After reforming for a sold out UK tour earlier this year and performing at some of the countries major festivals, The Fratellis have also announced a UK tour in November. We caught up with them at V Festival for a chat.
So the band has regrouped after five years and recorded a new album, you’ve also selling it in vinyl format and you’ve got this lovely artwork on there, are the lyrics on there as well?
I believe they might be, I can’t really remember but yes the artworks good.
For the new album is it a different process of writing the music together? as you’ve matured over all this time.
No it's not particularly different; we have just picked up where we left off. All you’re trying to do really is to entertain yourself at that particular time, this is entertaining to us really. As we’re recording it and as we’re listening back you’re entertaining yourself as you’re doing it at least. All you have to do is hope that somebody else is entertained by it as well, that’s all you can really hope for.
You’ve been working on solo projects. Are you still working on them?
They we’re never solo projects to me or band projects, it was just what you were doing at that particular time. You’re going in a direction for the hell of it; you’re just going oh this is the way to go, let’s go that direction. But it’s nice to play guitar with your friends.
You have a November tour coming up, are you looking forward to getting back on the road again together?
Yeah we’ve sort of been on the road already this year on and off, it’s certainly nice doing all your own gigs and your own tours. Very different to festivals, we’re looking forward to it.
Have you got a stand out moment from a gig or a festival that sticks in mind?
We were just saying we did a gig in Spain a couple of weeks ago and it was fantastic, there were about 50.000 people in total. It was a bit of a Glastonbury moment, it was quite special.
You wrote the music for the iTunes advert, have you been asked to write any other music for tv or film?
If you’re lucky enough a film or advertiser will maybe like something you already have. So it’s nice when they ask to use something you’ve already done which was the case with the iTunes advert and we got some iPods out of it.
'Chelsea Dagger' which has been used for a lot of sporting moments, did you realise how big it would be?
It’s about drunk people in a bar, it’s not really about sport. So no, not in the slightest no, I just saw it as like a hundred years old, but you don’t get to choose those things, these things just happen.
What can we expect to be coming up from you in the next 12 months?
Another couple of small festival we’re looking forward to that, it’s going to be be very different from today. A new album ‘We Need Medicine’ out on 7th October so go and buy it, plus the tour.
Thanks for your time.
November tour dates
17th 02 Academy, Bournemouth
18th Engine Shed, Lincoln
19th 02 Academy, Leeds
20th UEA, Norwich
22nd 53 Degrees, Preston
23rd Winter Gardens, Margate
24th 02 Shepherds Bush Empire, London
26th Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton
27th Academy, Manchester
29th 02 Academy, Glasgow
Tickets on sale here £23 except Bournemouth which is £20
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