DEVIL'S ISLAND featuring Insult
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 Insult 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?
Jase Stallard: The album I would grab will be “Feel The Steel” by Steel Panther. This band makes me laugh so hard and they’re really good musicians. It will really piss off Steve as he hates them.
Jonny: Sacred Reich - ‘The American Way’ because I like to jam along on the guitar to keep my riffs tight.
Steve: Shit, that’s a hard one! I guess it would have to be something pretty chilled or I go mad! Probably The Big Chair by Tears or Fears! No damn it, God Hates us All - Slayer.
Robbie: Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd. A very big part of my coming of age. Just sends me off to another dimension.
Jason Howell: No more Heroes by the Stranglers, it opened a whole new world of music and attitude for me. Abba and disco became just a bad memory.
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?
Steve: I think Ride the Lightening - Metallica. I’ve just always loved the concept of that phrase and also the colours are so vivid. Just a great iconic album cover. Plus the songs are pretty damn good as well.
Jonny: Iron Maiden - ‘Powerslave’ because Derek Riggs artwork is mesmerising.
Jason Howell: Never mind the Bollocks by the Sex Pistols, just because!
Jase Stallard: Again, any Steel Panther cover just to piss Steve off.
Robbie: Exile On Main Street – Rolling Stones. I’m still trying to figure out who all the people in the photos are what they all mean.
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?
Steve: Ah, depending on where this is going to be shown that’s tricky as well. I’m assuming that its going to be hot so it would have to be a nice cold pint of Thatchers Dry Cider.
Jase Stallard: Pints and pints of Stella Artois. By the way, we all love a drink, apart from Jonny, bless. He’s banned from drinking as it turns him into a Berserker. There’s a song on our album about him.
Jonny: English Breakfast Tea, as my drinking days are behind me.
Robbie: Guinness
Jason Howell: Hobgoblin ale!
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?
Steve: I love my CBGB’s T Shirt so it would have to be that. Don’t tend to wear band T’s if I’m honest. That’s said, I do wear a Motörhead shirt while I’m playing.
Robbie: My Rammstein t-shirt.
Jason Howell: My destroy T shirt, associated with the Sex Pistols designed by Vivien Westwood, iconic.
Jonny: Anthrax - ‘Among the living’ t-shirt
Jase Stallard: I was unlucky with this. Managed to grab a recent Onslaught T-shirt but it appears to have a picture of Daffy Duck on the front. Trouble is, the boys have used this as loo roll as we’ve ran out.
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?
Steve: Easy! Bob Mortimer, I’d never be pissed off if I was sat with him all day long, or Ricky Gervais.
Jonny: Monica Belucci.
Jason Howell: The Corrs, if the brother ain’t there!
Jase Stallard: My direct family, though I would be the only guy with my five lovely daughters and my beautiful wife. Na, fuck that. The band is fine, and the here’s a bar here.
Robbie: Margot Robbie
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?
Steve: I have to say the best ever live performance that I’ve seen was Queensryche. I don’t have it recorded live but that was one hell of a gig. Fantastic playing, excellent sound and great stage presence. It was at the Town and Country Club in London, around 1988.
Jase Stallard: It’s Anthrax and the gig was at Hammersmith Odeon 1986. Their first show in Britain, now the O2 I think. I was in Onslaught at the time, and we were the support act. They were excellent and totally blew us off stage with their act. We wrote a song about it. (Lightning War).
Robbie: Live Magic – Queen.
Jonny: Slayer - ‘World sacrifice tour ‘88.’
Jason Howell: Ramones live London new year 76! Nonstop!
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?
Robbie: Sting
Jase Stallard: It would be Insults vocalist Jase H as he’s a Pirate (Bristol Rovers FC fan), and we will Rob and pillage everyone on the way home, just for fun. OoooAaar Jimlad!
Steve: I think that would have to be Door Peshe, she could come and spend a few days with me before I leave the island 😉
Jason Howell: Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden.
Jonny: Rob - He can fly a helicopter.
You've been stuck here 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?
Steve: It would have to be Jase Stallard. He could feed all four of us for a fortnight!
Jonny: Myself as humans taste like crap (apparently).
Jase Stallard: We can get by with one guitarist I suppose. They will have to play Rock, Paper, Scissors for it. Then, there will be more meat on Rob as he’s taller. Yes. We will eat Rob. Be great with some peppercorn sauce.
Robbie: Jase S as he’s the biggest
Jason Howell: Jase Stallard, yum yum
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?
Steve: Simple question to answer. Phil Taylor from Motörhead. I was lucky enough to spend 3 weeks out on the road with him and also helped set his kit up for a few days due to this drum roadie falling off the back of truck and fracturing his skull. Great bloke, great laugh and can play the drums pretty damn well. RIP Philphy Animal x x
Robbie: Keith Richards
Jase Stallard: Neil Peart. RUSH drummer/song writer. May he rest in peace
Jason Howell: Dave Grohl
Jonny: James Hetfield.
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