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2019's 'Unbreakable', is their best yet, you are whisked away from your families to more people."
which suggests that, with this current line- places like this very cold country and you Nikki says he’s seen a difference in in-
up, they have truly struck the chord they guys don't seem too big on central heating terest in the band and their popularity since
have been looking for. in England, so for us as a band to just band the new album was released.
At the centre of the band's latest look is together and survive, especially as us "Before this album came out we were
Nikki Misery, its lead guitarist from 2011 to being Californian lizards! very much like one of those Warped Tour
2018 before switching to rhythm guitar, "Seriously though, we just keep on kind of bands I think and so us to be able
making him New Years Day's longest-serv- going, no matter how many things are put to go out on tour with bands like Halestorm
ing member aside from their frontwoman in front of us, no matter how much a label and In This Moment and play quite often in
and the perfect person to tell Black Velvet sucks, no matter how much management front of an older and more mature crowd,
more about their current success and the doesn't do its job, here we are, doing our we have started to see more of these peo-
strengths they have drawn from it. thing the way we want to and by our rules. ple at our own shows. It's funny because
It's funny really because every show we quite often, you'll see kids at our shows
n the title track of the new album, ‘Un- play I always wonder if people are going to with the red hair like Ash and then you see
Ibreakable’, Ash sings ‘I'm stronger show up. I still think that nobody cares and the older gents too right next to them and
than you know’ so we begin by asking Nikki just to show how wrong I am, the UK tour, it is so cool to see that in our audience now,
to tell Black Velvet how the band and him- the first show was sold out, the second I love that! I love seeing that mix of people."
self have become stronger. show was almost sold out, the same with And his enthusiasm is just as strong
"One of the biggest things is band the London show. I'm like ‘Whoa, people do when we again ask him about these new
morale", he tells us immediately. "Just give a shit!’ This is something meaningful strengths the band has developed and
being together in this environment where and not just to us and me, but to so many whether he feels that, moving forward, they

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