However, some people may not want to read just a 600 word snippet.So here I am,giving you the entire interview for your entertainment. Heads up, it is rather long so if you'd rather read the more fun questions, skip to question 12.
Normal Questions
1. You're from Basingstoke so why did you decide to name yourselves Canterbury?
Luke: Well yeah, Mike's from Basingstoke, I'm from Farnham, Scott's from Alton, James is from.. various places, Devon and originally Doncaster and all sorts of places and if you combine all of those place names together and take all the letters off them, we'd looked at them for a while and the only word we could see coming out of it was Canterbury.
Mike: We kind of had a whole fridge magnet situation. It was like "Hey, look at that."
Luke: Like cracking a code.
Mike: Yeah. Because Basingstoke's an awful name for the band, Farnham is an awful name for a band, as is Alton and Devon and Doncaster. So we were like "Canterbury's alright. Yeah, let's do that" and it stuck.
2. How would you describe your genre of music?
Luke: I'd kind of say it's a multi-genre really because if you've listened to one of our albums there's some heavy rock stuff and there's kind of light, ballady, more indie stuff but I'd say essentially British rock.
Mike:We like saying sweet rock. It's kind of like rock; it's rock in every sense of the word but some of it's very sweet tasting.
Luke: And rock, you usually, well, I instantly think of an American kind of Foo Fighter's "rock" but it's definitely got a British sound to it.
3. What has been the highlight of your careers other than the release of "Heavy In The Day"?
Luke: Yeah, it probably would have been the highlight.
Mike: I dunno, we've obviously done some pretty cool touring with some pretty good bands or successful bands and that's really really fun, but you can't get any better than our headline shows, doing really well and I think that we played our biggest headline show in Kingston in the college of London a few months ago and I think collectively, that was one of the best moments of our lives, not just our band career. It's kind of like, it's real, this is real now.
Luke: It's really great how it does go from strength to strength, like we said our highlight is only a week ago, when the highlight before that was only a couple of months ago but you know looking back on it, I mean back in 2009 we were lucky enough to do Brixton Academy with a band and we were pretty young guys back then and to be able to play that legendary venue at that age was pretty incredible. We all look back on that one and it's a kind of like "Shit me". It's quite early on and it's still like a highlight of our lives, let alone careers.
Me: Hopefully we'll be seeing you at Reading or Leeds soon.
Luke: What a night!
Mike: One can only hope.
Luke: We've been saying that every year. Next year, next year so.. next year.
4. You’re recent album has been a huge success. Do you think that your fan base has helped in promoting your music?
Mike: Oh definitely. I mean a band is only as strong as their fan base in terms of word and mouth.
Luke: It's almost solely they've done the job.
Mike: You definitely feel those bands who you feel are forced upon people in terms of how, you know, you really can do anything with money.
Luke: You turn a page in a magazine, there they are, you turn the next page, there they are again, you know.
Mike: I think we've never been, I don't know if the word is lucky, to have that kind of stuff behind us because I don't think that any band really really wants that. You want success built on people really liking you but we have such an incredible fan base of these really passionate people who always give us examples of what they've done and stuff like that which is really nice. Yeah, it's just amazing, we're definitely as strong as our fan base is. They've definitely helped.
Luke: They're great people. Part of being a DIY band, it's our own label, everything is our own decision and everything we do, making all our videos as well and stuff, the fanbase is all the more important because it literally is nothing between us and them, it's just us having the music and giving the music. There's no label going through there and deciding how it's going to be packaged and whatever, it's all about the fans.
5. Three of you write songs for the band. Do you have to be in a certain mood to write the songs or do they just come to you when you could be something ordinary, like making a cup of tea?
Mike: It's so ordinary. It's so annoying. Which is why stuff like iPhones are great because they have voice recorders on them but I dunno. I personally get them at the weirdest times. You could sit down and try to write a song and it probably won't happen but you could go to bed after the most normal day and something would just start popping into your head. Like for me personally, that's when it happens which is kind of annoying.
