What type of music did you used
to make when you were in your original band together?
It was sort of Synthesizer mixed with Brit pop Human League
meets Blur or something like that. It was OK.
How did you think of the name Junior
Senior?
It was because we are really different in size and also because
we came from a band we really wanted to make sure people knew
we were a duo so we thought that was quite a good name to
point out that we were a duo and that we are so different.
We knew people were gonna point out are differences if we
didn't and we couldn't think of another term for little and
large that hadn't already been used and I look older but actually
he's 26 and I'm 27 so there is only 13 months between us.
Do you make most of your music with a
computer?
Yes, it's made in the typical for of doing it in our bedroom
with samplers and stuff but when we recorded the album we
put on guitars and bass and when we play live it's like a
full band with about 6 people on stage so it isn't like Basement
Jaxx where it's all studio work.
So you have a whole band on stage when
you play live?
Yeah sure, we have 2 female background singers a drummer a
bass player and I sing and Junior plays guitar and also sings.
Have you got any UK dates planned?
Yeah we played our first gig last Thursday and I think the
next one isn't until early march in London and then a few
dates around the rest of the UK but they haven't been confirmed
yet.
At your ideal after show part who would
you like to be there?
Ohhh so many people, I guess mainly musicians that I admire,
I'm a big fan of Dolly Parton and she is still alive so I
would love her to come. It's a really hard question, let me
see, I would really like all the Essex wife's to be there
because I think they are all so crap so I would like to laugh
at them because they would all be oohh we are back stage,
I watched some of the series when we was in the UK and I was
just in shock.
Who are your general influences?
I'd say it's so many different things, it's more to say its
music form the 60's 70's but we really like people who invented
new things people who are the leaders and innovators of new
styles. It's everything from Rock and Roll to pop to Hip Hop.
If you were going to collaborate with
another artist dead or alive who would you like it to be?
I'd actually say someone who isn't dead, I'm not too keen
on what he does now but it would be someone like Little Richard,
I think he is an amazing character he still has a great crazy
voice!
Is there an album in the pipeline?
Oh yeah it's actually coming out on the 10th of March.
What is the general sound on the album?
Is it similar to Move your Feet?
Not really, if you had not heard the single and just heard
the album I don't think Move your feet would be a stand out
track, I think a lot of people are surprised when they listen
to the album because they see move your feet as a dance track
which is good but the album is actually more of a rainbow
of all different kinds of things. The one thing you could
say about the album is it's very energetic it's very danceable
& it's on a good vibe but not jolly it puts a smile on
your face and I think people usually refer to it as really
good party music.
What do you think of the music scene
in Brittan, we have had a great resurgence of guitar bands?
I really like a lot of them, I think they are fresh I like
The Vines the best out of all these I think they write good
melodies and mix a lot of good stuff. We are probably inspired
by some of the same things but we just churn it out differently.
After you have had a couple of hit singles
your celebrity status grows quite quickly and people find
them selves having other celebrity partners, who would your
ideal celebrity partner be?
Well I'm gay so it would be a celebrity boyfriend, I ought
to be able to answer this one quickly but I can't think, I
don't really know the names of too many people I just see
them on TV or whatever! I know this is a big cliché
but I actually think George Clooney is really nice but I think
it is pretty boring to pick someone everyone likes.
On the contactmusic.com website
we have an area dedicated to unsigned musicians, what advise
would you give them?
I'd say they should just keep on, I think we really believed
that we really had something to offer that no one else had,
and I think if you have that belief you should keep on dreaming
and trying because we had to try for about 4 years before
we finally got a record contract but perhaps 10 years is a
little too long! But then again there is a Danish band who
was trying for 7 years and now they have sold like hundreds
of thousands of albums in Denmark they are so huge, not everything
comes straight away.
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