The Band

Born in Somerset, Corneill toured for years before falling in with the Honey Badgers. Featured on 6Music, BBC Radio 2, C4, ITV he also plays as an Abbey Road recording artist. He describes how the Brown Brothers tricked him into joining the band: ‘Blackmail,’ he says. ‘But it soon fixed the stutter.’ Asked about how the band perform together,  he says ‘they really couldn’t give a monkeys. But somehow, it always comes together on the night.’ Often described as Tommy the Tonsils, Corneill’s voice can only be described as an ear-splitting wall of noise.

Ade Brown. Lead guitarist. Performer. Yogi. It’s a well known fact that his fingertips will never grow back fully. ‘It’s a long way to the top,’ he says. ‘If you want to rock ‘n’ roll.’

Watching him play means you’ll see him get lost in the moment. Like lost-lost. ‘It took so long to get the set list together coz I was overwhelmed by Honey Badger hype. But I soon realised it was all in my head.’

Speaking of the group’s past, the guitar legend opened up about how he was just too far gone to remember any of it. ‘Everyone around us went bonkers” he said. ‘But sadly, I just don’t recall any one of those gigs.’

Reality keeps coming up and kicking me in the ass, to tell you the truth (laughs) the thing about reality and about us being on tour is that touring is more or less our reality and we’ve been like that ever since we started, but the worst thing about reality is when you’re off the road and you’re like, “Okay” you’re trying to deal with reality and, like, take a walk to a club or, you know, you don’t feel like driving or you’re on the freeway and then people recognize you and instantly screw your whole reality up, because, all of a sudden, you’re a pop tart again; and I don’t necessarily like being a pop tart, although I appreciate the fact we’re popular and people like our music, so you have to try and figure out some way of getting everything on the same ground, that you don’t go crazy; and, you know, we’ve gotten pretty good at it, dude, I mean, there’s no complaints, but these are some things that we’ve had to deal with in order to keep on doing what we’re doing and also have lives, because we’re forced into having – you know, when the Honey Badger tour ends, we’re supposed to go home (laughs) I mean, it was hard just getting home, getting a wife, kids, mortgage, and doing that whole office job bit.

Fernandez. Drummer. Session Player. Composer. Drum Teacher. Once compared to animal from Muppets, Fernandez learned drums before he could even walk.

While in one of his early ensembles, the Rocking Rods, the F, as fans call him discovered space travel. ‘In ‘96 we were coming back over the Yorkshire Moors which, incidentally, was before I was even old enough to drink, so it must have been real,’ he says. ‘This thing came over the horizon and stopped dead in the middle of the sky. It went from a standstill to top speed, immediately…we don’t even have aircraft that do that now, never mind then, which was nice.’