42 ROCK//INDIE//ALTERNATIVE
EvERyTHING EvERyTHING
Dean Woodhouse
Going from under the radar to on the radar, Everything Everything are looking forward to being a part of the NME Awards Tour this month. We had a chat with lead singer Jonathan Higgs on the bands success and future dreams.
THE GUESTLIST NETWORK | FEBRUARY 2011 OF THE MONTH ALBUM
BEADY EYE DIFFERENT GEAR, STILL SPEEDING
What are you up to? We’re rehearsing, we just got a lot of new outfits for tomorrows show and for the whole tour. So we are putting them on and playing songs…We’re not rehearsing putting the costumes on, I mean we’re rehearsing our songs with the outfits on. We have just got to our studio and we’re laughing at how ridiculous we look.
What sort of outfits are you wearing? It’s like a workmans sort of boiler suit thing. It’s weird. We kinda wanted to look like we were doing the same job and we wanted to feel like the outfits were on to do this. It has got all these little things on it to help us, like a few cables and a few pockets to put our picks in. Stuff like that.
How much of a privilege is it to be asked to perform at the NME Awards Tour? It’s a big privilege yeah. We done one last year for The Radar Tour and now we’re back for the big one. We didn’t know it was going to happen and it came out of the blue. Yeah it’s great.
How did you come up with your name? We were playing around with the word ‘Everything’ and we really liked it. It has got a nice rhythm and it’s obviously got a neutral meaning. We were wondering how to combine it with another word. It became an impossible potential task and that’s what we really liked about it. It’s kind of an impossible complex to make one
ordinary word into something big. Impossible, but we liked it.
Who are your influences when creating your sound? We’ve all got different influences, a bit of a mixture. Grunge and House Rock from our pasts. That’s really our bread and butter. Since then we listen to really a lot of different stuff like Jazz and R&B like Destiny’s Child. Producers as well, we’re just big fans of sounds like Hip Hop and Electronic sounding music. It’s all so important in music itself to some people.
Your artwork on the record is amazing, the best I’ve seen in a long time. Who’s idea was it to create that design on the cover? One of the songs on the album is called Tin (The Manhole) which is about a fox going to the city and it’s sort of about growing and eating up thorns which is quite surreal stuff. We really just liked the misery on the lyrics basically and we thought it would be cool to make a video of this. It didn’t work out so we thought why don’t we put it on the album cover and base all the artwork on this idea of a fox in the city at night. We worked with these two designers and they wanted to put some glitch elements on it, which is like when a photo gets downloaded somewhere and it fucks up you get these big sort of gashes of colour and it looks like its gone wrong. Like when your TV messes up. So we got all these images of this fox that we just found from a random photographer who we later found
out we knew the guy who took the photos. Then we changed the code so the photo would get the glitches in them.
It’s sort of like how your music and your album cover are linked on being a bit wacky, it’s sort of symbolic, isn’t it? Yeah, we like the fact that it’s sort of a natural wild animal in the middle of an urban place which is a little bit weird for it to be there and then the whole image to be digitized and that’s gone wrong as well. So it’s like a digital invasion of the natural creature that’s wondered into a town. It’s a very surreal thing anyway. When you see a fox, it’s really weird because they’re completely wild but when they pop up next to Top Shop or whatever it’s quite a cool little bit of nature. Getting it’s own back.
You’re currently set to finish touring in May. Are you set to add some more dates? I’m not sure. We’re talking about doing some shows in other countries, maybe some more UK shows. We have got some plans just before the summer and obviously doing all the festivals. So yeah, watch this space.
What are you hoping to achieve with your second record? Bigger and Better? Yeah I think so. I think we learnt a lot making it and we learnt why things are good and why things are not. I think we just want to make something better and stronger. I personally want to make it more classic or timeless. I don’t know
how you can do that but I want it to be songs that can be performed by other people, not just someone with a silly voice like me. Perhaps more direct.
Some bands come up with an idea while they’re on tour and start producing it there and then. Is that something you guys do or do you wait when you finish your tour and then go into production? Well right now we are getting ready to go on tour so we’re not even at that stage. I don’t see why not as we can get ideas wherever and whenever. But it will be very hard to record it since you can’t record drums on the road. We do a lot on our laptops anyway, that’s primarily writing anyway and that’s easy to do anywhere. So we are writing the whole time.
What do you dream to achieve in the future? To stay in a band. That’s getting increasingly hard to do, I think for everyone. It will be great to still be making music and the music I want to make for as long as I want to do it. That’s what I hope to be doing.
Everything Everything’s debut album Man Alive is out now. Catch them on the NME Awards Tour: 15th Feb 02 Bristol 16th Feb 02 Bournemouth 17th Feb Brighton Dome 19th Feb 02 Brixton
ELBOW O2 ARENA
With a Mercury prize, a BRIT award, an NME award and 2 Ivor Novello awards for their 4th album The Seldom Seen Kid, Elbow now have a back cataloge to fill any arena in the world, knock knock 02 Arena. Guy Harvey and Co are now raring to go with their hotly anticipated 5th record Build A Rocket Boys! set to be released at the beginning of March. Elbow’s followers have only but a few weeks to digest all of their new tracks before the spectacle concludes on both the 28th and 29th of March at, what is now regarded, the best music venue in the world! Needless to say, the lads from Ramsbottom can do no wrong at the moment. They can pull out classic tracks like Newborn, Mirrorball, One Day Like This and Grounds For Divorce and are well known for being exhurbarant on stage. The 28th date has already sold out, so get your tickets for the 29th of March pronto!
After two years of crying and finally getting over the break up of Oasis, we are blessed with Liam Gallagher, Andy Bell, Gem Archer and Chris Sharrock first record without Noel as Beady Eye. The debut album, Different Gear, Still Speeding, is out this month and the bets were heavily on older brother Noel to release his solo material ahead of Liam, the younger Gallagher has piped him to the post. That’s not because Liam has just put some chords that sound alright so the album would be done, it is actually bloody marvelous. As Noel was the main songwriter for Oasis, Beady Eye had it sketptics to produce an album containing 13 great tunes, but Liam is not one to hide in the moment when pressure and critics are about. Tracks like The Roller bring you back to Oasis tracks Songbird and I’m Outta Time but other songs such as Four Letter Word express a new sound from within. Liam and the boys are itching to get back on the road and perform this record, to which they should be extremely proud of. A statement has been made to the world, Liam doesn’t need Noel. By the way, where is the older Gallagher? A head start by Liam suggests there will only be one winner.
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