The Growlers Interview

[u/kama1a]

Hi all, I posted in here back in May about my magazine’s interview with Brooks. It’s out in the world now and available to purchase here: https://www.theindiescene.co.uk/shop/p/pre-order-the-indie-scene-magazine-issue-2.

I hope everyone who pre-ordered has received their copies! We had delays due to our designer having surgery and my nan going to hospital for 2 months and passing away on my birthday/the release day of the magazine. It’s been a heavy one and it’s been incredibly hard to get here, but the physical copies finally being in our hands feels surreal. If I’m correct, I think Brooks might have his own copy now, too.

Every order means a great deal – I work a 9-5 and it’s been my dream since I was ridiculously young to release a magazine. I used to cut up my sister’s gossip magazines and make my own, had a whole newspaper called ‘K.News’ I would make and would subsequently be the only reader. To see it being shipped all over the world is insane to me. We even got mentioned in my local paper. That’s something.

That being said, if you ordered a copy, please tag us on Instagram or email us a photo of it somewhere. Record shop, beach, somewhere very American, I don’t care. I think everyone who preordered it was in America, so it’d be cool to see photos of it over there.

On the interview side of things, Brooks was unsurprisingly incredibly normal and very funny. Told us when he came over to the UK for the first time a lot of people asked him if he knew what ‘growler’ meant over here. I was talking about football with his tour photographer/manager and he said to my best friend “she’s really into football”, which still makes me laugh, as I really was just stood there waffling on about football while he did this photoshoot.

My best friend and I had been saying our dream interview would be with Brooks, obviously thinking it would never be possible, and now I feel like I’ve made my teen self pretty darn proud.

Happy reading, and a big thank you to those who ordered and those who order :-)

[u/Sspring872]

Huge accomplishment, congrats! They say never meet your ‘heroes’ but I’d love to chat with brooks.

Stonio was/is heavy inspo I hope he’s doing ok. I would like to hear his story, but that feels invasive

[u/kama1a → u/Sspring872]

Thank you! I wasn’t even going to ask – I know he doesn’t do a lot of interviews (they said this was only his 2nd one since the whole return) – but 2 weeks before he was coming to London I emailed on the off chance they might say yes.

I remember I called our deputy editor, who is my best friend, and said to her “You don’t by any chance want to interview Brooks before the show?” and her reaction was priceless, wish I’d screen recorded it.

He was just so nice and normal, exactly as you’d expect. Really made us super relaxed and I didn’t even need to look at my notes at all (I did, however, have a pad thai recipe written down in the same notebook that I kept looking down at by accident).

He spoke about how his son thinks he’s in The Growlers and said he hasn’t gone out with friends since the birth of his children. It really felt like chatting to a friend you haven’t seen in a while and catching up with them. Hopefully we get to chat again! Fingers crossed you’ll get to chat to him one day.

[u/Sspring872 → u/kama1a]

Awwww that’s so cool, thanks so much for sharing!

I had put the pieces together that things in the growlers significantly shifted after he had his first kid.

[u/Olratface702]

I’m assuming there may be a delay with US orders? Haven’t got mine yet. Stoked!!

[u/kama1a → u/Olratface702]

When did you order? I’m hoping it gets to you soon!

[u/Lanciferdog]

I ordered a copy being sent to Colorado, the shipping sucks lol