Rixton: ‘We get so many weird sexual requests’
We’ve had our eye on Rixton for a while… for more than one reason. Not only are they the newest cheeky chaps on the block, but they also make rather good pop music (and lead singer Jake’s parents are only Shane Richie and Coleen Nolan!). With their debut single out this week, we put some questions to the boys and at times things got, well, a bit naughty…
How do you feel about the tag ‘boyband’?
Danny: “We don’t really mind, to be honest. It’s more the fact we want people to know we write all our own songs, we play all our own instruments and we all sing.”
Charley: “I always thought with a boyband, no one was playing their own instruments and they were just singing – until we entered the music industry. If you’re young and you’re a boy, you’re a boyband.”
How do you differentiate yourselves from, say, The Vamps?
Danny: “They’re a lot younger than us and very sugary. I class them as a band, but they are also boys. I’d also class 5 Seconds of Summer, Lawson and McFly as bands. I remember Adam Levine always said that when he started out, Maroon 5 were called a boyband – but if he’d grown a beard, started taking loads of drugs and refused to do interviews, they would finally be called a band. But because it’s pop and we do a lot of promo and interviews, people go, ‘They’re just a pop boyband’.”
It was Jake and Danny that started the band. Charley and Lewi, how did you get involved?
Charley: “I was in a band for about ten years before I met these boys doing the local scenes. I just got to the point where I wasn’t enjoying it and it wasn’t the right people. I came across these boys, or they came across me…”
Jake: “Sorry?” [laughs]
Charley: [Laughs] “We came across each other. Jake approached me and we started chatting. We met up in London a few times and started having a jam. I met Danny and fell in love with the boys.”
Lewi: “I started working alongside management when I was 16. They put me in and out of various forced projects. I wasn’t feeling any of them. Then I met this girl in Manchester, started hitting on her and she turned out to be Jake’s girlfriend. He told me to back off, but they must have ended as a few weeks later he got back in touch and asked if I wanted to go and play with them.”
You’re obviously close. If you could go on a boys’ holiday, where would you go and what sort of antics would you get up to?
Jake: “If I was going on a lads’ holiday and we didn’t have to worry about money, I’d go to an island somewhere.”
OK, say you had a budget of £500 each.
Jake: “Magaluf, absolutely.”
Charley: “I’d do the jet skiing and all of that.”
Danny: “I’d go to Paris.”
Jake: “On a lads’ holiday?”
Danny: “Yep. Disney Land Paris. How much fun would that be!”
You wouldn’t be up and down the strip doing jelly shots off people’s bodies?
Jake: “I don’t think my mates away from the band are really that way inclined. I’ve done a lads’ holiday, but it wasn’t wild where we were vomiting in each other’s faces. It was chilled, but I still shagged everything that moved.”
Do you remember Cock in a Sock? If you could come up with something similar but different what would you do?
Lewi: “Schlong in a bong.”
Jake: “Balls in a bag.”
Have you seen those side thongs?
Charley: “Yeah, those Only Way Is Essex guys wore them. It doesn’t look comfortable.”
Jake: “Schlong in a thong.”
Danny: “They say it has no tan line, but you’re still getting a tan line just on one side. It’s stupid.”
Lewi: “Glass in your ass?”
Jake: “Have you seen one-man one-jar? That’s horrific.”
Moving on… You recently covered Ariana Grande’s Problem and she, obviously, had one less problem. What are your biggest problems that you face?
Lewi: “Doing laundry.”
Charley: “I just like clean clothes.”
Danny: “At one point Jake had worn the same white tee for six days. It gets to the point of absolute desperation where we cry to our management.”
Do you get a lot of weird fan requests?
Lewi: “I get it constantly. I started a sexual tweet Sunday just because I got so many weird sexual requests. They’re creative.”
Jake: “I read something on Tumblr about this relationship happening between me and Lewi. It was a fanfic. They went into detail about how we went to dinner and snuck off to the bathroom. It’s funny because it was actually Charley and I that did that…But I read it all the time.”
Danny: “I think social media helps play a role in it.”
Charley: “I’ve not read any.”
Finally, if you were stuck on Mars with Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez, who would you eat, whom would you procreate with and who would you let reign over you?
Jake: “When you say eat, what do you mean?”
I mean eat them for food…
Jake: “It was a viable question.”
Danny: “I’d eat Demi Lovato.”
Jake: “We’ve met Selena actually. She’s lovely. She really wanted to fuck Charley.”
Charley: “So we’re eating Demi Lovato, procreating with Selena and letting Miley be our queen.”
Lewi: “Queen Miley, that has a ring to it.”
Rixton’s new single Me And My Broken Heart is available now. Watch the video below: