First of all why don't you introduce us to all the members and what there purpose in the band is?
-Graeme sings and does vocals, mitch drums, ben plays guitar, dave plays bass.
How did ya come up with your band name?
-We were looking through a dictionary trying to inspire some ideas and it seemed a good idea at the time.
What are all your feelings on how people are categorizing different punk bands, now a days?
-It doesn't really matter to us, it's always been a really big issue to everyone who tries to critise our band so I think we've almost become immune to it now.
What is your defination on what punk is?
-I wouldn't really consider us as a punk band, we're really really poppy a lot of the time. I love the energy and passion which comes across in a lot of bands which I would consider punk... we do try to go crazy when we play, that and the sense of freedom always seem to come up in "punk ethics", but it's something again that doesn't really matter to us, punk or not punk is something I think that just detracts from what we're actually trying to create with our band.
What bands have influence you?
-When we first started we were all listening to a lot of pop punk like mest and the Ataris, New Found Glory, blink 182 etc.. but now we're more into bands with a darker edge, we listen to a lot of Thursday, Counterfit, Fairweather, Coheed and Cambria, Park, Rufio, The Used, Taking Back Sunday.
What do you think is the most diffcult part trying to do the whole band thing? and getting into the bussiness?
-Keeping motivated, because keeping booking and driving to shows, sleeping in the car, carrying heavy stuff around with us all the time, having no money is sole distroying and a lot of the time it's really hard to focus on the actual shows and the music because all the fucking around inbetween takes up most of the time. We've done a lot of tours where we'd be playing to 20 people a night except maybe one or two shows, but things are geting better now and we've stuck at it, so that will pay off eventually.
What are some other bands that people should listen too?
-All the bands we talked about before.
Where can people find your music?
-www.appease.org.uk
If you had to describe your live show, what 2 words would you use?
-random and sweaty.
One final question, What are some random facts about you guys?
Dave is very lazy, but he still does most of the driving... mitch likes to sleep a lot, I worry a lot, Graeme writes all our lyrics and never sleeps while we're travelling unless he has passed out.