FABLE

ve just joined us, after the ad break we'll be

Zee says. "They jus

ee. The station's squeezing in as many ads as possib

ights. "It goes along with being commercial fake rock sellouts.

him. I don't want her to start shouting or something an

f the time, but when it comes

nounce names, doesn't mean you get to trash what I like," she says so slowly and angr

playing ukulele on weekends and wearing thick-rimmed glasses during band practice (minus the lenses). At school he's the spitting image of a clean-cu

turns the car too quickly into a bus lane. "Anyway, you're u

's that?"

ts," he

Her skin is so tan that most people wouldn't be able to tell, but

ve." He mutters glancing her

e had enough Alix. I'm tired of

ing to quality music. Not the teen version of 30 Seconds to Mar

sic together, right? It's really sucks that our lead

tests. "Leave

er shoulder, struggling t

ing over my words. "If you actually gave their music a chance, you'd see..

per the last part. It feels

"Did Felix Lockhart jump on a plane to serenade you? Did Lyall Greene

ng. "But they mean a lot... their music I mean... i

nt, but he's just studying me in the rear-view mirror,

e only people at school who know about the acci

s, seemingly having forgotten

o love Zee - even though she gets angry q

Fable live in studio to talk about the last leg of their worldwide WISH tour, which sold out within minutes of tickets going on sale. This group of str

veral voices

interview and Martin's already got his facts wro

is eyes. "Ob

s back at him. "I'm

time in Oregon," Martin continues ove

e speaks up. "Awesome. W

that's Ben,"

al Irish-accented voice pipes up, before a smooth

y here. In Portland. Right now. Breathing the same air as us." She rolls down her

voice. "Your name. Fable... it's a bit odd, isn't it? Not

ice. Elliot Shawcross. He's Mr. Responsible, the band's bassist. Most fans thin

represented all of us. So we put the first letters of all our na

artin "so it's

taire, B for Ben, L for Lyall, E for El

broken after a few seconds

s suddenly on edge. "So... Elliot. Tell me a bit about how you all me

ight," El

e band form? Wh

"Lyall" almost at ex

elf grinning straight away just hearing it. As the youngest in the

mon reddish-brown hair, plus his ever-present

de credit," Lyall says, la

though," El

shut up about it fo

and played songs on his digital keyboard," he says. "He

te singer," Ly

im I guess. He made us all join. He knew that I play the drums, Alastaire plays guitar

ually friends befor

lliot says. "Except Felix and Lyal

d you describ

ntasy rock with a dash of progressive electronica. But our music's still very approachable.

the haters have labeled Alastaire a snob, wh

rat who happens to have the palest blue eyes, an unusually beautiful face and a halo of burnished gold hair that literally makes him look like an angel from an old painting (hence his nic

reason that Alastaire's fans – or Alastaire's Angels, as they call

h, the most popular band member by

kin seem to have half the girls in the world under his spell. The fact that he's rude, arrogant and unnervingly cold doesn't seem to matter to h

ers," Martin continues. "But it did

t bored of that. That's why we

s Lyall. "An' probably most

n asks, sounding g

it's called research!" she mutter

emselves. Enfablers, as in Fable enablers. It's quite fitting – we're constantly amazed by

yall pipes in. "We 'ave d

the background, and again I

g a bit of Déjà Vu here on

the only one with a decent voice

s loud and clear through the radio waves,

I hear it. He sounds amazing, even without the backing of instruments. Jerk though he may be, it's unden

ice again. "Well, I can certainly see what all th

shooting a challenging glance at A

. "It's been twenty-four countries in six months. You must be

re ready to," Felix answers. I can picture hi

ore Martin recovers, talki

– have a wonderful evening. Fable will be performing live at the Rose Quarter at 7pm, and judgi

n, thanks for having us,

ish Alix has swit

eks at him "wha

It's only then that I realize we're parked and everyt

e slams her door

ast let us listen unt

kind of responsible older brother would that make

naged to put it out in five seconds flat and no one got hurt, people kept talking about it and by the end of the day th

not what happened. I'm Ze

tongue out at

for next yea

, she has to wait for Alix to graduate before she can get his car. Her parent

e as he walks towards his fr

parking lot, I see it ou

ids strea

to look at it. It's just a school bus, but it feels

scream cuts t

ne. A little girl is literally being dragged kicking

ew stragglers are just stepping off the bus, the driver is hunched over his seat, tapping on the screen

r hand on m

go, A