SLAVES
Slaves, man. Tey’ve made it. Tis time last year they were just about to hold their first ever sold out headlining show, at Te Owl Sanctuary here in Norwich. After a year of hitting the big time, releasing their debut album and playing every festival going, they’re back for a sold out show at the LCR. I spoke to lead singer Isaac about mantarays, Skepta and musical soulmates.
So I interviewed Laurie this time last year, and you were just about to play your first ever sold out show at Te Owl Sanctuary, one of our smallest venues. Now you’re just about to play a sold out show at UEA, Norwich’s largest venue. How’s life changed in the last year? Life has changed in that we’re away from home a lot and are very busy. It’s become more of a constant thing, this music thing. But I don’t feel that life hasn’t changed too much…I guess more people are coming to the shows now and the gigs are bigger and it’s more serious but it’s much the same; we’re still doing what we were doing this time last year. Have you noticed your audience changing? For example, your audience at the Owl was very different to your R1 Big Weekend audience.
20 / November 2015/
outlineonline.co.uk
“We live for the live shows”
Yeah, it varies from gig to gig. But I think the nice thing about our shows is that it’s all different people coming together, there isn’t a typical Slaves fan. Tey’re all sizes and shapes and styles and ages. It’s pretty cool, and it’s only become more so. What’s been the most exciting thing you’ve done in the last year? I’m not sure actually, there have been so many! I guess doing all the major festivals; we played Glastonbury, which was a dream come true, and we’re starting to get on to the next album now which is very exciting. Have you been writing songs over the last year ready for the new album? We’ve always got stuff in the pipeline and together we’re always creative. But we booked some time off recently so we’ve been in the studio writing
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