Luke: I've found recently that. Someone stole the aerial off my car so my radio was just defunct for a couple of months and I just found myself like on the motorway with no music and little bits of melody would just pop into my head so I'd be cracking out the voice recorder on my phone and be like "Da da da da da" and just singing into it while just driving on my own. There's no inspiration there but it just proves that any moment, you can get a flash and there it is.
6. What are the inspirations for your songs; are they based on past experiences?
Mike: Yeah, definitely. The past experiences thing is really good if you have stuff to write about and I think that a past experience, whatever it was is evoking enough to want to kind of get stuff of your chest about it, then it's definitely good thing to have something to write about but I think inspiration just comes from literally anywhere, even bad things that you don't want your stuff to sound. I think we've all been lucky enough to have parents that have listened to music all of our lives and like all the stuff you were listening to when you were a kid, just in the car, the Beatles and Queen and Fleetwood Mac, you obviously get into music however you get into it. But then, even stuff on the radio, whatever it is, even if it's a bad song, you're just like "Ok, definitely won't write a song like that because I don't like that"
Interviewer: Like Justin Beiber...
Luke: Yeah
Mike: He's not that bad..
Luke: On the new album there's a bit of a struggle I'd say getting to the point when we were able to release it. Amazing fan base aside, we were just on our own. And I'm sure, if you've listened to it or people have heard of this, there's a kind of elements of frustration; it's coated in sweet harmonies and made to sound all glorious but there's quite a lot of subject matter on there that is kind of like the troubles and strife of being in a band in this country, in this climate but yeah, literally anything. If you had a bad day, Daniel Powter wrote a song about having a bad day and it went to number 1. Anything. Pick a topic, write a song.
7. For me, there seemed to be a story in your first album. Are there any messages that you’re trying to convey in this album or is there a story behind it?
Luke:It's definitely not as story based. In the first album we were much younger and we were writing an album kind of almost for fun.
Mike: Yeah, we didn't know how to write an album.
Luke: It was before we even knew what to write about. It was like, let's put these songs together, let's make them all flow into each other. We didn't have any influence from any management or anything saying "Oh right, more like this". We were just writing for ourselves, pretty self indulgent really. Yeah, and we wanted it, we did it on purpose, we thought let's make a sort of character and all those songs sound completely different, there's no repetition anywhere. You can kind of develop it and have it do a message. We've had three or four years since then to actually live a bit of life and experience a few more things so it's less making up someone else's story and more - this is our story. So there's definitely a message that we're trying to convey, there is an underlying tone throughout the whole thing but it's not as fictional I'd say as the first record because luckily no one was in a terrible car accident or in a coma in hospital. Like we said in the first album as if one of us was; it's more literal this next one.
8. Nowadays, it’s all about collaborations; is there any band you would like to collaborate with?
Mike: I think there's going to be really obvious answers for this. It'd obviously be incredible to work with someone like the Beatles or Paul McCartney (Luke: Or to make it more realistic we could just work with Paul McCartney) I think you said it once but like it's a really cool idea and obviously if you're a fan of a band you'd kind of want to cover them but it would be really really fun to cover a Beatles song and have McCartney produce it.
Luke : Yeah, McCartney produce it in a studio.
Mike: And have it done properly.
Luke: And with his blessing you know, rather than just covering a Beatle's song.
Mike: Because it's kind of like one of those illegal things that you do or unless you do it really really well then you kind of have to change it because if you're playing like the Beatles, then you're just an idiot. Cause no one can. I think that would be pretty outstanding. I'm just going to put that out there just in case he happens to be listening. Paul, if you're up for it, I know a studio we can get cheap. Sir. Yeah, I think that'd be really really cool, I dunno.
