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| Turin Brakes (Photo By: Roger Sargent) |
If you are into music I strongly assume that Turin Brakes have crossed your
path somewhere, somehow. Did you say, "No"? Really? South Londoners Olly
Knights and Gale Paridjanian are childhood friends, formed the band in the late
90´s and are completed by longterm collaborators Eddie Myer and Rob Allum.
Turin Brakes have been part of Band Aid 20 in 2004 recording next to Paul
McCartney, Bono and Justin Hawkins (The Darkness) just to name a few. Respect.
Turin Brakes 6th studio album "We Here Here“ came out on September 30th
2013 and the second single "Guess You Heard“ off the record has been released
only a couple of months ago on April 6th. They've taken an already great sonic style and smoothed the edges and carved out a great trademark sound for themselves and I will promise that you are going to enjoy it and push
repeat. If you're not already.
And now please have a marvelous read as Gale Paridjanian and I conversate together:
First of all
I would like to thank you all for talking to us today.
Its always a
pleasure to talk to someone with your
impeccable taste
How are you
doing today? At the moment you´re taking a little break from touring. Are you
giving yourselves a few moments of rest or are you doing other kinds of work?
We pretty
much always have a gig lined up... gigs can be very fulfilling its the best bit
really . We have started to do writing / jamming sessions with other upcoming
artists. We used to always say no but these days I think of it as being a
builder building a wall – you get to look back at the end of the day and see
something that didn't exist this morning , you might love it or not, it might
be a very important wall that could end up building a house or it could just be
a wall but mainly it didn't exist this
morning and you could only have built it with those people there.
Let me ask
you straight are you in the state of planning, writing or recording something
new already?
I guess
we're planning. We pretty much know when
and how. There's always stuff being written. We just have to pinpoint a final
destination to aim at .
With 6 studio
albums under your belt and many years of existence do you have a song(s) from
one of your albums that you would never omit live or that is impossible to play
live?
We tend to
always play a few songs from each album that people want to hear and introduce
any new stuff , generally Underdog , Painkiller, Long Distance , Fishing For A
Dream, something from Dark On Fire.
We're not that interested in testing or pushing the audience into
watching us go through a load of B sides or whatever . We're in the audience as
fans of other acts and its a simple transaction really – we want to hear you
play , we want to share it.
Does your
attitude change every time you start to record a new album? Where do you even
begin? Are there some simple songwriting rules or do you go with the flow?
We might well
discuss what it is we are aiming at – With the first album we had a load of
songs and a pretty hardcore attitude to the sound we were going to make – we
often react against whatever we just did and then do the opposite . These days
we've worked out that it can actually be the thing you find simplest is the
most honest and rewarding to hear .
From when you
started the band up to now how have your personal musical influences changed,
if so?
Honestly our
tastes are kind of the same, its like x amount of classic stuff with a big eye
open for anything that grabs us from the now.
I've always thought it was a strength of ours to grab a bit from Public
Enemy say , stew it with some Joni Mitchell and wrap it up with The XX -We seem
to know what we're making when its right for us all.
You have a
pretty large fanbase. Do you attach a great importance to keep in touch with
your fans?
Yes new
fangled computer gadgets have made communication more direct. Its pretty much
the only source of promotion these days .
There's an amount I feel people care to know about an artist and an
amount they probably don't care about , but it seems to be working for everyone
at the moment .
Could you
tell us 5 things about the Turin Brakes that were never published before?
1. We're not
big on classic guitars.
2 . We are a
very influential band .
3. We are
only just beginning .
4. We travel
light – generally a guitar and a tuner each .
5 . Olly and
Gale sang on the original Mr Bean theme tune
Name 3 things
on your bucket or say whatever, list.
1 .UMBRELLAS
– like mind my eye man !
2. Nu-Faux
Folk - cant you see its a trick ? A
trick?
3. Craft Beer
– Its been in every pub in most countries for centuries and you didn't go near
it until some ex banker convinced you it was new . HMPF!
Name 3 songs
that will stay with you for the rest of your life.
1 "Round and
Round" - Neil Young
2. “Wake Up
Sleeping" - Woodbine
3. “Alameda"
- by Elliot Smith
The worst
venue/ city you´ve ever played in.
There's never
been a bad one , honest
What was the
most unusual interview question you ever had to answer?
Whats your
least favourite sound? I think about it all the time since. Mine is the flush
on airplane toilets...
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