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Living In The Moment
Living In The Moment

ith ‘Fallin’ With Me’ being released to take the music, so… it’s exciting times The guitarist says they felt the enthusi-
Wthrough Big Machine Label Group, really.” asm from Big Machine. “It was just really
Adam tells us “Scott (Borchetta, the We ask where they want to take their nice for us to hear, and kind of like what we
founder, president and CEO of the label) music. said earlier, ‘cause our ambition is still the
came to see us play back in 2015 when we Addo tells us, “I think we’ve kind of same, it felt like we hit upon the same wave-
played with Motley Crue, and I think he fallen upon a sound for the new record and length in a lot of areas, and it just inspired
said, ‘I’d love to work with these guys if it it’s an avenue that’s a little bit different to us.”
came about.” what we’ve done in the past, so, kinda “I think, right now, rock music is defi-
The band’s journey with Interscope had doing something a little bit different. But nitely coming back to the pop charts,” says
run its course, so they got in touch with yeah, our ambition is still the same. When Gethin. “You see a lot more guitar music on
Scott, “and he was just like, ‘Yeah, let’s do we first started the band, it was, ‘We want the radio. I think that has inspired us as
it,’.” to be the biggest band in the world.’ That’s well. What we have been doing the last five
Gethin tells Black Velvet, “He’s got what you say when you’re young, but it still or six years, we’re more confident than ever
great ambition, as do we, for where we want rings true now.” about us as a band and just to take it for-

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