Luke: You see the thing is with all these great musicians, I'm thinking we'd be just so showed up by them; like I'm imagining collaborating with Queen and then it'd be like, I probably wouldn't want to pretend that I even play an instrument in front of Queen. It would be really bad as I'd be really embarrassed.
Mike: Exactly. Playing the guitar, Brian May would have to re-do all your guitar tracks because he'd be better and then Freddie Mercury, if he was still alive, you'd sing and he'd be like "Well I can do that better","Of course you can, Sir". There's a lot of bands we like.
Luke: The classic bands.
Mike: I've always thought that back in the day, I can't remember what bands did it, it was Alexisonfire and someone, did like an EP of each other's songs, like a split EP. That would be really fun with a band you like.
Luke: I thinks it Alexisonfire and Moneen and the song titles were mashed up. I think we'll do that.
Mike: That'll be fun.
9. How important would you say social networking sites are for newly formed band to get their music out there?
Luke: If you don't get involved with that, you're at a lost cause really. Even if you don't use it as your main pushing force it has to be there these days. It would be great to think that you could do it all organically and do it with flyering and handing demo cds out. People barely talk face to face anymore; you need them talking online, on the social media and it's such an incredible tool. When MySpace first developed and there were bands becoming famous on MySpace, rising up and up and up and then the same thing with Twitter and Facebook and it's all developing, but the bad thing is it's now heavily saturated so you get a recommended band, and you're like another one - you don't know whether to sift through something. It's so important to have those accounts and maintain them up to date and also I think it's important to stand out with them.
Mike: You've got to do something a bit different.
Luke: A little bit, in the early stages anyway. You're never going to suddenly get a hundred thousand people interested in what you're doing.
Mike: Back in the day it was completely impossible for you to be a band accessible to potentially millions of people and now it isn't impossible; it's so easy. There are bad sides of it where every single band is on Twitter now but it's never been easier to record a song, it's never been easier to put it on the internet and it's never been easier for people to hear it so you really have to use that to your advantage. You have to think of other ways to make yourself stand out, you can't just be a band on Twitter who are like download our song. It's like why should I, I have these other bands all telling me to do the same thing. It's the best and worst time to be in a band but it's the easiest as well.
10. Do you have any advice for budding young musicians who may be reading this interview?
Mike: Other than the last answer we just gave, which is a good piece of advice.
Luke: I think, it's so important, in bullet points I'd say, before you arrive on the scene to have a bunch of songs that you are really happy with and you can play really confidently and be like these are the best songs we've written. Keep writing, never shut off the flood gates of writing. Well it's quite hard to shut them off anyway but you always want to be trying to better yourself with your writing. A lot of people say, and it's cheesy, but if you stick at it long enough and you're doing the right things and you're going about it the right way, you'll get there. If your music is good enough, it will find its audience even if it takes forever and it's a very gradual climb; you're still climbing and if you really do love it and you know you do, then don't give up. The only way to guarantee failure is to give up.
Mike: Be very prepared not to make money.
Luke: Laughs. Yeah.Treat it as a hobby.
Mike: Not in any way of like it you know won't happen but just like you've to be prepared to give stuff away for free and play shows for free.
1. You're from Basingstoke so why did you decide to name yourselves Canterbury?
Luke: Well yeah, Mike's from Basingstoke, I'm from Farnham, Scott's from Alton, James is from.. various places, Devon and originally Doncaster and all sorts of places and if you combine all of those place names together and take all the letters off them, we'd looked at them for a while and the only word we could see coming out of it was Canterbury.
Mike: We kind of had a whole fridge magnet situation. It was like "Hey, look at that."
Luke: Like cracking a code.
Mike: Yeah. Because Basingstoke's an awful name for the band, Farnham is an awful name for a band, as is Alton and Devon and Doncaster. So we were like "Canterbury's alright. Yeah, let's do that" and it stuck.
2. How would you describe your genre of music?
Luke: I'd kind of say it's a multi-genre really because if you've listened to one of our albums there's some heavy rock stuff and there's kind of light, ballady, more indie stuff but I'd say essentially British rock.
