WE ARE SORRY!..

We send our apologies to Kids In Glass Houses - For nearly ruining their career!

Published: 13th May 2010

Just a few meters away the representative from their management is making a call to the band. She's telling the lads that we have arrived to conduct our scheduled interview unaware that we have met the guys before. In a matter of fact when four quarters of Kids In Glass Houses emerge from their backstage dressing room they are also oblivious to the fact of our meeting back in August 2008. There is a perfectible explanation to their memory loss and it's all thanks to alcohol.

Rewind back to just over a year and a half ago. We find ourselves backstage at the Reading festival drinking with members of KIGH especially Iain Mahanty. It's late, gone 1am and thanks to a mixed concoction we formed when we purchased Iain's drink, or should we say drinks, their debut festival performance which will open the NME stage at midday will be cut short as Iain will be sick just twenty minutes into their act.

Iain incidentally is the one missing when we first meet the band prior to their show in Bournemouth last night. He will eventually join us when we finally find ourselves in an adequate environment to have a chat, this being inside their tour bus thanks to heavy drumming for their support act, General Fiasco and a threatening downpour as we retreat outside for some peace and quiet.

The tour bus, their second on this tour thanks to a clutch malfunction in their first, houses the crew of twelve including the band themselves. This could possibly explain why the lads from Wales (Aled Phillips, Iain, Philip Jenkins, Joel Fisher and Andrew Sheehy) seem to suffer sleep deprivation or maybe it's has something to do with the typical 'rock 'n' roll' lifestyle bands are forced to adhere to.

Joel and Aled, the most talkative of the band, tell us their foreseeable schedule will see them playing Radio 1's Big Weekend next weekend which also sees the American band 30 Seconds To Mars playing to competition winners in Bangor. Careful planning or sheer luck shows that the two bands are playing separate days as the two do not see eye to eye.

Iain reveals that the band members from 30 Seconds To Mars came across as arrogant during a recent tour which KIGH supported and a later press junket was arranged where their paths didn't cross despite being under one off at the same time. At the other end of the scale the band list Lostprophets as their closet buddies, a further nod to their fellow welsh pals will see them cover 'Matters At All' nested within tonight’s set list.

We ask Aled how they face up to criticism, the lead singer shrugs it off, especially after a distasteful review of their latest album, 'Dirt' appeared in NME; a publication, which according to Iain has writers who 'Don't know what they are talking about'.

Before we leave it's just about time to remind the band about our first encounter we had with them; especially Iain. We confess that it was us who spiked his drinks that summer evening. Iain gives us an evil smile and accepts our apology albeit through biting his tongue, he evens pencils us in for a pint at next weeks Radio 1 Big Weekend, although we presume he means after their performance this time.