I say The Cribs, but I mean Ross Jarman the drummer - who, although really sound and a total pleasure to chat to, isn’t Johnny Marr is he? Mind you he is chatty enough to fill the role with as equal amount of wisdom and here he is in this lovely black and white number ——————->

What I Learnt
Firstly, that next week he might go camping Amsterdam - is it warm there?

Secondly, that they hooked up with Johnny Marr after Gary met him at a BBQ at Stephen Malkus’ (Wide Ass Jeans - great song) house in Oregon, 2000 miles away. In England, they live an hour apart.

Thirdly, that title to their up coming album ‘Ignore the Ignorant’ (out Sept 6th) isn’t actually a comment on the BNP making it into the European parliament - although that event did help them make the decision to keep that title over others. According to Ross ignoring the ignorant is really just best practice in general.

And finally, I learnt that when he was younger he used to venture into Leeds independent record store Jumbo EVERY Saturday - I like the dedication and that also explains the Roses Edition to their album - which is limited to being sold by independent stores based in their home counties - Lancashire (Johnny), Yorkshire (Ryan and Ross) and Portland (Gary lives there now). With if you get special packaging, special videos (including that Brudenell Live DVD) and AND a half hour silent film of some of their proceedings created by the hands of Ryan himself. This is their ‘naive’ (according to Ross) little way of helping out the independent music scene at home. But don’t worry if you don’t live in any of those places because you can buy them online too - from those local record stores (make sense?). Everyone wins.

Free Shows
What is better, is that they are feeling a bit left out having played Leeds and Reading Festival for the last 6 years they are not on the 2009 line up. In a way its a blessing for the fan because instead of just throwing their toys out the pram and sulking or whatever another band might do, they’re playing FREE gigs in HMV’s that weekend in both Leeds and Reading. Oh me.

Camille