Mike:We like saying sweet rock. It's kind of like rock; it's rock in every sense of the word but some of it's very sweet tasting.
Luke: And rock, you usually, well, I instantly think of an American kind of Foo Fighter's "rock" but it's definitely got a British sound to it.
3. What has been the highlight of your careers other than the release of "Heavy In The Day"?
Luke: Yeah, it probably would have been the highlight.
Mike: I dunno, we've obviously done some pretty cool touring with some pretty good bands or successful bands and that's really really fun, but you can't get any better than our headline shows, doing really well and I think that we played our biggest headline show in Kingston in the college of London a few months ago and I think collectively, that was one of the best moments of our lives, not just our band career. It's kind of like, it's real, this is real now.
Luke: It's really great how it does go from strength to strength, like we said our highlight is only a week ago, when the highlight before that was only a couple of months ago but you know looking back on it, I mean back in 2009 we were lucky enough to do Brixton Academy with a band and we were pretty young guys back then and to be able to play that legendary venue at that age was pretty incredible. We all look back on that one and it's a kind of like "Shit me". It's quite early on and it's still like a highlight of our lives, let alone careers.
Me: Hopefully we'll be seeing you at Reading or Leeds soon.
Luke: What a night!
Mike: One can only hope.
Luke: We've been saying that every year. Next year, next year so.. next year.
4. You’re recent album has been a huge success. Do you think that your fan base has helped in promoting your music?
Mike: Oh definitely. I mean a band is only as strong as their fan base in terms of word and mouth.
Luke: It's almost solely they've done the job.
Mike: You definitely feel those bands who you feel are forced upon people in terms of how, you know, you really can do anything with money.
Luke: You turn a page in a magazine, there they are, you turn the next page, there they are again, you know.
Mike: I think we've never been, I don't know if the word is lucky, to have that kind of stuff behind us because I don't think that any band really really wants that. You want success built on people really liking you but we have such an incredible fan base of these really passionate people who always give us examples of what they've done and stuff like that which is really nice. Yeah, it's just amazing, we're definitely as strong as our fan base is. They've definitely helped.
Luke: They're great people. Part of being a DIY band, it's our own label, everything is our own decision and everything we do, making all our videos as well and stuff, the fanbase is all the more important because it literally is nothing between us and them, it's just us having the music and giving the music. There's no label going through there and deciding how it's going to be packaged and whatever, it's all about the fans.
5. Three of you write songs for the band. Do you have to be in a certain mood to write the songs or do they just come to you when you could be something ordinary, like making a cup of tea?
Mike: It's so ordinary. It's so annoying. Which is why stuff like iPhones are great because they have voice recorders on them but I dunno. I personally get them at the weirdest times. You could sit down and try to write a song and it probably won't happen but you could go to bed after the most normal day and something would just start popping into your head. Like for me personally, that's when it happens which is kind of annoying.
Luke: I've found recently that. Someone stole the aerial off my car so my radio was just defunct for a couple of months and I just found myself like on the motorway with no music and little bits of melody would just pop into my head so I'd be cracking out the voice recorder on my phone and be like "Da da da da da" and just singing into it while just driving on my own. There's no inspiration there but it just proves that any moment, you can get a flash and there it is.
6. What are the inspirations for your songs; are they based on past experiences?
Mike: Yeah, definitely. The past experiences thing is really good if you have stuff to write about and I think that a past experience, whatever it was is evoking enough to want to kind of get stuff of your chest about it, then it's definitely good thing to have something to write about but I think inspiration just comes from literally anywhere, even bad things that you don't want your stuff to sound. I think we've all been lucky enough to have parents that have listened to music all of our lives and like all the stuff you were listening to when you were a kid, just in the car, the Beatles and Queen and Fleetwood Mac, you obviously get into music however you get into it. But then, even stuff on the radio, whatever it is, even if it's a bad song, you're just like "Ok, definitely won't write a song like that because I don't like that"
Interviewer: Like Justin Beiber...
