explained to me that it was quite a meaningful place to play and I was like, “sheeeet! Tat’s cool!” Like, woah, that’s nuts. So I don’t know, we’re all really psyched already.
You’ve been touring so much, with barely any time off – have you had much studio time? What’s the latest on the album? We’d basically got about a month in- between tours, in the studio. I can’t even remember when it was – that’s so bad! It could have been summer, it could have been winter – maybe it was between the two… autumn! We went to Lincolnshire and we went to Chapel Studios and recorded it all. We actually finished mastering it two days ago so I’ve got the real thing now. I’ve, erm, I’ve got the only existing CD copy –
It’s been the biggest teaser campaign for any emerging band, ever. People have been adorning surfaces, edges of notebooks and themselves with the Peace sign since before the band was even born. Now that’s a marketing strategy. Alright, it’s not true, but it is a fact that Peace, the band, have attached themselves to the notion of civil calm and free love – not a bad manifesto, and one more Transatlantic sounding than their origins of industrial Birmingham. Te same can be said of their music, a kind of sun-tinged grunge pop – music for nineties kids. What’s unmistakably British about them is their humour though, as we became aware of in our pre-NME Tour chat.
You came to Norwich last month though, didn’t you, as part of your big headline tour? Was my hometown on good form? It was, it was great; one of the better shows of the tour. Top ten! Maybe even top five.
Really? You’re not even just saying that? No, I’m not, ‘cause everybody, like, jumped on stage at the end – I remember that.
Te Norwich Arts Centre is a great venue because of its intimate size, but it’s on to bigger things next month – you’re returning as part of the NME Tour, as everybody knows – - Yeah, opening the NME Awards Tour.
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Much is spoken of that coveted opening slot on the NME Awards Tour. And it’s true – we’ve seen so many NME shows where the opening band on the Tour have gone on to eclipse the rest and be the biggest band ever. Were you pretty stoked to be starting things off? Yeah, I mean, I didn’t realise the tradition of the first slot when we first got it, I was like, ‘Oh, that’s really good’. I was thrilled, and then someone
- Keeping it under lock and key, I hope? Yeah, well I actually went to the pub with it in my pocket, but I had my hands on it at all times! I was like, ‘actually, wait! What if I lose this? I can’t lose this!’ so I was guarding it with my life. So yeah, it’s actually finished and it’ll be coming out at the end of March.
Jim Abbiss produced your ‘EP Delicious’ – did he have a hand in the album? Yeah, we kinda did it all, like ‘EP Delicious’ we did earlier on in the year with Jim, then we went back into the same kind of studio and the same style of working. ‘EP Delicious’ is kinda like, I don’t know, the first way quarter of the album in the way it feels. It’s like we almost went back in and started where we left off, recording more songs in the same way, with the same people, so it was really cool.
A read a little about you working with him, and there was something to do with a rotating drum of hot wax – does that make more sense to you than me? Yeah, basically he had this old pedal
MEANINGFUL PLACE TO PLAY AND I WAS LIKE, “SHEEEET! THAT’S COOL!
SOMEONE EXPLAINED TO ME THAT IT WAS QUITE A
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