Zak Tyler 2012 for Cherry Pop Latex
Hi Jo, first let’s address the most obvious question – where did you get the nickname ‘Juiceboxx’?
Hello! Everybody asks me that, and it can come off so sleazy. But I’ll tell you now it’s not. When I was growing up in the States my mates’ bands used to come over to my house for practice and to record. At one point I met a girl, who soon became one of my closest friends, who was dating one of my mates in one of the bands. When we were making our initial introductions to each other I significantly remember her saying (after I told her my name), “I’m not going to remember that, sorry. I’m going to call you Juiceboxx.” Since then, because we hung out with the same crowd, as she referred to me as Juiceboxx all our friends stopped calling me by my real name and began to call me that instead. Eventually it sort of stuck. Obviously by now she knows my name, but I suppose Juicy, Juice, Juiceboxx etc is more memorable than Jo. I also used to design a lot of gig posters and “Juiceboxx” was what I always marked the posters with, as sort of a signature/watermark. I have been tempted to come up with a new name to work under, but people seem to like it and I’ve had people tattooing the name onto them after I draw them tattoo designs. It would be wrong of me to change it at this point. Continue reading
Photographer: Darren Rowley
