 Your band name?
Perfect Riot
Where are you from?
Blackpool
Who plays what?
Rob van Riot - lead vocals/lyrics
Tom Gregson - lead guitar
Chris Gregson - rhythm guitar
Laura Nolan - bass
Luke Graham - drums
Anyone got any bad habits?
Rob van Riot drinks too much and shouts blasphemous remarks across the quiet town of Poulton. Chris is dangerous to women. Laura never stops talking. Tom breaks stuff. Luke is highly flatulent. According to rumour.
What's the band's history so far?
Perfect Riot were formed in late October 2002 in the miserable seaside town of Blackpool, Lancashire - once a major tourist attraction but now a dirty sprawling testament to what happens when you invest all your money in a tourist public that has long since discovered cheap flights to Spain. The grey streets, lack of enjoyable nightlife and seemingly endless number of drug addicts in search of spare change provided a perfect backdrop for the band's despondent, angry, socially conscious music. The band are unique because they tackle subjects most aren't aware of or don't mention. Unashamedly outspoken, issues tackled in their songs range from American imperialism to Irish republicanism, racism in Britain and the simple feeling of loneliness in everyday life, or the escape found through alcohol. A mixture of viewpoint and personal experience make up the majority of the band's lyrics, and despite a number of line up changes over a course of time the band, perhaps now more than ever, are producing mood altering, communicative music that is both accessible and catchy. Having built up a wealth of experience gigging across the North West and with limited experience towards the East coast, the band will continue to branch out to a wider audience. Provocative, powerful, proud and with the essential touch of arrogance, Perfect Riot are a band continuing to write their story with the intention of imprinting it on the mind of the nation.
Style and influences?
Alt/rock - Manics/Clash/Sex Pistols/Smiths/Joy Division/90s guitar scene. Best moment so far?
A room full of dancing people at Joseph's Well, Leeds. We Love Your Hate going to #1 in the 'Demolition' chart on the Epitaph website Worst/most embarrassing moment so far?
Durham Festival: population 50 smackheads, 30 weirdos and some cows. And a very, very lunatic farmer who definitely wasn't Michael Eavis. When and where's your next gig?
Have a look on our website Anything else we should all know about?
In an era devoid of social and political commentary in music, Perfect Riot are all you have left.
www.perfectriot.co.uk | 
