Bounce Magazine June 2018

JUNE 2018 JUNE | 2018 ISSUE | ISSUE #68 | #68 MATT CARDLE
like a girl [laughs] and that was it really, I was
just absolutely fascinated.
anybody realised how big it was going to be
that year.
I had always sung as a kid, my mum said I used
to hum myself to sleep. I was always musical
but it was just that moment really of finding
Michael Jackson’s music… I then decided then
and there what I wanted to do and who I… well
I didn’t want to be him, but that was the life I
wanted really… to be a musician.
R: That was going to be my next question
actually, who were your musical influences
growing up, was there anyone else?
Yeah, my music taste changed quite
drastically, quite quickly. We’d go on trips with
my dad and he would play us Crowded House,
Sting, Elton John, REM, Peter Gabriel and Kate
Bush. When I was about 11 or 12 maybe, I first
heard Nirvana and that was it for me and then
onto Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, then
Korn… Slipknot and then really heavy mental.
Now I am into everything.
R: So we can say your grunge days are safely
behind you now?
[laughs] Yeah we can! I still listen to them
though. Rage Against The Machine are my
favourite band of all time. Like myself, I doubt
a lot of people create the music they listen to?
R: We saw you emerge onto the music scene
publicly, through the TV Show ‘X Factor,’
in 2010, I have to say I voted for you every
week, what was that experience like?
Aww thank you, you’re so sweet! I loved my
time on the show, and I would do it all again
although it would probably finish me off if I
did!
You know… you watched the show, I don’t
think anyone saw it coming, I don’t think
Its an odd start to any ones career. I mean,
essentially what you are going out to do with
the X Factor is to get a record deal, but you’re
doing it in quite possibly, and definitely, the
most public way possible, do you know what
I mean? So everybody knows who you are
before you’ve even put pen to paper with
regards to writing your album.
R: You received the most votes every week
from week 2, how did it feel to have so much
support?
To be honest I found that out after the show
and I was more shocked, genuinely, by that,
than I was that I won. The competition was a
slow process, eliminating people one by one,
until it was then just me and Rebecca at the
end. When there is just two of you its a 50/50
chance, but winning it, blew my tiny mind, I
never thought that could happen. It was only
when I was on the Xtra Factor when someone
came out and told me you realize you won
every week apart from week one. That melted
me then.
R: I have spoken with Rebecca before
actually and she’s incredible lovely, but you
were on the show in the same year as ‘One
Direction’ are you still in touch with any of
the guys?
Yeah I am, I mean just look at what they have
managed to achieve? I was talking to someone
the other day actually, about how they have all
managed to branch off and do their own thing
so successfully and I genuinely think social
media has such a huge part to play know
because they all have their own individual
Instagrams, Facebook’s, Twitter. Now, you can
be an individual and be in that band, where as
a band like Take That, for example, or N-Sync
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