Harry mcveigh biography wikipedia

I was about to do my first Reading Festival in after an eleven-year long hiatus since I visited the festival the last time.

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Reading Festival back then had the rumor of being that festival you just had to visit if you wanted to discover the new stars on the indie rock scene years before anyone else ever heard of the band, and I was hoping to find something new to take with me back home to Sweden. These three young, somewhat shy lads made a great Reading Festival debut gig that late summer day in August , and half a year later they were about to release a chart-topping debut album that would take them to sudden stardom and build an enormous following of dedicated fans across the world.

How was it to play that festival? We were probably nineteen then, and I remember that festival well because it was the first time we played Reading. It was a huge moment for us because that was the one we used to go to as teenagers.

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How did that work out in the end? Did he respond? If you sell an extra two hundred copies of your record you can jump three or four chart positions, which is crazy. At that point we had already started touring and were focusing more on that. Not having social media, the first response I get for the album is when we play the songs live. And touring has been great so far, people have responded well to the new music.

What about this change? On the first album we were much more of a three-piece band, augmented with a few synthesizer parts but nothing really huge, it was kind of sparse, like a lot of string synths and melody sounds but that was it. When we were writing our second album we listened a lot to Nine Inch Nails and bands like that, and we just loved how they could make synths sound in a way that they could become part of rock music as opposed to synth rock or synth based music, and that was something we were really keen to incorporate on our second album, and that was the only thing we got right on the second album.