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I know what you’re thinking and no, Son of Robot is not the Fredbot’s illegitimate offspring. It’s animator Scott Coello’s kick ass band - comprised of himself, Matt Coello, Olly Simmons, Luke Holmes, and Sam Roberts. We caught up with them for a second to chat about their newest stop-motion video “She’s the Man”.

Channel Frederator: I’ll just go ahead and ask it - where did you get the Storm Trooper uniform?

Olly: From the Death Star, of course!

(The boring answer: Stolen from a flat mate, whose mate of a mate custom made it for him!)

CF: How long has Son of Robot been around? How did the group come into existence?

Scott: Well, I used to gig on myself around the depths of Cornwall. Just me, a laptop and my dad’s record collection!

Matt: As a band, we’ve been around for two-ish years. We sort of formed by accident… 13 members of pure accident! Naaaawwwhhh, we’ve had a lot of help over the years and we eventually evolved into this 5-way-orgy mess that we are now.

CF: Was anybody a total jerk while you were shooting? Name names!

Scott: I won’t name anyone because that’d ju- OK! MATT! He has this Creative-Control-Override switch built in somewhere, that automatically activates to “tone it down” when a crazy idea pops up. Thankfully, we all have built-in Pedantic-Matt-Override switches which battles his powers! Oh, and he spends about 5 hours doing his hair.

Thanks for having us Fred!

Thank you, guys! you can check out Son of Robot’s music video “She’s the Man” right here on Channel Frederator!

-Bailee DesRocher