Help me to Land by WeirdShapes

Look Up! Its Weird Shapes,a great band doing exactly what we like to see them doing-very well:-)).

So in short; having an epiphany moment while Jim Morrison spouts off about magic beans.

2. Favourite childhood memory?
Me and my brother Mike (synth player in Weird Shapes) used to spend a lot of time looking at our dads Roxy Music album covers when we were really young. I’m not sure at 9 and 8 years old we were really qualified to understand what it was we were looking at, it just felt rude. It took me another 5 years until I ever listened to their music as I was convinced it was going to sound like an hour of sex noise.

3. Hero?
David Bowie in Labyrinth. Its the tight pants.

4. Villain?
Angela Merkel. Just let us spend our way into oblivion for Gods sake.

5. What/who makes you laugh?
I don’t know whether its because they’re from Teesside but Vic & Bob. I spend an inappropriate amount of time watching their sketches on Youtube. D.I Fowler in Catterick is possibly my favourite character. It’s the cheeks, the accent, the Beatles wig, the glasses. There’s something about staring into his face from the other side of my laptop that makes the world that little bit more sane. (Also anything  Chris Morris is involved in).

6. Describe what you do?
Weird Shapes are 5 musicians with a wide range of influences. We’re lucky enough to own a studio which we work in laboriously at every opportunity. I think our only unifying interest in music is Radiohead which is why its kind of cool to work with Graeme (who’s engineered a lot of their albums). I keep reading articles about how Guitar music is dead, I strongly disagree with this sentiment. We and plenty of others strive to do interesting things in this genre.

A Little bit topical, but it would have to be Wayne Roonies. His hair looks like it has its own little personality, like the follicle equivalent of Thing from the Adams Family. I’d refer to Roonies bonnet as ‘That’ and our day would involve all sorts of capers:There would be an interesting moment in the mornig, when, while I’m in the bank talking to the clerk, ‘That’ will crawl behind the counter and come back with a wad of 20 pound notes. “The little tinker!” There would be an hilarious situation mid afternoon when ‘That’ attaches him self to my next door neighbours Whippet and pretends to be Gail Platt. Then there would be an awkward encounter late on in the night, when, after a few cans of kestrel super strength, ‘That’ would make an inappropriate lunge toward my privates which I would kindly rebuff.

9. What artist inspires you?
Bjork. Always pushing boundaries, mad as a box of Ban Ki-moons and a good singer to boot.

10. What does Fresh On The Net mean to you?
It’s massively important to us and any other emerging band in the UK. I’ve met Tom a few times and he’s genuinely passionate about new music and knows a hell of a lot about the various different regional scenes. We’ve also just bagged a slot at T in the Park on the BBC Introducing Stage as a result of Fresh On The Net so we owe you big!