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Difficult Roads Lead To Beautiful Destinations
Difficult Roads Lead To Beautiful Destinations
n April, Mallory Knox hit the road for their first tour am tells Black Velvet, “The whole last year
Shas been a clusterfuck, let’s be honest. We
Ias a four-piece. This came following the shock an- had a record come out and even before the record
had come out, Mikey was even talking about poten-
nouncement that long-time frontman Mikey Chapman tially leaving at some point. That was even before the
had decided to leave the band. Much to the relief of Mal- record had come out, so it felt like that record was
doomed from the start, anyway. So when it all hap-
lory Knox fans, bassist Sam Douglas had decided to step pened… it wasn’t really a conversation between us
four what we wanted to do; I kind of knew deep down
into his shoes – and, after seeing the band in Birming- that the other three would want to carry on, but it was
ham, we can report that he fit them perfectly. Impressed more about did I? I didn’t know what we’d do. I didn’t
know whether we’d get another singer in. I never really
with Sam and his bandmates’ drive to continue, we got considered myself for that role until someone had
mentioned it, and that was a month after Mikey had
in touch for a chat to find out how it all went for them – made his decision, so it wasn’t an obvious decision to
and where they go from here. put me as the guy who was going to sing all the songs
now. But once we started writing that was the key turn-
MALLORY KNOX
