The Little Million Interview

Described as the hottest new band to come out of Sheffield, I caught up with my (almost) homies from The Little Million for a lttle chat.

Hello there, what are you up to?

Hi! I just got back from a meeting with our manager and now I’m drinking a very fine cup of coffee. I’d like to have said I was doing something decadent but I’m too honest.

So, you’re getting ready to release your new single ‘You and Me Against The Universe’ and album ‘Satellite’, can you tell us a bit about it?

The single is all about having a Girlfriend that’s so tough, if Aliens invaded she’d be the first there to send them home. We did an ‘Ed wood’ style video to go with it, complete with saucer people and exploding sheep, which tells the story perfectly. We’re very happy with it. The album isn`t going to be out for a while yet, which is a shame because I REALLY can`t wait for people to hear it. So much time, effort and love has gone into it that I’m certain it’ll go down fantastically.

The new single from that, comes out on March 15th, why are you releasing that track now?

 We had a number of choices for the first single but it’s always difficult to decide which to go with, in the early days of an album release I mean. You always want to put your best stuff out but there’s always the chance that it’ll go under everyone’s radar so we took a compromise and went for ‘You and me…’. It’s short and sweet, but also energetic and catchy so it seemed the way to go…..actually, come to think of it, it was pretty obvious we should have gone for that in the first place! Ha ha.

There is a lot of competition in the business today, do you think you have what it takes to give the big names a run for their money?

Absolutely! We’ve been doing this a couple of years now and we’ve been in other bands in the past, so we know how hard you have to work and the sacrifices you have to make to succeed. It’s a good time for smaller bands to have a pop at the big boys as well, what with the internet and downloading, you don`t really NEED the big labels to get some success anymore. Good and interesting idea’s can take you a long way….and we’ve got ‘em!

So, if you could recommend just one song of yours for us to download so that we want to hear all of your music, what would it be?

I’d guess the song that sums us up the best at the moment is one called ‘Finger on the Trigger’. It’s a mixture of Rock and classical orchestral type music…almost a James Bond theme, but that’s not out yet so it’d be stealing! At the moment, we just want people to download the single….oh, and really like it of course.

If I was contemplating coming to your show or sitting at home and watching Big Brother, how would you get me out of the house?

I’d like to think you’d make the right choice! He he. I’d try one of two ways. Either I’d tell you that if you came to our show, you’d be entertained more than Big Brother could ever manage, you’d experience live music, which when done well can be something you’ll cherish and remember for years to come and that you’d be a fool to miss out on a once in a lifetime opportunity (Of course, that’d be laying it on thick)….. or….. I’d promise you that if you came to the show,  I’d do at least four of the following:-

• Wear an Animal costume and do a dance every time a buzzer sounds
• Stay up all night making sure a fire doesn’t go out/a clock doesn’t stop/I keep running on a treadmill
• Get drunk, admit my love/hatred for someone else in the venue and fall over trying to get into bed
• Get completely naked for no reason
• Live on nothing but rice for five days then get ‘A bit Crabby’
•  See a picture of my mum and start crying
• Pick a spot/my nose/my bum, forgetting I’m being watched by people
•  Do something wholly inappropriate with a wine bottle
•  Try and turn everyone against each other in the venue with a Machiavellian web of lies only to be caught and thrown out
• Try and sleep as often as possible
• Play the gig but make sure the sound cuts out and is replaced with birdsong every 10 seconds
• Be shocked that I’m thrown out (Of the venue of course) first cos I’m just SO great!
• Lie about my age/Hair colour/Sex/Pregnancy.

If that didn’t get you to the Show, I’d ask you to move up a little and pass the popcorn.
   
We’ve got to admit you’re pretty darn cool, so what advice would you give to someone just starting out, knowing what you know now?

It’s going to be hard! No….Harder than that! You need to accept that you have to sacrifice everything for the band you love and you’ll need a thick skin. Not everyone is going to like you, just like not every show is going to sell out. Once you’ve accepted (and agreed to) that, I’d say first and foremost, enjoy what you do and make the most of the good times! If you don`t enjoy it, there’s really no point.

So, if The Little Million was an acronym what would each letter stand for?

Funny you should say that, People have already started calling us TLM. Umm…. Try Liza Minelli?

If you could only listen to one CD for the rest of your life, what would it be?f

That’s an impossible question! Probably something by Rufus Wainwright at the moment….or a band called Cake….Or The Beatles…..Oo! No, OUR album! Yeah….Definately our album…ahem….
 
Okay, now we want to ask you some random questions...

What were you doing‌ last night‌ at 11?

All I’m saying is that it involved a spoon, the femur from a poodle and the entire cast of M*A*S*H….. I was in the pub…..

What are you going to do after this interview?

I’ve got some more band work to do, gearing up to getting this single promoted, then I’m off to another interview. It’s all go nowadays!

