For anyone who's ever been to a Yak gig, the first thing you notice aside from the ear-ringing volume is that it's not just something you watch; it's something you experience. Whenever guitarist Oliver (Oli for short) Bruslem, bassist Leo Kurunis and drummer Elliott Rawson get onstage, the venue immediately turns into one explosion of sound, flailing arms and bumping bodies.

And the energy continues when the guys get offstage. The only difference: their ridiculously silly personalities. While catching up with them at soundcheck, we asked each member about his plans for the summer, and Oli relayed a series of thoughts that sounded more like the speech the coach gives before a game than anything else.

"We want to keep playing those gigs as a team," the frontman tells us. "Keep putting that ball in the back of the net, and sometimes you never know, you might win a match. You might draw sometimes, but I do hope we get somewhere quick. Because if don’t do this, we have to do our other jobs.”

Myspace wanted to get to know the men behind the London rock outfit. But aside from the typical collective interview, we got a bit more personal with each member. Get to know Yak a little better below.

Oliver Burslem

Age: 20, but it changes every day. (While we don't doubt his boyish looks, he's actually in his late 20s.)
Instrument: Guitar. Sometimes I play a bit of keys. On the record there's some organs and all sorts of shit.
The Song or Band that Inspired You to Be a Musician: Elvis probably. I used to watch his movies as a little kid.
Favorite Track from Alas Salvation to Perform: All of them. That's really hard. I get bored really easily so there's a bunch of them, yeah.
Dream Collaboration: Dr. John or Barbara Windsor.
Best Show You Ever Played: I can't remember.
Best Show You’ve Ever Seen: Hot Chocolate
Best Hangover Cure: Alcohol

Elliott Rawson

Age: 26
Instrument: Drums or batterie. It sounds better in French.
Song or Band that Inspired You to Be a Musician: Queens of the Stone Age
Favorite Track from Alas Salvation to Perform: "Interlude 2" [Laughs] It's actually a really good song. It should have been a song.
Dream Collaboration: I don't know. I don't really like collaborations.
Best Show You Ever Played: Probably this festival in London that we played last year, and we were fucked because we've been drinking all day in the sun. We played a really good show, but we were fucked. You could tell we were fucked, and Oli was jumping in the crowd. And it was fun. Field Day, that's what it was called. Yeah, it was good.
Best Show You’ve Ever Seen: I don't know.
Best Hangover Cure: Just another beer. Whatever you're drinking the night before, just drive the same thing again. And keep drinking it so it feels like it hasn't finished.

Leo Kurunis

Age: 28 years old.
Instrument: I play the bass guitar when I'm up there.
Song or Band that Inspired You to Be a Musician: It's hard to say, really. It was so many factors when I was a kid growing up. I listened to Michael Jackson when I was four years old while my mum was listening to The Beatles in the kitchen. Then I'm having dinner in a taverna in Greece and hear this lovely Roberta casta music playing. So it's all these different things. If I had to say somebody, I don't know maybe The Stooges, maybe Iggy Pop."
Favorite Track from Alas Salvation to Perform: I think it's either "Use Somebody" or "Curtain Twitcher."
Dream Collaboration: If I had to collaborate with somebody, it would be Barbra Streisand.
Best Show You Ever Played: Best show with Yak is definitely going to be the one we did in Chicago. It was fantastic. Best show I ever played was with a band that I've been in for five years called Gallon Drunk. A big thing we did was at a big festival in the Czech Republic.
Best Show You’ve Ever Seen: I think it's Iggy Pop actually. I saw him at Glastonbury. It was fabulous and bloody loud as well.
Best Hangover Cure: Walking. Getting out. Getting straight out of bed and going.