Yes definitely happy. Continuing about the album here. How did it come together? We recorded the EP a while ago and then we have always planned to do an album, so it’s been a little bit of a long time coming, but we have always been busy with tours and then getting offered gigs that you’re not expecting and you end up taking them and we were playing sort of the same set and then what we decided to do was, we got to a point where we have got to record an album - do we record the same set that we have been playing live or do we go ahead and take our time and write a new set, write new material? In the end it just made sense to write new stuff and hit people with that really. We felt that we have moved on as band and so it made sense to write new songs so that’s what we did.
Did you develop any favourite tracks from the album? Yes, as a band or just myself? (both) ok fair enough, fair enough. I mean I like track 4 (Broken Nails & Bloody Fingers) which has got a big sing-along chorus. Obviously ‘Guidance’ was the first song and everyone all knew that it was going to be a single as soon as we heard the finished version, just because, I suppose it’s similar to the old stuff in the sort of the attitude of it. It sounds a lot more modern, so that’s why we kinda chose that song as the first single, but then the album feels like its split into two sections, the really aggressive first half and the second half is a little bit more modern and bigger choruses. ‘This Sinking Ship,’ which is different from anything that we have done before, we all liked just because it was something I don’t think people are going to expect, people I’ve played it to have loved it, so I think that’s a favourite for everyone as a band.
How would you say that your sound has developed since starting off? The songs on this album compared to the old EP I think they are more modern, there’s more variety for definite. I mean on this one we have done a few things swapped arrangement wise which I don’t think we would have done before, which is definitely a plus there are some songs which have got bigger choruses and we are still aggressive, we are still a rock band, but we have sort of updated the sound which is what you have got to do really. You can’t stay still forever.
Obviously the album is about to come out shortly and I know that you have a few dates lined up between now and then but what have you got planned after that. Do you have any tour dates planned or any festival appearances lined up? Yes, we have got this month May with 4 or 5 gigs lined up and then I think the focus is going to be getting festivals booked, we are still looking at that at the moment. Getting the album out to as many people as we can, making people hear it. We are getting radio play of the single already, it’s been pretty heavily played so making sure that we keep pushing that and yes hopefully growing the fan base and keeping things moving forward.
Where did the name for the album come from? A bit like the band name really. We sat down and there were all different sorts of ideas going about and people had different views on what the name should be, what it should reflect, but we have always been a band that sort of, I suppose we are a bit of a unit a bit of a gang so something felt right really. We sat in the practice room and banded ideas about and that was the one that stuck.
Right final question are there any messages that you would like to pass on to your fans? Just, I suppose it sounds cheesy *Laughs* but I suppose just thanks for coming to the shows hope they like the album and basically thanks for the support there’s only one way we can play gigs and that is if people are coming to the gigs to watch us.
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