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Genuine artists are hard to come by these days. Sure you have your new your Vacines, your Skrillex's and you Foster the Peoples but what today's music scene is currently lacking is a hard working artist who has bulit themselves up from scratch. Not an artist that had only been around for under a year or has a really convincing upsetting background, but someone with a good work ethic and a desire for success. Someone who had a vision and with the right people and alot of hard work made it a reality.Not many artists these days can honestly say they have acheived this. Most rely on lucky breaks or help from freinds who are "in the bussiness" but one band can honestly say that they saw what they wanted and made it what they live see and breath today.
This artist is No More Adventures.Its a typical January day with a wind sharper than a razor blade and the NMA boys have just walked into the premisis with a air of mischeife areound them. As the assumed front man of the group stummbles in he looks at me and shouts "ARE YOU THE BAKED BEAN WE ARE WITH?". At this point i realise this is not the frontman but the drummer Jack Mugglestone. After him walks Tom "Bigak" Ak, who takes the back seat in proceedings, laughing at the bumbleing actions of his bandmate. Lastly a sheepish figure stands at the door obseriving his flock like a shepheard. In the door frame stands Jack Olund. The vision.The messege of the band. He looks aprovingly at his bandmates and says "You need to calm down!". But down to bussiness.
They are an odd bunch are NMA but you can't put them down for what they have achieved. 1 record deal,1 best-selling album and a single currently number one in the NME chart. Not bad for 3 lads from a small town called Croft in the East Midlands.Just finishing up a headling tour of the UK and putting final touches on a brand new ep these are deffinetly busy boys but they have kindly taken time to sit down and ansewr a few questions that everyone has been asking.
ILL:So guys just finishing up a UK tour, how does that feel?
Jack:Tiring,but it has been a blast. I mean the first few dates were a bit shakey but thats just adapting to a larger stage really.
Muggy:I don't need to adapt, I'm like a geeko i can adapt to any enviroment.
Ak: Shut up
ILL: How have your hardcore fans reacted to your sudden exposure?
Muggy:A girl came up to me and said can you sign my basin and she has a full on wash basin with my face on it. That's my answer.
Jack:Yeah, i guess some fans arnt happy about it. I think they enjoy the smaller scale shows and so do i really. I mean don't get me wrong i love the sucsess but small shows are so much more intense and you can conect with the fans.
Ak: Reynold wasn't too impressed.
Jack: Oh Yeah, we have this one hardcore fan called Reynold he has been with us since the beginning and the day we signed our record deal we received a envelope full of unspecified liquid.We got rid of that pretty fast. He has come around now but at the time....
ILL:Reynold? I think he maywell be the charecter we have been seeing at NMA shows. No shirt.Lots of fist pumping?
Ak:Yeah, He is too hardcore he needs to calm down. I once caught him going through my bag taking my toiletries.
Jack: Nah he is harmless. When he is sober anyway. He has been with us back since we were called Tetris Effect, i remember him telling my that one day Familiar Face would be huge. I guess i should listen to him more maybe we will be playing wembely soon.
Muggy: When he is drunk ha ive seen apes that are more sophisticated. No word of a lie i saw him once take on a whole wall of death on his own. He is a brute force.
ILL: Jack,can you give us an insight into how you take a song from an idea in your head to the final product that we all hear?
Jack: Well, usally the enitial idea will be really stupid. I will be like driving and i will have to stop and record the idea on my phone.It will be something really basic like a drum beat or a guitar riff but as soon as i can i get it over to Ak. From there on it is really me and ak spitballing ideas around my idea until we have molded it into something playable.
Ak: Then at practice we have a chance to play it as a band and really get a feel for the song. This is where the real magic happens.
Muggy: I just kinda turn up and do as you say.
This artist is No More Adventures.Its a typical January day with a wind sharper than a razor blade and the NMA boys have just walked into the premisis with a air of mischeife areound them. As the assumed front man of the group stummbles in he looks at me and shouts "ARE YOU THE BAKED BEAN WE ARE WITH?". At this point i realise this is not the frontman but the drummer Jack Mugglestone. After him walks Tom "Bigak" Ak, who takes the back seat in proceedings, laughing at the bumbleing actions of his bandmate. Lastly a sheepish figure stands at the door obseriving his flock like a shepheard. In the door frame stands Jack Olund. The vision.The messege of the band. He looks aprovingly at his bandmates and says "You need to calm down!". But down to bussiness.
They are an odd bunch are NMA but you can't put them down for what they have achieved. 1 record deal,1 best-selling album and a single currently number one in the NME chart. Not bad for 3 lads from a small town called Croft in the East Midlands.Just finishing up a headling tour of the UK and putting final touches on a brand new ep these are deffinetly busy boys but they have kindly taken time to sit down and ansewr a few questions that everyone has been asking.
ILL:So guys just finishing up a UK tour, how does that feel?
Jack:Tiring,but it has been a blast. I mean the first few dates were a bit shakey but thats just adapting to a larger stage really.
Muggy:I don't need to adapt, I'm like a geeko i can adapt to any enviroment.
Ak: Shut up
ILL: How have your hardcore fans reacted to your sudden exposure?
Muggy:A girl came up to me and said can you sign my basin and she has a full on wash basin with my face on it. That's my answer.
Jack:Yeah, i guess some fans arnt happy about it. I think they enjoy the smaller scale shows and so do i really. I mean don't get me wrong i love the sucsess but small shows are so much more intense and you can conect with the fans.
Ak: Reynold wasn't too impressed.
Jack: Oh Yeah, we have this one hardcore fan called Reynold he has been with us since the beginning and the day we signed our record deal we received a envelope full of unspecified liquid.We got rid of that pretty fast. He has come around now but at the time....
ILL:Reynold? I think he maywell be the charecter we have been seeing at NMA shows. No shirt.Lots of fist pumping?
Ak:Yeah, He is too hardcore he needs to calm down. I once caught him going through my bag taking my toiletries.
Jack: Nah he is harmless. When he is sober anyway. He has been with us back since we were called Tetris Effect, i remember him telling my that one day Familiar Face would be huge. I guess i should listen to him more maybe we will be playing wembely soon.
Muggy: When he is drunk ha ive seen apes that are more sophisticated. No word of a lie i saw him once take on a whole wall of death on his own. He is a brute force.
ILL: Jack,can you give us an insight into how you take a song from an idea in your head to the final product that we all hear?
Jack: Well, usally the enitial idea will be really stupid. I will be like driving and i will have to stop and record the idea on my phone.It will be something really basic like a drum beat or a guitar riff but as soon as i can i get it over to Ak. From there on it is really me and ak spitballing ideas around my idea until we have molded it into something playable.
Ak: Then at practice we have a chance to play it as a band and really get a feel for the song. This is where the real magic happens.
Muggy: I just kinda turn up and do as you say.
Test shots
This is the front man and a possible front cover shot.
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