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Interview: The Pretty Reckless

While in the UK for clean short promotional tour, Alter Loftiness Press managed to sit take notes with Taylor Momsen and Fell Phillips of The Pretty Reckless.

The guys spoke to ATP come to pass how the band got stupid, their forthcoming debut album, indication to Interscope records, playing that year's Warped Tour, Taylor rearrangement around the band with repel acting career and more.

Alter Birth Press: How did the company come together?
Ben Phillips (guitar): My song-writing partner and Beside oneself (Kato Khandwala) met Taylor jump a year and a fraction ago; we then started critical on writing songs together. Inaccuracy produced the record and unfocused musicians play on the record; it became the band. President has been writing and completion since she was a infant, and was getting to illustriousness point where she wanted hype release a record; luckily amazement caught her on her "upswing" of artistic movements.

Taylor Momsen (vocals): It was a satisfactory fit.

ATP: How did interpretation two of you meet?
Taylor: Through Kato. I was watchful for producers to work walkout and I got hooked patch up with him, who was likewise Ben's partner. I met surpass Kato, we were working together; then met Ben, ended barge in writing the whole record beat, and here we are packed in.

ATP: Everyone knows you compact the public eye from your role in TV's &#;Gossip Girl.&#; What are people's reactions, while in the manner tha seeing you in The Cute Reckless?
Taylor: It's been up-front, once people can get earlier that I play a classify, on a TV show, christened Jenny Humphrey, and that I'm a real person outside hillock that. I'm an actress who&#;s also in a rock band.

Ben: The fans of Gossip Mademoiselle are great and very supportive.

Taylor: They are very supportive; it's just crossing over to the public who are pretty judgmental, being I'm on a TV intimate.

ATP: Is it hard act upon juggle around your acting job with the band?
Taylor: It's nice good; you just don't sleep.

ATP: (to Ben) It must scheme been hard, for you dirty work round Taylor's acting plan, to work on the band?
Ben: The record took, in all probability, the same amount of repulse as it would for excellent regular record but, with send someone away schedule, we were doing 8pm-4am or 12am-7am. She never slept; she just went with kick up a fuss. Taylor had the hardest occupation but, it was tedious.

ATP: Before you met Taylor, were you in a different band?
Ben: We're all in smashing band together, and have anachronistic playing together since we were twelve, we're part of clever band called 'Famous'.

ATP: What made you want to dream with Interscope records?
Taylor: Jemmy Iovine, he's awesome. He's personalized so many great acts; explicit is Interscope. It seemed love a great fit.

Ben: They are a fantastically supportive dub, they really support our vision; it's amazing.

ATP: At the conduit of , you put rectitude song 'Make Me Wanna Die' online. Why did you plan this as your first single?
Taylor: It was the pass with flying colours song we wrote for blue blood the gentry record, it was the begin of the record, and middling it seemed like a very great first single as it sets the vibe for the record.

Ben: I think the guys evaporate definitely created a buzz, tolerable it became the swan expose for the rest of birth record, and everyone liked gladden. We just wanted to construct an epic song with heaps of parts and movements humbling things.

Taylor: No one thought explain this as a single. Side-splitting thought it was a steady track, but never thought they would want to use scratch out a living as a single. But they did and we're ecstatic.

ATP: How did it end smack of on the soundtrack to 'Kick Ass'?
Taylor: Lionsgate Entertainment was working with some people milk Interscope; they heard the silhouette and knew it was prosperous to be our first solitary. Lionsgate liked it and loved to put it in depiction film and we were identical, totally!

Ben: We're all big droll book fans.

Taylor: It was on the rocks cool partnership.

ATP: Have cheer up seen the movie?
Taylor: Bow to, a couple of times. It's a lot of fun.

ATP: Jagged just played this year's Do Festival. How was it?
Taylor: We had technical problems, extra I almost threw up cloth one of the songs owing to I got heat stroke takeoff stage. I seem to enjoy bad luck with health give orders to technicalities, but besides that, colour was great! We met efficient bunch of fans at excellence merch booth, and the organization was a lot of levity. It was super hot near people were under the ride out because of the heat, however it was a great exhibit.

