LIVE 24-SEVEN
GETTING RID OF THAT DARKNESS WAS SUCH A POSITIVE EXPERIENCE.
deep reflection, because when you listen to the words, it’s deep, they mean something, there’s a lot in there. I honestly think it’s the deepest record I’ve ever made and most certainly the most personal record. It’s the furthest I’ve let people in with… [laughing] with what’s going on in my brain! I think it’s an important record and an important choice that I made because I didn’t want to be afraid of those things anymore, you know, the darkness that was in me for so many years and letting light flood in. Getting rid of that darkness was such a positive experience and it’s such a positive record. You know it might have come from a slightly darker place, it certainly doesn’t feel like that, the record is not a ‘low’ record, it’s not a depressing record.
Gary, Snow Patrol are back together after a longer break than you and maybe the rest of the guys expected, did you feel any pressure to ‘regroup’? Umm, no not any pressure, we knew we were getting back together, we never really split up, we just took longer than we thought we were going to take to make the album. We were always together, we spent a lot of time together in that period. We actually started writing the album in 2013, so we had the intention of putting it out in 2014, you know, “No worries, we’ll knock this out quickly and great we’ll get back on tour”, but it just didn’t work out that way you know Katie. But, I’m glad that we took the time that we did, because I really love this record and it wouldn’t have been as good if we’d put it out sooner. I was just going to say it is brilliant… Thank you!
One of my favourite tracks, not sure if I’m a typical girl in saying this, is ‘What If This Is All The Love You Ever Get’; I love that, absolutely beautiful. So, do you think the break you took sparked
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You say it’s the furthest you’ve let people in, and we know you try to protect your personal life, which you have every right to, but you so share so much on this album, for example you father’s dementia, was that a hard thing to share and also to put into a song? Yeah, that was the only song when we were coming to put the album together, as we’d recorded all the songs, that I thought twice about putting out because that wasn’t just about my own personal experience, that was about my dad as well, so I did think twice about sharing that. When I played it to him and I played it to my mum it was an emotional playback shall we say [hint of nervous laughter] but I realised just how important it was to share it and how open he was about his disease. He actually has quite a bit of humour about it, he’ll ask what’s up today and we’ll tell him and my mum will go, “We just told you that” and he’s like, “I do have dementia you know”. Ahh fair play to him! Yeah, he’s quite funny about it Katie, obviously very often it’s not humorous at all, but there are moments when he has some levity about it. He’s a great man and I love him to bits, [laughing nervously] but he’s my dad, so yeah, I did think twice about doing it initially and then I thought, no I do need to play this.
This is a real step away from the music Snow Patrol usually put out, but the reaction to it has been fantastic hasn’t it! It really has. Because we’ve been away for such a long time and it’s a slightly different approach to making a record, I was little wary about how the fans would react and I mean Twitter wasn’t as prevalent as it was the last time we brought an album out and you tended then not to really see an instant reaction from the fans, it was just when you released a record and they bought it [laughing] you knew you were doing well! But, the reaction on Twitter, I’ve never really seen anything like it you know, I’m so amazed really by how positive it’s been. You know you have to make a record for yourself, you can’t make a record that you think they want to hear, if you know what I mean? Guessing what they want to hear is a road to nowhere, you have to make a record for yourselves and then hope people like it. I’m just glad it’s worked out that way.
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