Marc managed to catch up with For The Foxes before the last show of the tour to talk about how they've enjoyed their first UK tour, The Revolution and more.

How has "The Revolution" gone down with the fans?
Nick: it's doing good. we released it last April in the states and we've been touring off that in the states. This is our first time over here, overseas and its coming out on the 15th over here so we'll see how it does. but the shows have been great so hopefully people will dig the album to.

How do you find the shows over here compared to America?
Nick: I think in America it's a lot more saturated, like there's so many bands and so many shows all the time. Here it just feels like kids are more into music and more excited about the shows, and almost all of them have been sold out.

Yeah they upgraded the room for this one.
Group: yeah

Danny: it's a lot of kids

Mikey: it's a big room

What's been the highlight of the tour so far?
Mikey: London

Danny : just being here all together's been really surreal. I've never been out of the country so just being here's been an incredible experience and I love it here.

Have you managed to see many of the places on the tour?
Nick: I wish we had more time like we saw a lot of cool stuff, Scotland was really nice. here's really cool. the drive here there's a lot of good sightseeing stuff.

Jimmy: we got to go to Camden market in London which I thought was crazy cool

Nick; yeah the Camden market, the the Beatles museum in Liverpool which was awesome.

Jonathan: On John Lennon's birthday

Nick: yeah on JL's birthday

Danny: I have ancestry in Wales and Scotland so it's really cool to be here. I'm from America where everybody's a mutt so I'm mixed, I'm a bunch of things. my last names Vassallo so everybody assumes I'm Italian but my mother her side of the family's German Scottish and Welsh so to visit these places and tell my mother about them is really exciting because she's never been.

Mikey: and the drive to Glasgow was beautiful. I got to look out the window and see some of the hills and some the scenery it was really awesome to check out

The weathers rubbish though.
Nick: yeah well the first half

Danny it wasn't really it was actually pretty good

Nick: in-between

Danny I think the first couple days it rained an the past couple days it rained but there was a stretch where it was really nice

Nick: yeah the first four days were like "does it rain every day here" but we didn't let it bring us down

Danny I'm a gloomy guy I can deal with some rain

Have you got any crazy tour stories? I know your van broke down.
Group: yeah

Nick: it was pretty terrible

Danny : we feel really bad we had to cancel a show. We tried our best, we even had a driver come to meet us but he showed up forty minutes late and that was going to make or break whether or not we got to play. and he just showed up to late.

Nick: we got to hang out with some of our UK label people from Hopeless when we were in London. so that was awesome. we went out drinking with them for a little bit so that was cool

Danny : that was some. super cool guy. hocked me up with my first cider. had my first pint in a pub out here. It's been a pretty serial experience. it's been cool.

Have you got any crazy party tricks?
Mikey: oh I've gotta ton of them straws in the room you can blow across em an make them whistle and stuff and pop em.

Jimmy: The guys in Natives, they're a band on the tour from Southampton. they taught me, my hands are actually cut up from trying but they're trying to teach me how to open a beer bottle with a water bottle.

Lee from Deaf Havana is really good at it

Jonathan: all the Natives guys are really good at it.

Jimmy: I nailed it like twice.

What was it like doing the video to "The Revolution"?
Nick: it was awesome. we kinda thought of the whole idea ourselves and we got to break a bunch of shit which was cool.

Jonathan: and we got cool haircuts out of it.

Danny : yeah, and Mary picked out a some really sick clothes.

Mikey: that was fun.

Danny : I wore some sick threads and got to smash some cool stuff it was fun.

Do you think it's important for the band to take charge and come up with an idea for the video?
Nick: yeah I think the more any newer band, anything they ca think of themselves the more innovative they can be about anything they're doing is great. we thought of the whole concept ourselves and we loved doing that kind of shit you know.

Mikey: there was a lot of people like with resources near where you live helping out.

Danny: yeah we pulled in as many strings as possible to help out.

Jimmy: we had the police on our side

Danny: yeah my cousins husband Alex is a cop in the area. he actually saw us as we were filming the scene in the barber shop. he pulled up outside and was like "what ya doin?" and saw the guys with the cameras and was like "filming our video". he was like "that's what I figured". I was like "alright, well were probably going to be breaking a bunch of stuff and riding dirt bikes so if you get a report of any vandalism behind Cherry Street it's just us so ignore it" I guess he let the guys know we were just breaking stuff back there an no cops came it was pretty awesome.

You've done some other video's haven't you?
Nick: yeah we've done some smaller acoustic stuff. this was like the first official production type thing.

If you could tell anyone to listen to one of your songs what would it be?
Jonathan: Personally my favourite is "Easy Way"

Mikey: I think for me Easy Ways the most fun to play but the one that means most to me on the album is "The River" I think, just cuz to a certain degree there's an amount of sacrifice we have to make for this band. there's people I miss at home and I think that song means a lot to me so it's one of my favourites.

Danny: the most fun for me to play are "Moonlight Ride" and "Revolution" but that's only because my roots are in punk rock and I get to play some punk rock drum beats. I'm sure everyone in the band could point out without me even saying it that those are my favourite ones to play.

Nick: the closest one to me is either "The River" or "Revolution".

I'll move on to our last question, would you rather be a giraffe or a zebra and why?
Jimmy: I'd rather be a giraffe cuz

Nick: sight- seeing.

Jimmy: yeah. you get a cool view. you're also able to reach all of the fruit at the top of the tree that other animals can't reach

Nick: yeah but then you're an easy target

Jimmy: whatever

Danny it's a tough call

Jimmy: having the giraffe print is pretty cool

Nick: dude zebra prints pretty tight.

Jimmy: it is tight I know

Mikey: zebra threads

Jonathan: I think I'd go with zebra

Danny: I like black and white so

Jonathan: in our Revolution video we have a big fibreglass zebra our buddy stole it from a closed down golf course

Danny: can we be a giraffe with zebra print because I'd do that

Have you got a message for your fans that read this?
Nick: I would say we appreciate everyone coming out to these shows and all the new people we met over this tour's been amazing. we're excited to come back for sure.

Interview By Marc Rich