Klaxons Audio Interview

Battle of the hyphenated surnames!
Nilina Mason-Campbell vs. Simon Taylor-Davis

My first Pitchfork feature! It wasn't even for Pitchfork either. It was for this blog, but then I realized Simon was saying things that more than two people should hear (understatement, but you know what I mean) so I clued my Pitchfork editor Scott into it and he said the most magical words to my ears "You're right." Rewind to this time last month and it hit the site in pretty much a lot of it's glory.

Simon was sipping diet coke (which you can actually hear at times). I however had been drinking tequila upstairs where we hung out for a little bit just prior to pushing record. I can be inarticulate when intoxicated. I couldn't even remember Hunter S Thompson's name! "He does road trips. . . He writes about Vegas. . ." - that's as close as I could come to naming him! It totally reminds me of in Can't Hardly Wait when Amanda is asking about Preston at the party and the guys are like "He has hair. . . he wears shirts sometimes."
Yeah, so just keep in mind I was a little drizz-unk during this hahahahaa

It was supposed to be a half hour interview, but we ended up chatting for two hours (including some drawing with chalk time).
We talk about their next album, future tours, the recording of Myths of the Near Future, the merits of Metronomy, Test Icicles, limos, Test Icicles, Philip K Dick, Fist Fite, the Strokes, Japan, Test Icicles, screen-printing, his girlfriend (now wife) Lovefoxxx and a whole lot o' other stuff too including Test Icicles. It's long. Listen to it.

Klaxons Interview Part 1 MP3 One hour, 5 minutes

*Note that it stopped recording, so it gets sketch in continuity between part 1 and part 2 when we pushed record again

Klaxons Interview Part 2 MP3 7 minutes

And you know what? I'd totally sound like this and be acting out a scene from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat starring the incredible Donny Osmond (which you can't see with this MP3 obviously) tipsy or not.

Needless to say, I absolutely adore Simon.

For much of the text, head on over to Pitchfork.

When it was edited, it totally came down to how many Test Icicles references could be included. I of course was like, "more, more!"

Additional >>>>>>>>>>>>

Photos that sync with the interview:
The limo:

care of Simon

James pre-intervention:

care of Ollie

Boring yet interesting mic check on behalf of Simon (only click if you want to waste 19 seconds of your life. I however did learn something from it):

Simon Mic Check MP3

Can somebody PLEASE remix this? Hahahaha

Wanna know how much of a delusional Metronomy geek I am? Read the comments on this screen cap cackle cackle

First ever gig:

My how they've progressed

Comments

[jonnie]

hahahahahahahahahahahahah. that fucking klaxons clip.

[amf]

im pretty sure its davies, not davis. its pronounced davis. but not spelled.

[Nilina]

I'm going by Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Taylor-Davis
and The Guardian:
http://klaxons.net/_graphics/press/122zm.jpg
but what does it matter... He's seems to have dropped Davis from his name.