Youthmovies come from that new Oxford set of bands that use weird time signatures and play up past the 12th fret. Ten years ago they probably would have been called math rock, but since that feels like a dig in this day and age let's just call them good listening. If you took all the affected bad attitude out of Shellac, all the "hip dad" fanship out of Radiohead, and all the embarassing terribleness out of Mark Ronson, what you'd have left is a pretty good facsimile of their sound (as well as a trashcan full of abominations). We went to their gig in Dalston to ask them a list of pre-written questions. Oh, and Yannis from Foals was there too. Small country, etc. etc.Vice: How do you pay the rent?
Al (guitarist): We all work shitty jobs to pay the rent and I don't think that's gonna change anytime soon. We've been bin men, postmen, waiters, barmen, done any kind of office temping, data entry, christmas-hamper packing, basically every menial job you can think of. Those are the only jobs you can hold down when you're in a band.
Andrew (lead singer): Our drummer worked doing homosexual sex chat for like seven months.Did you ever get lost as a child?
Andrew: No. I had a fucking fantastic sense of direction.
Al: Yeah, but what about when you were spied on in a public toilet as a young boy.
Andrew: That was harrowing. I was 11. A pedo followed me home and offered me two quid to see my penis. I was tempted to take him up on the offer, two quid is a lot when you're 11. The main reason I didn't show him my dick was because I didn't have any pubes and I was embarrassed.What's the worst town to play a show in?
Al: For us Birmingham has always been a fucking massive challenge. People in Birmingham hate us, like before we've even played a note, they just hate us on sight. Us and Birmingham don't seem to gel.
Graeme (drums): Prog definitely didn't happen in Birmingham.When was the last time you said "I 'm never doing that again"?
Graeme: When I got naked in that fucking industrial state in Antwerp.
Al: Did you say "I'll never do that again" the morning after you tried to make me give you a blow job on the tour bus?
Graeme: No. I'll definitely try that again.
Andrew: Graeme and Al were alone after two months of touring on the back of this bus. It was like three in the morning and Graeme gave himself an erection and whipped it out and tried to get Al to suck his cock.
Al: I feel that this interview is going down the wrong road, ask us something nice.OK. How much do you love your mums?
Al: Eight. Eight out of ten. She fucks me off sometimes.
Sam: Graeme lives with my mum. He never pays the rent or does the fucking washing up, it's awful. I go out all the time and Graeme just sits there chatting up girls on myspace and smoking weed.
Al: I love my dad too. He makes trance music under the name Rave Mears.* Youthmovies release Good Nature on March 17th.
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Al (guitarist): We all work shitty jobs to pay the rent and I don't think that's gonna change anytime soon. We've been bin men, postmen, waiters, barmen, done any kind of office temping, data entry, christmas-hamper packing, basically every menial job you can think of. Those are the only jobs you can hold down when you're in a band.
Andrew (lead singer): Our drummer worked doing homosexual sex chat for like seven months.Did you ever get lost as a child?
Andrew: No. I had a fucking fantastic sense of direction.
Al: Yeah, but what about when you were spied on in a public toilet as a young boy.
Andrew: That was harrowing. I was 11. A pedo followed me home and offered me two quid to see my penis. I was tempted to take him up on the offer, two quid is a lot when you're 11. The main reason I didn't show him my dick was because I didn't have any pubes and I was embarrassed.What's the worst town to play a show in?
Al: For us Birmingham has always been a fucking massive challenge. People in Birmingham hate us, like before we've even played a note, they just hate us on sight. Us and Birmingham don't seem to gel.
Graeme (drums): Prog definitely didn't happen in Birmingham.When was the last time you said "I 'm never doing that again"?
Graeme: When I got naked in that fucking industrial state in Antwerp.
Al: Did you say "I'll never do that again" the morning after you tried to make me give you a blow job on the tour bus?
Graeme: No. I'll definitely try that again.
Andrew: Graeme and Al were alone after two months of touring on the back of this bus. It was like three in the morning and Graeme gave himself an erection and whipped it out and tried to get Al to suck his cock.
Al: I feel that this interview is going down the wrong road, ask us something nice.OK. How much do you love your mums?
Al: Eight. Eight out of ten. She fucks me off sometimes.
Sam: Graeme lives with my mum. He never pays the rent or does the fucking washing up, it's awful. I go out all the time and Graeme just sits there chatting up girls on myspace and smoking weed.
Al: I love my dad too. He makes trance music under the name Rave Mears.* Youthmovies release Good Nature on March 17th.