DeetrichIn conversation with TONY CLAYTON-LEA.
What's on your rider?Very little. I'm pretty easily pleased.
What would be on your fantasy rider?I wouldn't dare to be so decadent.
What's your pre-gig ritual/ routine?A shot of sambuca!
What's the best gig you've been to?Queens of the Stone Age at Oxygen because I love them.
And the worst?Oh, I wouldn't like to say.
What are your favourite and least favourite venues?Favourite is Murphy's of Thomastown, Co Kilkenny. It's a home crowd and you get treated like royalty when you play there. I've never been to a venue I didn't like. I'm not just saying that, it's true.
Who's the most famous person to have shown up at one of your gigs?John Martyn.
Most embarrassing on-stage moment?When I drank out of a bottle of beer between songs and the bubbles kept flowing and went all over me and my guitar. I had to clean it off with my handbag. Oops.
What's your crowd-pleasing number?My first single, No job, No Money.
Chatting between songs – good or bad?Good, depending on the atmosphere. I saw Black Rebel Motorcycle Club play once, and they didn't say one word between songs. So sometimes less can be more.
Groupies. Would you?I'm getting married to my guitarist this May.
Have you a special stage wardrobe?Yeah kinda. You'll always find me on stage with nice big pointy cowoby boots.
Any useful stage tips?Drink from a pint glass not a bottle!
What's the worst thing ever thrown at you?I'm pretty inoffensive, so luckily nothing so far.
What's your best tour story?One disastrous tour to the north of Ireland. We took my friend's VW camper van because we thought it would be fun. The exhaust fell off, the open top sleeper opened up of its own accord on the motorway, the heating was broken and it took us eight hours to get there when it should have taken just over three. We arrived freezing and just about made the gig.
Deetrich plays the Stags Head,Dublin on Sunday
