The Days chat about life as popstars (page 2)

6 August 2008

If you could work alongside another band or musician who would it be and why?

Tim: Maybe Buena Vista Social Club who are an absolutely amazing and really soulful band, we should definitely remix one of their tracks!

Luke: Someone like Stevie Wonder who is absolutely incredible would be quite interesting. We should also get Jack on one of our tracks, or Prince.

Well start at the bottom and aim upwards guys…what is it like being on tour with the guys from Elliot Minor and are you getting a good reaction from their fans?

Dan: Yeah, it’s been really good, Elliot Minor obviously have quite a young following and it’s quite rewarding to see that we‘re going down really well with them, but we’ve just been on tour with The Fray and they’ve got a slightly older audience and we also went down really well with them so it’s nice to see it go down well with different crowds.

Luke: We played with Supergrass too and went down really well with their fans. We’re not going to be stupid and stick ourselves on a bill with someone like the Nine Inch Nails.

How do you end up supporting such great bands?

Luke: Unfortunately the times when we’ve been going out touring there’s not been that many other bands out on tour at the same time.

Harry: There’s been all the festivals and stuff so it’s been hard to get on a tour, but usually the management finds things for us and then talks to us about it, so we do have quite a big input on who we play with. The tour with Elliot Minor has been really fun and we’re having a really great time, they’re really nice guys.

So are you planning on painting Blackpool red after the show tonight?

Luke: [Laughs] We’ve been out pretty much every night but Blackpool isn’t going to be one of them! It’s our mum’s 50th birthday tomorrow so we have to make the sacrifice.

Where are you next then? Have you done Manchester yet?

Tim: We’ve played the Night and Day in Manchester a few months ago and then the Apollo with the Fray.

Harry: We also played at a Strip Club called The Ruby Lounge.

Classy way to promote yourselves boys! Were there naked people there?

Harry: No, there were like two people there!

Dan: But we shared our dressing room with strippers. We went into the dressing room and they were all sat there in their pants and were saying things like ‘Hi guys, what you doing in a minute?’

Harry: We didn’t choose to play the strip club, it just sort of happened. It turned into a strip club after we played.

Where would you like to be in 10 years time?

Harry: Doing a world tour probably, and playing a gig then going back to my island and mansion somewhere.

Luke: I’d like to be in a position where we made it big and had a strong fan base and enjoy life and put out a record and spend a long time in (our own) studio recording songs and playing music every day and really enjoying it every day.

Tim: I’d like to be in a position to be able to keep doing what we’re doing now every day, because we really are happy.

Loads of bands at the moment keep naming their songs after women; we have Paolo Nutini’s Jenny, The Zutons Valerie and Elliot Minor’s Jessica, so who’s your Jane?

Dan: I think every band has a ‘Jane.’ Jenny is Paolo Nutini’s Girl…Jenny Don’t be Hasty. Jane for us is always like the girlfriend you leave behind when you’re on tour, and the line is; ‘Jane, look at what you’ve done now, Jane’ it kind of just means we’re out stuck on the road thinking of you when we have to keep doing what we’re doing but wishing we were with you.

So is it hard being on tour when your women are back home?

All: Yes, really hard.

Tim: It’s good to know that when you get back you have someone to talk to and be with, but of course it’s also very good to know you’re going to get some!

What’s your favourite song from the forthcoming album?

Harry: Mine would probably be no ties as well, and Confession too.

Dan: I like playing Jane, we like all the songs; I don’t have a favourite at all.

If you could cover another bands song what would it be?

Harry: We actually just did a cover of Usher’s Love In This Club, it might be on MySpace at some point but it’s not going to be out to buy I don’t think! It’s such a funny song with no meaning whatsoever, it’s just hilarious.

What’s in the near future for you?

Dan: We’re looking into a few things at the moment, we want to go out touring again and we going on a fresher’s tour round the universities so that should be cool. In between that we’re making music videos and then after that we’re looking to go on tour with another big band.

Luke: Our first single is out in October and so we’re just trying to get everything ready for it.

Are you excited about the new single and when is the album coming out?

Dan: We’re very very excited about the new single because we’ve been working towards this for 10 years. Me and Luke started the band when we were 11 and 13 and have always had that dream of being ‘popstars’ and releasing an album so it’s great that it’s finally happened.

We ask everyone we interview to come up with a question for the next person we interview....and Mark from The Levellers wants to know; “Do you have an alternative career in mind in case it all goes pear-shaped?”

Luke: Cheeky man! To be honest I studied music at university and Dan worked at EMI for a while and I think we’d hopefully go into the music industry in some capacity.

Harry: I’d like to teach kids how to play guitar and help create the next generation of musicians.