a friend of mine texted me and said i just had a meeting where these people
mentioned they want to make a horror film with the foo fighters and at first i thought
that's the stupidest idea i'd ever heard and why would we ever do something that ridiculous
dave and nate from the foo fires great to have you on board uh we're going to start with a bold
statement if the beatles have had the special effects studio 666 is the movie help could have
been i think it's the movie get back could have been you just sort of throw in a couple
chainsaws and and butcher knives you would have had studio 660. um the two slogans from the movie
that i want to get put onto a line of t-shirts if possible are kiss my grits and meditating in the
air i want to get that on a t-shirt as well we can make that happen coffee mugs t-shirts yeah
whatever you need i thought for sure you're going to jam high five on that one i did too
i saw that one high five and you're my second favorite man after coldblade that's what i yeah
remember you guys have never done a music video by halves when did you first come up with the idea of
a film it happened about three years ago and it wasn't really my idea at first a friend of mine
was in some business meeting and texted me on his way out and said i just had a meeting where
these people mentioned they want to make a horror film with the foo fighters and at first i thought
that's the stupidest idea i've ever heard and why would we ever do something that ridiculous but
then we we started making our record in this old house which is the house in the film we actually
made our record there and so i started thinking well wait we have the house why don't we just
finish making the record take a couple weeks off and then make some really low budget slasher fun
horror film and so i came up with the idea that band needs to make a record bam boom moves into
creepy old house the house happens to be haunted i become possessed i murdered the entire over
creative differences and then i go soul and that was it and then from there it just kind of like
just snowballed into this huge avatar project that was like oh my god we made a [ __ ] movie
i never tell everybody that the house was haunted while we were making the movie yeah and it was all
gonna be like get it and then real life and the film and people won't know what's what just i
mean i gotta be honest like you never know what's what's what comes next talking about the kiss my
grits uh apron that you're wearing whilst grilling you i felt that during the movie you allowed your
grilling skills to come under a bit of ridicule we've spoken to you before on home time and
you've actually got you're quite an accomplished barbecuer so that's quite big of you to do that
listen don't talk smack about my barbecue sensitive or you'll see what happens in 666.
you were saying just a few moments ago that you know this this was your idea and you've
you've let everyone in the band throughout the film have a go at
your grilling is is that you becoming self-aware or have you been stitched up
well okay so that basic simple idea the premise of the whole film that was mine
and then we handed that to these screenwriters this woman rebecca and her husband jeff
and um so they came up with a lot of these sort of like inside jokes and i think what they were
doing and talking about my lousy barbecue they were setting up chris shifflett's ultimate demise
he was the one that talked the most about my barbecue so guess what happens uh nate can
i commend you as well and congratulate you on uh some amazing knitwear during the movie channeling
80s college slasher movie vibe it's really the star of the film yeah yeah kick-ass cardigan's
happening there yeah that's what happens when you hire scooby-doo to be your stylist for a film
there are some amazing stuff there's definitely a sideline of of merch there with some of the some
of the uh the bing crosby-esque uh knitwear i don't know if you know this we're selling
pat smear nightcaps have you seen those oh yeah there's some amazing deaths in the movie
obviously um do you have a particular favorite uh were they a collective enterprise coming up with
the ideas of these deaths or is one person sicker than the other and they come up with all of them
there's the death and then there's the other ones that's kind of the way it breaks down like there's
romney dies in a particularly fantastic way yeah yeah he doesn't die of natural causes
there was a one person this their special effects guy tony gardner he was the one that came up with
most of the ideas for the kills and he's like old school hollywood sci f special effects legend
so i mean he you know he's been coming up with murder scenes his entire life so you know he he
tried to sort of go a little bit deeper with romney's kill scene but although chris's is
pretty good too i like nate um like they're all just so ridiculous it's great uh you could tell
straight away that you guys uh love your horror movies i noticed in the opening credits when i saw
john carpenter's name on there so you know you got like you went right to the top in terms of pure uh
royalty for horror movies yeah it's funny um that happened purely by chance and coincidence that um
our lighting designer the guy who's our lighting guy on tour dan dan went out and did lights
for john carpenter when john carpenter went on tour and performed his music for live audiences
so when we told dan that we were making a horror film dan's like oh my god i know john carpenter
you should email him and see if he'll make a cameo and i thought there's no way like why would
he ever have anything to do with us this is but i emailed him and i said hi my name's dave in a band
make it a horror film and i guess like 15 years ago we took his son's band on tour and um so he
went back and said hey since you treated my son so well on tour not only will i be in your film but
i'll also write the theme song so it was amazing jackpot we hit the lottery get the horror lottery
um there's a lot of doritos throughout the movie is that i wonder why
wait a second i saw a pabst blue ribbon in there too
maybe a little bit of jameson's yeah i mean you know none of us first of all we we paid for this
entire film ourselves and just kids movies aren't cheap and so um yeah so this whole like i don't
know corner of the production office that deals with those sort of endorsements and i didn't
realize this was happening until there was a scene where i was kind of drinking this fear and they're
like uh okay dave let's do that one more time but make sure you hold the label towards the camera
nobody needs to be going to update the foo fighters wikipedia page just yet and say that
doritos are their potato-based snack of choice i mean i gotta be honest i usually go straight
to the doritos and i'm not just saying a lot of money they bought you they bought you now
before they paid me millions of dollars you're haunted by writer's block
in studio 666 your nine albums now in surely you're never actually haunted by writer's block
i mean most of the time we like you know we walk into the studio with almost too
much here i'll show you actually this is what it's like in the food fighters rehearsal studio
like this is what this is what we're talking about here wow white boy this is what we have to
this is what we have to do to write a [ __ ] set list now like whiteboards nate's do you hate it
when dave gets on the whiteboard did it wind you up do i hate it when it gets on the whiteboard
no because i yeah no i i'm detail-oriented that way i like a plan i like things to be laid out
and when things get a little organized i'm in my little comfort zone so it stuns me that a
massive band like you guys could be working with white boards because that's laced with danger
one person brushes against that white board with a heavy coat dave and you've lost so much work there
well yeah but then again like you can sniff those friggin pens all day long and come up jam
why do you think we play for three hours now yeah this is [ __ ] dance
get him on the pad get him on the man
speak speaking of accidents there's some great stunts in the movie uh dave how much time clean
of accidents are you so far uh six months clean one year clean of fallen over breaking anything
why are you gonna [ __ ] jinx it dude come on i'm on i'm gonna be running right now uh i haven't had
a proper accident in a while um i have i have been dancing a lot on the weekends in my friend's uh
living rooms so maybe yeah i might i might you know pull a calf muscle every now and then
and i'm just and i'm dehydrated
that's painful it's always great fun having you on the show thank you so much i feel like we see you
guys more than we see our own children i mean we're doing an interview it's great to see you
again there's this place uh grand master that we actually recorded our second record in that was
uh a place where they uh shot points i remember talking to that one yeah then you're just
oh and it's a restaurant now