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Stealing The Show
Stealing The Show

...And Your Heart
...And Your Heart

years ago, although have gone through some and we all have the same goal as well. And that about how the world is and some people can get
line-up changes since then. Drummer Tom says, is so important, and also, so rare to find that with so caught up in it and not go out because of it,
“My first taste of the band was when I was asked people who you've known for ages. So, we've and become depressed by these things. And the
to help out for the EP launch show in 2021, and been pretty lucky to meet each other." best thing you can do sometimes is turn the bas-
that was the first time I'd met most of them. I tard thing off and fucking go outside."
think I may have met Liam and Kieran before, n ‘Sweet As Today’, one of the songs on "Talk to your friends. There's more than just
but this was certainly my first time meeting the Ithe 9-track release, ‘Shangri-La’, what's on the telly or what's in a newspaper, and
others, and it was straight in and down to work. James sings, ‘Now I’ve got the time I’m it's normally a load of bollocks, anyway."
That was the first time we were all together. turning off the news today. Before day turns to Tom adds, "So much of the news now is
"I joined the band in January 2022, as the night I’m coming out to play.’ We ask the pair scaremongering. It's almost an evolution of what
band’s drummer had to step away because they whether this is something they would like to see clickbait once was a few years back, where
had other commitments, and I know some of the more people in the world do. news channels would just put the big headline
others have said to me that, from then, the band James answers yes. "Without wishing to get up, rather than actually trying to inform people
really felt like a solid, cohesive unit, which the myself into too much trouble, some people might of the real story. I think the lyric speaks to the
band is now, and we've finally been able to tie think I'm radical in the ways I think, but I ab- mentality of our generation, who are sick of
down the five of us, who are now the working solutely detest media. What I mean when I say hearing news for the sake of news being put out,
group." that, I don't mean people like yourself, music rather than to try to improve our knowledge of
James explains, "It was me and Kieran for lovers, and not all media, but those big branded the situations around us."
a while with some other members and they were side of things. And, please know, I don't say this
great as well, but, sometimes, things lead you on behalf of the whole band, they have their own ews channels aside, with ‘Shangri-La’
down different paths. And now, what we've got opinions, but, based on the things I see, I detest Nreferring to an imaginary utopia, we ask
is like a little family. It's incredible how, in such a things on the news. the pair whether they have found it, or part of it,
short space of time, me and Kieran have be- "A lot of people get too bogged down in it. with the release of the debut album.
come such good friends with the rest of the band All these depressive things we see and lies James replies, "Myself, I would say I have

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