Bounce Magazine May 2015
Featuring the Kaiser Chiefs, The Suffolk Show, Seckford Hall Review, Fathers Day Fashion and The Latitude Festival preview.
Featuring the Kaiser Chiefs, The Suffolk Show, Seckford Hall Review, Fathers Day Fashion and The Latitude Festival preview.
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MAY <strong>2015</strong> MAY | ISSUE <strong>2015</strong> #31 | ISSUE | BOUNCE #31 FEATURE<br />
Q: with the whole<br />
situation, you know<br />
obviously with Nick<br />
leaving and he was<br />
widely kind of credited<br />
as being one of the main<br />
songwriters, has your<br />
confidence came back<br />
as a band with this past<br />
year with the fact that<br />
the album that you guys<br />
wrote went to number<br />
one?<br />
R: it was a new kind of confidence<br />
because we never individually and<br />
together as the four remaining<br />
members and then when Vijay joined, we never<br />
had that kind of confidence in the fact we could<br />
do it. In fact, when we first had out first rehearsal<br />
without Vijay we didn’t know we could do it, it was<br />
‘lets see if its possible’ and it was. So it’s not like<br />
we got our confidence back, it was like we grew it<br />
from scratch really, I think.<br />
Q: so, how confident were you guys<br />
with your own song writing abilities<br />
then?<br />
R: we didn’t know we could do it, honestly, you<br />
know, I’ve never wrtitten a song without Nick<br />
being in the room and I don’t know if you have,<br />
but nothing you’d ever bring.<br />
S: no, exactly. I think it was the confidence of like,<br />
I always felt we would do it, we just had to work<br />
out how we were gonna do it and you know, it<br />
would work its self out because I felt we had the<br />
talent. But I also felt that, you know sometimes<br />
when you’ve got a football team and you’ve got<br />
a star player, like for instance Ronaldo, but then<br />
he gets injured or he can’t play. And then the<br />
team play amazingly wthout him and you realise<br />
that everyone steps up and everyone fills the gap<br />
because that’s how life works.<br />
R: that’s a good analogy.<br />
S: so that’s what we did basically, we just did it, I<br />
mean we wanted to do it. I think actually, we said<br />
this before, but Nick leaving gave us a new sense<br />
of like motivation and new energy I think. So when<br />
we first started the band, we were all desperate<br />
to be in band and we were desperate like, I don’t<br />
know, get signed or play a certain venue, like play<br />
at Brixton Academy or play at Glastonbury, there<br />
was lots of things. And we’ve done lots and lots of<br />
things in our career, and then we sort of I think get<br />
complacent. Not in a bad way, but just because<br />
some things you’re used to. And then, suddenly<br />
this thing where its like, we had to positively<br />
decide that we wanted to carry on and we had to<br />
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