“Somebody did a very, very violent s**t up our window”: Heriot guitarist recalls her time working in a guitar shop
Most retail workers have vivid stories to tell regarding dealing with the general public, but some have definitely had it worse than others.
Take Heriot guitarist Debbie Gough, for example. As a former employee of a guitar shop in Birmingham, she, unfortunately, had to deal with one particular incident that would scar most people.
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In an interview in the new print edition of Metal Hammer, Gough remembers the time someone defecated – nay, had explosive diarrhoea – all over the window of the shop.
“Somebody did a very, very violent shit up our window one day,” she recalls. “It was the most explosive diarrhoea you’ve ever seen in your entire life! [laughs] And there were bracelets in the pile of poo. It was like cow shit, or the mud at Download last year.”
How did bracelets find their way into the faeces, you’re probably wondering?
“I presume somebody must have had them on their wrist and then, in their distress of having to shit at the window, probably threw their arms down,” Gough guesses.
She says she looked through the store’s CCTV recordings to try and find the culprit, but to no avail.
“I logged into the CCTV and I went through the entire day and the entire night before, and I couldn’t see anything! I spent so long trying to find the culprit and I could not find him,” she says.
Fortunately, though, Gough got out of having to clean the mess up. That task went to a colleague, thankfully.
“He got the bleach bucket out and did it himself,” Gough says. “What’s funny is my boyfriend works for a drum company, so he knew our shop really well. Before he started working there, he wouldn’t believe me when I’d come home and tell stories like this. Then, when he started dealing with our shop, he was like, ‘Oh my god!’”
After the release of their debut album Devoured by the Mouth of Hell last year, Heriot chatted with Guitar.com about their approach to making modern metal.
“Not that this was our intention, but I hope people take away that this is something that is quite a fresh take on the genre that we all love,” says guitarist Erhan Alman. “It’s not trying to redefine what heavy is, but it’s trying to show that heavy can be more than a downtuned guitar.”
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