By now, you and your dog and your crazy aunt Fern know that they boys of Hedley are a little, um, rowdy? That's rock & roll, baby. At their first MMVAs, they mooned the crowd (tame, by their standards) and showed up on the red carpet handcuffed by sexy cops. In the gift lounge (where Jacob was swallowing lip plumper lip gloss), we watched the boys pick up some free swag and then chatted with Dave and Tom!
Let's get this straight. If - IF - you worked in a cubicle, would you still -
Dave: Give me back my stapler. Give me my stapler or I'm gonna burn down the whole place. I'm - I'm gonna burn it all down.
I think he just answered my question for me. You would be the office jerks.
Tom: We would be the office jerks.
Dave: How could you tell!?
I dunno. It was just an inkling.
Dave: I never worked in an office, but I used to work in a store for a living. And I think I was the store jerk, for sure. Actually, I shouldn't say that because I was the boss.
But bosses can be jerks.
Dave: There you go! I kept asking people for their W-2s.
But is it safe to say that your daily antics are fueled even more by -
Tom: Booze.
Dave: Boredom!
Ok, yes. But the fans too, right?
Dave: You know, when we're playing shows and see people getting off, that's what does it for us. The funny thing is though, on the other hand, people who don't know our music and are like, sitting there listening and trying to get into it - that's almost more incentive for us to play extra hard. When you can change someone from not having a good time to bopping their head and throwing a fist in the air, that's more important.
You seem like the type of chaps who would conduct experiments on the road.
Tom: We conduct lots of experiments. Like, how long you can go without showering, how long you can go without doing laundry, how long you can go without having someone yell at you ...
Dave: We had a contest one time - how long we could sit at dinner in a nice restaurant and be quiet. We lasted 17 minutes and after that, that was it. And we almost got kicked out.
Tom: After that, we almost got arrested.
No more silence for you guys.
Dave: NONE.
What do your moms say when they call you?
Tom: I pretend that I don't know anything that's going on in my career so that my mom can call and say, "you're number three this week!" (Laughs) "Aw, thanks mom! I didn't even know!"
Dave: Yeah, our moms definitely kick ass. My mom's cool - I remember she got a magazine with a picture from the Junos where we all had our pants down. And she was so happy that I was wearing the underwear that she bought me for Christmas! That kind of made up for any wrongdoing that could've happened.
~Wendy Heisler
We talked to Dallas about making videos, new Alexisonfire material and going on tour with Dashboard Confessional!
We pulled frontman Patrick to ask him a coupla questions about their upcoming album, high school dances & John Hughes!!
Do the cool, calm and collected Metric gentlemen practice their moves offstage? You probably know the answer to that one.
We chatted with this stud about phobias, a 98 Degrees reunion and pizza parlours!
HA! We totally stumped Rihanna with a question she's never had. We rule.
There are finer things in life and stardom to discuss, such as which countries have the best food.
