DEVIL'S ISLAND featuring Sleazy Money
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 Sleazy Money 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?
Connor: Well you won't catch me on the way to a show without at least one Motley record... and it's a toss up between Shout at the Devil and Girls Girls Girls. Both have an amazing track list!
Joe: Motleys a shout. For me though, my earphones are always pumping Metallica and It's gotta be the master of puppets album!
Franky: Straight outta left field, Reign Of Suffering by Malevolence. The whole album is just banger after banger and it'll keep me going while I try to get off the island!
Morgan: Yeah mine's not too lined up to those two either haha! I can never get enough of Blink182's self-titled album. Absolute bangers!
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?
Joe: Piece of Mind - Iron Maiden. All of Maiden's artwork is brilliant but of them all, piece of mind is the coolest!
Connor: Yeah Maiden got some serious real estate in the artwork department! So do Megadeth in that respect though! I'd have to say though, I love the Scorpions cover for Lovedrive. The back of the record sleeve is just as cool as the front too! Plus, it lets your imagination run when you don't have internet on a desert island too haha!
Franky: Dookie by Green Day. I don't mind the album itself but the cover is like a 'Where's Wally" with all the little details. It'll give me something to look at as a distraction.
Morgan: I've always liked the Homesick album cover by ADTR. There's just something about the style that I love!
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?
Franky: SCREWDRVERS! Vodka Orange to the uninitiated. Vodka for the buzz, Orange to fight Scurvy!
Joe: Double Jack and Coke hands down. If we're marooned then I'm partying until we're saved!
Connor: I love Strongbow Dark Fruits but would it be nice on a warm island? Probably not! So I'm going to say Disaronno and coke!
Morgan: Yes! I was gonna say Disaronno and cherry coke!
Connor: Ooh the cherry is a nice touch bro!
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?
Joe: My Misfits hoodie. It gets cold at night on an island, plus if any natives ask me to name three songs, I don't look like a poser!
Morgan: My most prized merch that I own of course! My When We Were Young festival long sleeve! It's crazy that the whole thing wasn't a hoax!
Connor: I'll do the opposite and say Coldplay or Kasabian or something because they absolutely suck and I want to be humiliated by the natives and look like a total poser. The total awkwardness of bumping into them every day may actually motivate me to get off the island!
Franky: Yeah, I'd go with an Iron Maiden colouring book. I don't know how i'd colour it in but that's part of the fun of finding things i guess!
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?
Morgan: If I had the choice, I'd probably doom Travis Barker to the same fate! At least I could try and learn something from the GOAT!
Joe: Probably Bear Grylls. He'd know how to help me survive plus I have someone to drink my piss for me!
Connor: Bear Grylls won't go anywhere if there isn't a hotel nearby bro, I think we've survived sketchier situations than Bear Grylls! Remember Grimsby? In my opinion, if I'm stuck here, I need comic relief so I can laugh myself into the grave. It's gotta be Ozzy hasn't it? RIP to the absolute LEGEND!
Franky: Comic relief is a must aint it, keep spirits high! I'd like to take Charlie Day from It's Always Sunny!
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?
Joe: Any of Sabbaths shows circa 2013. Down tuned and heavier than ever!
Morgan: Blink182 at Coachella 2023. It was the return of Tom Delonge and it gave me shivers. I actually have the whole show screen recorded on my phone!
Connor: You need to discover some adult websites dude, how often are you watching that show for it to be screen capped?!
Morgan: I watch it enough.
Connor: Hahaha! My choice is Limp Bizkit - Woodstock 99. Watching that crowd explode like that hypes me up so much. I was born just a little too late for that one but damn, i hope we can get a crowd bouncing like that one day!
Franky: Well one of the first bands i ever got into was Linkin Park and their Download performance in 2014 was incredible!
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?
Connor: Bono from U2. He's unbearable but he'd at least make an advert of himself pretending to help me and draw attention to the fact I'm stuck here alone. Surely someone would feel sorry for me that i had to endure him for any length of time and come get me!
Morgan: Rough! That's smart thinking bro, sacrifice your happiness for exposure. I sound like a few promoters we know now! I'd say Brian May of Queen. He's an astrophysicist so i'm sure he's smart enough to figure something out!
Joe: I'd say Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden. He can fly a plane so he can come pick me up and take me for a mixed doner and chips. I'd be clucking for one after eating sand for a week.
Franky: I'll say Steve Harris from Iron Maiden, because he knows Bruce!
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?
Connor: Franky. Sorry man, i love you but we're big boys and we gotta eat son.
Joe: Sorry Francis!
Morg: If it's any consolation, I'd cry while we chow down bro.
Franky: You all just want me inside of you, and I can respect it!
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?
Morgan: Travis, no questions asked. I would never have picked up a drum stick if it wasn't for his impact on my music taste from a young age. Plus I find his life story so inspiring after all he's been through in life that I'd probably be way more positive and upbeat about survival!
Connor: This is tough! So many people have shaped my style, taste and values. Ozzy always comes to mind there. I love how he never lost his working class roots. But that answer seems obvious so let's go with Fred Durst. I admired how he carried himself in the 00s. Controversial take but he gave absolutely 0 fucks for anyone and just did his own thing and thats what i aspire to be. You won't catch me kiss assing and censoring myself either!
Joe: Similarly, I'll say James Hetfield. I play an explorer for god sake! Massive influence on me and Alcoholica in the 80s knew how to party man!
Franky: Chester Bennington. If it wasn't for the pure angst and aggression in his vocals, I don't think music would be so prevalent in my life.
