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About plainfield

Interview for Bolton Evening News 2006 Who are you? Ste Robinson (spam) guitars and vocals John Fearns guitars Richard Whyte (YT) bass Norman Cook drums How did you get together? Ste and Rich were in Lofthouse, John was in The Arch Dentons and when those bands split up in ‘94 we got together with our first drummer Richard Addison. We have recently re-formed after a 5 year break and acquired Norman Cook, a drumming legend, (no reserve), off ebay. The story so far... We did a lot of gigging ‘round Bolton and Manchester during the mid to late ‘90’s, supporting such bands as the Cardiacs and Half man Half Biscuit The Sultans Of Ping FC. We played the Hacienda, before it shut down which we’re dead chuffed about. Then it all kind of stopped happening, we got lazy and the momentum stopped. Then last year we decided to have another shot at it and at least get some of the songs recorded properly. As we prepared for the recording the BBC got in contact and asked if they could make a short film featuring the band in the studio. What do you sound like? Like a mixture of our influences The Chameleons, The Clash, The Jam, The Pixies and many others starting with ‘The’. What's on your record player? Ste: Interpol, Editors, raging kipper and Adam Green Rich: The Village Green Preservation Society John: Foo Fighters, Arctic Donkeys and David Gilmour Norm: a pot plant If you could play with one band, who would it be and why? Girls Aloud, or did you mean musically? Probably somewhere on the line up at a Northern Soul weekender. What's been the highlight so far? Playing The Hacienda. Also being filmed by the BBC was smart. They have been showing the film on the big screen in Manchester city centre, you know the one by the Manny Eye. Folks, on the Ferris wheel, can view the video, whilst slowly rotating. And the most embarrassing moment? The daftest was getting offered to play Glastonbury in ’97. All we had to do to confirm it was make a telephone call. Unfortunately each thought one of the others would do it and it ended up not happening. Two of us turned up and couldn’t even get in; we ended up traipsing through a muddy field at 4am trying to find a quiet place to get over the wall. What's your definition of success? To have our own brand of pies and pastries. Day jobs? Spam’s a DJ, fearns is a pipeline inspector, ric is a saturation diver and norm is a full time drummer. If I was your fairy godmother and could grant you one wish, what would it be? To have the album go platinum, get rich, get lazy, split up, get emotional problems, get drunk, go to rehab, get clean, find God, make a comeback, release a best of album, split up due to musical indifference, go back to rehab, open a bar in Pattaya and spend the rest of our days boring customers with stories ‘bout ‘when we was famous’…etc…or could we just have some pies.