hen you first started Nothing But Tieves did you expect to be doing so well by this point?
Outline last interviewed Nothing But Thieves last year, with a group of young volunteers at BBC Radio 1’s Academy at Open, ahead of the Big Weekend. Since then they’ve been busy boys, travelling to the States and Japan, and supporting Muse on some massive dates. They visit the LCR this month as headliners, and I spoke to guitarist Dom about the best bar in Tokyo and how to deal with a 360° stage.
28 / April 2016/
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No, we never thought into the future that much. We live very much in the moment – when you’re writing music you’re trying to better the music, when you’re touring you’re trying to better your live show. It’s nice to have realistic goals but it all happens so quickly you don’t really have that perception of the future. Obviously as a 15 year old kid you dream of playing in a stadium one day, or you write a song at that age and expect it to go Top 10 one day, you don’t think like that. It’s healthy, because there are no expectations and so every good thing that happens for the band you take in your stride and aren’t ever disappointed. You have already got a stadium filling sound, but what was your very first gig like? Oh my god, it’s so dire! It makes us sound like a pathetic bunch of morons. We used to play empty bars and pub back rooms. Tere’d be an iPod dock and you’d plug into it, no one would be in there except for your parents who would’ve driven you down. I remember playing Te Underbelly in Camden and no-one came except for my mum and she was only there because we had to be driven there. A week later
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