Life, according to Howler

If you want to read an interview where Howler answers questions about music, you may need to look elsewhere. Which won’t be difficult seeing as this band is going large for 2012. Instead, Howler decided that The Boar readers needed to welcome a few of their thoughts. I give you The Howler Lectures.

**What does America Give Up mean?**

Brent: It’s a suggestion, it could have been ‘Earth Give Up’, but we felt America needed the message most urgently.

France: Now that we’ve been here I wish it was ‘England Give Up’.

Ian: Dude if we had called it that we wouldn’t be here right now.

France: Come on! BEANS for breakfast? I don’t like it.

Brent: Next time you’re failing just think to yourself, uh give up and everything will be better and that’s the message that we’re trying to get across to Americans.

**How did you get started?**

Jordan: I had a band in Minneapolis, they had a band in Minneapolis I said let’s just combine our bands and have one big happy family band.

France: That’s not really how it really started.

Jordan: It’s the less boring version.

**So how long have you been together?**

Brent: 9 months.

Ian: I’ve only been in this band for 2 weeks.

**Why 2 weeks?**

Ian: Erm, no its been like 5 months.

**How old are you?**

France: 42.

The others: 24, 22, 19.

**Uni career?**

France: I dropped out of high school, you graduated high school, I just can’t wait to buy a car and write on it, my son dropped out of high school but still bought me this car.

**How’s this leg going?**

Jordan: I think forever.

Brent: It’s been two weeks. Our plane landed and then at 12.05 we emerged…

Ian: …from the sea…

**Is this your biggest tour?**

Ian: people wise yeah.

Jordan: We did U2 back in America.

Francis: We did not tour with U2. It was tapes and tapes.

Jordan: (a pause.) Essentially U2.

Brent: It was horrendous, we’d do like 10 hour drives at a time and still be in the same state, like Texas or something AND we had to take turns driving.

**How did you get involved with touring over here?**

Brent: The Vaccines love Howler.

**Is touring over here better?**

All: yes yes yes yes. Totally.

France: The fans are more into music.

Brent: It’s small here. There is no Disney world.

Ian: or alligators

The band: Marshlands,

Swamps,

Little Little lizards.

**How are you finding your reception?**

Ian: The Minneapolis music scene is so judgmental.

**Do you get that over here?**

Brent: We haven’t been booed yet.

Ian: We were in Glasgow and Jay (France’s real name) gets up on stage and says hello England…. We got booed then.

**Tour changed anything?**

France: Every show, I guess, after every tour I play more and more and more pissed off.

Brent: I get more comfortable on stage, I’m not going to have a drum seat, I’m just going to play drums from a sofa.

France: I’m going to be breathing fire.

**How would you describe your music?**

France: Buddy Holly being raped in the ass by The Misfits.

Ian: QUOTE THAT

**I don’t think I can print that….**

France: Buddy Holly cuddling all night with The Misfits.

Jordan: Buddy Holly going on rides at Disneyworld with The Misfits. Yeah all these work.

**Album coming out?**

Jordan: January 16th

Brent: Depends on where you live and what clock you’re looking at.

**How long did that take?**

Brent: It only took me about 2 days.

**Any cultural differences?**

Brent: Just the fact that it’s in a different language.

**Secret facts?**

Ian: My first show was a talent contest at high school and I got booed off the stage. Woo.

**Any current Influences?**

Brent. Becks.

**Wonderful.**

Brent: Oh musical influences? Beck.

France: I don’t drink, everyone finds it really weird over here but it’s actually pretty common in the states.

**Why not?**

France: I don’t drink because when I do I do way too awesome things.

**That’s the point.**

France: I figured if I brought that shit to England I’d end up in the dungeons. I want to climb up Big Ben and take one of the numbers.

**So what are you going to do between now and when you’re back again in a couple months?**

Jordan: We’re going to work our asses off… for 22 hours.

Brent: I’m going to ghost writer another album.

Jordan: I’m going to start a family it’s going to be amazing, I’m going to start a ton of families.

France: I’m going to start building a canon on our days off.

Brent: I’m going to learn to play drums.

**Any advice for the British?**

Ian: Stop eating the things you guys find on the ground. I think every single one of our interviews has gone in the culinary direction.

Jordan: You say marmite. We say Fuck you.

Brent: I’m sorry but I was expecting brown sugar.

Howler’s debut album ‘America Give up’ is out on the 16th January.