Channel Frederator Blog

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 [Read more…]