Questions and Answers with The Seducers
MEG: What inspired you to become a cover band?
George: Eh, cash…oh and money aswell.
Davy: It is the money but that’s a way to get it started.
George: The idea would be that eventually we’d be able to fund ourselves. Really the covers come first for us and then hopefully we’ll have enough of a following that people will actually buy our stuff.
MEG: What’s your favourite song to perform?
Davy: My favourite song to perform, I’d say would have to be Fantasy by The Blizzards. As soon as everyone hears it, the reaction we get from the crowd, we’ll give it 110% and once its finished people give a big cheer. It’s a good song to get people up and dancing.
Alan: I think one of the best ones is Holiday by Greenday.
Bogle: I love playing Fake Tales of San Fransisco.
Davy: It’s always good to play the classic rock ones as well, like Back in the USSR and Lenny Kravitz.
George: And Thin Lizzy.
Davy: The real rock songs.
Bogle: But its only a certain type of people appreciate it though.
Alan: Yeah, sometimes you’ll play a song and nobody will care.
MEG: What are your rehearsals generally like?
(Everybody erupts in laughter and Davy gives a very animated version of their rehearsals!)
George: A lot of fights but stuff does get done and it does get done very quick.
Davy: It’s good when we pick new songs.
Bogle: At least we’re honest with eachother.
George: We’d go into a practice session, we’re supposed to have learned two songs and we’d usually get through the two songs in two hours.
MEG: What’s your biggest challenge as a band?
George: Getting the gigs to be honest with you.
Alan: We’re mad to get gigs going.
Davy: All we need is to get in there once, not to be big headed or anything but once we go in to a place they want us back.
Bogle: We’ve done 8 gigs in two places in the past 3 months.
Davy: And we’ve packed the place out, people see posters or they check the bebo site and they see where we’re playing and they want to come see us again which is great.
Alan: We’re starting to get people who come to the gigs and the next day they’s leave us a comment on bebo.
MEG: If you had €1m, whats the first thing you’d do?
George: Guitars, I’d buy lots of guitars.
Alan: I’d put it into the band (laughs).
Bogle: Get a tour bus.
Davy: I’d go to Las Vegas and put it all on red (does impression of him losing it all).
MEG: Where would be your perfect venue to play a gig?
Bogle: Croker.
Davy: I think either Slane or Oxegen.
George: I gotta say Woodstock.
Alan: Butlins, center stage from 3-4.
MEG: What’s your favourite album/song of all time?
Alan: Abbey Road by The Beatles.
George: To take to a dessert island?
Alan: A mix CD (laughs).
George: I’ve loads of favourite albums but there are very few albums that’d you listen to all the way through.
Bogle: Rage Against the Machine self titled album or Blood Sugar Sex Magic.
Davy: I suppose it would have to be The Beatles White Album.
George: Yeah, I’d probably say The Beatles as well, but I’d go for something earlier something like Rubber Soul.
Davy: Or The Beach Boys Pet Sounds.
Alan: Girls Aloud Don’t Wake the Neighbours (laughs again).
MEG: What time is bed time?
Davy: It depends you know I work very hard (sarcasm dripping here!) so it’s about 10 or 10.30.
Alan: George gets to bed early so he can get up for Seoige and O’Shea.
Davy: It’s about 10.30. But on gig nights, its party-aaall night loong!
MEG: What’s your favourite chocolate bar?
Davy: Yorkie, the plain one, that can’t be yours Bogle its not for girls.
Alan: I like the cheap Lion bars out of Aldi – Roar.
MEG: And the Mars bars are called something else.
Alan: Murs (we all laugh).
George: The new white Kinder Bueno, I don’t know why, its actually not even that nice.
Davy: (Getting really into it) Aw, if we’re going for vintage, Dan bars, remember Dan bars.
The conversation went on to include Davy saying “God be with the days” and confessing that he rang the Choco Krispies hot line to vote for them to go back to their original name Coco Pops, Al trying to remember the name of the Space Krispies (Ricicles) and trying to figure out what product they were selling in America called dnL until the bottle fell on the ground and he figured out they were trying to rip the public off with up-side-down 7up, Bogle expressing his disgust over people putting the actual weetabix into the microwave instead of just heating the milk and George wondering if he made up Cola flavoured 7-up and some general back stabbing of Simon because he wasn’t there!
