ONE ON ONE: AN INTERVIEW WITH SNAKE EYES!

I AM HERE DIRECT FROM 2000 TREES FESTIVAL 2024 AND I’M HERE TODAY WITH…

Jim: Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean, nice to meet ya. Nah I’m joking. We’re Snake Eyes from Brighton! I play guitar and I sing. I'm Jim.

Thomas: I play drums, and just play it really hard. It’s what I do.

Soph: I’m Soph and I play bass!

Jim: And we’re rockers!

FIRST AND FOREMOST, BROOKER YOU SAID ON STAGE WE SHOULD ASK THIS AFTER THE SET, SO WHAT DOES “THE DOORS ARE OFF” MEAN?

Thomas: It’s actually Jim’s anecdote –

Jim: The doors are off, I’m going to fly through it. I used to smoke lots of weed because I used to be cool, I’m not anymore, and me and my mate got a bit of weed from a guy, didn’t pay for it and he said pay me back another day. He texted my mate and said “If you don’t pay me back today I’m going to take your doors off”. And then the following day when we didn’t pay him he texted my mate saying “Right Harry, the doors are off”. I told the story in the studio when we were doing the Love/Hate mixtape and it went down a hoot, and now it’s everyone’s favourite part of the set, everyone loves it.

DID YOUR DOORS ACTUALLY GET TAKEN OFF?

Jim: No-one’s doors got taken off..

Thomas: No doors were harmed in the making of this anecdote.

ONE OF THE THINGS I LOVE ABOUT YOUR SETS IS THERE’S ALWAYS SOME SORT OF SPEECH THAT HAPPENS. ARE THEY IMPROVISED? ARE THEY WRITTEN DOWN? HOW DO YOU COME UP WITH THEM?

Thomas: It’s not scripted per say, but it’s something that I’ve said from the heart over and over again, and I’ve found the way I want it to feel over time so it’s narrowed down a little bit. It’s still from the hip, It’s not written down I’ve just got the rough bullet points.

IT IS UNIQUE EVERY TIME I’VE SEEN YOU, IT’S ALWAYS A DIFFERENT MESSAGE BUT STILL A POSITIVE ONE. I’VE SEEN IT RESONATING WITH A LOT OF FANS IN THE AUDIENCE TODAY.

Jim: Sometimes it’s negative, I said “I might poo myself”, and I didn’t to be fair so I suppose it is positive!

THERE WAS NO SHIT STAINS AFTER THE STAGE..

Jim: It was a clean show.. I haven’t checked, but I think it was a clean show. I’m about 80% sure.

LAST NIGHT WAS A BIT OF A RAWKUS ONE, DID WE ALL MANAGE TO GO OUT AND HAVE A GOOD TIME?

Jim: We had a lovely time. We saw Turnover, we saw.. Who else did we see?

Thomas: We saw SNAYX do a silent disco set which was an interesting experience. Just pulling the headphones away for a bit and being like “wow you actually can’t hear anything” and there’s just loads of movement. It’s like in those videos where they add the sound of gym shows over mosh videos. It was kind of like that, the sound of bodies moving and nothing out.

Jim: We had a lovely Friday night it was fun, you got here quite late didn’t ya!

Soph: Yeah I had to work unfortunately, but yeah I came and Jim was just passed out in the tent.

Jim: I literally was, I was asleep on the floor and they were just like “It’s party time!”. And I was trying to find our little sexy photographer [@approachthewolf] over there and I couldn’t find him and people were pitying. It was a good Friday! We had a good time, really nice, thank you for asking. I forgot the question.

YOU GUYS HAVE JUST DROPPED YOUR NEWEST SONG ‘HOTTEST DAY ON RECORD’, AND YOU’VE GOT A VERY POIGNANT T-SHIRT “NO MUSIC ON A DEAD PLANET”. ABSOLUTE BANGER, AND IT’S POST ELECTION NOW AS WELL. SO WHAT SUBJECTS DO YOU THINK FANS SHOULD BE FOCUSSING ON NOW?

Jim: I mean, you know we’re now patrons of Music Declares, people are tuning in because we’re involved now.. No I’m just being silly. Caring about the environment you could seem like a square but when the planet is burning and they can’t plant crops in countries because there’s droughts, there’s cities that go under water and people migrate. When that happens, and it will happen unless there’s change, now is the time to act. ‘Hottest Day On Record’ is a call to action. I feel there’s not enough bands talking about this, there’s a lot about the welfare of human beings but not about animals. It’s all intertwined and it’s time to be compassionate. We’ve all made mistakes as human beings and it’s time to right those wrongs.

ABSOLUTELY, AND YOU’RE USING THE POWER OF MUSIC TO GET THAT ACROSS. I’VE BEEN MEANING TO ASK, THE STOMPING.. I’VE CALLED THEM THE BIG JIM STOMPS.. WHERE DID THAT COME FROM?

Jim: The problem with being the singer is you’re kind of glued to the mic and there’s a lot of “how can I make this exciting for Mr or Mrs person over here, how do I make this fun?”. The stomp came from that. Honestly, when I lift the big toe on my left foot it’s incredibly painful. But we move, you don’t need to do that.

Thomas: Snake Eyes are willing to suffer for their art. My knuckles are all broken and gammy from smashing the drums, Jim’s toes are falling off, it’s just how it goes sometimes.

Jim: I break bones for the tones, do you know what I mean?

WE’VE BEEN ASKING ALL THE ARTISTS THIS QUESTION, HOW MANY TREES DO YOU THINK YOU CAN NAME IN 15 SECONDS? 3.. 2.. 1.. GO!

[ SNAKE EYES TREE COUNT: 9 ]

AND FINALLY, THERE ISN’T A MASCOT FOR 2000 TREES AS FAR AS I’M AWARE, SO I’VE DESIGNED ONE MYSELF. WHO BETTER TO NAME IT THAN THE ARTISTS - SO WE’RE LOOKING FOR A NAME AND A CATCHPHRASE.

Jim: Cumlord.. Nah I’m joking.

Thomas: I’m going to go with Treekachu..

WHAT IS TREEKACHU’S CATCHPHRASE?

Thomas: I think it would be something like “TREEKACHU [screeched]”.

Jim: Nah it would be something like “Front to back, side to side, open the pit up motherfuckers”.

I LIKE ALL OF THE ABOVE. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR CHATTING WITH ME, IF THERE’S ANYTHING YOU’D LIKE TO LET THE FANS KNOW NOW’S YOUR CHANCE.

Jim: ‘Hottest Day On Record’, all the money that we make on this track through streams, downloads and official merch is all being donated to GreenPeace and Music Declares in equal measure. It means a lot to us, it’s fucking important. Listen to the track, it’s the best song you’ll hear this year. We’re Snake Eyes and we love ya.

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