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ISSUE no: 1 £2.50New Band On The Block:The Missing Link

Interview with The Missing Link, My Chemical Romance and Theory of a Deadman

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THE MISSING LINK!!!

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ExclusiveInterview!

Up close and personal with The Missing Link!

“We met in school, we’ve been together as a band ever since and we’re not changing that!”

Left To Right: Double D, Khalifah and Ben.

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The Missing Link Debut Album!

The Missing Link is the new band on the block! The band were formed in 2005 by guitarist and lead singer Daniel Davis AKA Double D, Bassist Ben Alsop and Drummer Khalifah Umar. Double D and Ben met in school and Double D met Khalifah in school after Double D hit his head against a post playing football for his local side and first day at school Double D just randomly started talking to him thinking he was someone else!The band revealed their first pub gig was at the recently closed Fordrough on a Tuesday night where the crowd consisted of 10 people, 4 to watch Birmingham City FC play Arsenal on Sky Sports, 3 teenagers hoping to get some booze and 3 non English speaking tourist who mistaken Double D for the star of the Home Alone films Macaulay Culkin, despite that the guitarist still signed the autographs!

InfluencesThe group have been likened to punk bands Blink 182, All Time Low, Fall Out Boy and Good Charlotte. The band haven’t had it easy in November 2006 they entered Birmingham Battle Of The Bands only to have their chosen song “How You Remind Me” of Nickelback stolen by a rival band.“When I heard them playing that song I knew we had to get a new song put together, I didn’t have to think about what song to get us to perform, I just went into the costume department and stole three wigs and handed them out to the band” Double D said of the incident, “I thought he had lost it, we only

practised the song twice before and both times were us p*ssing about, but to have actually performed it to the quality we did was amazing” Ben said,“To this day I wasn’t expecting the song choice that muppet made but we earned positive reviews for it, we told Dan about the time of year which he already knew but never expected him to pick that song”Khalifah said. The band went onto stage wearing the wigs looking like Queen when they performed ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, the band only ended up finishing second.The band made a hit single “Kiss and Tell (Don’t Want To Lose You)” which is currently breaking records, the band a 3 piece like Blink 182 and The Script both influencing the band and their songs.Q: Any funny moments on stage?A: “When Dan was doing a guitar solo on stage, he decided to fling his guitar around his head and it came back and him in the face!”Q: How did you meet?A: We met in school, we’ve been together as a band ever since and we’re not changing that!”Q: Who are the bands inspirations?A: Blink 182 of course, Good Charlotte, Bowling for Soup and The KillersQ: Who writes the songs for the band?A: “Double D mostly, he can spend up to 3 hours on a single song, he gets them from personal experiences he says”

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