Popular interview Crocodiles

The 'Crocodiles' are a band that are constantly compared to ‘Echo & The Bunnymen’, that is because they do sound a bit like ‘Echo & The Bunnymen’. Rather than hide the profound effect that this influence has had on their own music their name pays an overt homage to their
heros.

Just before their gig at 'The Victoria' Popular conducted a roof top interview that is devoid
of any mention of Echo & The Bunnymen, focusing instead on far more pressing issues such as Football hooligans, pirate radio stations and Harvey Milk...

When asked how their UK tour was going the 'Crocodiles' concluded that
it had been fun despite the poor turnout at their gigs. Their Manchester gig had consisted of only 5 burly Mancunians who apparently did not hold back with their constructive criticism of the performance..

‘They where like you need to work on your guitar, your a good front
man but you need to work on your guitar…’

Luckily the gig at the Victoria was pretty heaving and there weren't
overly assertive, well-stacked Northerners to be seen. I often make the naïve assumption that all the bands who are from California must be from L.A. They are not…these guys are from San Diego. There’s also the assumption that the Californian music scene is all sunny, surf-y and The OC , but is that the case?

'We come from a really small town….(the music scene) Is healthier now than its been for a long time theres probably no more than 100 people into the stuff we’re into…culturally its lacking…probably like 5 or 10 cool bands…noone has more then 100 people at a show…the only bands that get really big in San Diego are really crappy blues bands and cheesy hard rocker, white reggae stuff’…

So maybe its not really worth a visit? Where in California should you go in search of the sights and smells?

'You should go to San Francisco it’s the biggest city in California…its really 'East Coast' and what I mean by that is that the West Coast is much younger than the East Coast is and the East Coast
is culturally a lot more exciting….LA sucks, its completely plastic I mean there’s some cool underground stuff going on but its probably pretty hard to find…unless you know people…

And finally, what do you think to ‘the London music scene', any stuff you like?

'Graffiti Island' and 'Pens' who are London based we did a
Westcoast tour with them…they where great…'