Caught In The Crossfire Interview

I had a feeling that interviewing Houdini Dax wouldn’t be like interviewing any other band. I knew this before I had even climbed to the top of the stairs that lead out of See Monkey Do Monkey’s office and onto an obscure rooftop garden surely crafted by either Alice herself or a feng-shui expert who fell down a similar rabbit hole. You see, Houdini Dax simply aren’t like other bands. They haven’t released a full-length album yet and have already gained a whopping fan-base in South Wales and the collected respect from fellow Cardiff musicians and radio DJs alike. It’s not difficult to imagine why, their reputation is justified by the tightly written and flawlessly played tunes that barely begin to explain why their live shows are so damn exciting.

But as I was setting up my recording equipment, the idea that this wouldn’t be like any other interview was confirmed. I simply sat and watched, as four impeccably dressed, monstrously talented bastards so much younger than me play and climb on the rejected Wonderland stage props and pour each other cups of rain water tea whilst hollering esoteric in-jokes that I could barely comprehend yet couldn’t help but enjoy. Houdini Dax are a bucket-load of fun and with their debut LP due this Summer are expected to become a major blip on the rock ‘n’ roll radar. Darling, you belong to Dax…

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