playing the shows. Tere’s been so many times where we’ve like, left guitars behind and stuff and just like left stuff – we’re probably one of the most unorganised bands, I reckon [sic].
As I said, we’ve had you down in Norwich a couple of times now – you came to Open most recently. Can you see yourself coming back this way as part of a mammoth headline album tour? Yeah, I can’t see why not. I mean, it’s obviously not one of the biggest cities, is it? Is it? I don’t really know much about it… But yeah, I can’t see why not
City’, you make a cheeky little reference to Warpaint’s Jenny Lee Lindberg – are you all big musical fans, or is it purely a lust thing? Well Ozzy wrote that lyric, obviously, and I think it was like a tie between Jenny Lee Lindberg and Scarlett Johansson and I think he chose Jenny just
BEST FRIEND… AND HE WAS REALLY PRETTY, SO YEAH, THAT QUALIFIED HIM!
HE WAS LIKE OUR
‘cause we had a really good response last time we came, especially on the Spector date. Tat was one of the really good shows of that tour. If people want to buy tickets to our shows there, then we’ll be back.
I think it’s fair to say that we’ve waited patiently, and your album’s going to be coming out very soon, isn’t it? What can we expect from the parts of the album we haven’t heard? I think it would be more of a surprise if we hadn’t put out ‘She Changes the Weather’ – that’s kinda the vibe that it’s gonna have, but I don’t know… I don’t wanna give too much away, to be honest! But yeah, expect… Not the unexpected, but, I don’t know –
- Just expect. Full stop. Yeah! Yeah.
You mentioned ‘She Changes the Weather’; that’s just come out, almost a year to the date after your first single. Does it feel really different a year on? Erm yeah, sort of, I think, but only because we’ve adapted as a band and we have more of a following now. So now when we release something it obviously has more of an impact and we hear about it a bit more. But I mean, it still feels great, it still feels as exciting.
Now in one of your older songs, ‘King
because he’s probably got more of a chance of meeting her maybe.
he was really pretty, so yeah, that qualified him! And he just like, loved music; he’s so into music and we knew at the time that he’d be so passionate about it as well.
Yeah, and how is he on the old instrument now?! Oh, he’s great! Me and Cav are like, obsessed with Red Hot Chilli Peppers and we’re like, destined to be the next Chad and Flea.
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You need to be tactical with who you go for. Yeah, but I think he’s gone off the idea now a bit, ‘cause she’s married or something apparently. I think he thought tactically at the time.
With your name, and of course, ‘Te Sea’, there seems to be a distant gaze towards the ocean. Te West Midlands are pretty landlocked – is there any reason that the sea has been a bit of an influence on you? I think it was mainly when we started writing; we were like, so obsessed with wanting to be in America, and the whole lifestyle and things, just all that sort of stuff. I think it’s more about wanting to do different things to what you’re doing, and wanting to be in a better place than you currently are.
When it comes to Cav, he couldn’t even play bass when he joined, could he? What are the credentials you need to join Swim Deep, do you think? What boxes did he tick? Erm, he was like our best friend… and
Yeah, well when you listen to their earlier stuff, they’ve got really funky bass lines, haven’t they? Yeah, me and Cav absolutely love that.
Now we want you guys, after the festival season is over, to be able to say to other people that Latitude Festival was the best one you did all summer, so what would make the perfect audience for you Zach? Oh, that’s a tough one… are you after a realistic answer?
No, it doesn’t have to be based in realism whatsoever. Argh… well the best show would probably be if Prince was watching us. But the best realistic show would be if everyone was just enjoying it, I guess. It’s just great to see people – as well as people going mental to your music – it’s great to see the older people that obviously know a lot more about music really enjoying what you’re doing. I can’t wait.
Maddie Russell
18 / June 2013/
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