Thrills Return With More of the Same, But Better!
Okay, you’ve gone and made what I think is a very catchy record, are you proud of yourselves?
Daniel: Yeah, definitely, happy that we got it done, we want to follow it up quickly… it’s really good to have it now. In the weeks after the studio there’s always a bit of tweaking but now it’s finished.
I have read so many press clippings saying you’re the next U2 or the best Irish export, does that put pressure on you to deliver?
Daniel: I think every band no matter how good or bad they are gets that tag in Ireland, so it’s not something that you take seriously or literally. We do our own thing, we don’t tend to get swayed by what other people say or think.
I guess not every band have been as successful as you have.
Daniel: No, maybe not so but there’s lots of great bands from Ireland, there’s a great new band called Hal coming through now, and Damien Rice has done really well.
Connor: Simple Kid
Daniel: It’s great to see bands are getting taken seriously from places outside Ireland again.
What about in terms of having produced a very successful first album, is there any pressure to follow that up with another successful album?
Connor: Things moved so quickly that we didn’t really think about it, I think if we’d dwelled on it then we might have got sucked up into that difficult second album thing… but we didn’t.
You recorded both albums in LA, and a bit in New York on this one. Do you think that environment is integral to that particular sound?
Connor: I think good songs make a good record, it doesn’t really matter where you record it. But if it makes people happy and puts them in a good frame of mind, and if it keeps them isolated from bad habits… or familiar territory… and from people calling in – people that can distract you then it’s a good thing.
So do you not think that the environment itself would influence the sound?
Connor: I think you should be excited to be there. If you’re somewhere miserable then that’s not a good thing. On our first record we were excited to be there. For this one we wanted to do it in New York but it was too expensive and we were too last minute with the organisation… and then we thought we were going to record in a house, but Slipknot wouldn’t move out of the house so we couldn’t record it there. So we ended up in a similar situation to last time, almost through default – with a conventional studio setup in LA. But it was a good studio and David Sardy, our producer, had worked there before so he knew the ropes, and it all ran quite smoothly I guess.
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