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ight You Up have a song called ‘Good Days’. Within the song, vocalist Tom Napier tells
Lus to make our good days great days. Black Velvet had a great day when we caught up
with him in Birmingham before the band’s sold out show at the Asylum 2. We asked Tom
questions related to different days – travel days, ideal days, hard days and nerve-racking
days. It would make OUR day if you’d read on to find out more!
Black Velvet: Tell us about the song ‘Good to have their bad days but make your good from Drew and they invited me up to this very
Days’. What’s it about? days something else. When you’re in a good building, into one of those practise rooms. It
Tom Napier: The record as a whole touches on mood capitalize on that. Spread that joy, was just myself, Drew and Rob, the two gui-
very similar vibes and it’s very much the grow- spread that love. That song was really about a tarists, and we just jammed out acoustic and
ing up album. That was the transition period. reflection of, I guess, the last four or five years that was my first day. They were like “Yeah,
We all kind of grew up from being I guess es- of my life – a bad place, I thought that nothing we’d love for you to join the band.” I clicked
sentially children to… I don’t know if you can was going to get better, and then I realized that with everyone except for Joe our drummer.
give us the label of adults now! We’re still stu- I’m the only one who can take control of my And that really wasn’t any fault of his own other
pid as hell! But yeah, it was just about growing own happiness. You’ve got to take control of than I couldn’t understand what he was talking
up. I had a bit of troubled teenage years that. Take charge. And then spread it to other about. I live about 45 minutes south of London.
through no-one’s fault of my own. I would over- people. So you come here and you meet the Brummies
think things. ‘Good Days’ I think is about turn- and it’s an accent all of its own. Joe’s accent
ing that on its head. There’s a point in the song BV: Tell us about your first ever day in/of just threw me something chronic and I couldn’t
just after the guitar solo where I do the chorus the band. understand a word the guy was saying for
hook but the lyrics are flipped on its head. The TN: It happened really bizarrely actually, me about four weeks. But eventually we broke it
hook throughout the song is ‘I have my good joining the band. I did a handful of YouTube down and I got the translations and yeah, we
days like everyone else but it’s my bad days covers and this was before Mallory Knox blew all clicked straight away. I don’t think I would
that are something else’ and I flipped that on up but I covered their song, ‘Oceans’, and they have wanted to join the band if I didn’t have
its head towards the end because that was the reposted it and through that, that was how the that initial kind of spark with everyone because
realisation moment because everyone’s going guys saw me. I remember getting a phone call what’s the point really?

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