Our Interview with Slow Club: I'm usually just all "GOOFY GOOFY HAH HAH"

I love Slow Club.

They make the kind of music that conjures up old and buried memories, stirs up the shit in your guts and the smells, sights and sounds of your forgotten past become as vivid as Joel’s hyper color shirts. There is a reason we spend so much time covering these limey bastards, and that reason is they are fucking great.

Their album Paradise remains in heavy rotation, constantly digging into my core and implanting its seed via various thrusts and positions that are both painful and delightful. It is like Yoga without all the odd body hair and guys with uncircumcised budges’. I dare you to throw it on and not fall in love with the melodies and warmth that pours out of your speakers, nuzzles up next to you in your marital bed and gently reaches around giving you a fine how do you do?

Seriously, try it. It’s fantastic.

SYFFAL: Our site is read by no-good-nicks and lay-a-bouts who like to act like they know everything but really know nothing. Please provide them with the following information so they can seem impressive when they talk with potential partners for mating at the local watering hole.

- Who exactly are you?

Charles: Charles Watson

Rebecca: Rebecca Lucy Taylor

SYFFAL: Who does what in the band?

Charles: I player guitar and sing and Rebecca plays drums and sings.

Rebecca: …And we have two new chappies that play the drums and bass.

SYFFAL: Chappies? What the Fuck are chappies and do they know you called them that? Moving on, what is the best line you ever used to pick up a potential partner for mating at the local watering hole?

Charles: You’re a doctor? Me too!

Rebecca: I'm usually just all "GOOFY GOOFY HAH HAH" and some poor idiot falls for it.

SYFFAL: Paradise is amazingly beautiful and alarmingly epic. It makes parts of my soul shatter off at the most inopportune times. Was it your intention to leave me a broken man, and if not what were you hoping to convey with Paradise?

Rebecca: Definitely. Though I don't think we ever had a clear idea of what we wanted to convey ultimately. Everything that we wrote or every sound that we made happened very naturally and came out of us without any real calculation or special effort (like a fart) I certainly like music to bruise you and last and I'm glad we managed that and I'm not sorry you're a mess now.

Charles: I like that it makes you feel like that.

SYFFAL: What the hell is a Slow Club? Is it anything like a Yacht Club or maybe a Yacht Club for those lacking in mental facilities?

Charles: Slow Club is a club in the film Blue Velvet.

Rebecca: It's a pretty shitty band name to be honest.

SYFFAL: Now Now Rebes, it’s a good name, let’s not beat ourselves up. I met Joel, my partner in all things SYFFAL back in 2007. He was working as a cook at a sleazy little dinner outside of Scottsdale, AZ and selling kids low impact ecstasy on the side to make ends meet. We got to discussing music and I realized that despite his smell and bad skin he knew his music. The rest is history. How did you guys meet, and when did you know you were on to something with this music thing?

Rebecca: We were both at schools in Rotherham, and they were always doing things where we'd all join together for a day and do activities. Myself and Charles were both in the music geek department so we would be at the same activity. He then started 'going out' with a girl in my year at school and he and I became friends and would chat about Jeff Buckley on MSN messenger. Unfortunately his relationship didn't work but to soften the blow I invited him to play lead guitar in a band I was playing the drums in. THEN we started writing songs that I sang on too and we've fanny'd around ever since as a two-piece.

Charles: I guess when we started playing gigs it felt like we had something worth working at.

SYFFAL: Most of the two piece acts I know are either rap groups or ventriloquist, what would you call yourself if you were a rap group or a ventriloquism act?

Rebecca: We'd be called SEXY SLUTS 2012 for either of those.

SYFFAL: I am a little late to the Slow Club party. I am sorry I got a little too caught up in pre-gaming and next thing I knew I was passed out in the booth at a Denny's. Tell me what I missed.

Rebecca: At my party so far you have missed dancing in a living room with a smoke machine and chanting 'MUMMY!! MUMMY!! DADDY DADDY!!!' over and over.

SYFFAL: Sounds….sensual, is that wrong? I often imagine what I would say to my younger self if I was to somehow bend space and time and get to talk to that scrawny little bastard. If you could go back in time and give your younger self three pieces of advice about your career what would they be?

Rebecca:
1. Stop eating now, just stop, do the bare minimum to get by but if you are really skinny for the rest of your life EVERYTHING will be easier and opportunity will present itself a lot more.
2. If you want to make lots of money, pick a time in the past, emulate it with non-descript, generic lyrics and BE SKINNY and you shall get a C-D list celebrity indie husband, appear on the West End in 'Chicago' and you'll be fine.
3. But really, don't give a shit about anything, be friendly and do what you want to do young Rebecca, something will happen, and if it doesn't you know you're happy to watch the telly and sleep 18 hours out of the day any way.

Charles: Keep shaving. Buy all Neil Young's albums until '87. Learn Piano.

SYFFAL: Our site started out as a small group of friends sharing music and trying to make each other laugh. In this spirit tell us three acts other than yourself that we should be listening to, and your best joke.

Charles: Francois and The Atlas Mountains, H.Hawkline, Sweet Baboo.

Rebecca: Devon WIlliams, Casiokids, Psychologist. … And, what does cheese say to itself in the mirror – HALLOUMI OH GOD HAHAHA

SYFFAL: I don’t get it, must be a British thing. I was going to come and catch your show in Brooklyn, but communications got crossed and I hired a baby sitter for the wrong night. So instead my lady friend and I went out for a nice dinner and some drunks. If you had to skip your show what would you do instead?

Charles: Pizza

Rebecca: Have four people each hold an ankle or a wrist of mine, have them each wiggle my limbs around all evening until I fall asleep/die.

SYFFAL: That’s sounds delightful. Please promote anything you would like to promote here.

Charles: We are going to be recording an EP this winter, which will be out early next year and there’s going to be a US tour around Feb/March.

Rebecca: I’d like to promote my DJ skills. I'm amazing at providing a whole evening of music for people to grind up on each other to. Last time I DJ'd a night, 2 out of the 7 people on the dance floor went to the bog and DID it after dancing to my set. YES.