Die Herren der Sons sind im Moment fleißig auf Tour unterwegs. Dabei kamen sie auch im damenundherren in Düsseldorf vorbei, in dem sie ordentlich gute Laune verbreitet haben unter den Anwesenden. Im Anschluss daran haben wir es uns im Backstage gemütlich gemacht.Paul Herron und seine Kumpanen haben sich der Kabelblume gestellt und fleißig Fragen beantwortet.

What do you see on the right hand side?

Lee: A bicycle and a fridge.
Stewart: I see dead people.
Paul: I see a little silhouette of a man.

What was your most embarrassing moment in your youth?

Paul: I shit myself when I was ten.
Stewart: I have an embarrassing moment earlier in my “youth”. Right out there. Just after we set up, when I went to sit on a stool at the bar and fell over. Luckily it was only Paul to see it but I managed to to get the stool get wrapped right around me and then I’ve fallen back on my bump.
Paul: I was very lucky that I was there to see it. It was funny, man. You should have seen it!
Stewart: And I dropped my pretzel!
Roger: I worked as a trainer and I was teaching and a lot in my classroom were staring at my lower region…
Lee: Your balls!
Roger: Yeah, I couldn’t really work out why. I thought maybe just something. So I carried on teaching and the rest of it and when we had a break, actually my flies were open. And I had forgotten, I didn’t wear any pants. I left them at home. So I had forgotten to wear any pants and that’s why they were staring at me. (Dies sollte sich durch den ganzen Abend ziehen!)

Besides music, have you got a college degree or any other education?

Roger: Yes ah, I have a degree in computing.
Paul: I’ve got a degree in theater studies.
Stewart: I’ve got a degree in tourism.
Roger: Have you really?
Stewart. Yes.
Roger: Hahahhh, we didn’t know that. He kept that quite.
Lee: Yeah the story of the band is back in Derby we all went to College, the same College. That’s how Paul and I made friends and started playing together. And for years and years playing together, didn’t we? And then put together a band to four. So we all did degrees. I did Business degree. But I’ll never ever going to do anything with business. I hated the course. It was…you know the feeling where you hang on to a balloon but you can’t let go cos you’ve gone too far. That was my degree. It was horrible.
Roger: I actually trained very hard to join the magic circle and doing magic tricks. I really did and tried really hard. But they wouldn’t let me in cos when I get drunk I tell everybody how all the tricks are done.

Are you afraid of an instrument?

Lee: Saxophon. It’s more the fiddle. I’m afraid of someone going whooooooooooooo on the saxophon. If it’s used probably, fine.
Roger: I’m pretty scared of a trombone. Cos the whole…you have to reach around and that’s just, I find it kind scary…
Paul: I’m not scared of any instrument.
Roger: Not even a black mamba?
Paul: No, well a theremin maybe (eine besondere Art von Geige). They can be scary.
Roger: In fact we’re afraid of lots of instruments.
Lee: Guitars, Piano …
Roger: I’m muchly afraid of the keyboard when I have to play it in real life. Cos my memory is gone, so I can’t remember the amount of chords. Playing drums is easy, you don’t need any notes.
Paul: I get picked on quite a lot because I put too many chords in my songs.
Roger: He does. We call him Paul “Too many chords” Herron.
Paul: I’d say more instruments are afraid of us. Instruments are torture. And very frightening. You know, in the second Rambo they put him up on like this bed mattress where the electricity’s going through it.
Roger: That’s not an instrument.
Paul: No it’s not an instrument. It’s torture.

Which dance moves have you got? Or do you dance at all?

Roger: Dance moves.. ohhhh Lee!!! He does.
Stewart: Do us the robot.
Lee: I did it last night in the jam session. Normally when they want them to go away they turn the lights on. But I couldn’t leave (zeigt erstklassige Roboter-Dancemoves)
Paul: Ridiculous!
Roger: (zu Lee) Do you spin?
Lee: No!
Roger: Well you know, I dance like I’m ten years old. Just kinds side stepping. Hell yeah, I’m shy. (großes Gelächter)

Which song makes you cry?

Roger: Actually, “Nothing compares to you” by Sinead O’Connor. I don’t even like it but I find it really upsetting. That and anything by Cast. That makes me cry. But I love Sinead O’Connor’s voice.
Stewart: “Don’t worry” by the Beach Boys makes me cry. Cos it’s good. And anything by Kasabian makes me weep from every pore in my body.
Paul: There’s a song called “So bad” by Paul McCartney from the 80s. It’s amazing.
Roger: Is that different to Paul McCartney from the 90s?
Paul: Yeah. And songs that make me cry in a horrible way is anything by the Killers. I like one of their songs. And I didn’t mind the first album, but now they’re just horrible, aren’t they?
Kabelblume: In Germany we call it “Schlager”. It’s like folk music in Germany and only the old people listen to it.
Roger: Yeah Yeah that sounds right. Terrible. Rubbish.
Paul: It’s scheiße!
Roger: Lee, what song makes you cry?
Lee: I don’t know. I don’t know. When there’s something going on. Anything.

What do you always have with you?

