Having previously reviewed their latest EP We caught up The Twilight Sad‘s frontman James Graham for an informal chat to discuss the band’s latest EP and tour with Errors. Here is what he had to say:
– Cougar Microbes: What Time did you wake up this morning? Was it out of choice or necessity?
– James: We had to wake up at 9am this morning because we are travelling from Brighton to Bristol. We have a couple of interviews and acoustic shows today so we had to head early.
– CM: How have you been killing time on the road?
– J: To be honest we do a lot of drinking [laughs]. We’re Scottish so drinking is a good time killer.
– CM:What have been your favourite venues on this tour? Any Venues you hated?
– J: Dundee was an awesome night as was Manchester‘s Deaf Institute. Was also cool that the other night’s show in London was sold out.
Brighton last night was weird. The show was supposedly sold out but seemed like people couldn’t get inside, I don’t know why.
– CM:Is there a song you are simply sick of playing?
– J: There are a couple of songs off of our first album that get shoutouts, especially in the States. But we’ve never played them, not even back then.
– CM:Are you able to write on the road or do you do this in your off time?
– J: We do some jamming during soundcheck. Our music is pretty experimental in nature so it’s not a bad time.
– CM: Do your songs go through many revisions via demo recordings?
– J: We tend to do a lot of demos before we go into the studio and then pick the songs we like the most. For example, the first track off of ‘Forget The Night Ahead‘ was originally planned as a B-side.
– CM:What is more important, the lyrics or the melody?
– J: I think the melody is most important in our songs. The words come in a close second but it’s about the entire song.
– CM:What are your views on auto tune?
– J: I suppose there is a place for it in some aspects of music but we would never ever use it. That would be ridiculous.
– CM: Is the sound of ‘The Wrong Car‘ EP what we can expect from your next album?
– J: Those 2 tracks didn’t make the previous album, just. We wanted to re-record them to get them to sound the way we knew they could. I think our next material will again sound completely different. We are constantly evolving
– CM:Most flattering thing you’ve read about yourselves?
– J: I try not to read our reviews anymore. For every 10 reviews all it takes is one shitty review to bring you down. As long as we are happy…
– CM:If you had to bring on artist back from the dead in exchange for sending a living artist down ,which artists would it be and why??
– J: I would want to get rid of half the music industry. Tell you what, bring back Elvis and give them Scouting For Girls
‘The Wrong Car‘ EP out now on FatCat
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