The Early Years
We catch up with The Early Years in the lead up to the release of their new four track EP, 'The Great Awakening'.
We catch up with The Early Years in the lead up to the release of their new four track EP, 'The Great Awakening', released on the February 19th, to chat about town planning, backwards messages, and The Stooges.
Hello! Where are you right now; and how's the weather?
We are in New York - and it's absolutely freezing cold!
You've quite a clever name there, who thought of that one?
That was Dave - he's very clever - he's got a 2.1 in Town Planning from Sheffield University. He wanted to form a band called The Years, however as he was the only member at the time it made sense to call the project The Early Years and it's stuck.
Your reality has been quite surreal - your demo tape was picked up by the likes of Steve Lamacq pretty fast. Has life been a rollercoaster since then?
Yeah - it's been totally crazy. We all work full time so juggling jobs and rock n roll is a bit tricky at times.
Your debut album has just been released in the States - what are your hopes for it out there?
To become huge and if that fails to at least shift a few hundred thousand units, we are a very ambitious band.
Previous b-side 'I Heard Voices' sounds like it has cryptic backwards messages in - if we're right and they're not just made up gobble-de-goop, what are the true meanings of these words? Why did you decide to use them like that?
As I mentioned earlier, Dave is very clever and he taught himself to speak backwards at an early age. There are cryptic messages on all our releases and a hidden track which nobody has found yet. We could never reveal the true meaning for fear of persecution by higher forces than man. The message is in the medium anyway.
What compels you to make the sort of music that you do?
It's the unstoppable urge to lift ones mind and body to a higher state of being through the medium of music. A good concert is like a quasi-religous experience for us. We couldn't do it any otherway. There is something incredible about exploring the dynamics of playing two chords at loud volumes. We also tried our hand at jazz and unfortunately we were not accomplished enough players to pull off the complex horn sections of our favourite jazz players. Hopefully that will change as we get older and we grasp the complexities of modal chord voicings and we will be able to branch out into the esoteric world of avant garde jazz.
And lastly - if you were trapped at a James Blunt concert with only one song loud enough to drown him out on your ipod, what would it be?
The Stooges - Search and Destroy - he's ex Army, he should see the funnyside.
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