Futureheads vocalist / guitarist Barry Hyde recently posted a lengthy look at the recording process of their upcoming third full length. In his article, he reveals that the reception of 2006’s News and Tributes nearly caused the band to split:
I would really like to thank those of you who ‘got’ our second record and enjoyed where we took it, perhaps not the most predictable musical diversion, but a progression none the less. It was a pretty difficult process to rejuvenate and restore our confidence after it failed to live up to the first records success. A personal challenge and a half but nobody ever said to us, ‘be a band, it’ll be easy, a doddle’. We were so sure that we had made an album that would take us to places we had never been, I think mainly because the creativity was flowing so well and we felt confident about it. Basically, we took it for granted. A dark time followed, the demons started to appear, the truth is we came pretty close to splitting up, not that we ever talked about it, but that feeling was there. Present on the tour bus or after a sound check in Idaho or some other far away place. Things slowed down, we were tired, we’d lost some really good crew etc etc etc whinge whinge……… I’ll stop now. That’s enough.
When the time came closer for us to start working on a follow up we started to get excited again, that’s the thing about the cycle of it all, when it starts again you are filled with optimism, if it’s not there then it’s time to become postmen, when it is there it totally carries you through any snags that might appear, it’s like ‘ Fuck it, listening to this riff, or check out this half a verse’ when these things start to develop a light appears, you know that if it’s started then at some point you’ll be finished, this might sound obvious but it feels amazing.
. The band recorded for three weeks in Andalusia, Spain with producer Martin “Youth” Glover. Guitarist Ross Millard commented earlier that unlike the restrained sophomore full length “there’s much more Punk Rock spirit in the new stuff.” No release date has been announced for the new material.
Source Futureheads vocalist / guitarist Barry Hyde recently posted a lengthy look at the recording process of their upcoming third full length. In his article, he reveals that the reception of 2006’s News and Tributes nearly caused the band to split:
I would really like to thank those of you who ‘got’ our second record and enjoyed where we took it, perhaps not the most predictable musical diversion, but a progression none the less. It was a pretty difficult process to rejuvenate and restore our confidence after it failed to live up to the first records success. A personal challenge and a half but nobody ever said to us, ‘be a band, it’ll be easy, a doddle’. We were so sure that we had made an album that would take us to places we had never been, I think mainly because the creativity was flowing so well and we felt confident about it. Basically, we took it for granted. A dark time followed, the demons started to appear, the truth is we came pretty close to splitting up, not that we ever talked about it, but that feeling was there. Present on the tour bus or after a sound check in Idaho or some other far away place. Things slowed down, we were tired, we’d lost some really good crew etc etc etc whinge whinge……… I’ll stop now. That’s enough.
When the time came closer for us to start working on a follow up we started to get excited again, that’s the thing about the cycle of it all, when it starts again you are filled with optimism, if it’s not there then it’s time to become postmen, when it is there it totally carries you through any snags that might appear, it’s like ‘ Fuck it, listening to this riff, or check out this half a verse’ when these things start to develop a light appears, you know that if it’s started then at some point you’ll be finished, this might sound obvious but it feels amazing.
. The band recorded for three weeks in Andalusia, Spain with producer Martin “Youth” Glover. Guitarist Ross Millard commented earlier that unlike the restrained sophomore full length “there’s much more Punk Rock spirit in the new stuff.” No release date has been announced for the new material.
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