Top Banner
P A R I S Vultures, death and delaying sounds. Are DECADES the best new Alternative band of 2010? PLUS. AND MUCH MORE! EXCLUSIVE www.parismagazine.com ISSUE 189 £4.50 The #1 Best Selling Alternative Magazine! How Joy Division changed the world of indie rock ’n‘ roll Oasis, Noel says he is never coming back GIG GUIDE, your year planned by us The Strokes . Kasabian . Interpol . Tokyo Police Club DECADES music magazine.indd 1 05/03/2010 11:56:55
4
Welcome message from author
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
Transcript
Page 1: Music Magazine

P A R I S

Vultures, death and delaying sounds. Are DECADES the best new Alternative band of 2010?

PLUS.

AND MUCH MORE!

EXCLUS

IVE

www.parismagazine.com

ISSUE 189£4.50

The #1 Best Selling Alternative Magazine!

How Joy Division changed the world of indie rock ’n‘ roll

Oasis, Noel says he is never coming back

GIG GUIDE, your year planned by us

The Strokes . Kasabian . Interpol . Tokyo Police Club

DECADES

music magazine.indd 1 05/03/2010 11:56:55

Page 2: Music Magazine

D E C A D E S

“Still Cant Beleive This!”

An evening with the latest band on the Alternative scene

It’s a cold December evening, I’m waiting backstage at Birmingham Academy, shortly after Decades have finished their homecoming gig , the last of their UK tour.

Birmingham lads Decades, are the latest band to come out of the Alterna-tive scene, claiming to have drawn influences from bands such as Interpol and Joy Division, with dark, delaying sounds, and massive soundscapes cre-ated by the wizardry of Alex Hughes’s guitar genius, and the powerful dark vocals from front man Matt Millard. This dark feel runs deep into the young bands sound, with tracks such as vul-tures, with catchy distorted bass riffs, and vocal melody lines.

The band enters the room that I’ve been waiting in for the past 30 min-utes. First to enter is Sam (drummer), covered in sweat, baring a towel, the rest of the band shortly follows, dressed from head to toe in black, es-corted by a full management team. The lad’s greet me and we sit down to start the interview. “you guys although not in the main-stream of alternative music, have been round for quite a while?”

Sam- “Yeah we started up when we were school kids, must have only been like 13”

Matt-“couple of line up changes along

the way, but mostly stayed the same, the last year has been crazy for us though, its what we always used to talk about, just glad people are enjoy-ing our music”

“How did things start out for you lads then?”

Alex- Well, we have been friends since school at an early age, we started play-ing at bars and clubs round Birming-ham when we were still kids (chuck-les to himself) we would be like the youngest guys there and we’d be in the band! We were lucky enough to get on some good club nights, with great bands such as tantrums. This helped us out loads , love those guys. Really started the ball rolling for us.

music magazine.indd 2 05/03/2010 11:56:57

Page 3: Music Magazine

D E C A D E SAn evening with the latest band on the Alternative scene

“How have things changed now you’ve released your debut single “Age like wine”?

Matt- It hasn’t stopped for us. It really hasn’t. It’s been incredible. Playing venues I could have only dreamed of playing when we were younger. And coming back to Birmingham tonight has been incredible. Our fans are so loyal to us and without them we would be no-where. I can’t think of anything better than playing in front of your home crowd of thousands of people.

“So what are the plans for decades in the near future?

Sam- well we are getting straight back

into the studio in a couple of months time to start work on the second album. We have a few ideas floating around from our tour, so hopefully shouldn’t be too long until you hear the next release from us guys!

“there’s alot of talk of you guys having a new sound on the new al-bum. How much of this is true?”

Al- Some ... there will still be ele-ments of the last album, but we’ve been toying with the idea of adding more synths to the sound, this might

be a new element that will be included on the new album. We’ve also been talking with Manchester Orchestra to help us out, but I’m not giving any more away, you’ll have to wait and see.”

“Well Thank you lads, you guys have been an inspiration to many. Hope the new album works as well as the last one.”

“ It hasn’t stopped for us. It really hasn’t”

Interveiw Exclusive

music magazine.indd 3 05/03/2010 11:56:59

Page 4: Music Magazine

In this months Magazine...

Jason Speaks to us about his solo break, and how

he feels after he’s left The Vultures.

The Stone Flowers shout out about the current

music industry, and what they think of modern

music.

Tokyo Police Club on their new world tour, cus

this be their break into the global industry?

Decades give us their story of success, and

plans on their noew album!

INTERVieWS

Page 07

Page 21

Page 35

Page 40

News-Interpol on UK tour 01

Joy Division Cahnging the world of Alternative 02

Oasis, is this the end of one of the greats 03

Jason Speaks out about solo career 07

Features

The Stone flowers shout out 21

Gig Guide planned out by us 22

Lets get ready for festival season 30

T P C on their new world tour 35

DECADES success story 40

music magazine.indd 4 05/03/2010 11:57:01