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I think it’s common that a band’s first album isn’t a particularly well thought out album as a whole. Uncut: Although the first album was recorded all over, it felt quite uniform, while this one goes to some quite weird places… But now we’ve found our feet in the studio, and the whole experience of recording News And Tributes – we came away from it a different band, we felt fresh again. There was lots of touring around the recording. We weren’t really prepared to make our first album when we came to Andy, we didn’t have our heads together enough. So this time, it was like right, we’re going to go somewhere in the middle of nowhere, be really confident with whoever we decide to work with, and just get everything out of it that we should have got from our first album. The first album was quite arduous – we recorded it twice, one with Andy Gill, then scrapped two-thirds of the stuff we did with him because we weren’t happy with it. Yeah, just outside of Scarborough in the North Yorkshire dales. Uncut: You recorded News And Tributes on a farm in Scarborough… It’s a luxury we shouldn’t be able to afford.
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It’s the exploitation that goes on because of the pound, if we were a poor country, no-one would be going away to have sex with young boys. It’s like, why are you here by yourself, where are your friends? Ah, I know why. Or you’ll see these older British men who are there by themselves – you look at them and they’re so ashamed of what they’re doing. Some people just assume that you’re a sex tourist, they’ll catch them looking at you like you’re the most disgraceful human being. We didn’t do anything sleazy! To be honest with you, that whole side of Bangkok is hideous. How was Bangkok? We had one day where there was nowt to do, so we did some fairly touristy things to be honest – went on a boat, went up to see some temples, hung around some of the food markets. We want to get them all up to a standard before the album’s out – we don’t want to shy away from playing new material because it’s not 100% up there. The first proper gig, where we debuted all the new songs, was in Bangkok (laughs). Uncut: Is it tempting to debut new songs outside the public eye?ĭefinitely. It’s so varied, from place to place in Europe – it’s weird when the next country is only ten minutes away.
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Just doing some small gigs, we haven’t really done that many shows in central Europe, so we’re catching up I suppose. We’re doing a few gigs – one in Hamburg, on in Cologne, and one in Berlin.