Snow Patrol

0:03What's this? It will work, yeah exactly. The price is not playing your record though. You think this is what your record if you're doing a sign? We're glad about that because we've heard it and often we play it every time. I can imagine. How are the setlist working for you guys? I mean you got four records now? Yeah, well the first two records coming out on tour? Probably not too much. Yeah, we don't really know. Only because people don't really like it. No, I like them. No, no. Oh, there's a good record. Nobody really has them. The point is that whenever you play a song, maybe ten people at 5,000, no, the crowd just goes like, what was that? And they'll... Is that a cover? It's just like an atmosphere where you've ever sucked all your good work out of the air. But unfortunately, I know there's people who really love those songs. We did too, but it just ruins the gig and the flow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it mostly new stuff then or is there is final straw stuff coming out too?

0:51Yeah, it's half and half really. It's half of guys opening and final straws. Any covers coming out? No. No. We're busy in Love, but we needed a rapper for that. And so we couldn't bring a rapper just for one song. No, of course. You want to guess from OK, go to do it or something? Yeah, well, yeah. If they could come around all the time, what would be our each one? I mean, actually, I was talking to them earlier. They said they might do their little dance for you one of these days, I'm sure. Yeah. Because they know you haven't seen it yet. Well, they do. They do a little dance in our dressing before we go on. That's a new thing that started. And Celebrosan's, they come in as well. And we have just like ten minutes of dancing. Nice. It's a new thing. Of course, yeah. That last couple of weeks just started. It's quite good. It's amazing. How's your arm doing? Tell people how your arm's doing? It's fine. You know, I broke it there in January and about five weeks.

1:37It was a bone in the elbow that broke. And it wasn't as bad as it could have been. Yeah. How long does recuperation take for that kind of stuff? I mean, you're banging all the time. Yeah. Well, it was four weeks, really, that healed. And I was just doing a lot of therapy and stuff to try and, you know, try and make it better quicker, you know. Yeah. I wasn't quite sure when it came out and Tera was just hoping that it would work, you know. Is that the longest you got without playing your kit? Yeah, probably is. Wow. Hard to get back into it? It was alright, you know. It was like riding a bike. You sort of remembered after a while, you know. Yeah. I can imagine. How long you been playing when you picked it up for the first time? Oh, two long ago. Like a small kid or like teenage? I was like 16 or something, you know. Oh, okay.

2:22So I've been playing a long time. I should be better than I am. When I think it's like 16 years or something. Like, no, no, 18 years. I'm like shit. God. It's all paying off now, man. Yeah. After the success of chasing cars, can you imagine that? Yeah, like, no. Yeah. Of course it's imagine. We knew that when we wrote this off. No, it's just crazy though. And now, like, it must be a hell of a trip for you. Yeah, it's, you know, I think it was a real passer that after having a song like run, which was, you know, pretty big everywhere. You know, final straw. You know, from us having sold no records to selling a lot. It was like, wow, was that gonna be just a one off? Will we do it again? We don't know. We just gonna do what we're doing and see what happens. And, you know, you still always kind of need one single off an album sort of breakthrough.

3:10And two dozen cars turned out to be that one. But you never know when you're in the studio really. You know, you sort of have days of thinking it's good and then days, you know, you know, days you think it's not this God. This isn't good enough, you know. Yeah. Well, I'm sure it happens. I'm sure the studio with 20 tracks, 30 tracks and then cut it down to 12. Yeah, we had about 30, I think it was round up, round 30. I need, because you got to get B-Sides and everything in the course. So you need about, you know, 20. Oh, there we go. A load of worth. Yeah. So, what about, you're writing anything new? It's a man writing anything new. How does it work for you? Is it Gary Wright stuff or is it more of a jam kind of thing? It's a jam kind of thing. Gary writes the lyrics. Oh, we kind of knock it out together. It's sort of demos. Everyone comes in with different demos, the songs, you know. Do you write or do you just play drums? No, I just play drums. Okay. But the rest of the day, and, you know, we wrote, well, the last thing we did was Signal Fire,

3:58which is for the Spider-Man 3, Star Trek. And we did that. That was recorded like really six weeks ago, you know. Yeah. But that recently. Yeah, we just put one day, we just went in the day and did it. Wow. And I think it sounds pretty good. So it's good to know that Hank has still got a good album in us after this. I hope a few more at least. Yeah, I hope so. Yeah, six weeks, that's insane. The turnaround, because usually with a record, I guess it's just a single though, right? Yeah, it's just awesome. It makes me think that you could do that. You could write a record, record it, get it done, you know, three weeks studio, three months in the studio, and then just put it out there on the map. Really? It's just two years. It's maybe four records a year, right? Yeah, exactly. But bands don't do that anymore. No. Why not? At least your perspective on it. Well, I think because people don't tear, like they just, I mean, to get around the world takes up

4:44three years. If you're going to go and tour all of the UK, Ireland, all of Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, whatever, and then you've got to do America and Canada, you know, that takes about a year and a half at least, and then you've got to go and write another album. And so you need, you know, you need to take a few months off, and then you need to write the album, and then you need a couple of months lead up time because you need to get videos together. Yeah. You know, it's a bit more of a... Marketing kind of thing. Yeah, I think it's a marketing and just, and it's easier to travel. You know, it's easier to, it's cheaper to, you know, to travel than it used to be, you know. So bands are doing longer tours than they used to, I think. When did you upgrade from the van to the bus? We did that. We did that just before a final store. I'll see you in the bus for a while. Okay.

