The Whip have been on the tour with The Sunshine Underground now for going on two days. Bruce is currently still on his way to Northampton, deciding apparently to make full use of the good weather and have a late picnic somewhere or other. Therefore Craig Wellington, lead singer of the Sunshine Underground is sitting in for Bruce, as you do.

Earlier on Little Fi and Nathan Sudders were providing tips to Craig on improving riders, apparently Dandelion and Burdock is the way to go. Later on in the room Craig, sitting furthest back against the far wall, is returning the favour by offering tips for their forthcoming travels to Japan and between us both we inform The Whip of the possibilities of getting a whole change of clothes through vending machines. Apparently it could have come in good use on a recent trip to France as Danny explains.

“We were stranded there for four days,” he explains.

“It’s a nice place to be stuck if you’ve got some money,” adds the band’s bassist Nathan smiling.

“We went there to play a gig but there was a problem with Eurostar and we ended up being stranded,” continues Danny. “Mind you,” he adds. “We did have a nice beef fondue while we were there.”

Suddenly the topic of conversation turns to finer points of fondues French and Japanese style. The words ‘amazing’ and ‘boiling hot cauldron’ are uttered before Craig jokingly speaks on behalf of The Whip. “It was an idea I brought to the band when I came back from Japan.”

The band wasn’t formed under any unusual methods. The final line up created under friendships, recommendations and former band colleagues. Bruce and Danny themselves were from the highly underrated Nylon Pylon. In fact during the Whip’s set they play one of the band’s popular songs ‘Sister Siam’. >>