Ornament Tournaments are about to drop their eagerly awaiting mini album of unspecified name and length. It’s about regrets and consolations, and it’s 6 months in the making.To fill the OT gap before its arrival TFM nabbed moments of the boys time (while two of them were in Asia no less) to ask them the only questions that really matter.
1. Biscuit or Cake?
Joe: Cake.
John: Ah just luv’ a bit of cake.
Dec: Bourbons.
2. What is your guiltiest musical pleasure?
Joe: The ‘Wicked’ soundtrack
Dec: I Had a phase of listening to The Saturdays' album whilst doing some garden work for my Grandad. That and Rihanna.
John: I’d say Panic at the Disco but I don’t feel guilty any more. Most people remember them from their first album (which is awesome anyway) but their second album, ‘Pretty. Odd.’ is a masterpiece. I’m indifferent about their new release.
(Check out this, the most awkward EVER interview with Panic At The Disco & Alexa Chung who is being, frankly, a right snarky fucker.)
3. Favourite live music experience.
Joe: I was at reading 2010 and I thought I’d grown out of it and thought I'd become cynical about all music. then, Arcade Fire started playing and I was like 'fuck'. I wasn't really that in to them before, and I was really getting in to it. then they played 'Power Out' and I was like 'fuck, this is perfect' and my world was suddenly broadened all over again, like that scene in 'Almost Famous' where the kid listens to his sister's vinyls for the first time.
John: That’s a really hard question. On one hand it might be seeing Foo Fighters at Wembley; seeing one of the biggest rock bands at their biggest gig to date, and being near the front was something else. But at the same, it can be the smaller ones that really give you ‘that’ experience. Last year a friend and I were in New Zealand. We’d been at Big Day Out festival and had seen bands like The Mars Volta and Muse, but it wasn’t that. Naturally we were dehydrated and shattered at the end of the day, so we went for a drink on some high street bar. We heard some acoustic singer-songwriter that sounded nice but we thought ‘whatever’. But when we sat down I was just taken away. He played the loveliest, most innovative covers of ‘Knocked Up’ by KOL, ‘Free Falling’ by Tom Petty, and ‘On Top’ (my favorite Killers song). His voice was just something else. I’ll never forgive myself for forgetting his name.
Dec: Really stuck on this one. If I had to pick one it'd be Phoenix at Reading 2010. Couldn't possibly describe the atmosphere. Just amazing.
4. At the park do you prefer the swings or the roundabout?
Joe: Swings for sure. Roundabouts just spin your head. Maybe I’m just getting old, but I'll take the swings instead. I just can't understand the appeal.
John: Yeah, agreed.
Dec: Toughy, but roundabouts because they have so much potential for carnage.5. If you could play a full gig of music anywhere in the world where would it be & why?
Joe: The Jools Holland show.
John: Absolutely the Jools Holland show, or the Letterman show. Most of our favorite bands have played at least one of them, and I’ve found some of my favourite bands through them.
Dec: Anywhere with free beer. Literally, anywhere. Favourite venue I've been to so far is possibly The Hope in Brighton. It's so intimate and sweaty; it's lovely.
6. Would you rather be the owl or the pussycat? State THREE reasons.
Joe: the owl; cats are bad, owls can fly, cats are bad.
John: An owl, so I can twist my head all the way round and trip people out and dress backwards and shit like that.
Dec: Stupid fucking question. (It's no stupider than the previous or next ones...)
7. What would win in a fight a chicken or a duck?
Joe: I don’t even know.John: I don’t even know.
Dec: I was actually having this conversation the other day whilst walking around Hoan Kiem lake in Ha Noi with Naz. Chickens. Don't even ask why.
(if a chicken can kill a man it'll defo fuck up a duck!)
8. Would you rather have a dick for a nose or an arsehole for a mouth? (both in full working order)
Joe: A dick for a nose so I can...
John: Yeah, a dick for a nose. The bowcating possibilities are endless!
Dec: A dick full stop.9. You're at home with your best friends getting ready to go out for a lovely evening of dancing. You're drinking Lambrini and doing each other's make up. What one song will get you all in the mood for partying?
Joe: 'The Hustle' by Bars of Gold. Only true hype music.
John: ‘All the things she said’ by t. A. T. u.
Dec: That Americano song.
10. It's the Sunday morning after the night before, your makeup is all smudged, your knickers are on backwards, you’ve got rug burn on your knees, what album will make you feel human again?
Joe: The idea of 'humanity' is a concept created in order to try and separate us as a species from the rest of the world's animals. Trying to make myself feel more human would be suggesting I endorse a pantheistic way of thinking and that I wish to further distance myself from the already vague connection I still have with the earth. That's just not cool, dude.
John: ‘Pershing’ by Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. Aaah.
Dec: ‘Wolfgang Amadeus’- Phoenix.
11. What would make your hometown music scene better? (Whatever you write for this we will change it to something about Teenagers From Mars and how great we are....FYI)
Joe: More gigs and less blogs. Tee hee. Except for Teenagers from Mars obvs. They’re radical!
John: Maybe I’m being apathetic or maybe it’s just ‘cus of where we’re from and all that but I think you have to just let your local music scene just do its thing. 80% of the people who used to go to local gigs don’t anymore, which is fair enough, but as fads and ‘cool’ music change so do the demographic. This is all very obvious but it’s all about finding a town with a thriving music scene. Why didn’t we think of that a long time ago. But having said that if there were to be some kind of collective that could bring all the disparate groups of music fans together in order to alert them about up coming bands and the fact that there IS a thriving hot bed of talent in the local area that will eventually begin promoting their own night that would be keen!........What?.........You mean TFM IS that group!?! Well thank god for them!!!!
Dec: An actual music venue. There's nothing bar a couple of pubs and a youth centre at present. Somewhere with a bar, a decent PA and decent promotion would be very much welcome. I’m sure you Teens From Mars will COMPLETELY AGREE. I also think a venue endorsed and promoted by TFM is something that would probably be best.
12. What’s your favourite ornament?
Joe: The Buddha, always the Buddha.
John: Whichever wins.
Dec:
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