How's
the tour going? How's
it going man? It's good to hear an Irish accent! We got back from
Holland yesterday. We're going to America and then come back do an
UK tour. Then we're going back to Germany, France, back to Holland
and Sweden. Touring is so much fun. We're a new band so we're trying
to get our head around stuff but it's so much because we love music.
How
does it feel to be honoured with nominations for some industry
awards? It's
cool. All these lists are great because hopefully they'll introduce
us to more people and then hopefully those people like us. But
everythings great
How
do you feel about 'Little green cars', another Irish band nominated? It's great! Over in Eurosonic, a
festival in Holland, they were playing before us in a different venue
and we tried to get to their gig but we missed them because we had to
do our own. Mark, our guitar player, loves them apparently. I haven't
met them yet which is a bit sad. But the more Irish music gets out
there, the better for Irish bands. We're big fans of villagers now. I
just listened to the new album, we had it on in the van. When we got
back from Holland, we listened to the whole thing from the start to
finish. It takes you somewhere else very trippy. He's got a way with
words, a poet.
The
song all I want was received wery well, but the video helped also
very much. I think it's important to have a
message as opposed to just say nothing. Everything we write is how we
feel and it's about life, so why not try and compliment that message?
We try to make all of our video's compliment the songs. That's really
important.
Source: The Irish world Interview: 2-02-2013
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Your
second EP was released in March. The lead single 'High hopes' reached
the nr 1 position in Ireland. You've played a bunch of festivals
across Europe and Japan as well as finding the time to release your
debut album, are you busy? Yeah,
It's really great playing to different crowds every night. We're
experiencing a lot of new places and meeting new people for the most
part, so it's cool.
Have
you ever been star strucked? I
met Billy Joel in a drive bar in LA and I was talking to gim for a
while about life and stuff before I realised who he was. I just
thought he was some random nice guy, but when I figured out who he
was I was lost for words. I literally forgot how to speak. He walked
away soon after that.
Can
you tell us a little bit about the album? The
album is a mic of emotions. Happy, sad and everything in between.
It's basically a diary of personal events that happened to us over
the last two years. The main theme is hope. I'm
a true believer in positive thinking. It can get you through
anything, but that's just me maybe.
How
do songs come alive? It all depends on how we feel at the
time. We literally express ourselves through music. It's our diary,
man. Like holding it up and passing to around for people to pass
judgement on. It's strange.
Your
song 'All I want' has been mixed by Everything Everything. What is it
about them that you like? We're really big fans? It was great of
them to do that and the remix is cool. Their music is clever,
emotional and real. We've had their song 'Duet' on repeat on the bus,
it's an Indie classic. Such a cool band!
You're
playing the Isle of Wight festival en Glastonbury. What other
festivals do you have lined up and how are the nerves at playing such
prestigious events? We can't wait to play. We've got a lot
of festivals this summer. Hopefully the crowds will be good. We've
never been to a lot of them, so we're also looking forward to
checking out some bands.
If
you could tell the world one thing about Kodaline, what would that
be? We're just four friends who try to
make sense of life through music.
Interview: 17-06-2013 Source: musosguide.com
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How important is it for you to express your feelings trough a song? We go out of our way to express the way we feel. Each song tells a story. For is it's basically our diary. We try and create songs that are honest and true. Everything we write about is real.
What are your goals, musically? We just want to keep playing. We're constantly trying to create a song that completely sums up how you feel. If we can do that every time , we could live with that.
How would you describe your songs to people? Our songs are true to life. Every song is based on something that happened. The underlying message on the album is positive thinking. Some of our songs are sad, some of them are happy but with all of them there's hope.
Source: Harperbazaar Interview: 12-06-2013
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you guys are about to release your first album. How's the expectation? We finished the album a while back so we've been anxiously waiting for it's release. The album is basically our diary over the past two years. We hope people can relate and empathise with us. It's a very personal album.
What are your impressions about the album? Is it different from the EP's? Did you have some musical influence during the recording process? We tend to write songs about how we feel, that could be happy, sad and everything in between. We all have our good days and our bad days. The album describes the ups and the downs of our life. For me, it's a mix of emotions, but that's only my opinion.