Luke: Yeah
Mike: He's not that bad..
Luke: On the new album there's a bit of a struggle I'd say getting to the point when we were able to release it. Amazing fan base aside, we were just on our own. And I'm sure, if you've listened to it or people have heard of this, there's a kind of elements of frustration; it's coated in sweet harmonies and made to sound all glorious but there's quite a lot of subject matter on there that is kind of like the troubles and strife of being in a band in this country, in this climate but yeah, literally anything. If you had a bad day, Daniel Powter wrote a song about having a bad day and it went to number 1. Anything. Pick a topic, write a song.
7. For me, there seemed to be a story in your first album. Are there any messages that you’re trying to convey in this album or is there a story behind it?
Luke:It's definitely not as story based. In the first album we were much younger and we were writing an album kind of almost for fun.
Mike: Yeah, we didn't know how to write an album.
Luke: It was before we even knew what to write about. It was like, let's put these songs together, let's make them all flow into each other. We didn't have any influence from any management or anything saying "Oh right, more like this". We were just writing for ourselves, pretty self indulgent really. Yeah, and we wanted it, we did it on purpose, we thought let's make a sort of character and all those songs sound completely different, there's no repetition anywhere. You can kind of develop it and have it do a message. We've had three or four years since then to actually live a bit of life and experience a few more things so it's less making up someone else's story and more - this is our story. So there's definitely a message that we're trying to convey, there is an underlying tone throughout the whole thing but it's not as fictional I'd say as the first record because luckily no one was in a terrible car accident or in a coma in hospital. Like we said in the first album as if one of us was; it's more literal this next one.
8. Nowadays, it’s all about collaborations; is there any band you would like to collaborate with?
Mike: I think there's going to be really obvious answers for this. It'd obviously be incredible to work with someone like the Beatles or Paul McCartney (Luke: Or to make it more realistic we could just work with Paul McCartney) I think you said it once but like it's a really cool idea and obviously if you're a fan of a band you'd kind of want to cover them but it would be really really fun to cover a Beatles song and have McCartney produce it.
Luke : Yeah, McCartney produce it in a studio.
Mike: And have it done properly.
Luke: And with his blessing you know, rather than just covering a Beatle's song.
Mike: Because it's kind of like one of those illegal things that you do or unless you do it really really well then you kind of have to change it because if you're playing like the Beatles, then you're just an idiot. Cause no one can. I think that would be pretty outstanding. I'm just going to put that out there just in case he happens to be listening. Paul, if you're up for it, I know a studio we can get cheap. Sir. Yeah, I think that'd be really really cool, I dunno.
Luke: You see the thing is with all these great musicians, I'm thinking we'd be just so showed up by them; like I'm imagining collaborating with Queen and then it'd be like, I probably wouldn't want to pretend that I even play an instrument in front of Queen. It would be really bad as I'd be really embarrassed.
Mike: Exactly. Playing the guitar, Brian May would have to re-do all your guitar tracks because he'd be better and then Freddie Mercury, if he was still alive, you'd sing and he'd be like "Well I can do that better","Of course you can, Sir". There's a lot of bands we like.
Luke: The classic bands.
Mike: I've always thought that back in the day, I can't remember what bands did it, it was Alexisonfire and someone, did like an EP of each other's songs, like a split EP. That would be really fun with a band you like.
Luke: I thinks it Alexisonfire and Moneen and the song titles were mashed up. I think we'll do that.
Mike: That'll be fun.
