Video Exclusive: The Scottish hot-tips reveal the rocky road to Against The Wall – and the rewards of making music their way.
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00:00i mean do you think rock and roll can still surprise people do you think it's still got
00:18juice left in the tank rock and roll will always be there it's like it's always sort of been the
00:23villain but everyone wants the villain it's like batman you know he's in the shadows but everyone
00:28wants him to be there it's like the hero of music rock almost
00:32yeah it's the it's the underdog isn't it it's always it's just waiting in the wings for the
00:42the next big artist rock ain't rock ain't dead rock's got rock's got some fighting to do
00:47what what did you want this album to be did you have a vision of of how you wanted it to turn out
01:02we didn't want it just to be the straight rock rock rock rock rock you know we just wanted to try and
01:07add different things to the songs at the start we overcame a lot and and this album sort of like is
01:13an impression of what our life has been like and over the last sort of five years so there's been
01:18bad times but there's been really good times and the message of like being against the wall but
01:24breaking free from that wall and and you know being who you who you think that you're meant to
01:29be that came about quite naturally
01:31another song that has been really standing out for people is um dna i mean what what's that one
01:44written about the the music that james and the band had provided was so like intensely addicting
01:50that i had to sort of kind of try and find this metaphor for it and what i came to was dna
01:55and and that was it was in my core and it's in in the core of this album it's in the core of
02:00everything that we do we're addicted to this we i don't know if we can do much else so we got to do
02:06this and it's just an overall kind of this is what we love this is it please join us
02:12who would you say the kind of cornerstones of your sound who are the guys who you're really
02:32channeling the core people that usually is who we grew up with you know like your altar bridge
02:36um shine down blackstone cherry like um slipknot stone sour to a degree where our influence is on
02:44our sleeve you know um for me rhythmically when i'm trying to bring something and i'm coming from
02:49different angles as well i i used to listen to a lot of hip-hop um and sort of funk music so yeah
02:54there's there's so many different things coming in but it's at its core it's modern melodic rock you
02:59know we don't particularly want to just you know copy it and um almost like we've stolen someone's
03:06homework kind of thing you know we want to make sure that we we're just it's just seen as an
03:10influence we have some catching up to do so our plans to get three years of touring into one year
03:26basically and we're going to try and hit the roads try and get as many kind of missed opportunities
03:32um as we can you know the world has to pause right now to to keep as many people safe and but the
03:38moment the government and everyone lets us go we are we are we're going to do what the beatles done
03:42back in the day they just they just played like 200 shows a year just gonna make up for lost time
03:48get out there have some fun because it's been a uh tough time on everyone including ourselves
03:54including all of all of the watchers and and we just want to give some joy we have joy to give
03:59we just want to give we just want to give
04:04you