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How did you all get together?
Tom - Honestly? I told Rob that I was going to do the Deconstruction Tour one day.
Rob - I said, 'yeah, me too' and Tom asked me what I would be doing.
Tom - I found out that Rob could play the guitar.
Ollie - Echo Freddy have been together for about 20 months.
Rob - We met Matt in the toilets here at Stockport College Student's Union. We told him that he would be our drummer, even though we didn't know he could play drums at that time!
Matt - I said 'actually, yeah, I can play the drums'. I got a phone call of Tom's at that time girlfriend two days later asking if I would record a demo with them. They came to the house the day after and we recorded a demo.
Tom - The demo was called Three in a Row - we were called Anti-climax and we changed our name to Echo Freddy two weeks later. We got our first gig here at the Union two weeks after that.
Ollie - I joined the band about five weeks ago. I was in a band called Joe's Steakhouse before, but things just weren't working out.
What are your musical influences?
Rob - Loads. The list will fill a whole page. The basics are Green Day, Beetles.
Matt - No Use For a Name.
Rob - Tom likes hip hop. Our music has definitely got better since Ollie joined the band.
What venues
have you played at?
Rob - We have played
71 gigs since we started in late 2001.
Matt - We pestered
venues in places like Leeds, Derby and Swindon
and have played there too.
Ollie - But we have
never played in the Roadhouse. Something to do
with the 21 day rule, they say you can't play
Manchester within 21 days either side. Apparently
it doesn't give the other bands a chance.
Rob - Stockport
Student's Union is our haunt, though, it's our
local!
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Matt - We played a
gig with the band called The Suffrajets nearly a
year ago at the Witchwood in Ashton Under Lyne.
Their manager phoned us last Tuesday and said we
had to decide in half an hour if we wanted to do
a gig in London with The Suffrajets. We had a
week to sort ourselves out and get 40 people to
fill a coach.
Ollie - We got 43
people, but luckily a 49 seater coach turned up.
When we got there we told the people at the venue
that we had travelled from Manchester and they
let us all in for nothing, which was also lucky.
And what
happened in London?
Ollie - Channel 4
were filming a documentary about The Suffrajets.
Matt - Yeah, they
were only supposed to be filming that band, but
they stayed and filmed us too.
Are you
going to be on the TV?
Ollie - Don't know.
I hope so (laughs).
So what is
the future for Echo Freddy?
Ollie - We want to
record an EP and then do a nationwide tour mid-October
2003 with a band called Rhythmic Coughing. The CD
should be done sometime this year. In the
meantime, we might be supporting Spunge on 1st
November, but this is totally unconfirmed.
Any news of
a signing?
Matt - At first
there was; when we first started the band.
Tom - But they
offered us stuff we could do ourselves. We
recorded our first EP ourselves.
Matt - No, no news
of any signings as yet. I just don't want to work
in Victoria Wine anymore.
Tom - Or Iceland,
its not good working there.
Rob - We want to do
our music. We pack the venues out each time, but
that is no good if people don't enjoy or listen
to what were playing.
That is what makes
Echo Freddy so good at what they do. People do
listen. At the Student's Union, Stockport
College, the crowd went crazy.
See more of Echo
Freddy on their website http://www.echofreddy.co.uk and definitely take time
out to see one of their gigs.
Want to send Andrea
a message ? Email Andrea@ukevents.net
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