They've got a couple of songs and honestly, the song titles are just incredible - I can't remember what they are but they're so good.
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At the moment I work from home, I have a studio in the barn next to the house, I have a lot of artists that come to work with me and they stay over. So he comes home from school and there's his dad working with some cool people and he loves it! As far as the singles on this album go, I read that your label didn't want you to put 'This Ain't a Love Song' out as a single, why was this? They just didn't think it was a hit. I gave them a CD of all the demos of all the songs, that single was our follow up. We'd just been to the BRIT Awards, we'd been nominated for three awards, we'd just sold a million records and so I came with a CD and spoke to the guys from the label - who are actually amazing - I gave them the record so sure of it.
I went home thinking I was going to get a phone call that night but it had been about a week before I ended up ringing them and asking if they'd heard it and he replied, "Er yeah, but I don't think you've got any hits. It came out and obviously ended up being massive for us. Find Scouting For Girls tickets. I am now, but I think they'd deny any knowledge of it, they'll say the demo wasn't very good No, seriously, people don't know how lucky I feel to have been in this position.
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You're so modest, most musicians are and there's no shame in being proud of your achievements. No, not really anymore - maybe that's what this new brand of lad rock has sort of stemmed from. That's the sort of music I grew up on, and I'm quite gutted that there isn't more of it currently. I love a sweaty indie band. My theory on this though is that streaming is killing off guitar music.
Then when something a bit more aggressive comes on then you automatically skip it - and because that registers as a skip on Spotify or whatever, then gets taken off the big, popular playlists. That's quite a refined way of looking at it. All of that genre is a bit safe these days, nobody is overtly offensive.
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Yeah, but it takes a huge amount of balls to be that band though. We came out as a band and I was very anti slagging any band off. I was all, "Oh I love every band, they're all amazing! There's no one like that anymore. The thing is with Noel Gallagher is that he can get away with it because he's one of the best songwriters of all time, coupled with the fact he's one of the funniest fucking guys in the world - if it wasn't for that he wouldn't be able to say half the stuff he does.
His Twitter is one of my favourite accounts to follow. This sort of arrogant humour is what's missing. There's a real gap right now but you've got to have the songs to go with the arrogance. There are a couple of sub-Oasis bands out there, who'll give out all the banter but haven't got the music to go along with it. The girl you're singing about in 'She's So Lovely', is she still a part of your life ten years on? Management loved it when they first heard the demo but they came back and said that the lyrics needed to be a bit spicier - they thought it was a bit too sweet.
So I went back and changed some lines. Do these women know that this song is potentially about them? We've got a live album, which we recorded during our tour - we took the best recordings from the songs from the first album, so we've basically got that entire album live. We're really proud of that, the recordings are really good and it gives a real sense of what we do live. Then there are four brand new, unreleased tracks which were recorded around the same time as the album. For different reasons they didn't make it to the album, they didn't quite fit on there.
Also, we were in a real rush, we went in and recording about twelve songs for the album and only about two were decent and then we had to go on tour - so that was all we had! There's still something good about those songs - they're not hits but if you liked that first album then I thin you'll really love these songs.
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You can almost see the genesis of them. One of them was written just before I wrote 'She's So Lovely' and there are some lyrics that I've stolen from that song and you can almost see how the band developed. So that's the four new songs - it'll be coming out on cassette, I'm really not sure why. That idea completely got past me, I've no idea why that is happening. Literally, cassettes just seem an odd format to put this on, who uses cassettes? To be fair, I have a cassette player in my car and I make mixtapes. That's just what someone had said to me, that there are all these hipsters making mixtapes and buying cassettes, can you actually still buy cassettes?
It's quite funny that this entire conversation has revolved around a nostalgic trip to a decade ago but you're really against a nostalgic trip back to the days of cassettes. No, I do love nostalgia and I did actually find my old Walkman the other day - which I loved.
I love nostalgia and I love the past but a lot of the time when you go back to it, it's pretty crap.
I got my cassette player the other day and for a start, it lasted about two hours, the sound quality was still rubbish - you press play and it goes "ccccssshhhhhh". That was quite an expensive one as well! Then there's always the issue of the actual tape getting mixed up and you have to twiddle it with a pencil to wind it back up. Oh God you just reminded me of something really funny!
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Our bass player had this old Walkman when we were at school and literally all he would do - you'd just see him with his cassette, rewinding it with a pencil because he wanted to save the battery because rewinding it used to use up loads of the battery.
He'd be using the pencil and rubbing the batteries with the other hand because there's that thing where you think if you heat them up they get more charge. On this upcoming anniversary tour, will you be playing the album in full? We will, but the thing its, that album is only thirty-seven minutes long so we'll be playing other songs as well! So we are going to play all of the album, and some of the other hits from the other albums - maybe a Christmas song or something because it's close to Christmas. I think someone described us recently as the band equivalent of a bouncy castle, so with that and Christmas time, it'll be a lot of fun.
It sounds it, especially for those who can remember where they were when that album came out - ten years ago I was thirteen, I can remember the songs being played at school discos, so it is nostalgic for a lot of people. I've seen people on Twitter saying "oh, time to get my teen on" - it's going to be a lot of fun.
Laughs For some reason, out manager thought it'd be funny to get the drummer to do some of these interviews, and we were driving to the gig last week and someone asked him this question and he goes, "the days off". But I just love everything about touring. We're so lucky because we're not worldwide successful, mega-rich rock stars, we don't have to do like eighteen-month tours. Which honestly, I'm sure is fun but the fact we do one massive tour about every two years, for a month - it's just like a long holiday with your mates. You get free beer, and you get to go on the stage and have a great time and literally everybody tells you that you're amazing.
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It is really fun! Life isn't like that usually. You know, there's picking up the children from school, trying to write a song for someone new and being told that one of the kids has shit in the bed. Generally, you don't get told you're amazing on a daily basis. So, going on tour for a month is incredible, it's just really fun. I'm looking forward to being away with my friends.
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