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<\/a><\/p>\nShona McVicar and Stina Tweeddale are making a racket of the best kind, and making quite a name for themselves as duo Honeyblood. They\u2019ve come a long way since their first four song gig at Sneaky Pete\u2019s in Edinburgh. We catch them as they finish off their first UK headline tour, with the news that they\u2019re set to join the NME tour this November, showcasing their eponymous debut album that\u2019s making waves in all the right circles.<\/p>\n
We caught Stina for a quick chat about guitars, ska and Halloween costumes<\/p>\n
How did you and Shona meet and what led you to form Honeyblood?<\/strong><\/p>\n We kind of knew of each other previously but we weren\u2019t friends or anything, and I\u2019d been writing songs that I wanted to start playing live and a mutual friend of ours said that I should ask Shona to play with me as the style I wanted to play she would really be into. Then we met each other in a bar by chance one night and I kind of went up to her and asked if she wanted to do a practice session, so she came along and we started playing; and then that was it really, that was the start of Honeyblood.<\/p>\n How did the name Honeyblood originate?<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s actually from a really badly done Halloween costume (laughing) I made my own blood one year for Halloween, and my costume was basically just me carrying around this bottle of blood and spitting it on people. I had made it myself out of water, corn flour, honey and red food dye, and mixed it all in a water bottle, and went round spitting it on myself and other people (laughing).<\/p>\n Did it go down well?<\/strong><\/p>\n NO everyone hated it! They all told me to stay away. I was playing with my old band, I spat it all over the bassist in my old band, and it got it over his bass and it stopped working so I got in trouble for that! So don\u2019t mix it with instruments (laughing).<\/p>\n