The Vamps are here! Yay lads. You're in Birmingham, and I know perhaps you're good at the accent,
but give me a little bit of ol'.
Well, I am from Birmingham.
I know. I just said you're good at it because you're from here.
Yeah yeah.
You alright, babe?
You're not from Australia.
How's it going mate?
Yeah, we're here to play Fusion Festival 2014. It's going to be a good day. How's it going?
And that was Joey Essex.
Yeah. Alright, mate? Yeah.
I said to him the other day, right?
The Essex thing by the way. Have you heard about Arg today?
Yes.
Arg? I know Arg.
What happened? Oh, he's missing, isn't he?
Yeah, he went missing, but he just ended up breaking his phone. And he went to the wrong airport.
So, I'm just thinking, when have you guys really let yourself down?
What? Got lost?
Yeah, like anything.
Singapore. Singapore, I got lost.
What happened?
-I did as well. -In Singapore, in the airport.
It was on the way back from Australia, and like, you stop at Singapore, and I just got lost.
I nearly died that day.
Can you just tell me why you nearly died that day? Elaborate on that.
Everyone's just delirious because I remember everyone just left, and I was just on my own
in the lounge, and I was like... Where has everyone gone? And they came back like...
I remember that in sepia... You know like the effect? I remember it all in sepia, like a
flashback in Breaking Bad or something.
That's the 21st century, that you're talking in Instagram language.
Yeah...
You guys just landed from the US Open, right?
Yes.
You guys are living the dream right now. Did you ever dream that you'd be doing some tennis
event in America?
I love tennis. I actually didn't. I've been watching the US Open for... It's like a family
thing, we watch it, and it's crazy to perform an event.
It's insane. How do you guys cope with this lifestyle you're living?
Go away!
Sorry.
Attack of the flies. You guys are living the dream.
Cornflakes and Red Bull.
Right. Healthy. I hear ya.
Just sleep, and that's about it.
And do you block the screaming out now because you just want to cross there and you have
women fainting?
They're nice. The screaming is nice. We give them a wave, meet as many as we can. They're
lovely, lovely fans.
What are you doing before you go on stage? Like something mental? Like something really bandy?
Sometimes there's a few things that happen. Yeah, occasionally. It depends.
Last time I met you guys, you spoke about windmills or something.
Windmills. Yeah, we do windmills.
God, what have we said?
It was one of the best moments of my career. Thanks for that.
So you're loving Vampettes and whatever. What can they expect next? Give us a little bit
of a clue about...
Our tour.
I know you're going on tour, aren't you?
Starts next week. The week after. Two weeks.
Did you ever dream you'd be doing that?
-No. -That's absolutely insane, is it not?
It's kind of weird because we went on tour with McFly and watched them do their headlines.
They've done loads of headline tours, but like the headline tour that we're now going
on to do is a similar sized event. So it was really weird to kind of come full circle.
So you've done a lot in a year. What are you thinking about for August 2015? What do you
want to achieve by then?
Well, the second album should be well on the way by next summer. So that's something we're
looking forward to. We're also doing another tour next year - like a world tour of the
whole thing.
Right.
But nothing's been announced yet. I shouldn't have said that.
It's just been announced.
There it is.
-Yeah, there you go. -It's been announced.
And where are the best fans? Where are the crazy, most mental fans?
Spain.
We're releasing our music in Botswana.
Yeah. Hits 90 whatever we're up to.
I do remember the crazy fans in Brazil taking the album to 383 in the charts I believe.
No, the fans are great everywhere. Yeah.
-San Jose was good. -Yeah.
Like we just did six weeks in America. They're kind of the same. They're just awesome everywhere.
Worldwide.
-Just different accents. -Just different accents.
Basically. Mr Worldwide himself.
It's going down. Freaking Timber.
Can we have some kind of impression of Pitbull?
Timber.
Good one.
Timber. Can you do the eeeeee.
We want to meet him.
That sounds like a mad Brazilian person. That's from Pitbull.
I believe he's American.
Hoping for a selfie later with Pitbull?
Oh yeah. That's our objective of the day.
And Dizzie as well? You've got to have a Dizzie impression.
Bonkers. That's all I've got.
And guys, collabs. You must be bored of it, but who can we expect?
Pitbull. First exclusive.
First exclusive. And what about Dizzie? 5 Seconds of Summer?
Madonna. We're speaking to Madonna about something.
It'll start happening on our second album because we do like doing collaborations.