9. How important would you say social networking sites are for newly formed band to get their music out there?
Luke: If you don't get involved with that, you're at a lost cause really. Even if you don't use it as your main pushing force it has to be there these days. It would be great to think that you could do it all organically and do it with flyering and handing demo cds out. People barely talk face to face anymore; you need them talking online, on the social media and it's such an incredible tool. When MySpace first developed and there were bands becoming famous on MySpace, rising up and up and up and then the same thing with Twitter and Facebook and it's all developing, but the bad thing is it's now heavily saturated so you get a recommended band, and you're like another one - you don't know whether to sift through something. It's so important to have those accounts and maintain them up to date and also I think it's important to stand out with them.
Mike: You've got to do something a bit different.
Luke: A little bit, in the early stages anyway. You're never going to suddenly get a hundred thousand people interested in what you're doing.
Mike: Back in the day it was completely impossible for you to be a band accessible to potentially millions of people and now it isn't impossible; it's so easy. There are bad sides of it where every single band is on Twitter now but it's never been easier to record a song, it's never been easier to put it on the internet and it's never been easier for people to hear it so you really have to use that to your advantage. You have to think of other ways to make yourself stand out, you can't just be a band on Twitter who are like download our song. It's like why should I, I have these other bands all telling me to do the same thing. It's the best and worst time to be in a band but it's the easiest as well.
10. Do you have any advice for budding young musicians who may be reading this interview?
Mike: Other than the last answer we just gave, which is a good piece of advice.
Luke: I think, it's so important, in bullet points I'd say, before you arrive on the scene to have a bunch of songs that you are really happy with and you can play really confidently and be like these are the best songs we've written. Keep writing, never shut off the flood gates of writing. Well it's quite hard to shut them off anyway but you always want to be trying to better yourself with your writing. A lot of people say, and it's cheesy, but if you stick at it long enough and you're doing the right things and you're going about it the right way, you'll get there. If your music is good enough, it will find its audience even if it takes forever and it's a very gradual climb; you're still climbing and if you really do love it and you know you do, then don't give up. The only way to guarantee failure is to give up.
Mike: Be very prepared not to make money.
Luke: Laughs. Yeah.Treat it as a hobby.
Mike: Not in any way of like it you know won't happen but just like you've to be prepared to give stuff away for free and play shows for free.
Interviewer: Like your first album.
Mike: We gave away our first album. That was after 2 years of trying to release it any other way but at the same time, when you look back on it, it's the best thing we could have possibly done and whenever you're lucky enough to support a bigger band, you can literally just say on stage you can get this song for free or you can get this album for free kind of thing and I think that you have to accept the fact that at the start, you really won't make any money. Even in the midpoint you won't really make any money but yeah.
Luke: Album sales, music sales are down as everyone talks about them that the music industry is struggling to find a way but music consumption is at an all time high as people want music and they want it instantly. So like Mike said, you have to be prepared to use that music as a tool initially that you can give people. That's the only way they're going to get in to your band. You might look cool in your poster and you might say the right things in interviews but unless you've got six songs, then it's not going to back it up. You want to be able to get those songs out there and not hide them away. They are your weapon.
Mike: We gave away our first album. That was after 2 years of trying to release it any other way but at the same time, when you look back on it, it's the best thing we could have possibly done and whenever you're lucky enough to support a bigger band, you can literally just say on stage you can get this song for free or you can get this album for free kind of thing and I think that you have to accept the fact that at the start, you really won't make any money. Even in the midpoint you won't really make any money but yeah.
Luke: Album sales, music sales are down as everyone talks about them that the music industry is struggling to find a way but music consumption is at an all time high as people want music and they want it instantly. So like Mike said, you have to be prepared to use that music as a tool initially that you can give people. That's the only way they're going to get in to your band. You might look cool in your poster and you might say the right things in interviews but unless you've got six songs, then it's not going to back it up. You want to be able to get those songs out there and not hide them away. They are your weapon.
Interviewer: Because I remember for your first album, you had written a lot of songs first before deciding to go on tour.
Luke: We kind of wrote the album, recorded the album and then we were like "Let's see if we can make it in the music industry with this album." And we sent it to people and they were like " Oh yeah, great, you're going to make it in the music industry."
