Friday Hill CD:UK Interview

It’s September and in an attempt to get everyone in a cheery back-to-school mood we cornered Kenzie, James and Mus from Friday Hill and quizzed them about "the best days" of their lives!

What was the naughtiest thing you did at school?
Kenzie: I don’t want to promote violence against teachers…but I got suspended once for throwing a chair at a teacher.

James: Don’t say that!

Kenzie: Honesty is the best policy.

James: We locked a teacher out of the classroom once.

Kenzie: That was funny! She saw the funny side of it. There were tears of laughter in her eyes.

What were your nicknames at school?
James: Everyone called me Murray because that’s my last name.

Kenzie: These two thought of Kenzie in a French lesson. Everyone called Mus Pus.

Mus: It was the worst nickname anyone could have!

Have you ever had a crush on a teacher?
Kenzie: Yeah! Our French teacher. But you know what though? There’s half a chance now. We could go back there!

Do you think she’d be up for it?
Kenzie: The worst she could say was, ‘No, get over it.’ I don’t want to sound like a pervy 13 year-old. She had a great sense of humour and personality. You could get on with her on a social thing and on a work basis.

What subject did you used to bunk off?
Kenzie: We used to sit at the back in French and write lyrics and vibe.

James: Our French teacher used mark our books and be like, [puts on a dodgy French accent] Vat is all this “Check, check, one, two?” I bunked off class once and the only time I did it, within ten minutes they’d phoned my house, had my dad knocking on the window going, ‘I know you’re in there.’

Kenzie: You get caught bunking so easily. Our school was like the MI5!

What was your favourite subject?
James: PE!

Kenzie: Lunch was good. I was good at football, cricket, awful at Rugby. I weren’t too good at the javlin. I didn’t excel in that.

How old were you when you first had your heart broken?
Kenzie: I had mine broken the day we went to South Africa to do the video for ‘Crossroads’. I was 15. I called my mum to help me get over it! Nah, not really. I flew to South Africa to do the video, that kind of helped! Actually that didn’t help at all. “See you at the crossroads.” If it was an upbeat song it would have been better. The only way to get over it is meet another girl, which sounds bad but it is the only way. But I didn’t do that either, so I just cried.

Was there any incriminating graffiti about you in the school loo?
Kenzie: There’s graffiti on the side of my house!

James: There’s graffiti about us everywhere in our area!

Kenzie: If it’s graffiti though, it tends not to be nice stuff. No one spray’s “He’s quality.”

What did you used to graffiti in the school toilets?
James: "I hate French."

My favourite piece of toilet graffiti was: “I did you mum.” And then underneath someone else had written: “Go home Dad. You’re drunk.”

Kenzie: That is quality!

Did you have any physical fights while you were at school?
James: Once I tried to fight someone and they just threw me around like a rag doll.

Kenzie: Do you know what? I didn’t ever have a fight. I don’t promote fighting.

Mus:It’s not big and it’s not clever.

Why are you called Friday Hill?
Kenzie: Friday's the best day of the week, but that’s nothing to do with it. There’s a big hill near our area and from it you can see the whole of London. We were coming up with all these names like Phase 3 and they were painful. Friday Hill - there was just a ring to it. You can’t categorise it to a genre of music. If you go up to someone in the street and you say Friday Hill what kind of music do they make? (I’ve tried this myself when I’m bored.) Some say hip-hop, some say rock, or pop, or indie. If we’d have come in now and called ourselves the Red Hot Chili Peppers, everyone would have been like, what? If we’d have named ourselves after a fruit drink like Oasis, everyone would’ve been like, what? But Oasis sell millions of records. It’s all about the music at the end of the day.

So are you’re listening to a lot of indie music at the moment. Does that mean you’re going to start going a bit indie?
Kenzie: Slightly.

James: Some of the tracks we’ve been doing have been band sounding tracks.

Kenzie: Bit more acoustic, a bit more melodic. We like the live band sound.

Friday Hill Enter The CD:UK Gallery

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