Dunno which one of The James Cleaver Quintet answered these questions but hot damn he’s a funny one. Puking in a towel at a house party because a girl is doing some sort of fanny dance? Well I never. And he loves arse! EURGH?!
Turkey: leg or breast?
I don’t really like Turkey either way so probably an arse person. Turkey arse.
We were there when November Coming Fire split up, and we were there when they regrouped. The wholly illogical next step would be to ask them stupid Christmas-related stuff not pertaining to either of those events. Obviously.
What is your favourite Christmas drink?
Gin.
We thought Pennsylvanian Christian prog-metalcorers, August Burns Red would be bang up for chatting about Christmas so we asked lead guitarist, JB Brubaker some questions. Pretty sure he uses malarkey wrong but he has *made his own baseball bat*. Real man alert.
Turkey: are you a leg or breast person?
Breast, please.
We saw Turbogeist play loads of times in 2010. We reckon we’ll probably see them loads more in 2011. It only made sense to ask Luis Felber and Jimmy Jagger stuff about Christmas, smelly bassists and sucking cock.
When did you find out Santa Claus wasn’t real and how did it happen?
L – When I was six…
J – Broken to me cold-hearted by my sister when I was eight or nine.
Just back in November, we caught Touché Amoré destroy the Old Blue Last in London. It was one of those shows where everyone just looked at each other, puffing their cheeks out. They talk Christmas right here < -- important
Turkey: leg or breast?
I’d say leg. There’s something about holding a turkey leg that makes you feel like a cartoon.
We had a chat with the shouty We Are The Ocean vocalist, Dan Brown about Christmas and because we’re really helpful, we actually found a handy dual kitchen/studio implement for him but not before we ruined his Christmas. Oops.
When did you find out Santa Claus wasn’t real and how did it happen?
Just now. Cheers, Thrash Hits.
Watching a million episodes of Only Fools And Horses is a huge Christmas tradition for some people. Ryan Richards – drummer of Welsh rockers, Funeral For A Friend – is some people. We talked to him about it.
What is the most metal item on your Christmas dinner menu?
A knife.
Just when we thought we couldn’t like TesseracT any more, their drummer, Jay Postones, went off on one at the injustice of being dragged away from Sonic 2 on Christmas Day. Jay – we known that pain. Oh, how we’ve known that pain!
When did you find out Santa Claus wasn’t real and how did it happen?
Santa isn’t real? Shit.
We’ve asked a shit-ton of people from the world of heavy metal all sorts of old nonsense about Christmas. You give a shit, right? First up – Peter Ellis, (current) vocalist in White Wizzard.
Do you have any particular or unusual Christmas traditions?
Not any more but when I was a kid I would always go and sing Christmas carols door to door on Christmas and New Year’s eve every year. It’s a big tradition in Greece. Kids go out from the early hours of the morning on these two days and sing Christmas songs door to door for sweets or pocket money. I used to make a ton of money every Christmas doing that since people would usually give me more money that most kids because I had a good voice and I was doing it well – some of those kids were awful!