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<p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="480" height="385" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/A9U1RuKCLuk&amp;rel=1"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="385" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/A9U1RuKCLuk&amp;rel=1" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br /><br />Digs are a band of young teenagers. The three instrumentalists (Crombie, Campbell and Dowling) started jamming together in 2008/9 after Dowling got a very cheap drum kit, or something like that. You bette catch my ballsThese three kept jamming together covering White Stripes, Pixies, Raconteurs, Muse and the like. Although far from serious or any good, they went through about 20 name changes in this time. They had a spontaneous jam with Mannix one day at Gerard&rsquo;s place, and it was then that all realised that was the way to do it. The name came from sitting on the beach one day brainstorming names, then digging a hole and realising all the puns that could come from Digs.<br /><br />Each member of the band has fairly similar influences to the others, however each person brings their own ideas to the group. Gerard is influenced by modern pop/alt/rock bands like Architecture in Helsinki, XX, Ke$ha, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the idea that bass is an instrument in it&rsquo;s own right that shouldn&rsquo;t simply follow the guitar line or the chord structure. Mannix is influenced by his theatric ways, Julian Casablancas, glam rock old and new and Eminem (as can be seen in the song, &ldquo;Will the Real Max Mannix Please Break it Down?&rdquo;. Billy, the King of String, keeps it fairly real. He brings a love of power chords, slowish bassy riffs and intertwining his own line with other instruments, particularly the drums, to the band. Dowling, aka Argyle Beast, is into the drumming and vomiting into his own **** of Brann Dailor and Todd Trainer, although only wishes he could play as well as those two, so instead incorporates their ideas into the band as much as is possible whilst admiring and trying to apply the ethics of Steve Albini.</p>