Where did you start out in music?
DAZ: I was listening to music in the womb. My mam stuck a lute up herself one day and I just learnt to play it whilst waiting to be born. Then as a teenager my interest in music just started to grow and me and Neal used to play guitar together in his bedroom, and whilst at College formed what became Starscreen with Scott joining on the recommendation of our old drummer. Then we replaced him and got John!
JOHN: My first band we're called invasion!
NEAL: Anal Invasion?
JOHN: NO! We had an Alien for a logo that I drew in Art it was fukin' wicked!
Who plays what in the band?
JOHN: What Band?
SCOTT: Starscreen
JOHN: Oh I though you ment invasion! I play drums
SCOTT: Bass
DAZ: Vox/backing guitar
NEAL: Lead Guiatr/Backing Vox
What's your favourite of your own tracks?
DAZ: They are al my Children and I love them all!
JOHN: Vanity Baby
SCOTT: Mine is probably Vanity baby, I love the grove it has.
NEAL: Elephant
What's your favourite track of all time?
JOHN: My Generation - The Who
SCOTT: Highway Star - Deep Purple
NEAL Why don't women like me? - George Formby
DAZ: It’s either In my Life - The Beatles or Rabbit by Chaz and Dave
Who is your favourite
JOHN: (Without hesitation) DAVID HASSELHOLF!
SCOTT: What?
JOHN: He's got a new song out and it's wicked!
SCOTT Ok.......Anyway, mines Al Pacino; he got me back into watching films again
NEAL: Dan Ackroyd
DAZ Micheal Caine. God Bless ya Sir!
What is your favourite astrological star?
SCOTT: Maybe I'm a Leo......That's a joke that about only 2 people in the world will get.
What are your favourite cities and venues to play?
SCOTT: Although we've never played there our favourite city has to be
JOHN: I don't like
DAZ: And an IT Box
If you could get anyone in to play with you, who would you choose?
NEAL: Bryan Ferry! The man is a God and the coolest man alive
SCOTT: Yeah it's
DAZ: And me!
JOHN Err ya bunch of gays! I'll have John Lennon, which would be difficult as he's dead.
Who are the best upcoming artists we should check out?
NEAL: Censored, they are good friends of ours and we love doing gigs with them as they are a great laugh.
SCOTT: And they have some really great songs and are developing quite a following.
What can people expect from the show tonight?
NEAL: Blues, Folk...erm...Jokes.....Cokes....Spokes....Pamphlets.....Tunes.....Prunes....Martin Clunes....Sand Dunes and a Cliff Richard Cover
SCOTT: Everything really, tonight we are doing an acoustic show which is completely different. For one we don't have John playing, although that will change in the future. We are a lot more laid back acoustically but still with the vital rock element that (Hopefully) keeps things exciting.
NEAL: We tend not to go in the direction that most acoustic bands go in, where they just sit strumming chords; we like to make it abit more interesting.
What do you listen to on the stereo at home?
JOHN: Chilli Peppers, Oasis, Paul Weller
NEAL: Ian Dury & The blockheads, Hard-Fi, Kasabian
SCOTT: Most of the time Deep Purple, Roxy Music, Johnny Cash. Oh and the Bee Gees, but that's usually whilst straightening my hair to had to the whole homosexual routine....I'm not gay by the way but I do like the Bee Gees.
DAZ: Bryan Ferry, U2 & Jeff Buckley
Describe your average day...
DAZ: Get up, Watch Frasier, then watch the chav's on Jeremy Kyle, then I think "Great another 2 hours in bed!" Then go downstairs and have a bowl of Fruit and Fibre, which keeps me regular. Then I need a shit. Then I check Sky sports news, then I think "Great!" and play on Pro Evolution whilst listening to music till I have to go to work or a gig!
SCOTT: Luxury! On a typical week gig day I get up around 6am to go to work, finish about 3pm then depending on where we play I either nip home for a bit or go and pick Neal up around 5ish, we load the stuff in and set off. We then hang around, Neal usually frets about everything, John usually does/says something stupid while me and daz find the nearest IT Box to waste our hard earned cash on....it helps us to relax before the gig. We do the gig, pack up and then once I've dropped everyone off (John lives in Clifton, Neal and daz in Mansfield and I live in Kirkby) it's between 1am and 3am, then it's up at 6am for work......but it's great fun!
What are your favourite hangouts in Nottingham?
JOHN: We don't tend to hang out in Nott’s all that much really
NEAL: The only place we go on a regular basis is Junktion 7 to watch Censored
SCOTT: I spend most of my time in Nott’s in Fopp the CD shop buying endless pointless CD's that I don't really need, but I love buying CD's.... I think I have a problem.
What was the last album that you bought?
JOHN: NME Essential Bands
NEAL: Avalon - Roxy Music
SCOTT: The Best of Marvin Gaye
DAZ: Eye through the telescope - KT Tunstall
What was the last book you read?
JOHN: Esotrot - Roald Dahl
SCOTT: Black Knight - Story of Ritchie Blackmore
NEAL: 40+ Wives.....
DAZ: No one here gets out alive - Biog of the Doors
What was the last thing that made you laugh?
JOHN: This fat man I've just seen on the bus, it wasn't the fact he was fat, it was the way a women on the bus looked at him for being so fat!
SCOTT: John telling me the story of the fat man and the bus...it's a classic
NEAL: Scott's Old Sagging face!
DAZ: I don't stop laughing
What was the last thing that made you cry?
JOHN: I like cake.....
What is coming up for you over the next year?
DAZ: Ooo lots...
NEAL: I think maybe Spring, then a bit of Summer followed by Autumn then it's probably going to be Winter....yeah that's about it!
SCOTT: We have just recorded a new set of songs which we are gonna start sending out as well as constant gigging to get our name known, since we have had John in the band we are completely different. We are a lot more polished but still have the raw energy, by the end of the year I wanna have quit my job and be doing this full time cos we all love playing.
Anything else you want to say to LeftLion readers?
DAZ: In the early 70's my dad was a Porn star in Germany......No Bullshit!