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Rigsy says: THERE HE IS. hello

Cahir says: sorry lads

Rigsy says: lads? i like being referred to as more than one person

Cahir says: you and that creep paul haha

Rigsy says: i'm a one man crowd. be nice cahir this is all going up. the interview's started

Cahir says: great

Rigsy says: what are you doing

Cahir says: mixing an ep, fighting manflu

Rigsy says: birdflu TBF

Cahir says: and drinking coffee

Rigsy says: i've a cup of tea

Cahir says: sweet

Rigsy says: and a new version of my favourite choccy bar it's very exciting it's a christmas version

Cahir says: which one?

Rigsy says: man i don't wanna say. advertising innit

Cahir says: come on

Rigsy says: its also a kinda womanly choccy bar :-/

Cahir says: you've already sold out haha

Rigsy says: i have effeminate taste in choccy bars. anyway, this EP

Cahir says: yes

Rigsy says: ii though youz were flat out on the second album? are these tracks not going to feature?

Cahir says: it's done being mixed at the moment

Rigsy says: so these are even newer songs?

Cahir says: the ep tracks are not on the album

Rigsy says: wow so whats the....storyline going to be? EP then album?

Cahir says: we wrote so many for the record these are just extra ep for the tour album for 2011

Rigsy says: oh right only available on the tour?

Cahir says: yeah

Rigsy says: thats great man. very exciting. so the album then, IS IT ANY GOOD

Cahir says: we've been taking ages with this record

Rigsy says: you certainly have!

Cahir says: not our fault haha

Rigsy says: whos fault then? make a father ted style speech about it

Cahir says: my ma's. she locked me in cupboard for 6 months feeding me by ************** under the door

Rigsy says: fair enough. tighten you

Cahir says: oh it did

Rigsy says: so is this an album of solitude then

Cahir says: i wrote a lot of songs in that time

Rigsy says: with songs like 'isolation' from the mighty boosh

Cahir says: its a dark album very dark like dark chocolate that makes your face sweat

Rigsy says: that does't sound pleasant man. say something nice about it then say something bad again, like a criticism sandwhich

Cahir says: its got loads of good bits and then it has loads of **** bits too haha

Rigsy says: ha brilliant. is it better than the second bluetones album? who'd win in a fight your second album the bluetones second album or cast's second album

Cahir says: oh **** they are both amazing... oh its tough but i'm gonna go with the stone roses

Rigsy says: man that came from nowhere. stone roses bailing in and battering everyone. i'm one of those weirdos that prefers the second stone roses album. do you think there'll be similar weirdos with FWW second album

Cahir says: crazy up north maniacs

Rigsy says: wow thats such a good question i just asked

Cahir says: ha. we're very proud of this second record, i just hope people like it its just nice to be playing shows again to be honest

Rigsy says: here hugo is here, do you want me to get him to ask you a question

Cahir says: hit me. better be good

Rigsy says: hold on he's chatting to someone. in the meantime, you're doin wee gigs, dead sweaty, dark, like you're album, startn with warrenpoint

Cahir says: we always do wee gigs

Rigsy says: youz gonna do loads of these before the album comes out or aim towards a couple of biggies?

Cahir says: we're not a big band so it'll be smaller shows

Rigsy says: bt i mean look at what lafaro did - three tiny gigs when they could have done one biggish one so are we talking about that type of thing? [lafaro played three gigs in tiny menagerie for their album launch readers!]

Cahir says: i enjoy smaller shows better, bigger ones make me nervous - too much pressure for one tiny man...

Rigsy says: but then you headlined glasgowbury! headlined it like

Cahir says: we've been a part of that festival for years - we were supposed to headline last year when we were touring a record and on the radio, but unfortunately it didn't quite work out. so to be asked this year again was amazing. we tried to turn them down, but paddy wouldn't take no for an answer so when are nine bar getting back together and would you be up for supporting us?

Rigsy says: here comes hugos question

Cahir says: ...

Rigsy says: IS IT TRUE YOU GOT YOUR INSPIRATION FROM ME

Cahir says: who are you?

Rigsy says: careful now he's sitting here

Cahir says: it's an innocent question hugo

Rigsy says: he's struggling to answer, ha ha. he says i'm one of the pioneers

Cahir says: fair enough - well let's just say i draw inspiration a wide number of sources... mary black, joe dolan, the corrs (of course)

Rigsy says: he says he worked hard so you guys could come up behind if it wasn't for me... (his words) so SHOW SOME RESPECT (my words)

Cahir says: hahaha

Rigsy says: i think he makes a good point. back in the day hugo woulda our-partied any of you mooncats

Cahir says: tears in my eyes. you know the craic in Derry Rigsy

Rigsy says: right lets do a serious bit at the end. like, this has been serious but i mean REALLY serious, to end

Cahir says: no offence to Hugo x

Rigsy says: too late now mate. he's raging

Cahir says: haha

Rigsy says: he says he prefers jetplane landing anyway

Cahir says: traitor

Rigsy says: his words man, his words. right come on lets do a dead serious question at the end like real professional

Cahir says: right i gotta go here lets do this

Rigsy says: oh i'm sorry am i holding you back?! WELL ALLOW ME TO RETORT. right, here goes... WHAT ARE YOUR MAIN INFLUENCES

Cahir says: x, early 90's rock, fugazi, helmet, weezer, nirvana, soundgarden, alice, dinosaur, pixies, pearl jam, all the greats. and ninebar

Rigsy says: did you ever model yourself on a front man, even when you were a nipper?

Cahir says: i didn't like music when i was a nipper - was into comics, then I was into rave and erasure flat out bin man carl cox paul p that sort of thing

(At this stage in the, erm... "interview", Rigsy got distracted talking to someone he kind of needed to talk to and Cahir clearly got a bit bored waiting. We don't hold this against him whatsoever. We'd have logged out long before he did to be honest.)

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Fighting With Wire play The Stables, Mullingar tomorrow night (Friday October 8) and The Hideout, a new Warrenpoint venue, on Saturday. They then play Lush, Portrush next Friday (October 15) and the Cellar Bar, Draperstown on Saturday October 16th.