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or seven at a festival. Just being around music growing up it just kind of spread its way into my
mind. Then when my dad put these parties on, I’d see these bands like I'd stand right up close
and see these bands playing these songs. They were always kind of playing blues songs, so
they’d do Stevie Ray Vaughan covers or Dr Feelgood covers.

So being a kid, I was like, this music's really cool. I don't hear this music elsewhere like, what
is it? So my dad had a pretty good kind of collection of blues in his record collection and so I
delved into that. Then, I think, when I was about 13, my dad for our birthday, bought us our
first guitar, my brother and I. So we
shared this guitar. It was like £20
or £30 from a second-hand shop,
terrible guitar, but started learning
on that. Then we would always
check the local listings for
equipment and then I found a bass
for £5 [laughs].

My brother kind of took over on

guitar and I bought this bass for £5
and yeah, started playing bass.
That's when The Hoax was kind of
born. Jon Amor lived down the
road. I used to play cricket and
The Hoax: drummer Mark Barrett, Jesse Davey (guitar), football with Jon up at the playing
Hugh Coltman (vocals) Jon Amor (guitar) and Robin Davey field. Every day I'd call him up and
go, hey, Jon, do you want to go play
(bass)
cricket? So when I got to playing
guitar, I was like Jon, you play guitar don’t you? Do you want to join our band and for the longest
time he kept saying no. He was like, I don't want to be in your band. I don't want to be in your
band. [Chuckling] And then eventually, I somehow managed to persuade him. I think he called
me one day; he goes, you know what? I think I'd be interested in playing in your band. So that's
really when The Hoax was formed.

GV: I think he would say no again now though.

RD: He probably would say no again, now, yeah [laughing]. Then Hugh Coltman, like we knew
Hugh as well before we were in a band. So Hugh and Jon, we were friends in a village before we
played. We always knew Hugh could sing, but he was kind of a bit of a wild boy, and he'd gone
off to college and he got arrested for stealing a motorbike or something.

GV: You guys were all pretty like straight edge, like no one drank.

RD: Yeah, we were in this little village. We weren't real tearaways. Hugh was definitely the
exception, always kind of getting into trouble, breaking a bone or, you know, doing something.

BiTS: Tell me how you and Greta got together. Are you a couple, first of all?

RD: We are. We're married. We've been married err…..

GV: How many years, Robin?

RD: Err, 11 years now.

BiTS: Wow, I didn't realise that.