5:29Yeah. And we used to think the big-term buses looked amazing. I mean, well, maybe it used to be in a little transit van, you know, with our sofa out of our flat in it. And you used to look and you go, go ahead and imagine how happy it be if you're in one of those. You'd like to have your own bunk. And we hadn't even seen them, but we had a glimpse one that has like a TV, DVD, leather seats, you know. But now we've been in it for five years. I think like, I look at them like, whoa, a shiver. We should get out of motor home or something. Yeah. Because you're in a little sort of small bunk. And when you wake up in the middle of the night, you can sort of like, you sort of punch out and you feel you're in a box. It's not getting in the face or something. Yeah. You know, but you know, it's a... It is the only way at the moment until we get a private chance. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I heard the darkness had one though.

6:14They did? They told me. Yeah, they were, I'm sure they were mainly owners. Yeah. Look what happened with Jack Lee. Spent their own private chance. And all the drug money and went up his nose and he's done. First record with help Mark though. How was that different? Well, we've been working with Paul at the bass player for a long time. So he didn't feel like it was... Did he go on tour with you before? Yeah, he actually toured with it as a session player. So we'd known him for years and years. Didn't feel like anything was odd part from Mark wasn't there. But you know, so it was an easy enough transition to be honest. And he's really good. He's like Pablo can play everything, you know. And he's really good at keyboard parts and coming up with guitar lines. And he's just really in the guitar pedals. He has his own website there on all vintage guitars and stuff.

7:02He's just a handy one to have. Yeah, I could bet. In the studio. Have you heard Little Dose's music? No, I haven't actually... No, I wonder what it sounds like. It should be interesting. You guys still friends with them or is it kind of just like separate ways? Well, we have them that we're not allowed to talk. We're allowed to talk legally. Yeah, yeah, good man. Which is the same. Yeah, because they're rid of... Yeah, well, you know, when they water under the bridge, you know, it'll go away soon enough. Let's go through a couple of tunes. You know, just give me a little intro to them or something like that. We'll start with the first record, chocolate. First record that blew up here. I think that people say it sounds like doves pounding. Okay, which I can see the similarities, but we didn't... We actually wrote that before the air skimp. And then we went, shit, that really doves.

7:47The doves, doesn't it? And they have a lot for us about that. But I can see the point. But yeah, it was, you know, it's a really good song line just because it's got that simple, you know, pounding beat. Yeah, yeah. It'd be a great show. You open with it? It'd be a great opener. It used to, you know, we open with Spittengames now, but we used to open one. It's a good opener, you know, we've learned that. It's just a good one for, you know, if you ever get people jumping up and dying, it's the kind of... Or the head and the other head, you know. And the record reps the back, just kind of shaking their elbows. Yeah, yeah, or out the back. It's fucking a flatter. I've seen them do that before. Have you seen last kiss, the movie last kiss? Yeah, I have.

8:32Is it open now? Well, I loved it. That was DreamWorks, which is the little intro, which you know, the little kid on the Clyde. Yeah. And he's fishing. And when it, the first sort of... It comes in, the hook, the float heads the water on the... Oh. ...and I thought, wow, I mean, that's pretty good. Yeah, they knew what they were doing in the editing room. Run. Run. Yeah, it was, it was a song that was a make-up reg for us, really. It sort of blew up in the UK and couldn't get it off the radio. And it was the one that kind of saved us. And I think that, you know, maybe we would like that. We would, you know, we wouldn't be here. Well... You know, it was one of those songs that it just even planned live before it released. People would clap twice as loud as any other song. And we thought it would, we didn't even think it would be a single, you know.

9:17So it was a sort of slow-bality and it was maybe a B-side. Yeah, it's a longer tune too. It's like six minutes almost. It turns out to be, you know, one of the biggest songs. That's great. We don't know what singles are, really. Yeah, well, why would you write? That's not your job. You probably will. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, no, it's just great. We played it at Glastonbury and, you know, we did this huge crowd on the other stage. That'd be amazing. And someone who said, there's a slot that we had in Glastonbury that year, somebody said, well, you know that that's a slot that Travis or Wes has co-play, really, it all had. And it's a famous slot, you know, where any bandy plays, that always goes, you know, huge after it. Or how? You know, and it's right. It worked? Well, it was actually one year that it hasn't happened. Jesus. Yeah. It's actually the mystical side of Glastonbury. Yeah. You got to go?

10:02Cool. Five quick questions, one more answers. Okay. High-potter CDs. High-pot. Landon and McCartney. McCartney. Alcohol or marijuana? Alcohol. Favorite song to play live? It's gonna get to me. And one word, snow patrol. Fun. Johnny Danks. Thanks so much. Appreciate it. Cheers.