CD and press shots and the videos. By getting with the management company they took us to a place where we had to sign with the label. It was a combination of hard work, touring and trying to send out as much music as you can to the right people and hoping one of them takes notice.


What Made You Decide Being in a Band Would be Your Career Path? Before we went to university, me, Rob and Matt had always been in bands at school, and we always loved music – we were all really passionate about it. But we all wanted to go to university as well, because university is a really incredible experience and one that I would recommend to anybody. But when we came out of university we had all got really different degrees and did what interested us, but we were also very passionate about music and about being in a band. So we thought “let’s give it a go, you’re only young once. Let’s go into it, let’s write the songs we want to play.” We started playing in front of people which is what we most wanted to do at the time. Luckily for us it’s working out alright. I mean, it doesn’t always work out alright but in our position fortunately everything has fallen into place and allowed us to keep doing that.


So being in a band is a difficult and unpredictable career? Yeah, it’s a massively difficult career. You’ve got to put an awful lot of faith in yourself. Often you’re going to get knocked back all the time. It’s very difficult to know where it’s going to lead because even if you have a massive album or huge single, the pressure is now on to write the next incredible single or the next incredible album. You never know day to day where you’re going to be at in the next year. But for us, that’s the lifestyle we really enjoy. It’s really fast-paced, exciting and keeps the pressure on us to constantly deliver the material. It’s quite an intense career path -not one for the faint hearted.


How did you maintain the band relationship in university? Three of us knew each other in school and went to different universities. But we used to meet up and practice occasionally but not very intensively. We’d write songs whilst we were at university but weren’t doing any kind of touring. We kept the momentum going so when we left university we had songs written that we could go out on the road with. But it was very occasional – once every term or two, we used to get together in the holidays to keep things going.


How Do You Feel About the Threat of Closure to High Street Music Shops? I love HMV- I love going in there and looking at music. I think it’s a shame. People’s music consumption is so heavily orientated to the online world – with Spotify and Itunes I don’t think it will make a massive difference. It’s just a loss of convenience and being able to pop in to a shop on the high street.


Who Are Your Influences at the Moment? As a band, collectively we all really love Biffy Clyro, Brand New, Incubus, and Reuben. I and Rob really love Every Time I Die. At the moment we are listening to the new Everything Everything album quite a lot – it’s really different and interesting pop I guess.


How Do You Feel About the Current Rock Climate?


I think it’s brilliant because at the moment there are so many amazing bands from the underground that we have toured with that are breaking through in a massive way – like Deaf Havana… they are doing absolutely massive things at the moment for the UK rock scene… like Young Guns. And then you have bands like Mallory Knox who we’re taking on tour who are getting a load of Radio 1 support at the moment, which is awesome to see. Rock really does feel like it’s coming back. Radio 1 play a huge part in influencing people’s music taste and now they are latching on to guitar bands again… it’s phenomenal. I think rock music is stronger than it has been in years and years.


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