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UK-based indie pop band The Sherlocks made a stop at the Middle East in Cambridge this November. WTBU DJ Kiran Galani spoke to members (and pairs of brothers) Kiaran and Brandon Crook and Josh and Andy Davidson ahead of their show about new music, their dream show, and what\u2019s yet to come.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kiran Galani: This is your first stop on the USA tour, how\u2019s it been different from the UK and Europe?<\/b><\/p>\n Kiaran Crook: It\u2019s very polite.<\/p>\n Brandon Crook: Oh, like big. Everything\u2019s big! Standard burger size is half a pound in the UK, but it\u2019s a quarter pound in America.<\/p>\n Josh Davidson: Yeah and them drinks you get, you know, in fast food joints, it\u2019s 3 times as big as the UK. You get like a bucket of coke!<\/p>\n Kiaran Crook: Everything is just bigger, including personalities.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n KG: A lot of the songs on the album were singles before you released them on the album. How has the process behind releasing them been different when they\u2019re part of the album?<\/b><\/p>\n KC: Well all the singles that we put out, we said from the beginning we wanted them on the album, so that made up like two-thirds of the album pretty much. I don\u2019t know, as it got closer, it was pretty obvious what we wanted on the album. We recorded 15 songs, and we all picked the same songs as the 12 we wanted on the album, so it worked out!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n KG: Your song \u201cLive for the Moment,\u201d after which your debut album has been named, was released originally as a single about three years ago, but the original song had a very different sound from the new one. Was this because of changes in production or because you\u2019ve changed as artists?<\/b><\/p>\n KC: Both. Probably production more because it was cast as a demo originally. We did like 3 songs in one day back then. So now that we had the resources, we beefed it up a bit.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n KG: Are there any artists that you would say have influenced your music?<\/b><\/p>\n KC: Not an artist but Gavin Monaghan, he\u2019s a producer and he\u2019s influenced a lot of our music.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n KG: In your recent Billboard interview, you talked about how the band was heavily influenced by \u201cguitar music\u201d and that was very important to you, could you elaborate a bit on that?<\/b><\/p>\n KC: What Billboard thing?<\/p>\n BC: You did it!<\/p>\n KC: Really, what was it?<\/p>\n BC: An interview, it just came out! It\u2019s just because we\u2019re a guitar band, we\u2019re just trying to keep to it. A lot of bands are using keyboards and synths and stuff, but we\u2019re trying to keep it classic.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n KG: Your debut album just charted at number 6 on the UK albums chart, how does that feel?<\/b><\/p>\n KC: Feels awesome!<\/p>\n Andy Davidson: It\u2019s a massive achievement!<\/p>\n JD: When we found out we were about to go on stage for the biggest gig we\u2019ve ever done, a festival called Leeds Festival in the UK with over 20,000 people attending, we just found out that we charted, so that made it special<\/span>\u2014<\/span>extra-special because it was my birthday!<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n KG: So, what\u2019s next? I hear you\u2019ve written down a lot of the second album. Do you plan on releasing that anytime soon?<\/b><\/p>\n KC: I have no idea to be honest. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019ll be next year or the year after. I still have a couple more songs to write; it\u2019s not quite an album yet, but it\u2019s well on its way. And we\u2019ll have to see what the label wants to do and when they want to put it out.<\/p>\n AD: Do a few more <\/span>Live for the Moment<\/span><\/i> tours, yeah, it\u2019s a classic album. It\u2019ll be a shame not to tour it a few more times around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n JD: Rock it!<\/p>\n KC: Yeah, there\u2019s still more stuff we want to do with this album.<\/p>\n BC: Tour it for nine years then we\u2019ll do a 10-year anniversary straight after! <\/span><\/span>JD: Yeah, keep doing that<\/span>\u2014<\/span>ride the wheels off it!<\/span><\/p>\n KG: Well, that\u2019s what Guns N\u2019 Roses did, so it might work out!<\/p>\n Everyone: Yeah we all know what happened to them! They were massive. Some more rock. Some more guns. Retired millionaires.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n KG: When you guys are making music, what\u2019s more important, music or lyrics?<\/b><\/p>\n KC: I don\u2019t know to be honest. It\u2019s probably more important to sound good than the lyrics really! If you think about all these songs that are just singing about gibberish, they\u2019re all hits.\u00a0If you have beautiful words but don\u2019t have good melody or music, it\u2019s just poetry after all, ain\u2019t it?<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n KG: What would you all say your favorite song to perform live would be? And why?<\/b><\/p>\n AD: \u201cNobody Knows,\u201d probably because it\u2019s a new track. We\u2019ve been playing the old ones for like four years now.<\/p>\n JD: I\u2019d probably say \u201cMotions\u201d because it\u2019s a bit different. It lets you change the tone a bit<\/p>\n KC: I\u2019d probably say same as Andy, \u201cNobody Knows.\u201d And at the end of the song we do a little rock off, it\u2019s great.<\/p>\n BC: Will you be there? It\u2019s pumpin\u2019!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n KG: What would you say your dream performance venue would be?<\/b><\/p>\n AD: Wembley.<\/p>\n JD: Yeah Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n KC: Madison Square Garden<\/p>\n BC: I reckon Wembley as well.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n KG: Do you have any hobbies that aren\u2019t musically oriented?<\/b><\/p>\n AD: Drinking beer!<\/p>\n BC: We all love drinking beer.<\/p>\n KC: Well, some of us play badminton. We play snooker as well.<\/p>\n BC: [Talking about Josh] He loves eating.<\/p>\n AD: Doesn\u2019t everybody?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n KG: Yeah, food is love.<\/b><\/p>\n AD: We have all these food challenges.<\/p>\n KC: We once asked to eat five donuts in five minutes. It was great. <\/span><\/p>\n BC: He did it also. It\u2019s harder than it sounds.<\/span><\/p>\n JD: Yeah these are UK donuts as well. They don\u2019t have the hole in the middle, and they\u2019re filled with jam. It was like, the first donut took only about 30 seconds and then the last one took a minute and a half.<\/span><\/p>\n AD: It was great.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n KG: Anything else you\u2019d like to add before we conclude?<\/b><\/p>\n KC: We\u2019d just like to say thank you to the US and Canadian fans for coming out and supporting us on this tour!<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" UK-based indie pop band The Sherlocks made a stop at the Middle East in Cambridge this November. WTBU DJ Kiran Galani spoke to members (and pairs of brothers) Kiaran and Brandon Crook and Josh and Andy Davidson ahead of their show about new music, their dream show, and what\u2019s yet to come. 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