Say your name and the instrument you play.Ben: I’m Ben, and I play the kazoo. [Laughs] No i play the guitar.
Nathan: I’m Nathan and I play the bass.
Gilly: Yeah I’m Gilly and what are those things called?
Nathan: Glockenspiel?
Gilly: No the aborigine things.
Ben: Oh a Didgeridoo?
Gilly: [Laughs] Yeah a Didgeridoo, No I play the drums. We have Benji but he is fencing.
Nathan: He is our vocalist.
Nathan: I’m Nathan and I play the bass.
Gilly: Yeah I’m Gilly and what are those things called?
Nathan: Glockenspiel?
Gilly: No the aborigine things.
Ben: Oh a Didgeridoo?
Gilly: [Laughs] Yeah a Didgeridoo, No I play the drums. We have Benji but he is fencing.
Nathan: He is our vocalist.
Who would you say has musically inspired your band?Gilly: You. [Laughs]
Nathan: It’s quite like a few different things like, because we’re all interested in different genres. I listen to like Grungy kind of rock metal.
Ben: Belgian hardcore trance. Also Alice in chains is a big influence.
Gilly: Yeah we’ve got a girl called Alice locked up in the garage she just sits there and plays the piano [Laughs].
Nathan: Yeah she basically writes all of our songs.
Ben: Nirvana are maybe a more well known similar genre, Gilly is inspired by the blackhand.
How did you all decide to get together and form a band?
Ben: I was bullied into it.
Nathan: Yeah peer pressure, well it started with me and Ben and we used to sit in a shed and write music, then we decided to get a drummer in and make it serious.
Ben: Yeah this shed was so small when we used to go there like February- March times, We would all be covered in blankets and we could not move. We had to like tell each other were we was going to.
Gilly: It was quite an awesome shed.
Nathan: Yeah, because they have knocked the old shed down.
Ben: Yeah it has like a fridge and stuff in it now its more like a summer house [Laughs]
Nathan: Yeah, it’s come along way since we where there.
Gilly: So have we! [Laughs]
Nathan: So yeah, we got Gilly in like a few months later because we wanted to get some sort off rock music done.
How did you all decide on the name the blackhand?Ben: We just thought of it on a train one day, Because i was reading the paper and i seen something about the Black hand because it was a terrorist group in World War 1, It seemed like a cool name so that’s what we went with.Nathan: It’s quite like a few different things like, because we’re all interested in different genres. I listen to like Grungy kind of rock metal.
Ben: Belgian hardcore trance. Also Alice in chains is a big influence.
Gilly: Yeah we’ve got a girl called Alice locked up in the garage she just sits there and plays the piano [Laughs].
Nathan: Yeah she basically writes all of our songs.
Ben: Nirvana are maybe a more well known similar genre, Gilly is inspired by the blackhand.
How did you all decide to get together and form a band?
Ben: I was bullied into it.
Nathan: Yeah peer pressure, well it started with me and Ben and we used to sit in a shed and write music, then we decided to get a drummer in and make it serious.
Ben: Yeah this shed was so small when we used to go there like February- March times, We would all be covered in blankets and we could not move. We had to like tell each other were we was going to.
Gilly: It was quite an awesome shed.
Nathan: Yeah, because they have knocked the old shed down.
Ben: Yeah it has like a fridge and stuff in it now its more like a summer house [Laughs]
Nathan: Yeah, it’s come along way since we where there.
Gilly: So have we! [Laughs]
Nathan: So yeah, we got Gilly in like a few months later because we wanted to get some sort off rock music done.
Gilly: Yeah, We went though things like Hitler’s erection but we thought that, that wouldn’t go down that well at Barmitzfers.
What would be your dream gig?Gilly: Download.
Ben: Wembley stadium, Supporting Metallica.
Gilly: No. Download.
Ben: No, Wembley stadium headlining our own gig actually.
Nathan: That would be the best gig ever.
Gilly: As long as Metallica are not involved.
Ben: I am being serious i would like to play in a coffee shop acoustic.
Nathan: We got offered that at Matthew Street but it never came through.
What is the theme of your new music video?
Gilly: The new one? Well were toying with ideas.
Nathan: The one were doing soon?
Gilly: Yeah
Ben: All we know is that its going to be out in January, at the moment were toying with ideas.
Gilly: And were taking a lot of backstage footage, or whatever to kind of throw in the middle.
We have so far got a video of Ben breaking a boxing machine in the middle of Sheffield.
Ben: I broke it..
What was the theme of your last music video?
Gilly: Just a house party.
Ben: Just a good time house party, Yeah on Warren drive it was in the kitchen.
Gilly: Yepp.
How old were you when you decided you wanted to be in a band?
Ben: I was like 12; I was in a band in year 5. Yeah I was in and out of bands in year 5 so 12 for me, 11-12.
Nathan: I started with bands when I was about 12-13 and, it was kind of one of those things were we all get together, and were like oh, were a band now... Evan though no one could play an instrument.
Ben: You could play Bass
Nathan: Yeah I played guitar for a bit, then I went to bass. I was a drummer for a bit, but i couldn’t really play the drums.
If you could choose any song at the moment to cover, what would you choose?
Ben: ‘Rooster’ by Alice and chains, that’s what we want to cover.
Gilly: I’d agree with that ‘Rooster’ by Alice and chains, I’ve never heard it but I’ll go with it.
Nathan: We are debating to do ‘Only girl in the world’ by Rhianna.
Gilly: That’s a really catchy song.
Nathan: I would personally like to do Lady Gaga.
Ben: What’s that other Rhianna song?
Nathan: We tried ‘Disturbia’ by Rhianna
Ben: Or ‘Bad romance’.
Gilly: For the launch we should do a collection of shit covers.
Nathan: I really like that KT Tunstall song as well the one i wanted to do myself was the one that goes ‘Woo hoo’
Gilly: [Laughs]. All KT Tunstall songs do that!
Nathan: I cant really explain it kind of just goes ‘ dun di dun di dun di dun, woo hoo’
Ben: I don’t know all KT Tunstall songs.
Gilly: All I know is KT Tunstall’s first song that was on T.V.
Ben: Is it map of the world? ‘Oh her face is a map of the world is a map of the world’.
Nathan: No I’m pretty sure its a older one.
Does your group suffer from any bad habits?Gilly: Time [Laughs]
Nathan: We cant keep up to schedules
Gilly: Time keeping, We are all awful!
Ben: Why did everyone look at me then on time? I’m always on time.
Gilly: Its normally one of you two. [Points at Ben and Nathan]
Ben: Yeah it’s normally me.
Gilly: I don’t have to travel far; I just have to go upstairs. But we very, very nearly missed out train to Sheffield on the weekend.
Ben: Yeah we had to run through Lime Street with all the gear, Its was quite interesting.
Gilly: We had the slowest taxi driver ever.
Nathan: Oh yeah, Gilly can’t play patterns.
Gilly: Yeah I usually mess up one bit, just one bit of a song literally all it is, is counting.
How would you see yourselves in 10 years?
Ben: Making a good living from this.
Nathan: Sat on this couch right here.
Ben: On this couch.
Gilly: Actually no. We are getting new couches from Christmas so probley not this couch but a couch.
