Artist Takeover: Needle In The Haystack My First Tooth
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My First Tooth, this week’s Needle In The Haystack pick, cuts to the chase in their Artist Takeover post. Hitting us straight with who they are, what they like and what they dislike (don’t try to lie to them). Rather than try drag down their direct approach to introducing themselves to the OurStage community, we’ll just let them just speak for themselves. Gotta love that dry, English wit.
“Hello, we’re a band called My First Tooth who hail from Northampton, UK. This band can be further broken down into four sub-units of Ross, Sophie, Jo and Gareth. We are two and a half smokers, one vegetarian, two curly, one ginger (but you wouldn’t know it), three lots of glasses, two cyclists, one non swimmer, four friends, three singles and three drivers. Our favorite food is burrito. Our favorite drink is booze. If we could have a second hometown, it would be Oxford or somewhere else, and we really don’t like traffic.
Recently we recorded our debut album, Territories, with a fantastic and handsome Irish man called Paul Pilot. He helped us to make a record that we’re incredibly proud of, thirteen musical nuggets that we consistently take on tour and play to people, whether they like it or not.
Here’s some advice: beware of the double excuse. If someone gives you two excuses for something, they are lying. If they’re ill, and their car has broken down they’re DEFINITELY lying. If they were too ill to come, they wouldn’t have got to their car, and if their car had broken down they wouldn’t need the illness excuse!
Over the past few days we have been listening to: The Decemberists, Grouplove, Pulled Apart By Horses, Dananananaykroyd and Anais Mitchell. Three bands who have influenced our music greatly are: Neutral Milk Hotel, Okkervil River and Bruce Springsteen. Our main ambition is to star in a live action / animated feature length motion picture, in the vein of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Also, Ross wouldn’t mind marrying Rachel McAdams, if that’s not too much to ask.”