Mike: "Let's see you live. Oh, you can't play live..."
Luke: We didn't know how to play a show so we had to do a bit of that. You can forget we had an album. Just play, play, play.
Mike: And then we decided to give it away for free. We were supporting all these people and were like you can go and find our music erm nowhere. So we decided you can go and find our music here. All you need to do is give an e-mail address and you can have the whole album for free. So yeah, it worked so well for us. I think it's just one of the best things for a small band to do because in this day and age you really can't expect an average punter to give the better part of ten pounds of their own money towards an album that they've heard maybe one song of or they've seen the band once. It's like have the whole thing for free, if you want you can buy it or if you want to, you can buy a ticket to come and see us play live again. Chances are we'll make more money like that rather than seeing us live anyway so if you really want to support a band and go see them live and buy t-shirts and stuff like that but that's our advice.
11. Finally, what can we look forward to from Canterbury in the coming months?
Luke: Well we're obviously playing these there shows which are celebrating the album release and we've got a few festivals coming up in summer. We're the main support for the Deaf Havana tour in November which is very exciting for us, great guys.
Mike: Then we're going to be doing a headline tour after that. It's a bit of a while away but at the end of the year, we're going to be doing our own tour and it's going to be sick.
Quick fire round
12. Who would survive the longest during an apocalypse?
Mike: Me. I would, I am sorry but I would. I've thought about this quite heavily; I work at a golf club and I have the keys to it and it's the best place to go in terms of a zombie apocalypse. I've got golf buggies, I've got golf clubs and loads of food at my disposal and the keys to this place which is in the middle of nowhere. I'd bring them all with me and maybe then it would be a case of who gets bored quicker.
Luke: I know kung-fu.
Mike: Luke went to one kung-fu lesson and thinks he knows kung-fu.
Luke: Yeah, that's right, they're going to win...
Mike: Yeah, he does and he's really good at it.
Luke: Yeah, I know the very basics. We're not going to be needing it in a zombie attack.
Mike: I'd treat my friends to hang out at the golf club.
Luke: That was quite a long answer for a quick fire round but there you go.
Mike: Me!
13. What’s the weirdest experience you’ve had with a fan?
Luke: With a van?
Interviewer: Fan. Weird fan. What's the weirdest thing that they've done to you?
Luke: Liam from We Are The Ocean put a poo on our windscreen. A human poo..
Mike: He's a fan of our band.
Luke: Did you say fan or van? I thought you said van!
Mike and interviewer: No, fan.
Luke: Ok, fan...(long pause)
Interviewer: Well, has there been anything awesome that they've done for you guys?
Mike and Luke: Really awesome stuff.
Mike: We've got given food and like incredibly elaborate cakes quite recently but once I think Luke was just given some batteries.
Luke: I've been given a battery.
Mike: Once.
Luke: It was quite early on as Canterbury but it still sticks to me as very odd. Here's a AA battery. Thank you. Straight out of her camera.But you know cakes are amazing, scrapbooks that people make for us; it's just incredible. I love getting like "fan-mail" because we don't get buckets of it but when you do, it's really quite touching. But yeah, great fans out there.
Mike: Another quick answer.
14. What was the first concert that you’ve been?
Mike: My first concert was Michael Jackson - History tour 1995 in Wembley Stadium.
Luke: I was Chris de Burgh at Loseley House, followed by Party in the Park 1995.
15. What’s your favourite word?
Luke: Onomatopoeia
Mike: My favourite word to type on a computer is average because it's really fun. Just try it.
Luke: My favourite french word is poubelle. Dunno why, it probably means dustbin if anyone wants to know. But yeah.
Mike: I don't know what my actual favourite word is.
Luke: I don't know what my actual favourite word is.
Mike: Steve wheel. They're my favourite two words at the moment.
