So this is your first time playing Low Cost Festival....
Rab: Yes! We've done some festivals here before like Benicassim, Summer Case, Dia de La Musica in Madrid, BBK Bilbao - It's always been great whenever we come to Spain.
Have you been to Benidorm before?
Rab: No, our manager Denise came when she was 18 and James came as well when he was 16 and I think that was the first time he ever got really drunk and threw up.
What was the first gig you ever attended as fans?Jonna: It was probably some Swedish act, I don't know, I want to say some cool band like "oh yeah, that was the first gig I went to". [Laughs]
Rab: I saw The Bootleg Beatles, that was my first ever gig in Glasgow, in the Royal Concert Hall, and after that I saw Travis and about ten bands in a month.
Where is your favourite venue to go to in Glasgow?
Rab: Barrowlands, definitely.
Jonna: I've only been to Barrowlands once, I saw The Vaccines there and it was really good.
Rab: I saw Oasis there in 2001, we've played there twice. Once we supported The Wombats, that was good fun, there were lots of kids with glowsticks. All the parents were at the back of the hall and all the kids were at the front, I think James ended up threatening someone because they threw a glowstick at him. It was one of our first ever gigs just before we signed to Columbia and all of the big people from the label were there.
You've supported Oasis on tour, that must have been an amazing experience?
Rab: It was funny because that was the band that we kind of got into music with and then we supported them, so it's a strange thing but it was fun.
Was it kind of "dream come true" or did you get a bit disillusioned?
Rab: They were the sweetest guys, even Liam [Gallagher] is a bit of a pussy cat. He walked around backstage with his leopard print slippers on. He came in to talk to us and was saying that when he was our age he loved The Stone Roses and then he met Ian Brown and we were saying "oh we've met you" and he was really humble. He met my mum and James' mum and gave them hugs and kisses. He's a big pussy cat, he really is, you heard it hear first...
Rab: We're actually playing it with The Proclaimers, I think it's one of the first gigs, it's like the Scottish Showcase kind of thing so it's us and Roddy Hart and The Proclaimers, I think it's going to be great.
Jonna: That's gonna be mad! Our biggest gig I think, we might have played a wee bit bigger at festivals but not like a one-off venue.
You've just changed record company to BMG, do you feel that's a better direction for you creatively?
Rab: To be honest, I don't really think it was a creative thing, I think we were going to release the album on our own.
Jonna: It feels like we've got a bit more to say about things in general. We don't feel the pressure of "oh, we think you should release this and this..."
Rab: The thing is with Sony, we had complete control, we decided everything that happened but it's just that they would put pressure on us to try and do other things.
Jonna: They would suggest something...
Rab: BMG are basically funding us and we're putting our own team together and they're letting us run with it. They loved the album and that's why we signed with them. We'd been offered other record deals but with them, they loved the album as much as we did.
Jonna: It feels so good to actually have the album and then sign with them.
Rab: We haven't had any issues, everything has been great so far, we've met the people from BMG in Spain and they're lovely and paid for our drinks!
Have you eaten much Tapas while you've been here?Rab: We actually all went out for Tapas in Glasgow about a month ago to Cafe Andalucia in the West End, there's one in Byres Road and it's really nice too. I love Tapas! We've been to a few restaurants but my girlfriend on really eats pizza and pasta, she doesn't eat meat so it's been limited. She had a pizza everyday for like three or four days [Laughs] so we've had to broaden our horizons a bit.
Jonna: It's been good, we've been getting the swordfish and all that.
Rab: Pretty exotic for Glaswegians.
Your album comes out in September, will you be doing a promo tour for it?
Rab: We've started doing a bit, I keep forgetting it's only not long now. We usually do quite a lot of press, I think there are some gigs planned as well but I'm not really sure, in Europe not the UK.
Jonna: We never know what's going to happen in advance, someone just tells us. We're lucky if it's as much as three days before, usually it's like "tomorrow, you're doing this".
Rab: We get told day to day.
Where's your next big tour?
Rab: September/October we do a big UK tour and then November/December we do a big European tour, we're playing Madrid and Barcelona.
I loved watching Glasvegas perform on the main stage at Low Cost Festival, Jonna is the craziest and most incredible drummer I have ever seen. The new album Later... When The TV Turns To Static is released 2nd September 2013.
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