Cathedra Newsletter Interview

1) Which NZ artist/band do you think will be a huge international success one day?
Shaun: 48 may maybe
Ted: Die!Die!Die!

2) Who would you most like to tour with?
Shaun: The dillinger Ecsape Plan
Sophie: Poison The Well
Andy: Through the Eyes Of the Dead
Ted: i agree, Through the Eyes Of the Dead

3) What is your most embarrassing concert moment?
Shaun: Dropping my drum sticks twice and having to restart that same song three times at the start of our set.
Ted: Screwing up the intro of a song 2 or 3 times
Sophie: Playing half a song then realising someone had tripped over my lead and un-plugged me..
Andy: I fall over a lot…

4) What are you planning on doing during 2005?
All: Tour, Video for TV, More merch to sell

5) How did you come up with the name Cathedra?
Shaun: I found it in a dictionary as Ex-cathedra then changed from there.

6) What is in your CD collection at home?
Shaun: The Dillinger Escape Plan, CL Bob, Miles Davis, Mahavishnu Orchestra, It dies today, Blink 182, Planet X,
Sophie: PTW, Rancid, Atreyu, Bleeding Through, Blink 182, NOFx, Walls of Jericho, AFI, Missing Teeth
Ted:nasum, the bled, the album leaf, shai hulud, poison the well, american nightmare, norma jean, the dillinger escape plan
Andy: Remembering Never, Through the eyes of the dead, With Dead Hands Rising, From Ashes Rise, Misery Index

7) What advice would you give other budding musicians/bands?
Shaun: Dont Give up, PRACTISE, PRACTISE, PRACTISE.
Sophie: Stick with it, practise heaps and make sure you have fun
Ted: Be friends with your band members, be opened minded to interesting styles and practise and have fun
Andy: ah..yeah