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partake in it to varying degrees. Maybe mu- things. But because we spend so much is most in his element. “I love playing
sicians, having music as a hobby or job, are time together, we understand how much we shows and I love writing songs but hearing
less inclined to spend so much time online all work, we can see someone on the tour the song that you’ve written, that idea in
as they are often writing, recording, prac- bus when they’re having a bad day and your head coming out into fruition and
ticing and playing. Maybe musicians are they need five minutes, or if someone else being this actual thing that you can play
wired similarly. Maybe us music fans are is having a bad day and leaving them back to people, and seeing it build from
wired similarly too. alone.” what was such a small idea to this colossal
Band-wise, Sam says he thinks the five He thinks that out of his bandmates, thing that you’ve grafted over for the last
members of Mallory Knox are wired a little guitarist James Gillett is probably wired six months and having to put it on tape in
differently to each other, although have the most similarly to himself. “Truthfully I think two days, it’s kind of a daunting but an ex-
same core interest. “I think the thing that it would probably be James, in terms of the citing thing to do. In the studio you can
we have to accept is that we’ve been in a work ethic that we’re on at the moment, in have people go off and do their own thing
band since we were 19 years old together, terms of how we want this band to work out but I’m very much in the control room,
with myself and Dave since we were 15. and where we want both of our lives to whether it’s the drums or the guitars or the
James, Joe and Mikey, they were in a band head and stuff like that. We all have the bass or vocals, I love to see every step go
since they were 14 with each other,” says same end goal of this band but I think we down and I wouldn’t have it any other way,
Sam. “That’s 12 years. A lot can happen, es- all have different views on how to try and really.”
pecially at this age, where you go through get there. But that’s what a band is; it’s
a lot of life things and everything is not set- working out the decisions between the five he first single aired from the album
tled in to how everything’s going to turn of us. If it was just up to me the songs Twas ‘Giving It Up’, which was re-
out, so you kind of go through growing up would sound a certain way, if it was up to leased in November 2016. Sam has said
together, and we always had this connec- Joe the songs would sound a certain way, that the song is about the frustration of
tion of going through these experiences to- and that’s the beauty of being in a band; it’s ‘giving everything to something you’re pas-
gether. But people are wired different to never going to turn out the way that you sionate about and truly believe in, only to
each other in terms of how they see things quite think it would.” have other people step in who don’t share
and how they want to go about doing When they’re in the studio is when Sam the same passion as you and hinder your

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