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wanted to play it. And I found that I had a lit- There are a few really great female drum- to carry around and it’s very noisy but it’s
tle bit of a feel to it, a little bit of a knack to mers but it seems to be that we’re still in the fun, I love it.”
it and I haven’t given up. Never looked minority.” The noise did once lead to certain Work-
back.” With a song on the new album called ington ‘neighbours’ calling the cops. The
“My mom didn’t really expect it and I ‘Let The Neighbours Call The Cops’, Black band once played a show in Workington
kind of asked her if we could get a kit but Velvet asks how the neighbours have been Town Centre and Clintons Cards actually
we didn’t really have the money or the room when Hannah and the band have been prac- called the cops. They had been booked to
so she bought me a pair of drumsticks ticing. “I’ve never been lucky enough to play in the shopping precinct near Costa
which I was happy enough with at the time. have a drumkit set up in the house because Coffee and after they’d finished they discov-
I would play on the edge of my bed and the I live in quite a small flat, so we’ve got ered that the police had been called. “That
side. Then it was my dad that bought me my neighbours all round. My drumkit is actually was an extremely bizarre gig that we played
first drumkit, which I think I put into the at our rehearsal place in Glasgow so we’ve there. I think it adds to our street cred a little
garage and set it up in there. I don’t actually never actually played in the house. I used to bit. Rock ‘n’ roll cred.”
have that kit anymore. I was so pleased have a kit set up in my garage, which was ‘Let The Neighbours Call The Cops’
when I eventually got my first set. There separate from the house and I had a few wasn’t actually written about that event
aren’t a lot of girls that do it either. They complaints then. It’s the most impractical though. Hannah tells us that Gill wrote the
seem to shy away from it, it’s quite bizarre. instrument on earth, really. There’s so much song with Ricky Warwick. “It’s more sort of
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