DEVIL'S ISLAND featuring Arctic Dreams
Welcome to this weeks edition of Devil's Island! Every week we maroon a band or artist on the island and see what they get up to, how they cope with being all alone on a small island in the middle of the ocean. It's not your average desert island and we'll see just how each person copes with the extreme conditions.
This week when we arrived at Devil's Island we find Arctic Dreams sat on the beach. The island is far from their home, so how did they end up here and how did they cope with life on Devil's Island?
Find out now...
Welcome to The Razors'e Edge and our somewhat lovely, warm desert island. Don't worry about it's name I'm sure it's not as bad as that would suggest.
You're marooned here on this island, but before you ended up shipwrecked you chose one album that you couldn't live without. Which album did you each chose and why?
Alex_Y: It will be Metallica's 'S&M2'. It lifts the spirits and makes building from scratch easier. We'll turn it on and build a settlement on the island))
Syd: I’ll grab some Russian rappers to frighten off dangerous animals
Glam Dickens: I just woke up without nothing and don't understand what's happening and where I am, because they have taken me drunk dead right after the show.
Just behind that palm tree is a shack for each of you to stay in, with enough space for you to put up a poster on the wall of one album cover. What album cover do you each chose?
Alex_Y: I think it will be 'Brave New World' (2000) by Iron Maiden. I think it's the best album in the new place.
Syd: 'Sgt. Peppers' by Beatles - not to feel so deserted and to have some company
Glam Dickens: I'll find a white sheet of paper - let it be the one by The Beatles.
There's also a bar on this here island. But alas each of you only get to choose one drink for the entirety of your stay. What's your tipple of choice?
Alex_Y: Multifruit juice. It's full of vitamins that you need in an acclimatisation situation.
Syd: But there’s no police on the island? Why not just take it? But we’re not barbarians, we have capitalism. Let’s fund a holding with another bar and merge it when on the edge of bunkruptcy, which is inevitable cause we’re the only buyers to create demand.
Glam Dickens: Let it beer!!!
Your suitcases were lost when your ship sank, but you each managed to salvage one item of band merch. What’s the merch and for what band?
Alex_Y: It will definitely be our merch. The first item is AxeSYDSpade. It's a stalk like this, with a shovel on one end and an axe on the other with a machete sticking out of it, like a medieval axe. Just the thing you need for building and cultivating the land. The second subject will be AlexFIRE_Y. Represents a universal lighter based on nanotechnology. Man became man when he got fire.) The third is, of course, the GlamGUN! A versatile automatic rifle for hunting and defending a settlement.
Syd: I would lose it anyway: my hands are full with the CD-R and Beatles poster
Glam Dickens: Undies of our fans from the show
You’re sat on the island thinking “I’m stuck here on this island with my bandmates for eternity”… who would you rather have been shipwrecked with?
Alex_Y: That's not going to happen. We'll probably be stuck with our equipment. That means we'll be playing metal 24 hours a day. So we'll be heard and quickly discovered!
Syd: With instagram. Why eat than if you can’t post it?
Glam Dickens: A volleyball like Tom Hanks in Cast Away.
There's a walkman in your pocket, on the tape inside is the recording of the one live show that stands out for you. It could be any show, from any band, anywhere in the world. What show is on that walkman?
Alex_Y: I think it will be some kind of Cradle of Filth concert
Syd: It’s a reality show: aliens from other worlds come here and discover how these humans have overcome poverty, hunger, diseases, wars, corruption and have build a flourishing happy planet.
Glam Dickens: Does anybody have batteries?
You're getting desperate, you decide the only course of action is to put a message in a bottle and hope someone finds it. Your message could be to any member of any band, but should be the most suitable for a rescue attempt. Who is it?
Alex_Y: It will be Bruce Dickinson for sure. We'll calculate the coordinates with a protractor and a spyglass, write them in a message and ask him to come for us on his Flight 666.
Syd: 0011100100011110010 0101111000111001111 1111101011101101001
Glam Dickens: To Gene Simmons, because he should have enough money, boats, aircrafts and helicopters... but this venture would have been doomed to fail, because he seems to be greedy.
You've been stuck here for a while and food supplies are running low. There's only one thing for it... which fellow band member gets sacrificed to help the others survive?
Alex_Y: I think we can do without it, because we can take the strings off all our guitars and make one big fishing string. There's a lot to be made from seafood.
Syd: I’ll ask german engineers to come up with alternative sources of food energy
Glam Dickens: Collective ritual suicide.
Finally, when the ship sank you each managed to save one person from the wreckage. That person is the one musician that has influenced your career the most, shaped your way of thinking and your outlook on life. Who did you save?
Alex_Y: I think it's going to be James Hatfield
Syd: I’ll save Jesus Christ, so now he can save the rest of us
Glam Dickens: Gene Simmons... perhaps he will turn out to be not so greedy.