When was the last time you did something incredibly stupid?

The other day I clicked a link somebody sent me and the images therein nearly made me sick. I’ll not go into too many details but involved an old Ex-Geisha’s feet. *Shudder*

What’s the last film you saw?
 
9. Don’t bother with it, it’s rubbish. I watched most of Saving Private Ryan the other night, by accident again. I turn it on and just can’t stop watching, great film. I was also pleasantly surprised with ‘The Time Travellers wife’. That was pretty cool.

What’s the last thing you bought?

A packet of Halls Metholyptus. Got a stinker of a cold. Too many late nights, early mornings and freezing cold van journeys!

Described as the hottest new band to come out of Sheffield, I caught up with my (almost) homies from The Little Million for a lttle chat.

Hello there, what are you up to?

Hi! I just got back from a meeting with our manager and now I’m drinking a very fine cup of coffee. I’d like to have said I was doing something decadent but I’m too honest.

So, you’re getting ready to release your new single ‘You and Me Against The Universe’ and album ‘Satellite’, can you tell us a bit about it?

The single is all about having a Girlfriend that’s so tough, if Aliens invaded she’d be the first there to send them home. We did an ‘Ed wood’ style video to go with it, complete with saucer people and exploding sheep, which tells the story perfectly. We’re very happy with it. The album isn`t going to be out for a while yet, which is a shame because I REALLY can`t wait for people to hear it. So much time, effort and love has gone into it that I’m certain it’ll go down fantastically.

The new single from that, comes out on March 15th, why are you releasing that track now?

 We had a number of choices for the first single but it’s always difficult to decide which to go with, in the early days of an album release I mean. You always want to put your best stuff out but there’s always the chance that it’ll go under everyone’s radar so we took a compromise and went for ‘You and me…’. It’s short and sweet, but also energetic and catchy so it seemed the way to go…..actually, come to think of it, it was pretty obvious we should have gone for that in the first place! Ha ha.

There is a lot of competition in the business today, do you think you have what it takes to give the big names a run for their money?

Absolutely! We’ve been doing this a couple of years now and we’ve been in other bands in the past, so we know how hard you have to work and the sacrifices you have to make to succeed. It’s a good time for smaller bands to have a pop at the big boys as well, what with the internet and downloading, you don`t really NEED the big labels to get some success anymore. Good and interesting idea’s can take you a long way….and we’ve got ‘em!

So, if you could recommend just one song of yours for us to download so that we want to hear all of your music, what would it be?

I’d guess the song that sums us up the best at the moment is one called ‘Finger on the Trigger’. It’s a mixture of Rock and classical orchestral type music…almost a James Bond theme, but that’s not out yet so it’d be stealing! At the moment, we just want people to download the single….oh, and really like it of course.

If I was contemplating coming to your show or sitting at home and watching Big Brother, how would you get me out of the house?

I’d like to think you’d make the right choice! He he. I’d try one of two ways. Either I’d tell you that if you came to our show, you’d be entertained more than Big Brother could ever manage, you’d experience live music, which when done well can be something you’ll cherish and remember for years to come and that you’d be a fool to miss out on a once in a lifetime opportunity (Of course, that’d be laying it on thick)….. or….. I’d promise you that if you came to the show,  I’d do at least four of the following:-

• Wear an Animal costume and do a dance every time a buzzer sounds
• Stay up all night making sure a fire doesn’t go out/a clock doesn’t stop/I keep running on a treadmill
• Get drunk, admit my love/hatred for someone else in the venue and fall over trying to get into bed
• Get completely naked for no reason
• Live on nothing but rice for five days then get ‘A bit Crabby’
•  See a picture of my mum and start crying
• Pick a spot/my nose/my bum, forgetting I’m being watched by people
•  Do something wholly inappropriate with a wine bottle
•  Try and turn everyone against each other in the venue with a Machiavellian web of lies only to be caught and thrown out
• Try and sleep as often as possible
• Play the gig but make sure the sound cuts out and is replaced with birdsong every 10 seconds
• Be shocked that I’m thrown out (Of the venue of course) first cos I’m just SO great!
• Lie about my age/Hair colour/Sex/Pregnancy.

If that didn’t get you to the Show, I’d ask you to move up a little and pass the popcorn.
   
We’ve got to admit you’re pretty darn cool, so what advice would you give to someone just starting out, knowing what you know now?

It’s going to be hard! No….Harder than that! You need to accept that you have to sacrifice everything for the band you love and you’ll need a thick skin. Not everyone is going to like you, just like not every show is going to sell out. Once you’ve accepted (and agreed to) that, I’d say first and foremost, enjoy what you do and make the most of the good times! If you don`t enjoy it, there’s really no point.

So, if The Little Million was an acronym what would each letter stand for?

Funny you should say that, People have already started calling us TLM. Umm…. Try Liza Minelli?

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