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BIG WEEKEND NORWICH 2015
Yeah, all four of us have our own personal favourite. For me I think it’s Not Giving In. It’s such a dynamic songs and takes you on a journey but it also had such a strong meaning for us. One of our best friends was struggling at the time, and almost suicidal and we wrote that song for him. So every time that we play it live we go completely crazy. Tankfully he came out the other side and is totally fine now.
the singers; like we were having a drink in a pub and heard a guy singing called John Newman and thought “Oh he’d sound good on that track we wrote last week”. We wanted to keep that philosophy so we built a team through management around us who thought the same way as us. We find vocalists through the Internet, through seeing them singing live at shows…we really love the concept of finding unknown, untouched talent. Just the other day I was at Te Breakfast Club in London and the waitress told me she sang. I got everyone to shhh and she sang and she was amazing! I Now we’re hoping to work together. So we love to grab those kind of opportunities, as at one time we were unknown and couldn’t even get a cup of tea at most record labels. Now they offer us bottle of champagne! You used to work with kids in Hackney; at what point were you confident enough to leave the day job behind and really feel like you’d made it in music as a career? I was working as a mentor in a secondary school and my son had just been born; I had just decided to leave my job, finish university and become a teacher and better myself. Te day after I quit my job we got signed! So it was the luck of the draw really, and I sighed a breath of relief that that happened. Te music industry is a hard one. You make no money for the first year, grinding away wondering where those pay-checks are going to come from. You played a couple years ago at the Big Weekend in Hackney, so what was it like to return to your old stomping grounds? Te funny thing is, that was only our second ever live show! We did our first live show the day before. Nervous? I should have been wearing nappies! It was an incredible experience. I lived next door
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to Hackney Marshes, it’s where we used to play football and we had a lot of memories from there. 8,500 people turned up to see us on the strength of one song. I’ll never forget it. Is there one song in particular that you look forward to performing live?
“AT ONE TIME WE WERE UNKNOWN AND COULDN’T EVEN GET A CUP OF TEA AT MOST RECORD LABELS.
How do you get hyped up for your shows as onstage you have so much energy? Do you have any pre show rituals? It’s funny, we’re all very different and have our own rituals. Because we have so much energy when we’re on stage people think we must go through some crazy thing backstage, but actually we’re really boring! We were all doing our own bits; one guy’s on his iPad checking the Arsenal scores, I just zone out, but then there’s a moment two or three minutes before we go on stage and we play a song that we’ve been listening to as a group and we transform into something and we become Rudimental. All the stresses we have through the week get released on stage and we let ourselves go. Will you be bringing any special guests on stage at the Big Weekend in Norwich? We’ve been working on our new stage show, and it has so many new elements to it; not only music-wise but production as well. Tere will be a lot to blow you away, especially some new guests who feature on our new album but I’ll keep that a secret for now!
INFORMATION
You can see Rudimental headlining the In New Music We Trust Stage on Saturday night at Radio 1’s Big Weekend.
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