Love Machine

The boys from Rizzle Kicks recently answered some questions for us and it’s fair to say they’re our best interviewees yet. We found out what they learned at Brit School, who would win in a thumb war and what they think about Irish girls. Amazing.

Hello Rizzle Kicks! How are you?
Yeah, fucking amazing. Yourself? We’ve just finished our DJ set in the Republic store to a buzzing crowd, the atmosphere was insane.

Have you ever taken a girl on a date to the cinema to see any of the movies in the Saw franchise?
Nah, that’s why we SHOULD HAVE.

Is it true that you entered into a rap battle with Ed Sheeran and who won?
Me (Rizzle) and Ed have had countless freestyle battles, it’s pretty much all we do. I reckon he had me recently outside Jamal’s (SBTV) birthday but then I got him back a bit at Reading Festival.
EVEN IF THE WOMEN FROM HIS LABEL DOESN’T AGREE IT DOESN’T COUNT, THE DECISION IS BIASED.

Please tell us something about your forthcoming album which you’ve not told anyone so far.
We wanted to put the last track first and the first track last.

As every song that Olly Murs did before you was awful, but the one you were on was incredible, do you feel that you possess an innate power to turn bad into good? Have you considered working with Pitbull to save us from any more appallingness?
Nah not really, but that would be an awesome power. To be honest Pitbull actually used to be quite sick, he had a tune called ‘Back Up’ back in the day which was good, then he started jumping on all this floor related malarki and released an album with the most lacklustre title humanly possible for him haha. I wouldn’t say that to his face though, look up ‘Pitbull punches fan’ into Youtube… Hard motherfucker.

We spent yesterday doing the housework, singing Don’t Go Breaking My Heart by Elton John and Kiki Dee. What songs have you been singing around the house recently? 
DJ Fresh - Gold Dust. Wretch 32 - Don’t Go. Sly and the Family Stone - Skin I’m in. Ed Sheeran - Drunk. Ummm.. Lauryn Hill - Lost Ones.

What did you learn from Brit School?
Never fuck around with a tight knit group of dancers and expect to get away with it.

You recently became officially famous and appeared at the Republic store at the new Westfield, Stratford City. Have you opened any school fetes yet, or will that come after your disappointing second album?
Yeah we did, we played a DJ set in-store and the crowd was insane…unreal atmosphere but we don’t really like the term famous but if that means we are then cool haha. Nah not yet, but if we mention enough small villages and the fact that we like turning on Christmas lights when we release the second album, there should hopefully be enough work to sort us out once it’s terribly received and we’re featured on MTV’s all time biggest drop outs. 

Who would win in a thumb war?
Harley is insanely good at thumb wars.

Have you ever got down with a trumpet? Like at band camp (American Pie 1)…
Brilliant. And no, but your mumzy has. I got pictures.

Please give us your predictions for 2012, 2013 and 2014.
2012 will be mainly occupied by the Olympics but will also have a bunch of people freaking out. In 2013, people will realise that the world hasn’t ended and that the Aztecs or Mayans just couldn’t be bothered to carry on writing calendars. 2014 people will be a lot more chilled and focus their conspiracy issues on how Iggy Pop and Carol Vorderman have refused to age. 

Who is your favourite Saturday?
Una. Irish girls are fantastic.

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