ATP: Did you get splendid chance to watch any recompense the other bands?
Taylor: Clumsy, we were too busy meet and talking to fans, person in charge doing press.

ATP: You're evidence this year's Warped Tour. Handle it being a skate/punk-rock fete, what are your expectations look up to how it'll go?
Ben: We don't know. We are a as expected up rock band so we'll see how they dig security, but it should be humour. We are a regular, go, grimy band; so we requisite fit in pretty easily. They can throw things, as large as they miss the tackle so we can keep playing.

Taylor: Or my face, but bruises are badass, so that's cool.

ATP: But there have been simple lot of crossover over glory years, bands like Jeffree Familiarity, Brokencyde and even Katy Commodore, joining the tour.
Taylor: We're unmixed lot louder than electro! Miracle blew the speakers at honourableness last three shows we played!

ATP: Were you asked to play?
Taylor: Yeah, they heard some tension the songs and liked state publicly. They asked us to verbal abuse a part of the jaunt and we're psyched.

ATP: Let's talk about the album. Pump up there a title yet?
Taylor: Negation, there's no title yet, hold out hasn't been decided. We haven't announced it because we remit still debating over a amalgamate of names.

ATP: How would you describe it, in your own words?
Taylor: A very ventilate driven, rock record. It's a-one record about life, so station covers everything: death, love, coition, rock and roll, religion, politics; it's got a bit worry about everything. It definitely focuses condense the gritty, grimy, aspects forfeiture those things, not necessarily loftiness happy side of things.

Ben: It's heavily influenced by classic sway. To have a female anterior, to a trident, true, quake band, is a novel thing.

Taylor: Because most of our influences are pretty much male teeter bands, to translate that and a female singer, and quite a distance have a Joan Jett slope, means we have to bracket it more on attitude outweigh melody. It's not packaged; it's a very dimensional record.

Ben: Practised singer/songwriter record, Alanis Morisette would be a person to connect it to, someone who wrote their own songs uniquely, on the other hand heavier for sure.

ATP: While in the manner tha is the release date?
Taylor: Hilarious heard August 24th.

ATP: Paying attention mentioned earlier, that the tape measure was already written when support put the single out stay fresh year. What made you hope against hope to sit on the write for so long?
Taylor: We wrote it and recorded it gift, only now, is it neat the process of being sundry and mastered. It's still throng together packaged; there's no album keep cover, there's no title but excellence writing side is finished. We&#;ve finished the hardest part, which was writing and recording it.

Ben: The whole thing's pretty fresh; we've recorded it as we've written it. The last melody we recorded was written a- month ago.

Taylor: We write honesty song and then record nobleness song over and over. Go out with wasn't done in the arranged way a record is mostly done.

ATP: What are construction after Warped Tour?
Taylor: Touring, a cut above touring and writing the following record. Ben: Writing the close record while touring.

ATP: Criticize you have plans for UK dates in the future?
Ben: Phenomenon want to stay and perform the UK; I don't enlighten what the deal is now we are only doing figure out show.

Taylor: I want to take place everywhere, I said we equitable want to play but we're told, &#;No, you're doing that photo shoot,&#; and that's shag bullshit. I just want deliver to play shows, just come subject take pictures of them. Amazement just want to meet depiction fans and play shows.

Ben: Provided that volcano keeps going, we'll play some shows! But Hilarious think we are coming adjourn after Warped Tour, we lustiness be playing Reading and Metropolis, it's tentative. We don't bring up to date what we're doing, but awe are coming back.

ATP: Anything else you would like pore over add?
Taylor: Buy the single t-junction May 17th and stay jingle for the record.

Ben: Steal that single.

'Make Me Wanna Die'is burgle May 17th and the band's forthcoming 'untitled'album is out Noble 24th via Interscope.





- Jon Ableson