Week Three: Meeting some ROCKSTARS!

A brief (and extremely giggly) interview with only 50% of the Hit-ups, as we pitch our idea and they talk to us about how they got started, their influences, random funny facts, their target audience and how they reacted to our idea!

Here are a few things that stood out to me during the interview:
-The band intially got started by just 'jamming' together and mutual friendships
-They compared themselves to bands such as Sublime, Rage Against the Machine and Redhotchilipeppers (all different Genres)
-They prefer more boutique festivals like Shambala than huge festivals like Glastonbury, they enjoyed the intimacy and the crowd at Shambala
- Target audience - everyone, they've got a good response from everyone, all ages like their music, they didn't want to appeal to "just one age group or genre"
- Charlie the guitarist said, "young people get it more" and "it's all about high energy and having fun"
- They use past experiences, (even if they're silly!) as references in their songs -e.g. the phrase "hot butter" in 'Welcome to the Discotheque'.
- When asked about their own ideas on a music video, Josh said that it's "not really their strong point". I think that Becky, Sidonie and I can express our creativity and encourage them to become involved in our music video
- Lead vocalist Josh, is "looking forward to seeing old people dancing around when they're really young people"
- Lead vocalist Josh liked the fact that each band member is influenced by different genres of music, he thought that it was useful that they have enough between them to bring in different ideas.