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An Addiction Worth Having
An Addiction Worth Having
ne listen to Stone Broken and you may well be ad- couple of songs on the new album, ‘Let Me
ASee It All’ and ‘Just A Memory’, both deal
Odicted. If you’re anything like us, the first time we with addiction. We begin by asking the band
whether addiction is always a bad thing, or are
saw the band (that consists of Rich Moss, Robyn Haycock, there any good addictions you can have?
Vocalist/guitarist Rich answers, “It can. And I
Chris Davis and Kieron Conroy) in action, we were very im- think ‘Let Me See It All’ is a way to see addiction to
pressed. The four-piece from Walsall in the West Midlands something that’s not a standard addiction. The guy
that’s in this song, he’s addicted to getting his
know how to craft killer rock tunes and perform them ac- kicks going to strip clubs and that sort of stuff. You
can be addicted to things that help you as a per-
cordingly. Now, with their second full-length album, ‘Ain’t son, and you can be addicted to things that can ul-
timately be the downfall, and it depends what it is.
Always Easy’, having been released through Spinefarm I think a life where you can still moderate your ad-
Records earlier this year, and featuring not just fun rock dictions is good because there’s always too much
of a good thing, and you can almost lose yourself
tunes, but also some deeper subject matter, they are def- in that addiction. Me and Robyn were in a band be-
fore and we lost a band member from addiction.
initely proving to be an addiction worth having. That’s why it’s something that I feel we need to sort
of shout about really in songs. It doesn’t matter
STONE BROKEN
