Bordeauxxx's Holiday Disasters

Hayfever to tell: Bordeauxx will be found in many a field this summer.

Back in May of this year, Bordeauxxx released their debut single and follow up to last year’s stormer of an EP Mother’s Ruin; the marvellously titled Every Holiday is a Disaster. The Guildford quintet, who all met at university, decided to start a band due to a mutual love of beautifully uncomplicated pop music, glockenspiels, and their guitarist’s haircut (their words, not mine!) They also have a music video which contains loads of balloons and a naked man. So far they’ve been championed by Tom Robinson on BBC6 and have played an impressive number of shows across the south of England – it’s fair to say it’s only a matter of time before they bring their infectious brand of indie-pop to northern climes. We certainly could do with some cheering up considering how damp this holiday season has been, eh?  It could be worse than soggy trainers and a t-shirt tan though, as I found out when I caught up with the band to discuss their own personal holiday disasters....

Jon (drums)
“My worst holiday was definitely a family camping trip to Hastings. I've got nothing against Hastings - it has some of the finest crazy golf courses known to man - but on this occasion it rained. And rained. And rained. I've got nothing against rain either, but when you have to get up at 2am to dig a foot wide trench around your tent and STILL wake up an hour later with an inch of water inside, it's probably time to call it quits and look up the local B&Bs...”

Martin (vocals/keys)

 “I once had a holiday experience that changed my life. If you're under say, twelve years old, everything I'm about to say is a lie. I was eleven at the time, in Spain with my mum and sister having a brilliant time - great weather, great hotel, we even made some friends which became pen pals for years to come. It was the last night, and we were all a bit sad to be leaving, though excitedly planning on doing the same thing the next year. To our surprise, mum agreed, since 'we all know the truth about Father Christmas now'. This of course was a fair plan - less extravagant Christmas, more exciting summer holiday. The twist is that I had absolutely no idea of this truth, and it's a sentence i'll remember for the rest of my life.”

Nat (guitar)

“I don't think I've had actually had a bad holiday experience as such. Probably my least enjoyable holiday was the one where I chose a book about suicide for my pool-side reading, and foolishly kept reading it, which put me in a bit of a mood the whole time. There are also always worst segments of holidays. I always hated being dragged around castle ruins- to quote my nan, once you've seen one you've seen them all! But these were always given a silver lining if my parents bought me a sword from the gift shop.”

Charlie (guitar)

“My worst holiday was probably on a trip to the south of France when I was about 14 and our car broke down 20 miles outside of Calais. This resulted in us being towed to a scrapheap in the middle of nowhere and sitting in the car for many hours whilst we tried to sort out how to get our car back to Calais where there was a garage. We got there late that night and ended up not leaving Calais until the next morning. In fact the following year a different car we were in broke down just before we got on the ferry at Dover, which was quite funny.”

Amy (bass)

“When I was in Year Nine I went on a school trip to Germany. When I arrived I shared a room with one of my friends and we unpacked our stuff. When we got on the beds loads of ants started crawling all over us. It was rank! Also on the same trip the food was horrid, they were feeding us horrid meat and stale bread. Besides all this the trip was fun...”

This summer the band will be braving festival showers at Leefest in Bromley with British Sea Power and Stagecoach, Knee Deep Festival in Cornwall with Tall Ships and Summer Westival in Aldershot with Johnny Foreigner and Dananananaykroyd. Catch ‘em if you can.

Every Holiday is a Disaster, along with last year’s Mother’s Ruin EP, can be downloaded from bordeauxxx.bandcamp.com 

Every Holiday Is A Disaster by bordeauxxx