What inspired the name of the band? What are your influences and are they the same as when you started out?
Well , Sig is the name of the singer ,guitarist ,songwriter (That’s me) I suppose I would have to say that I thought it was about the right time to stand up and be counted . Lol . But I also wanted to give the rhythm section (The other two guys in the band –Dave n Duggie they’re own identity . I like literation ..( The use of letters to represent sounds, words, etc., in a language, So ,Sig has an i in it and I wanted to carry that on, so it rolls off the tongue ..Hence Fire Pilots ..(Sig And The Fire Pilots) As for influences , There are many , For me I would say ,Squeeze-Early Police-Lynnot-Marley and Lennon. Dave loves Funk , He has his own radio show on Cannock Chase FM .. So his influences range from The Chilli Peppers to Funkadelic to Queen , And Duggie is a bit more on the heavier side ,Soundgarden-Sex Pistols-Green Day But I have this mantra that I like to live by ..”Don’t Limit Yourself” So Good music is good music !
How do you decide what to write?
Ideas come from everywhere , It can be a bit of birdsong outside your bedroom window in the morning , Or (Like Click Bait) It can be your best mate suggesting that you write a song about it . Or it can be a guitar riff that you are messing about with or a phrase .Or the best of all is that ephemeral place in-between dreaming and waking when the band starts playing in your head .. Lol
How do you decide what to write?
Ideas come from everywhere , It can be a bit of birdsong outside your bedroom window in the morning , Or (Like Click Bait) It can be your best mate suggesting that you write a song about it . Or it can be a guitar riff that you are messing about with or a phrase .Or the best of all is that ephemeral place in-between dreaming and waking when the band starts playing in your head .. Lol
Why?
I suppose its down to the influences that I have ..Although ,I might write the songs , but they wouldn’t sound the way they do without Dave n Duggie. I call them , “Quality Control” ..It has to get past them before it gets accepted ..And then they put they’re stamp on it ..
How do you decide what to play live?
We sort of work it all out at rehearsal, Sometimes we like to rock out , But sometimes we like to play more of the laid back songs that we have ..We do have quite a catalogue , So we can mix n match it depending on the crowd …
How do you decide what to play live?
We sort of work it all out at rehearsal, Sometimes we like to rock out , But sometimes we like to play more of the laid back songs that we have ..We do have quite a catalogue , So we can mix n match it depending on the crowd …
What plans do you have for the future?
We are trying to secure some festivals for this summer , Although we have left it pretty late for this year ..Dave runs a venue in Cannock called The Station , so he’s kinda well connected for getting gigs , We are trying to get on at the Rock n Blues ..But like I said , we may be a bit late ..But we will keep rehearsing and trying newer material , Working on backing vocals , that kind of thing .Getting ourselves tighter and tighter ..Its great fun , And so we will just keep enjoying what we do and see what happens ..