fed pennies

Last week the Fed Pennies took home Best Loud Recording at the 2011 ECMAs for their debut album Brain Disaster, beating out Orchid’s Curse, Last Call Chernobyl and Obsydian. For the band, it’s a career highlight (closely followed, we imagine, by opening for Ozzy Osbourne at the Metro Centre in 2008.) Lead singer Jake Smith answered a few of my questions about the award, the East Coast Loud tour and the band’s future plans. How’d it feel to hear you’d won an ECMA? I knew I wanted to keep the acceptance speech short because I can’t stand it when