My Firsts is our email interview series where we ask musicians to tell us about their first life experiences, be it early childhood ones (first word, first concert, etc.) or their first tastes of being a musician (first band, first tour, etc.). For this My Firsts we talk to Jonathan Higgs, frontman of British art-rockers Everything Everything.
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everything was still standing when i left. the next morning, my niece and my nephew and brother-in-law came in and told me to turn on the tv. i turned on the tv and every channel i flipped it on showed the catholic church on fire. fingerprints on a church wine bottle led the police to him. despite his claims of innocence, abbott says he took a plea deal to avoid testifying against his friends and being labeled a snitch. going to prison having a snitch name is like having a child molestation name. you just don t have it. they don t last long here. i wouldn t want to have the name snitch. i can t do it. abbott s not alone in his claim that he is serving time only because he didn t want to snitch on someone else. burks admitted to being in the
car in a drive-by shooting. but he says he wasn t the trigger man. there s no award you get for not snitching. but i ve done plenty of things in my life that would eventually lead me here or dead, you know what i mean? i believe god is punishing me now for everything that i did, in fact, do. so i m just taking this time to learn from all the mistakes and right all those wrongs. burks is serving a 55-year sentence for the murder of a south african immigrant. he came to america to work for his family. and he got killed. he was an innocent bystander. it wasn t meant for him. it was just a bunch of guys riding around high and drunk just doing stuff that don t even matter at all. and now that night turned into this life.