How does it feel to be back on tour because it’s been quite a while for you…
S: Love it. It’s amazing. It’s like, we've never been away so getting back into the groove is wicked but it's now also so different than what it was when we were doing the last time even though it was only nine years ago.
I Imagine so much has changed in that time
S: Apparently we’re the only band left who plays live now; everybody else has tracks, we have none of that. We’re the last remaining rock and roll band.
G: You look on stage and it’s actually….
S: It’s actually all of us making the noise
G: Dunno if that’s a good thing sometimes- “It’s actually him hitting them drums, oh my god”
S: Don’t get me wrong, I am off key but I would rather go and see a band be giving it their all and be slightly out of tune rather than ‘that’s the CD while they danced to it.’ You’re glorified dancers. But this tour has been amazing. I've said it on stage every night - when we had the idea to get back together, we just thought we’ll probably do a couple of 100 people places and all the shows, they're all 1,500+ [capacity] or whatever. It's bonkers to us and the reception has been crazy. It's almost like some of these people have laid dormant for nine and have just gone mad that we've come back. We played Manchester Academy 1 on Monday and I think in the end it was about 1,900 people in and I don't really remember seeing anybody holding a phone up which is also crazy.
G: You don’t normally see that
S: We’ve had loads of messages saying “this is the only picture I took all night because that was so much fun” and that means the world to us because you’re so into what we were doing that you’re just fixated on this so…
G: The first night was mad as well because, when we came on, we have this song called ‘This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things’ - they sing it back but bigger. Wicked. That was awesome. But then when we started doing the verses, I couldn’t hear him [Sean] & Gavin because they were singing so loud! Oh my god, that blew my mind!
They’ve been waiting for you. It’s the reunion everyone really wanted
G: It’s been unbelievable
S: People have really enjoyed it, we’re fuckin’ loving it - we wouldn’t enjoy it if people weren’t enjoying it. It’s an added bonus. It’s been brilliant.
