FRUIT TONES INTERVIEW - BUZZCOCKS ARE A BIG FRUIT TONES INFLUENCE
FRUIT TONES have released their second studio album, PINK WAFER FACTORY, in november last year. Tom Harrison (guitar and vocals) answers our questions. First of all, how did you come to Rock music ? What was the first time you enjoyed music and which band was it ? The first music I ever bought was Pulp’s Common People single on cassette, I got into more rocking stuff through listening to my parents music collection, my Dad had a Sex Pistols CD that was probably my introduction to punk and my Uncle gave me his old records which had a lot of Velvet Underground, Beatles , Stones kind of stuff. An old man at a cafe I worked in on weekends saw me wearing a Rolling Stones t-shirt and gave me a load of the old blues stuff that influenced the Stones too so I started exploring all the roots of that sound as well. How old were you when you first played an instrument ? My Grandad had a piano/organ that I used to mess about on as a kid and I remember a small toy guitar as well but I couldn’