Recently you guys released the video for the song 'love like this'. What did the idea for the video came from? I wrote the song about a relationship I kind of fell into after a serious relationship that ended. I was pretty heartbroken and I jumped into a relationship for safety. I knew it wasn't working but I didn't mind, which made me feel bad because being led on in a relationship is never good. So basically I got kicked around in the video for not taking that relationship seriously.
You told me that Mark wrote 'way back when'. Can you tell me more about that song? Yeah, he wrote it about growing up in our home town in Dublin. It's about missing the freedom of childhood. Time goes by so fast, man. During the USA tour, you guys expended a lot of time inside the tour bus, what was that like? We got on really well. We just listened to music and wrote music. It's what we do everyday. We used to living in each others shadows as we grew up together, so it was great as a band. We were all friends before we started playing music, so we're used to each other in a very good way. The tour was amazing though a real eye opener. A lot of great experiences.
Hier is een link naar een fantastisch interview met Kodaline. Vooral het stuk waarin ze verklaren hoe 'Lose your mind' werd gemaakt vinden we zeer leuk :D
What inspired you to write all I want? All I want is about my ex-girlfriend going on a holiday with her friends and coming home with a new man. It happened over three years ago but took about two years to actually write the song. I'm one of those people who take a long time to get over things. I was staying home feeling utterly miserable and writing that song took a weigh of my shoulders. The lyrics were agonising to write about because I thought she was the girl I was going to spend my life with, but it ends positively in that I was I'll find some one else.
How did you began your music career? We began as a trio. I joined with Mark and Vinny when we were teenagers. We had an amazing start to our career. We came second on a tv show and self-released our song 'Give me a minute' This became the first independently released track in the top of the Irish charts. But we were to young. We played a few gigs but didn't really know what we were doing. We also couldn't write good songs which were representative of ourselves and our experiences. We quit music to find jobs or go to college. My studies for law and economics were soul-destroying. I was going through a bad time in my life anyway and playing music was the only thing that made sense. I began busking and playing small venues around Dublin although my parents thought I was still in college. I'd kept in touch with Mark and Vinny and we eventually decided to give the band another try. We'd changed as people but still wanted to make music. Our friend Jason joined us to play bass and we became Kodaline.
The album is doing great everywhere. How do you feel about that? I worried about the album before it was released. I listened to the songs and wondered if I should have done different things with them. But it's an album which is filled with honesty and I'l very proud of it. Thankfully, people seem to have connected with the songs and the response has been great. I hope this means we'll get the chance to make more albums in the future.
#lovethehonesty
Source: Gulftimes Interview: 23-07-2013
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Aan de linkerkant de ouders van Mark Prendergast (Marie en Padraig Prendergast) Aan de rechterkant de ouders van Vincent May Jr. (Liz en Vinny May) op het Marlay park festival.
Marie: 'This is my first festival ever. Mark and Steve grew up together so they would spend a lot of time together. Other then that, we've become one big family since. We've travelled together around Ireland, the UK and France.'
Source: independent.ie
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Ik heb juist dit geweldig klein interview gezien met Steve. Het is een interview vanop T in the park en het 20 jarig bestaan ervan.
We've just done a little acoutic gig out in the campsite. We were a bit scared at first, we didn't know of people were gonna go crazy or people were gonna trow stuff at us, but it was great. It feels like Spain out there with this weather. It went down really well, we've got a big crowd and it was a good vibe. It was cool man, it was an experience.
you're going to sing Happy birthday to T in the park from the stage tonight, with a little help from Nina Nesbitt. How'd that idea come about? Just cause we're good friends with Nina, and she's Scottish. I genuinely believe Scottish and Irish people have this instant connection. And you've got to embrace the festival and embrace the culture and history of the festival. I've never been to T before but I've watched it in one or form over the past years. It's a sister festival of one of Ireland, Oxegen, so we used to get the same line-up. But it's got a great history. The killers, for example, say that it's their favourite place to play so we're really looking forward to playing.
What were you doing in 1994? I was six and probably playing with action man and building little lego vehicles. No, I was having a guinness. I'm Irish!
Source: Gingercatpictures
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