Waterloo describe themselves as "the lovechild of The Feeling meets The Saturdays with a touch of reggae thrown in for good measure", which sounds pretty bloody good to us. They have been 'hotly tipped' in various places and happen to be exceptionally good looking, so imagine our surprise when we sent over some questions and they turned out to be pretty damn witty too. But, as our mum always says, can they cook?
Hello Waterloo! How are you?
Luke Juby (Waterloo): Just fine and dandy, thank you for asking... how are you?
We have a bit of a cold actually, but don't wish to go on about it. What is the back-story of Waterloo? How did the band come to exist and what have you done so far?
Well, we all came together through our producers, Topham and Twigg... I'd done some work with them before, Nick had got chatting to Topham (the good looking one) in a guitar store a year or so before and Suzanne waited tables at Hooter's where Twigg (the intelligent one) had a discount card. So that's about it really... except for the bit about Suzanne, that was a lie (but not about Twigg's loyalty card).
Did you disregard Hastings, Bosworth Field and The Somme before settling on Waterloo?
No, but we did disregard Dancing Queens, The Day Before You Came (my favourite), Voulez-Vous and Put On Your White Sombrero
We are very excited about having you along to play Love Machine in November. What can we expect from your performance?
You can expect a tightly fitted top with push-up bra, hair in curlers and I guess what ever Suzanne chooses to wear as well.
How many songs do you have written and ready to roll? Is an album in the pipeline?
133.5, but we're really happy with about 10 so far... you know we could put them all on a CD and call it an album? That's a good idea. It's a pity the whole album concept seems to be dying with digital downloads... a good album is far more than a just a collection of 10 or so songs.
'Sweat' by Inner Circle in 1992. 'All That She Wants' by Ace of Base in 1993. 'Shine' by Aswad in 1994. Would you agree that this was an amazing and hugely underrated period of pop?
Indeed! They are all classics. 'All That She Wants' is a great, great pop song...I'm sure we'd love to have a song where you could mention the title to anyone in any pub in the land and have them sing the tune.
Please give us your projections for 2010, 2011 and 2012.
Aha! This is a question after my own heart. I predict England to win the World Cup in South Africa with South Africa also doing well with the home support. London 2012, I predict that we'll spend a lot of money to find out we're best at the sports we invented that no-one else plays and there to be an unprecedented incident where they put someone through a humiliating public chromosomal test to see if they are a human being or not. What's happening in 2011? I don't have anything in the diary.
Was it a great blow for the band when Eurostar services were moved from Waterloo to St Pancras?
I was actually on the first train into St Pancras from Brussels. They gave us free champagne so... no.
Who is your favourite Saturday?
I'm liking your questions! See, really I know I should try and keep my options open, should any of them have a momentary lapse of standards. I shouldn't burn my bridges. Or maybe I should say whichever one's single to increase my chances as they're all gorgeous obviously? But it has to be Frankie, she's perfect. Or Una. Is this theoretical world based in Utah where I can have two wives?
Thank you Waterloo!
Here is a Waterloo EPK. In case you're not familiar with pointless music industry jargon (see also: rushes, packshots, 'tx' dates), an EPK is a short video in which one member of a band answers questions put to them by an unseen interviewer while the others stare awkwardly at their feet. This is intercut with snippets of music video or live performance. If we ever knew what 'EPK' stood for we've forgotten, but the point is to get 'media' 'on board'.
Great band, great songs. Blonde one is a fittie too.
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