Bounce Magazine May 2015

FEATURE
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Q: with a number one album and the
Arena tour you’ve just finished, does
it seem like the band is in a better
place after all the doubt that kind of
surrounded you guys when Nick left?
Ricky: are we in a better place?
Simon: yes is the answer, and it’s too simple
though. I think the Arena tour, I mean, Ricky has
been continuously busy but the rest of us, since
the Arena tour, have been lazing about for three
weeks. It really, for me because I knew that break
was coming, that seemed like the end of a really,
really like long and sort of hard but good time. So
we started of in, say, kind of January 2013,
getting Vijay and started to write the songs
for the record, writing the record and doing
gigs with Vijay and getting all that worked
out, recording the record, finishing the
record, it coming out, it being number one,
touring it and whatever else.
brilliant and we understand that it’s brilliant
and we’re all very excited and every show we
do is getting bigger and bigger and again it’s
like the graph is turned around a little bit. It’s
weird because, you know how you said it was an
exclamation mark the Arena tour, and it’s funny
because everyone around us is celebrating and
you know, clinking glasses. But when you’re in a
band it’s the realisation that it’s all about the next
thing, it’s like you never really stop and enjoy the
moment and have that kind of like ‘we did it guys’
because you always go ‘yeah, we’ve turned the
ship around, now we have to set sail’
S: almost immediately, well obviously anyway,
but you’ve got to start thinking about the next
And then the Arena tour seemed like the
full stop, you know what I mean, but in a
really great way. Exclamation mark actually
because it was like, triumphant I think and it
just really felt like we done what we wanted
to do, which was just sort of put ourselves
back on course as I think we sort of
definitely meander around a bit around the
fourth album and also with Nick leaving and
with various other things just sort of, I think
we lost our way a little bit and definitely,
definitely felt like the tour and everything,
like, we went to South America with Foo Fighters
just before that, which was great and all touring
festivals over the summer like Glastonbury and all
of it combined, but obviously the Arena tour was
ours, its like we used to always do Arena tours and
then we stopped, and then we did one again and it
was like ‘yes, we’re back’.
R: it is funny though because, although it’s
album and actually got to do all of that, that he’s
described, again and try and do it even better.
R: yeah it’s funny because, on nme.com the other
day, they had a little article about the fact that we’ve
got a new single ‘Falling Awake’ that’s out, and it
said ‘Kaiser Chiefs unveil first song of their next
record, which is out later in the year’ and I was a bit
like ‘whooh, aye’. Yeah, it doesn’t stop for a sec.
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