for the next person I interview please?
What’s the most peculiar thing on your rider?
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