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GUILLEMOTS


A body of work by the solo artist Fyfe Dangerfield last year sent alarm bells ringing with fans of Guillemots. Why? Fyfe is more than creative enough to stand alone, proficient in his own avenues and endlessly inventive. But if it signalled the end of Guillemots, we wouldn’t have that chaotic chemistry that only the four components of the band can bring together, the multi-national, sonically diverse quartet who aren’t afraid to colour over the lines. Relief was felt all round then, as a third album, ‘Walk the River’ materialised, and a full UK tour…


So Fife, you’ve just been in Brazil; that was a brief trip, was it? Brief but really, really amazing, yeah. For whatever reason, we haven’t really toured the world as much as we’d like to and whenever we do, we’re just like ‘this is what we care about.’ We’ve never particularly seen ourselves as a British band, ‘cause I’m the actual only member of the band that’s English, certainly, I mean Greig’s Scottish and Magrao is Brazilian and Arista’s kind of Canadian / Japanese / Chinese, so we’re from all over the place really. It’s so brilliant when you get to go and


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play different countries and Brazil was so amazing. I think we’ve always felt – we’ve always known that there were a few people in South America and particularly Brazil who wanted to see us. I think we’ve always felt some sort of link with Brazil, through Magrao and he named ‘Trains to Brazil’, like, it had a different title before and then we have the song ‘Sao Paolo’ as well, so we’ve always felt some sort of weird connection with the place. It couldn’t have gone better really – it was just a really positive trip, it was great.


Your musical influences are so wide – you seem like the kind of guy who would breath in other countries’ sights and sounds like osmosis. Do your travels creep into your creative psyche? Mmm, but I think generally everything… general experience creeps into creativity. I mean, I think your creative self is no different to your actual self in the sense that everyone would say that everything that happens in their lives forms the person they are, and I think that’s the same with the writing stuff. Like people always ask you what type of music influences you, but it’s weird, I don’t know if it’s ‘cause that’s how my brain works – but all of us in the band are like it – you could hear a piece of music and that could influence you, but you can see a tree, or have a conversation with someone, or bump into a wall, or whatever and all of them set off triggers that might then give you an idea musically.


You had previous musical incarnations before Guillemots, but could you never have achieved what you have now with Guillemots, like


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