been out a mere five days and the plaudits are coming in from every avenue that ought to matter – the musical press – and the avenue that really matters – from the fans. Te relief comes in two guises; one, after the Best Of album back in 2009, it was thought the boys might be winding down; and two, in some ways, they already had wound down. But in the subsequent four years, the Welsh rock band have put the hard back into hardcore and regained their appeal that their debut ‘Casually Dressed…’ had put them on the map for. It’s a triumphant Rich we speak to on a cold, snowy morning ahead of their headline UK tour…
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So how’s the weather where you are Rich? It’s snowing here, so I’ve got to do that British thing of asking you about the weather – - It’s snowing here; we’ve had quite a bit of snowfall, to be honest with you. Quite a lot of the things went down, you know, a lot of the roads and the schools and stuff, but it seems to be fizzling out a bit now. We had a tiny snowfall last night, which made the roads slightly treacherous this
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morning, but we like a bit of drama, so onwards and upwards!
And you were in Japan last week – how was that? Brilliant – we love Japan. We’ve always been received well over there and it’s always a great place to treat ourselves. It was brilliant; we went over to Tokyo to play one show and then came back, so it’s nice not to have jetlag! I love travelling and
eople are pouring their relief out over Twitter. At time of writing, ‘Conduit’, the band’s sixth studio album, has
when you go somewhere like that, it’s just so different there that you go and have such a great time, you know. You go there, play for a couple of hours of it, then the rest of it is pretty much the most amazing holiday ever!
Now, it’s an exciting time for you guys – obviously the album comes out next week; is there the same feeling of apprehension, or expectancy when it comes to the 6th studio album? We’re just like really excited and we’re all extremely happy with this album, like every member feels like we’ve done a brilliant job of it, and it’s a tip of the hat towards our early influences, so we’re just really excited to put it out. So far, with all the press we’ve had, people are really buzzing about it, so we’re really stoked and excited and can’t wait to put it out now.
Outline has actually had the pleasure of interviewing you guys before, and we spoke to Matt in 2009, which was just after the release of the Best Of… I think the scary thing for fans is that when a band releases a Best Of, you worry that they’re drawing their music to a close, but you guys seem to have carried on with what seems like renewed enthusiasm since its
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