Throwing Up Onstage - Tonight!

Throwing Up are a band from London made up of Camille Bennett on guitar and vocals, Clare James Clare playing bass and Ben Rayner hitting drums. They make good music that sounds like two ladies and a man clattering around in a garage, singing a bit. It arguably sounds better than every band you currently listen to. They also have a really great band name.

VICE spoke to Throwing Up last year just before their first release “When I Touch You/ Toothache” (out through What's Your Rupture?). Now, they have a new single coming out called “Big Love”. You can hear it below and download it here.

Throwing Up are playing at the Marquis of Lansdowne in East London tonight. It's free to get in, so if you live nearby you can buy an extra drink. Ahead of all of the excitement, I spoke to Throwing Up's guitarist and singer Camille about throwing up.

VICE: Hi Camille, how are you doing?
Camille: Oh, hi! Eugh, I'm really ill. I'm sorry to hear that. What's wrong?
I'm having waves of nausea.

Are you going to be OK for the show later?
I hope so. I'm going to have to be. I'm vommy, not…

Snotty?
Yeah. I was, though. I had a really bad cold before and took loads of medicine for it and that made me feel sick all of the time.

If you throw up onstage, being in a band called Throwing Up, is that good?
[sighs] You see this is what everybody says, but I don't think it is good. I'll probably have been sick on somebody and then they'll feel really sad that I did that. I don't know if I'm punk enough to style it out. I might just cry. I guess the crying could be part of it.

Have you ever thrown up onstage?
No. I don't know if I could deal with it. I'd run off stage or to the side and do it there.

Let's stop talking about vomit. Isn't it the last gig in the UK for Ben [drums] or something?
It's the last one before he moves to America, but we're going to America in March for SXSW and shows in New York and Baltimore.

What would Ben say if you threw up on him as a moving present?
I suppose there would be a part of him that would be into it. Like when someone does something nasty to you on a stag do. But at the same time he's definitely the princess of the band.

Sorry, I said we would stop talking about vomit and then I just brought it right back up again, hahaha! What have you been up to this past year?
We recorded an album that's actually really good, nobody believes me, though!

Why does no one believe you?
Our first two singles were recorded in our rehearsal studio on GarageBand and did sound quite bad. But, we recorded this album with Rory [Attwell of Warm Brains, ex-Test Icicles]. We're releasing a single from that, we're making a big thing about it at the show, but it doesn't come out till 12th March.

“Big Love”?
Yeah.

Is it being put out on a label?
The single we're just putting out ourselves. It just takes a lot of time with other people. When we did stuff with What's Your Rupture? it took more than three months to get something in the shops.

What's “Big Love” about?
Erm… What's the Creedence Clearwater Revival song? “Run Through The Jungle”? I don't know anything about it, really, but I was thinking about that song when I wrote “Big Love”. There's this repetitive bit that made no sense to me. What's “Big Love” about? Lyrically it doesn't have any meaning, really.

I like it. I think it could be your “Livin' On A Prayer”.
Well, on the B-side there's a guitar solo! We really pushed the boat out for this album, honestly. There's guitar solos all over it. It was quite a live setup, but then we just put guitar solos over it all.

Will you play the solos live?
No.

I hope you have a good show tonight, Camille! And that you feel better.
Me too, see you later!

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