Anti-Twee
Friday, October 16th, 2009Our eagle eyes have spotted some predominantly new Johnny Foreigner related content, in the form of an interview with This Is Fake DIY from before their recent headline show at Manchester Deaf Institute. Whilst you’ll know already that Grace and The Bigger Picture has its roots away from Birmingham, the interview does ask a fair few questions that you wouldn’t normally see and is obviously by followers of the band, making it worth the read.
“What’s changed on your second album? Is it a similar sound?
A: It’s noisier but… a bit quieter? If you like our band, you’ll like it, but if you don’t, there’s nothing on there that’s going to ensnare you in. It doesn’t reveal any hidden facet of our personality, it was all pretty heart on stage to start with… It’s a bit weird when you see reviews and it’s like ‘this band hasn’t really progressed’. It shouldn’t be a conscious thing, you should be a band, and this is what you do. You shouldn’t have to think ‘oh, we’re going to get twenty percent more electro, but put a donk on that song’. I know it happens, but it seems like a very cynical way of going about it, I don’t know why we’d have to adhere to that. But maybe this album will bomb and we’ll have to go electro, so I might have to eat my words.”
You can read the full interview over at This Is Fake DIY – which references an upcoming tour with Internet Forever. We’ll bring you those dates tomorrow just in case you haven’t seen them floating around the interwebs thus far!
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