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here’s a huge distance between Bristol, the birthplace of Tricky - whose song ‘Tricky Kid’ spawned the lyric from which Te Naked and
Famous took their name – and New Zealand, where the band call home. Distance isn’t something that scares them though – staying still, now there’s a daunting prospect. Distance can be felt in every one of their air miles that they clock up on their adoption around the world, and distance, more intriguingly, can be felt on their album, from the poppy accessibility of single ‘Young Blood’, to the fuzzy rock attitude of ‘Spank’. It’s in no way a bad thing though – if you’re willing to make the steps between, you reach one hell of a destination…
You’re in the States at the moment, aren’t you? Yeah, I don’t know where I am though… somewhere in the States!
If it helps, I think you’re supposed to be in Philadelphia tonight! Yeah, I think you’re right.
So have you accustomed to the US yet? Yeah, we’ve been here a couple of times already, like we did a different circuit to what we’re doing now when we were supporting Foals last year, so I think we’ve sort of got used to the US culture at this point. I don’t hate it as much, haha! I just think it’s funny that there are a lot of stereotypical things that really do exist and it’s not at all an exaggeration that the food here is absolutely god awful, it really is.
So Tom, you’re coming back to the UK next month for a lot of dates; this is a real triumphant return because you’ve had such a good reception over here, haven’t you? Yeah we have, it’s been really good, but you know, the UK press is so much more clever than in America; everything works so much faster, you know, so you’re getting played on the radio while you’re getting played on TV and BBC everywhere, sort of thing, so it’s so much more logical in the industry with people and it works much better, whereas over here, it’s just a long, slow trudge through the radio stations. But yeah, it’s gonna be pretty wonderful, I can’t wait.
I know a lot of your influences come from British bands, so was international recognition something you aimed for? Were you ready to bust out of the seams of New Zealand? We’d never really intended to leave home; we never thought it was possible – it’s like a dream that you’re not allowed to have in New Zealand… I’m not kidding! It’s completely unrealistic and there are just so many hurdles in
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