Luke: We kind of wrote the album, recorded the album and then we were like "Let's see if we can make it in the music industry with this album." And we sent it to people and they were like " Oh yeah, great, you're going to make it in the music industry."
Mike: "Let's see you live. Oh, you can't play live..."
Luke: We didn't know how to play a show so we had to do a bit of that. You can forget we had an album. Just play, play, play.
Mike: And then we decided to give it away for free. We were supporting all these people and were like you can go and find our music erm nowhere. So we decided you can go and find our music here. All you need to do is give an e-mail address and you can have the whole album for free. So yeah, it worked so well for us. I think it's just one of the best things for a small band to do because in this day and age you really can't expect an average punter to give the better part of ten pounds of their own money towards an album that they've heard maybe one song of or they've seen the band once. It's like have the whole thing for free, if you want you can buy it or if you want to, you can buy a ticket to come and see us play live again. Chances are we'll make more money like that rather than seeing us live anyway so if you really want to support a band and go see them live and buy t-shirts and stuff like that but that's our advice.
11. Finally, what can we look forward to from Canterbury in the coming months?
Luke: Well we're obviously playing these there shows which are celebrating the album release and we've got a few festivals coming up in summer. We're the main support for the Deaf Havana tour in November which is very exciting for us, great guys.
Mike: Then we're going to be doing a headline tour after that. It's a bit of a while away but at the end of the year, we're going to be doing our own tour and it's going to be sick.
Quick fire round
12. Who would survive the longest during an apocalypse?
Mike: Me. I would, I am sorry but I would. I've thought about this quite heavily; I work at a golf club and I have the keys to it and it's the best place to go in terms of a zombie apocalypse. I've got golf buggies, I've got golf clubs and loads of food at my disposal and the keys to this place which is in the middle of nowhere. I'd bring them all with me and maybe then it would be a case of who gets bored quicker.
Luke: I know kung-fu.
Mike: Luke went to one kung-fu lesson and thinks he knows kung-fu.
Luke: Yeah, that's right, they're going to win...
Mike: Yeah, he does and he's really good at it.
Luke: Yeah, I know the very basics. We're not going to be needing it in a zombie attack.
Mike: I'd treat my friends to hang out at the golf club.
Luke: That was quite a long answer for a quick fire round but there you go.
Mike: Me!
13. What’s the weirdest experience you’ve had with a fan?
Luke: With a van?
Interviewer: Fan. Weird fan. What's the weirdest thing that they've done to you?
Luke: Liam from We Are The Ocean put a poo on our windscreen. A human poo..
Mike: He's a fan of our band.
Luke: Did you say fan or van? I thought you said van!
Mike and interviewer: No, fan.
Luke: Ok, fan...(long pause)
Interviewer: Well, has there been anything awesome that they've done for you guys?
Mike and Luke: Really awesome stuff.
Mike: We've got given food and like incredibly elaborate cakes quite recently but once I think Luke was just given some batteries.
Luke: I've been given a battery.
Mike: Once.
Luke: It was quite early on as Canterbury but it still sticks to me as very odd. Here's a AA battery. Thank you. Straight out of her camera.But you know cakes are amazing, scrapbooks that people make for us; it's just incredible. I love getting like "fan-mail" because we don't get buckets of it but when you do, it's really quite touching. But yeah, great fans out there.
Mike: Another quick answer.
14. What was the first concert that you’ve been?
Mike: My first concert was Michael Jackson - History tour 1995 in Wembley Stadium.
Luke: I was Chris de Burgh at Loseley House, followed by Party in the Park 1995.
15. What’s your favourite word?
Luke: Onomatopoeia
Mike: My favourite word to type on a computer is average because it's really fun. Just try it.
Luke: My favourite french word is poubelle. Dunno why, it probably means dustbin if anyone wants to know. But yeah.
Mike: I don't know what my actual favourite word is.
Luke: I don't know what my actual favourite word is.
Mike: Steve wheel. They're my favourite two words at the moment.
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