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Difficult Roads Lead To Beautiful Destinations
Difficult Roads Lead To Beautiful Destinations

ing point for me. Once we had a few songs writ- Rawling) quickly released a new song featuring “I was OK on the day,” he replies, “and then
ten, then my mind was settled that there was no the now four-piece line-up – ‘Black Holes’. Sam when it got round to changeover from when
decision that was needed to be made - we just explains that the song was about his frustration Dead! had finished and we were getting ready
needed to write another record and go for it that towards certain things in life, whether it be the to go on, it kind of kicked in a little bit, then. I’d
way. I think the best thing that we did was when music industry or certain people on the internet had little moments thinking about it over the last
he said that he was fully leaving, literally the next that seem to have an opinion on everything. three or four months but it felt so far away, and
day or the day after we went to our rehearsal “Sometimes people just need to be a little bit then I was fine leading up to the tour and then
room as a four-piece and knocked out two quiet and let people get on with their own thing literally 20 minutes before stage I did get a little
songs in a day and it just felt so easy and it felt instead of being so detrimental and down-tread bit of stage fright, I guess you’d call it. It also did-
so good to do that, and that was my decision on people all the time. It’s definitely a bit of an n’t help that we were using in-ears for the very
made for me. It’s a good job that we did write the angry song, but it feels good to sing that one. “ first time, and they’d stopped working. It was the
songs because there definitely were elements It didn’t take long before Sam got to do that first show with me as the frontman and we’d
of doubt in my head if we could carry on and if I in public, with the tour kicking off on April 16th in been practicing with in-ears for three months so
even wanted to. It was an enlightening experi- Brighton. Since Sam had mentioned to the that we could be as good as we could be and
ence, put it that way.” crowd at the Birmingham show that he had had they were just not working, so we just had to go
The band (Sam is joined by guitarists James anxiety that day, we ask how he’d felt before the up and I had nothing but bass in my ears. No vo-
Gillett and Joe Savins, and drummer Dave very first show of the tour. cals, just my bass - so if my bass had been out

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