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Interview: exlovers

Hello, Thanks for talking with us, how are you today?

I’m very well, thank you for asking.

I was just looking at some of your tour dates and you hit a number of festivals this summer. How were the crowds?

Very small but very nice, except for V festival which was us basically playing to about 200 lads on tour (apart from the few people at the front who made the whole thing worthwhile).

Was this your first Glastonbury?

Well yes but I was the only one who went in the end. There were complications which I still don’t fully understand that resulted in only being given one ticket, so I went and played a couple of solo shows.

Any funny stories from the road?

I have a horrible story that I’ll tell you. I think it was in Darlington wherever that is and we were playing a gig in this big shopping mall. So we started loading in the equipment and Ben (from The Golden Silvers) and I got in a tiny dumb waiter lift and someone shut the door and sent it up and it got stuck half way. I tried to open the door but there was just a brick wall behind it, our phones had no signal and after about five minutes we really started panicking. I remember Ben saying ‘this is really bad isn’t it’ and I was practically having a nervous breakdown so I kept saying ‘shut up Ben we’re going to get out and everything will be fine’ but really I thought we’d die in there. Anyway, we got out in the end.

Tell us a bit about the new EP ‘You Forget So Easily‘ ?

It’s something I’m really proud of. We really had very little time to record it in and I’m really happy with the way it turned out. There were a couple of really newly written tracks in there as well so it was great to work on those.

It was produced by Stephen Street. How was it working with such a big producer?

Well it was kind of intimidating at first but he completely put us at ease and was really tuned in to what we wanted it to sound like. He’s a lovely guy and he makes records sound amazing.

I am loving the cover art for this release. Who did the art for the EP? Who is that in the shot?

I did it, I’m glad you like it. I can’t really reveal who it is I’m afraid, there were complications after it got released and it was too late to change it, hopefully it’s all cool now but I’d still rather not start naming people.

What band other than yourselves should we all be listening to?

I’m not very clued up on new bands so I’m probably not going to be much help, I’m listening to a lot of Teenage Fanclub and Bon Iver right now, but I guess they’re old news to most people out there. Good bands though.