1) You've released several EPs over the last few months, are you intending to go into a studio and record a full album soon?
We actually put out a full-length CD in time for our Bloodstock performance. It’s called “Bloodline” and is a compilation of some tracks from our first 2 EP’s as well as other unreleased material. It’s intended to serve as a document of how the band has developed over the past couple of years. We’re going to start recording our first “proper” album later this year though, so we’ll be picking and choosing the best of our songs to go on that.
2) Do you ever get worried you'll be thrown into a category of music with the likes of Nightwish for having a female singer?
The fact that female-fronted rock bands are so successful right now means that comparisons of this kind are inevitable. We certainly don’t mind being spoken about in the same breath as bands as fantastic as Lacuna Coil and Nightwish, but we’d rather that people listened to us first and then made their own minds up, rather than saying that we must be like Nightwish simply because we’ve got a female singer!
3) How was playing Bloodstock for you? Do you prefer festivals or regular shows?
The whole Bloodstock experience was amazing! From the moment we got there, we had a blast. The people running the weekend were all top-class and a big thanks must go to Vince for booking us in the first place! The crowds were brilliant and all of the bands were the best that metal has to offer in 2004. What more could a festival-goer want? While the band is equally happy playing festivals or regular gigs, I think that there is just a certain something about festivals that makes them a bit more special. Perhaps it’s the atmosphere and the excitement of it being a one-off event.
4) You all seem to have a huge varying list of influences, would you say this makes song writing easier because you're taking influences from all over the place, or harder because pinpointing your unique sound amidst everything else is harder?
It’s a bit of both really! It’s easier because we know that we’re never going to get stale and we’ll always come up with new and interesting ideas because of our varied influences. Also, whatever we write always ends up sounding like Liquid Sky anyway! However, it can also be a bit frustrating at times if everybody has a different idea for how a single song should sound! That usually requires a bit of streamlining, but it almost always works out fine as well.
5) Which bands would you really like to tour with in the future?
Where do we start?! Who WOULDN’T we like to tour with?! If you check out our influences, you’ll get a pretty good idea really. Lacuna Coil, Dream Theater, Paradise Lost, Nightwish, Soilwork, Iron Maiden, Metallica - all the big names! We’d really like to tour with some of the bands that we met at Bloodstock as well and hopefully we will be doing that later in the year.
6) Do you make a special effort to meet and greet the fans after your live performances? What do you think of your fans?
We always stick around to chat with our fans after our shows - it’s cool to meet them. They’re the reason that we’ve got anywhere at all, so we make sure never to forget that. Our fans are our lifeblood.
7) When writing new material, does anyone really take control and write a song and then present it to the rest of the band or is song writing very much a group activity for you?
As with our influences, it’s a bit of both really. Sometimes somebody will bring a virtually finished idea into rehearsal and basically we’ll just polish it a bit. Other times, song ideas will just come together while we’re jamming. Somebody will bring in a good riff, somebody else sticks on a chorus, we play it over and over, changing and altering bits and we usually come up with something good at the end of the process! It tends to be a pretty organic process really. We’ve tried sitting down and trying to write specific types of songs at specific times before, but it never really worked, so we just go with what we know works!
8) Where are you hoping to be this time next year?
Headlining a revamped Monsters of Rock festival at Castle Donington! Or at least playing there, but if that doesn’t happen, we hope to have our first album out and be touring furiously to support it. We’d love to play at Bloodstock again as well. And hopefully, we’ll get interviewed again by the lovely Room Thirteen people as well!