Interview With The Paddingtons (5/7) By Joe Hakim Photos By Ray Ribeiro and The Paddingtons at The Adelphi By Darren Rogers

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"Try to ignore it," I say, unable to ignore it myself. "I go by my written notes; it's just a back up." With precision comedy timing, Grant farts loudly. "You smelly fuckin' bastard," Josh says, and with that, interview begins. So when did you first get together? Lloyd: We met in 2001. I was playing in a band with Tom and Grant. We were listening to The Strokes a lot, and then we discovered the Sex Pistols and things like that. Josh and Marv were our mates and we just came together through a mutual love of the same sort of music. We just played covers and stuff at first, but we stuck with it and by 2002 the band had formed. What were your first gigs like?

Lloyd: We did a lot of pub gigs, and we played at places like Silhouette a lot. We met the guys from some of the other bands in Hull like The Raywells and Turismo, and it was just an ace time to be playing music in Hull. To be begin with we didn't even really have any songs of our own, and we'd just play anything, but we kept working at it. We learnt to play on stage. A lot of bands rehearse in studios before they even play a gig, but we thought, Fuck it, and just got ourselves out there. When did everything start coming together?

Josh: Bands can be around for ages before anything happens. We played a couple of gigs in London in 2003 and Alan McGee spotted us and he loved the demo of 21 so he played it on his radio show. We got a load of feedback almost straight away, and it made a lot of connections for us. We met Stuee down there for example. And then it started getting really mad; we were meeting people like Mick Jones and Hedi Slimane. It can be a lot to take on board at first ... Eventually 21 was put out on Poptones, and we signed with Mercury on October 19th of last year. We were still at college.

When did you record the album, and how did you find the whole experience?

Lloyd: We did it four months ago. We recorded the album in seventeen days. It was an adrenaline fuelled rush, and Owen Morris has really captured our sound. It wasn't easy though, and we clashed on a couple of occasions, but that was all part of it. He'd say to us, 'I wanna make you sound large,' so he'd go for the Brick-wall effect and crank everything up until all the needles were in the red. Josh: The first time we met him was when we recorded Panic Attack in London at Christmas. We drive down there and then drive back to Hull the next day.

We didn't know what to expect. Owen is a loud motherfucker, shouting his head off all the time, but it was a perfect atmosphere for us and it really got us going. Lloyd: He's an arsehole and I love him. How do you go about writing songs?

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