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Living For It

did it. It was our best stuff, basically, all in stacles that we’ve faced so far and I defi- He adds, “We don’t do many hometown
one punch, take it or leave it.” nitely believe that if we push and push we shows. Maybe we do two a year at a push
The band managed to get the album can get there.” so we try to make them as big as possible,
into HMV. Ross tells Black Velvet, “We got Guitarist Rich adds, “I can’t imagine a big event, that way the people that come
in touch with HMV who decided to take the what else we’d be doing. A couple of days out to see us can really enjoy the show and
album, who for any music fan at all, that is ago in the van we were thinking, “If we you know, pending no technical difficulties,
obviously quite a huge deal. Especially for weren’t in the band what would we be it’s going to go down well. So it’s always
us, it was like, “Wow, our album’s in HMV, doing?” and I can’t think. It’s everything. It good.”
all wrapped up in cellophane, with a HMV really is our lives.” One hometown fan actually went so far
price tag on”. That was quite special to The band are due to play their largest as to get some Altered Sky plectrum
see.” show in Glasgow on 15th October. Ross ex- keyrings on sale on a market stall in Glas-
plains, “Glasgow’s our hometown so it kind gow. The Altered Sky keyring found its
n ‘Live For It’ Ana sings ‘we won’t stop of helps the fact that when we play there we home snuggled in between Ed Sheeran and
Iuntil we die’. The song is about living do pull a much bigger crowd than anywhere Iron Maiden. Guitarist Rich spotted it re-
life, but it’s also how they see things with else. When you’re touring it’s always good cently when he was wandering around
the band. “All of the songs are written for a to see fans come out but there’s something Glasgow one day. “It was down a little side
reason,” says Ana. “There are so many ob- special about doing a big hometown show.” street,” he says. “I don’t actually know how

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