Yeah it does, I mean, we’ve had an amazing amount of support, so to get continued support from people like the BBC makes the world of difference. You can’t really put a price on that kind of support, really. It just puts you out there continuously from a really reputable source, and it’s partly why we’re still able to make records.
Te HiggsBosonis hard to understand, it’s a complex notion, but I know this – it concerns particles, and the forces that react to those. Jonathan Higgs has his own
boson; since his band put out their debut album in 2010, their subsequent gigs and new album – their particles – have been subject to the forces of hype, media, critique. But through it all, the Higgs Everything Everythingboson
has remained strong, true to themselves and has produced the new record, ‘Arc’ ready to join the masses.
that we’d now be talking about album number two already, and a Top Five album at that? I know, it’s crazy; we didn’t predict it, put it that way. Midweek we heard it was at three, so we thought by the weekend it won’t even be in the Top Ten, but we were still happy with that, but we stuck it out and got five, which is pretty amazing. Top Ten is people like Rihanna
W
ould you have thought back when I interviewed you in 2010,
and we thought, ‘that’s pretty nuts’, you know, sitting there amongst all that.
Te demise of HMV kind of puts in to perspective the kind of support that you got early on from people like Zane Lowe and all the BBC Radio presenters – it’s now almost more meaningful in terms of a band’s progress.
When I talked to you last time, you said you had been able to engineer some of the hype of the band, which was lucky – is it a harder beast to keep hold of, now that you’re kind of owned by the public, in a way? Erm, it’s easier in some ways to let it be out there, because there’s so many people with different views out there that you’re not going to be misrepresented. Early on, you can do one interview for NME and you’re suddenly ‘that band’; now I’m doing many, many interviews all the time and people listen to us in lots of different formats and have their opinions of us, so it feels like much more even footing now. Tere’s far more lies out there, but there’s also far more truths, which is nice.
Is that still a thing Jonathon? Do you still find that there are sensationalist publications that will just pluck a non- fact out of the air? Yeah, I mean, we have seen a bit of that in the last week, but that’s purely because we’ve been speaking to so
Top Ten is people like Rihanna and we thought, ‘that’s pretty nuts’, you know, sitting there amongst all that.
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