DEVIL'S ISLAND featuring The Heir Apparition
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 The Heir Apparition 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?
Reece: I mean I'd wanna say my favourite album which is Good Apollo by Coheed, but really I should pick something a bit more relaxing and optimistic, so I'd go with I/O by Peter Gabriel.
Adam: Maybe Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness, partly cause it's a fantastic album but also because its really long. I'f were only stuck with a small amount of music
we need as much of it as possible haha
Jake: Hell Is For Heroes - The Neon Handshake. I vividly remember hearing this album when it was new, I was like 10. I'm not sure what it is about that album but it just has "it".
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?
Reece: Ah man, thats actually a tough one. I think a couple of my absolute favourite album covers are Dio - Holy Diver and Fair To Midland - Fables From A Mayfly, so one of those. I'd most likely
pick Fables.
Adam: Purple Rain by Prince, i get to be reminded that Prince was the fuckin man and also thats a dope bike.
Jake: The Offspring, Conspiracy Of One. Again, this is a big nostalgia thing for me. I had a huge poster of it in my bedroom that I got years ago after a gig, it lasted ages.
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?
Reece: I don't drink alcohol in general but I love a summer fruit Oasis, especially if it's ice cold. That's the one.
Adam: A good whiskey sour, with two cherries and a slice of lime.
Jake: Jack Daniels. I'm basic.
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?
Reece: I'm gonna cheat a bit here and say one of those Cave & Canary Meteora guitars. The Dear Hunter have their own line of guitars, that definitely counts as merch right?
Adam: Do any bands sell hunting equipment? Knives or something?
Jake: It's always a shirt. I have so many band shirts, I'd have to grab one of my old band's white t-shirts, it might not stay that way for long on a desert island though!
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?
Reece: I mean I love these guys but I think Bear Grylls or some survivor type fellow would probably be a better outcome. Thinking less practically, Tom Hanks. He was shipwrecked once
and got home in the end, that's a true story.
Adam: I'm good with these guys if we've got access to instruments?
Jake: Someone with experience of escaping desert islands.
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?
Reece: Pink Floyd - Pulse, the earls court show from 1994, or Frank Zappa - Halloween 77.
Adam: Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells 2 live at Edinburgh castle. I had the VHS as a kid, I was fascinated by it.
Jake: Sum 41 at Manchester Academy, 26/2/2008. Watching videos of live performances is one thing but its totally different to actually be there experiencing it. This was my first gig
on my own and it was a wild experience. The energy remains unmatched to this day.
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?
Reece: Bon Jovi seems like the kind of guy to mount a rescue attempt from his yacht or whatever, I'll go with him.
Adam: You'd want to go with someone who could actually rescue you, so I'm going with Bruce Dickinson.
Jake: Yeah Bruce would do it, but I'd pick Dexter Holland for the same reason.
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?
Adam: Jake would be easier to scalp, from a cookery standpoint, but I feel like Jake would also probably be a good hunter so, I'm gonna say Reece. Sorry, hope you taste good.
Jake: Well I'm a vegan, but I'd also be quite practical in survival situations so... It'd be Reece.
Reece: Honestly I'm just gonna take one for the team here.
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?
Reece: Claudio Sanchez, easy.
Adam: Frank Iero, I've toured the world thanks to the inspiration I got from him. He's exactly what I've always wanted to be as a musician and a performer, somehow i've never met him, but I've
come close!
Jake: Tim McIlrath of Rise Against.
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