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Primitai
After my recent review of Primitai’s album “Through The Gates Of Hell”, I was approached to do an online interview with the band. I knocked together a few questions for the guys to try and find a little more about what makes them tick as a band.
I hear Brucie (Dickinson, not Forsyth for the benefit of the Beat Surrender readers) has been plugging you on his radio show – how does it feel to have him playing your music, rather than you playing his?
Iron Maiden are the band we most respect and Bruce Dickinson is God! So for Bruce to plug our material is wicked only surpassed by Bruce asking us to support Maiden on their next world tour and letting us shag all his groupies!
Any news of any big gigs coming up, or is this all top secret for now?
Yeah, we playing the Agincourt, Camberley on 28th March supporting Sensor and The Joiners, Southampton on 16th April supporting Raging Speedhorn. We’ll blow them off stage of course, we’re Primitai.
What do you think you bring to the metal scene? Will you stay the distance?
We believe we bring back fast, heavy metal played like you mean it. Many people say we’re an 80’s influenced rock band which we’re really cool about. It’s about getting back to the roots of heavy metal as opposed to the current fashion of whiney emo rubbish. Many reviewers seem to see us tongue in cheek, really over the top and not sure if we’re serious. The truth is we’re not serious people but really serious about our music and we believe we’re here for the long haul.
I’ve just found one of your singles in my backlog review pile (sorry about that) do you get disillusioned when you have these promo pushes and folk just ignore you?
No…we’ve been together as a band for a few years but started to get really serious 12 months ago. We know it will take time for the band to get well known. Having done a first promo push we know the people who reviewed us, we know the ones who didn’t and NOW WE KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE!
What’s been your favourite gig/venue so far?
Probably The Joiners in Southampton. They always have a great sound guy there and for some reason we’re always on top form, play like demons, the crowd really gets into us and women give us their phone numbers.
What would be your ideal gig/festival – give us a line up.
Ideal gig would be Ozzy, Judas Priest, Motley Crue, Iron Maiden headlined by PRIMITAI.
It took a long time to record the album – was this a conscious decision, or would you have preferred to have got it done quickly?
It took a long time because we were all impoverished students (some of us still are) and could only afford to record a single track at a time. Going to a studio and recording tracks stretches your ability and song writing. So yeah, it took a long time but we became better musicians and we’re a better band for it. We feel the later songs on the album like ‘Rockin in Hell’ and ‘The Piper’ reflect that evolution.
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- Published on: 24 Mar 2008
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Add to favouritesYou’ve already had some success with “Primitilian Man” – is there a danger you may have peaked, or is the best yet to come?
No Primitillian Man was the first step and we had a royalty from it on sales. That pushed us into releasing the album and we’ve had loads of reviews, most of them great! Some saying we’re the saviours of the heavy metal scene and the next big, big thing and some saying we can stick our style of demonic metal up our own arses. We’re cool that people want to say something about us and we don’t want or ever get, neutral comments. If you want everyone to love you…be a nun, don’t be a band and ask critics to review your material.
Start the band from scratch. What would you do differently?
Nothing really, yeah we’ve been together for a while but we think we’ve only just got started.
How pissed off are you by having to do this sort of thing – wouldn’t you rather be out playing to a crowd?
Over the past few months we’ve had some chart success, a lot of people talking about us, we’ve been on TV, been interviewed by BBC radio and loads of other stations. Has it been a real laugh…yeah, would we rather be playing Wembley…of course, but it all goes with the territory.
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