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Motive For
Motive For

Success
Success

“There are so many great Welsh bands Phonics were to us, seeing Bullet and Fu- they can say ‘Dad wrote that one’, or ‘Dad’s
out there, so you kind of want to put your neral, because they came from where we band played that one’. It’s pretty cool and
mark on the global map. There are so many come from, they were a huge motive be- that is what we’d like to do.”
good rock and metal bands from Wales. It cause they made us think ‘could we do it?’ We ask if there were any particular mo-
was always our dream to immortalise a “But I’ve got to be honest, that wasn’t tives behind any of the songs on the album.
song but it’s very difficult. Bands like the our thoughts when we first did the album. Shane tells Black Velvet, “There were many
Manic Street Preachers, the Stereophonics, It was just get the songs down, put them things which influenced the songs, but it is
they set the bar and then bands like Bullet out there and see what people think. But as all real. What you hear in those songs I’ve
For My Valentine and Funeral For A Friend it has grown, especially with the magazines either experienced or the boys have expe-
from our home town of Bridgend who we’re and any sort of press really, and people rienced. ‘Blink of An Eye’, for example, is
really friendly with, we know the boys really have picked up on songs like ‘Blink Of An about loved ones passing. You know,
well and went to school with some of them Eye’ and radio got a hold of it, the dream of ‘You’ve got to hit the lows to feel the highs’,
and Shiner’s brother Moose used to play in immortalising a song has started to be- that lyric came really quick within the song
Bullet too. As important as the Manics and come a reality. So when my kids grow up and I wanted to write about it and how
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