Hey!
Long time no update
Decided it was about time I put up the interview which shall be featured in SKIM (:

What made you and the rest of the guys form the band?

Well, I’d been writing music for a few years and I’d been playing in Open Mic acoustic nights at pubs and getting good reactions, especially from some of my own music, so I was kinda spurred on by that. I was in the middle of my degree at uni and it wasn’t the kinda place that you could really find other people wanting to be in a metal band, so I advertised on the net for people to join a band and it just went from there. I’d tried applying for a couple of other bands in London and I got quite far but never made it (thank god!) but the whole experience of it made me really focussed on getting together my own band back home in Edinburgh.
 
How did you and the rest of the band meet?

It was through advertising on the net. Obviously back in the day you used to put adverts in the back of music magazines (like Metallica did way back!) but nowadays it’s all online… and basically it’s kinda like Match.com for band dudes! Haha! Basically you see an ad you like, email the guy and then go on a blind date with him and see how you get on – it’s certainly an interesting way of doing it! Luckily I found Jonny and Iain straight away and none of us were so weird that we put the other ones off, so that was good. Then Stevie joined about a year after I initially met Jonny, just a couple of months before I left uni and we recorded the EP – again, he saw we were looking for a guitarist, messaged us on myspace and it went from there. Then Olli joined at the end of 2007, after Joe left the band… again he’d seen something online about it. He actually was playing (and still does sometimes) with a band that we’d done a show with a while back so I think that’s how he’d come to know about us. Funny how things like that happen!
 
Who came up with the band name and how?

I’d always loved the name Serpico and it was just one of those names that I said to everyone and they were like… yeah, sounds good. Normally there’s someone that goes… “hmmmm… yeeeeaaah, maybe….” But everyone was just like, “Serpico… ok… cool” and that was that!
 
Who writes most of the songs or is it a joint effort?

Normally I’ll come up with the basic structure and some lyrics, then we kinda workshop it a bit with the rest of the guys. Normally I’ll have some ideas in my head about how things should go, but I can’t always realise it on the different instruments. So I’ll have an idea about a beat in my head and then Jonny will play what he’s thinking and we’ll kinda work something from there. Same with the lead guitar, Stevie will improvise and we’ll kinda go… that bit’s awesome, that bit’s not bad but could be better etc. So I come up with the songs and then we come together to flesh it out. I kinda like to use the analogy with a script writer – I’m the guy who comes up with the overall vision of what’s going to happen, the “who, when, why, what, where” of the story… but then when the actors who’re going to be playing the characters come in, they’ll often add new touches, little nuances to a character that that weren’t explicitly in the script and that’s what the rest of the band do. They flesh out the songs. Also though, they’re my first port of peer review on the songs… so when I write a new song I’ll send it to them and they basically get to chop it down or not! So there’s a lot of power there!
 
What is the first song you wrote and how did you go about it?

I think the first song I wrote, certainly music-wise, was a song called Decline that, if we’d had more time in the studio we’d have probably recorded as a B-side for the album, but we didn’t! I’d only just got my first guitar and kinda learned how to do

Hey! (:

Woah...Haven't written a blog in a while
Updating time xD

First of all....
The guys next single.
Anbody who has facebook should add Mikey ( http://www.facebook.com/mikeyserpico )
He is having a poll about what song should be their next single
At the moment Godforsaken, Feeling Minnesota and Last Honest Cops seeem to be the most popular but vote and see if your favourite song could be the next single

Next is the interview (:
For a school magazine I got an interview with the uber awesome Mikey xD
At the moment I am editing it and getting it ready to put in the issue but I shall put it up here as soon as I has it all done so you gusy can read it (:

That's it for now
Laterz
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Serpico are back (:

The guys just announced on their myspace today that the band will be playing the Youth 4 Youth festival with Fightstar on the 5th of September. The festival is being held in Bristol.
Serpico will be on about 7pm and tickets are £5 in advance.
This is Serpico's first gig in Bristol since they played with Kill Hannah last October, so people better get their asses to this gig