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A few more photos from the AIM Awards
Tribute to Tony Allen at the AIM Independent Music Awards 2020.
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5.9.17 | AIM Awards 📸 - Jordan Hughes
Tribute to Tony Allen at the AIM Independent Music Awards 2020.
5.9.17 | AIM Awards
M Magazine interviewed the band at the AIM Awards. Again a bit late transcribing for you.
How do you prepare for your live performances? Jamie: Doughnuts, juice, anything sugary tends to help. Roland: Sacrifice a pig. Jamie: Exactly. Roland: Lots of prayer. Jamie: All starts with a burning ethergy of Roland in separate rooms. Roland: We shouldn't say that. Jamie: Sorry, sorry. Roland: Secrets. Jamie: Um, no it's one of those things where it's like adrenaline sort of takes over. We always went out there and wanted to have a crazy live show, that's what we wanted, that's how we play, it's how we wrote the album. So it only makes sense to go out there and play it how we wrote it.
How does it feel to win the Best Live Act award? Jamie: It's huge for us. I mean it's like we have never been nominated, well we've been nominated for one award before.. and to be nominated and to win is crazy. Y'know to be here for us, we're only 2 years into what we do and that's amazing. Roland: And we're up against acts that have been around for a long time, who have got a lot behind them so to be here yeah it's mind blowing really.
Who are some of your favourite live acts? Sam: Trash Talk are one of my favourite live acts. Roland: Slipknot. Sam: Slipknot are very good. Jamie: Michael Jackson. I used to see Michael Jackson a lot. Tristan: Marilyn Manson was pretty good. Jimmy: I just quite enjoyed Dave that just played. Dave was safe. Roland: Yeah I watch Boy Better Know every year when they play on TV at Reading. Tristan: What was the band we watched at Reading and Leeds..? Sam: Culture Abuse. Jamie: Culture Abuse is amazing. They're sick. Roland: Architects I like a lot.
What do you make of the current independent music scene? Sam: It's been really strong at the moment, I think - Roland: People are doing what they want to do, like independent music is all about doing what you believe in and what you love. There's no control apart from what you decide. So people are getting out there and doing what they want to do and for them to be acknowledged and respected for that, it's a big thing. Y'know, people are getting out there, putting themselves on the line and people are embracing that and consuming that so it's only a good thing.
What's been a personal breakthrough moment for you? Jamie: That's a really hard question to answer. Have we had our breakthrough moment? Are we at our breakthrough moment? That's another question. I think the first time we heard our song on the radio was obviously a huge thing. It had never happened before and all of a sudden something that you created- Tristan: Pretty sure that was Alex Baker wasn't it? Jamie: It was- Tristan: On Fresh Blood. Jamie: On fresh blood yes.
As a new band, is radio support important to you? Roland: Yeah, very. It's something that we all listen to or have listened to, y'know you're driving your car and listening to the radio so to be able to tune in - y'know I've been driving and our song comes on the radio - it's mental. That feeling of being able to listen to it and someone's putting it out there and playing it. It's very overwhelming. Jamie: I think it's been important throughout time, it's not just now, radio has always played an integral part in the breaking or emerging of new artists and into the sphere and I think that's really important so yeah of course for us to have a record on the radio it's like mind blowing.
How do you want audiences to feel at your shows? Sam: I want them to feel like it feels for me to go to a show, I think, for when I'm watching another band that I love, like I want it to be that shared experience. I don't want there to be a break between that - I think for me anyway. Tristan: That feeling of belonging. Roland: A shared experience is the best way to describe it y'know, it's like a space for all of us to do our thing and be inclusive and experience it. In a world where people are so disconnected in a way. That's the moment to live it and be in the moment and experience it. And that's what we try do.
What's next for the band? Jamie: Well we've just finished festival season and we're gearing up for the Don Broco show at Ally Pally in November and we're working on new material sort of literally just starting so we're in the very very beginning stages there. Roland: Exciting times. Tristan: Difficult second album. Jamie: Just keep saying it, it might be true.
5.9.17 | AIM Awards 📸 - Andy Wilsher