CPI Archive 2008: 28 Costumes have emerged as the great white hope of the Liverpool music scene. Andrew Hamilton chats to front man Tony Reilly about carrying a city’s expectation, Jay Leno and the Spank album that never was.
THEY say you should never meet your heroes. That’s true perhaps, but as Tony Reilly from 28 Costumes (the Cossies) will surely testify, it can sometimes pay to follow your hero around Austin Texas for a week and then ring up his wife one morn- ing for a chat.That bizarre scene, which unfolded at last years South By Southwest Festival (SXSW), allowed the Cossies to make their American television debut on the Jay Leno Show and have a brief encounter of the best kind with the Flaming Lips. “We went to SXSW last year and we have always been huge fans of the Flaming Lip. I remember when we were starting off the band we always used to talk about the bands who would influence us and the ideology of the music that we wanted to make. One of those bands was definitely the Flaming Lips. So Wayne Coyne has always been a huge hero for us,” said Tony Reilly.
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