Maccabees: "Hand Me The Superglue, I've Had An Idea..."
They say you never forget your first love...but more often than not, the reasons why you never forget them are less to do with the glorious rush of wonderfulness which occured when the two of you first realised you had something in common, and more to do with the fact that you had trodden in dog poo just before your first kiss. Or you blushed so horrendously when you were asked out that your best mate called you a tomato-beet, and you ran off mortified before you could say yes. Or your one big crush found out you liked them, and now crosses the street to avoid having to look at you.
It's a minefield, is what I'm saying. And not everyone comes out of it with all their limbs still attached.
Now, indie's very own soppy heartbreak kings - the Maccabees - know all about this kind of thing, having written a song called 'First Love', and another called 'Toothpaste Kisses', so we thought it would be sweet to go and ask them for their versions of the sort of stories mentioned above.
Little did we know what insane forces were about to unleash...
What I Expected: A few slightly tear-stained anecdotes about the innocent beauty of young love, plus the endless cringing at the stupid things we all do when we're finding our feet in romantic matters...
What I Did Not Expect: The possibility that Orlando may have deliberately gate-crashed a swimming pool party..."she won't mind me saying that she was quite a big girl at the time"...'Robots & Rolos'...the evils of Facebook dating..."I'm not a big fan of chlorine"...
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Your ChartBlog interviewer was: Emily Wood
Here's the video for the RAVISHING 'Toothpaste Kisses', which is out now...
Comments
I don't like it.
Super glue really does work in mending cuts and slices.
I have to admit, I didn't like the crap joke but the interview was pretty cool.
Emily sounds fit!
i remember Lone Star. What was the Horse's gun called? That's gonna bug me all day!
[Sarah Jane - Fraser]
i love the maccabees!