Lee: Passport. At the moment.
Stewart: I always carry a business card with me in case I meet anybody new who I might want to pass my details on to. (zeigt Visitenkarte, wo einfach “Stewart” drauf steht)
Roger: I always have a drum key. Cos if you’re kinda using a bit chewing gum you can vent a radiator with it. It’s multi-useful too.
Paul: I always have my coat cos I need it. And will get it right now.

Decide: tape, cd, vinyl, mp3?

Alle: Vinyl. Everytime.
Roger: It has all of the frequences. Maybe the ones you don’t want but it has all of them.
Stewart: And it smells beautiful. You don’t need to listen to a record. You just need to hold it in your hands and smell it.
Lee: For me, of course it’s vinyl. But to actually listen to a record I like to pick it up. CDs aswell, you know. I like to put it on. And then sitting down and I’ve got an album. And on mp3s I usually don’t get to the end, sometimes. It’s too easy to skip them. You put a cd on your stereo or you got a record on your record player, you sit back and you listen to it.
Roger: Although I have a very small flat. So recently, mp3s are quite good. Cos they don’t take up any room. But people don’t get excited when they look at your mp3 collection, but they get excited when they look at your vinyl collection. That excites people. It’s very good for chatting up girls.
Lee: 10 years ago you usually go to someone house and look through their CDs, their records.
Roger: And tapes are brilliant. Because, I don’t know if it’s the same all over the world, but in England to chat up a girl you make her a tape of all your favourite songs. And you can’t do that anymore. But now they have these mp3 sticks, that are shaped like a cassette. So you put mp3 on it and give it to your new girlfriend which I think is beautiful.

What do you like to travel with: canoe, tandem or scooter?

Stewart und Roger: Canoe. All the time.
Roger: I love canoeing. It’s very good. But the problem is when you lift your arm up and all the water drips down your arm to your elbows. It’s very uncomfortable. It’s really annoying. So what I find is good for that, cos it’s kinda tickling and annoying, is to do an Eskimo roll in the canoe and then your covered in water and you don’t even feel it when water drips down your elbow.
Paul: You can’t do that.
Roger: I certainly can. I’m a ninja.
Paul: I take the scooter. It’s funny. I’ve never been on any of them. So I prefer this one. I almost bought one once. I was that close.
Stewart: I’ve never been on a motorbike or a scooter.
Roger: I love motorbikes. Girls love motorbikes. So I like motorbikes. And a scooter is cool.
Lee: I like bicycles.
Roger: He’s an expert on bicycles.
Kabelblume: Then you should choose the tandem.
Lee: Well, yeah. Are you going to pedal with me?
Kabelblume: I’ll think about it…

Do you own a pink piece of clothing?

Roger: I have a pink Japanese hat that is pink. I found it in my house. We had a party and somebody left it there. So I’m an owner of a pink piece.
Lee: Ah I own a pink shirt but it wasn’t mine. It was my uncle’s. I’ve worn it twice. So but I wouldn’t go out and buy a pink piece of clothing.
Kabelblume: A lot of people are too embarrassed to say that they have a pink piece.
Roger: I like our pink band shirts. I think they’re very underrated. But saying that you’re right. I wouldn’t go in a shop and buy a pink piece of clothing.

What would be your perfect pet?

Roger und Stewart: Cats. Cats are the best. Dogs are horrible.
Paul: My one would be a bearded collie. Cos this was the dog I ever had and she was amazing. I like her to be here. But she could come back from the grave. That would be beautiful.
Roger: I’d like to cross a chiwuahwuah with big one or like that. We’re trying just to get it so that they mixed like, the head of one of them and the body of the other. And then get another one…
Paul: What you wanna call him?
Stewart: Rex.
Roger: Dave and Bob.

Tea or coffee?

Lee: I hate coffee.
Paul: Coffee
Stewart: Coffee.
Roger: Basically…. (Wird unterbrochen)
Lee: This is a yes or no question. How basically?????
Roger: okay. I drink coffee as a need but I much prefer to drink a cup of tea. But a tea is the best drink ever.
Stewart: It’s the best answer I ever heard.

What are you going to think after this interview?

Paul: Bed. And oranges.
Lee: I’m going to think about Roger’s willy out in the front of the class.
Roger: It wasn’t out! It was just like they’re obviously trying to see if it was gonna come out.
Paul: And I also think about rude stuff.
Roger: I’m going to think about my playstation 3 cos I miss it.
Paul: I’m going to think about Roger on his playstation 3 next to the oranges.
Stewart: I’m trying not to think about anything.
Roger: Ohh, he’s gonna meditate.

Where are you staying, in a hostel?

Paul: Oh yeah! Check this out! In my room you go in and the light fitting is a model of the death star!
Roger: And these guy’s rooms have, what’s the painting?
Stewart: Of Jimi Hendrix’s “Electric Lady” on the wall with lots of naked ladies.
Roger: The room that I’ve got has a lot of decapitated horror heads hanging from the ceiling directly above my bed. But it has a balcony, so I chose it first.
Paul: Yeah, it’s like a hostel. You know Big Brother, It’s like the Big Brother people when they first walk into the house and they go “uhhh” and they look in all the rooms and stuff, it was exactly like that. And when we realized that, we thought “oh shit – where are the cameras?” I hope there weren’t any.

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