Jailhouse Rock	n/a
Kerrang	16 December 2000

Most people would kill for a captive audience. For TURN's Ollie Cole, it meant facing a hundred hardened criminals... Kerrang!: You once played a gig in a jail. Why? Ollie: "Because we've played in bands before and we wanted to do something different with Turn. The warden was looking for entertainment and we thought it would be hilarious, but when it came to it we were playing to a bunch of guys who wanted to kill us. One guy sat in the front row staring at me with his finger stuck up - I think they wanted to have sex with us, judging by the verbal abuse we got." Kerrang!: It's been said that Turn lie halfway between Nirvana and the Manics. Care to describe your sound? Ollie: "Kerrang!'s review of our album said we're very hard to pin down and that's just how we like it. We're fans of lots of classic songwriters like Tom Waits, but we grew up listening to AC/DC and Black Sabbath, so our music is a complete mish-mash of those two areas. Music is very important to us - it's not necessarily commercial and it can't really be categorised, it's just the way we are." Kerrang!: You almost electrocuted yourself onstage once. What happened? Ollie: "I reached my hand out to pull the mike towards me and I got this really massive shock. I couldn't let go of the f**king thing. I've still got burn marks on my back and fingers now and I had to see a chiropractor because the force of the jolt dislocated my shoulder." Kerrang!: Apart from that, what's the strangest thing that's happened to you onstage? Ollie: "When I was a teenager I was in a band called Swampshack. Our biggest achievement was touring with Ice-T's Body Count - a definite trail by fire. We ended up filling spray-cannon guns with piss and firing them at the audiences who were more than a little hostile. We split up because of musical differences, plus it turned out that our bass player was a killer. An actual killer." Kerrang!: What does the future hold for Turn? Ollie: "We're very ambitious. We used to do many stupid things like travel to London, carrying all our gear by hand on the tube just so that we would get noticed. There has always been a master plan behind it all." TURN's new single, 'The Christmas EP', is out now.