It’s that time of year where we set out to interview as many of the Sophie, New Blood, and Jager bands as we can in the lead-up to one of the most anticipated festivals of the year, Bloodstock. Taking on our questions are Trilobite who play the Jager stage on Sunday.
Simple things first – where are you guys from?
We’re from all over the place. Marc was born in Haarlem (not the cool one), Phil grew up in and Will is from Cheshire. We live in and around Exeter now.
How long have you been playing together as a band?
Since November 2015, and Marc ed us in 2019.
Where does the name of the band come from?
It comes from a love of nature and science. The word is also connected to the fact of there being three of us in the band. Furthermore, trilobites have been extinct for over two hundred million years, a bit like prog.
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Describe your music. What makes you unique?
We just pinch the best ideas from all our favourite artists and mash them together and then people are all like “Wow, this is to new and fresh” and we’re like “Haha, you just drank a Tool, Kansas and Devin Townsend smoothie in one big gulp without asking what was in it!” Not caring about genre and just writing music we like is a big contributor to uniqueness.
What’s your live show like? Why are people going to watch you instead of another band?
It seems to be a bit confusing. Looking down from the stage into the audience, it looks like people are enjoying the music enough to want to dance, but they don’t know how, because it’s in like 13/16 and they’d break their legs if they tried. If people watch us instead of another band, it’s probably because they like our songs. It can’t be about looks after all.
Have you been to Bloodstock before? What did you think?
No we haven’t and we didn’t think anything at all. But now we are and we’re thinking “Holy fuck, we’re playing at Bloodstock.” Times are a-changing.
When/how did you find out you’d been selected to play at Bloodstock?
In May. We’d asked Simon “Can we play at Bloodstock?” and he sent us an email to say that we could indeed play at Bloodstock and we were like “Whaaaaaa?” and now we’re playing at Bloodstock, which is pretty cool.
What sort of setlist can we expect?
One comprised primarily of bangers. It’ll kick off with a song about the difficulties a Cyclops has to face in order to receive decent optical care and end with an unnecessarily difficult instrumental piece that should ensure that any dancers who had remained upright so far become horizontal.
Which other band do you most hope you’re not clashing with so you can see them play?
Hybridize. They are also from Exeter and are exceedingly excellent.
What are you working on at the moment?
An album. We’ve written all the songs for it and recorded demos and we’re happier with all of them than we are with anything we’ve ever written before. We intend to release thealbum on vinyl, which is quite expensive, so hopefully we can get a couple of additional fans to subscribe on Patreon. This would double our number of patrons.
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What’s the wildest thing you’ve seen or done at a live show?
Nothing really wild, but we saw Dan from Johnny Cage and the Voodoo Groove out in the middle of the main stage tent at the Chaos Festival in Guernsey. His beer had remained upright, indicating that it had been a somewhat controlled descent into unconsciousness, and so people just left him lying there. He was walking around again later on, so he must have been breathing.
What drink do you throw back to get yourself fired up before going on stage?
The blood of the nearest mathematician or palaeontologist. If we can’t get any of that, then an energy drink will do.
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