Interview With The Paddingtons (2/3) By John-Paul Nicholas Photographs - The Paddingtons at The Adelphi By Darren Rogers

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Lloyd: The way we get songs together is if I'm in a good mood about something, or if I'm in a dodgy mood, I'll just pick up my guitar and it'll all come out. None of us are Bob Dylans ... some of the words work nicely together, but the songs aren't always about something in particular, we just write them on the spot. We don't sit down to write about anything Josh: One song, Tommy's Disease is definitely about something though.

A lot of people have written that you sound like The Libertines...

Lloyd: That's not fair at all. Our songs don't sound anything like the Libertines. Tom: People only say that cos we're friends with Pete Doherty Josh: A lot of reporters said that at the beginning cos they didn't have the knowledge. They didn't know what they were on about basically. Lloyd: I can honestly say that out of big bands The Strokes have had quite a big influence on us, cos when they first came out we became united over that sort of thing. It isn't groundbreaking music, but it's just what they had. It was a proper band. You hadn't had a proper band like that for ages. The Strokes were a band ... no-one outshone each other ... it's like the oldskool band thing and it opened it up for other groups.

How did you become friends with Pete Doherty and The Libertines?

Lloyd: Played this gig with a guy called Scarborough Steve. He used to be in The Libertines quite a while ago and he said I'll get you a gig with 'em. Tom: He gave us numbers, so I rang Pete and said Is it alright if we play? It's Tom, we met ages ago or whatever, so we did. And we played loads of times after that. Lloyd: Next thing you know he's askin' us to go on tour with 'em Tom: Cos he liked us

Lloyd: We've had some good times with him. In hotel rooms playin banjo, guitars, singing and that. Carl [Barat] turned up to a Babyshambles gig the other day, so it was Carl on guitar, Pete on guitar, our kid (Grant) on drums and him (Tom) singing Libertines songs Josh: Don't look back into the sun Lloyd: It breaks it down, so it's not fan/artist. We're all in the same boat... he might be earning more money than us but we're all in the same boat. When did you last see him? Tom: We've just been on tour with Babyshambles, 1500-capacity venues.

Lloyd: A lot of the girls were like Peter, Peter! and blokes were like fuck off, we want Pete [Doherty] now! But we won a lot over. And even when you win over about 50 percent of a 1500 capacity crowd it's mindblowing. Do you get to go see many bands when you're on tour?

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