For
people who haven't heard Kinesis's music how would you best
describe your sound?
I think we are kind of a mixture of all our influences kind
of post pixies/pop/rock .. well not even pop rock . its hard
rock with good melodies. I don't think you ought to be ashamed
to write a good melody everybody loved The Beatles or Oasis
and that is because they have songs you can sing along to. For
people to write music that is deliberately obscure, I don't
think that makes you anymore worth while as a musician than
someone who can write a killer melody.
How do you go about writing music? Who
usually comes up with the basic idea for a new track?
It's myself and Mike who write a lot of the basic music but
then we all have a hand in it so if someone brings an idea
in to a practice then as a band we will work it out together,
It's never just one person writing any one song Michael and
Tom write a lot of the Lyrics, as it most definitely is a
group writing process, we are definitely not a dictatorship
more of a democracy, we will try anything once and everyone's
opinion is as valid as another persons.
Do you use a computer to do any of your
demo recordings?
We have tried it a couple of times (recording demo's on computers)
but now we have a record deal we can afford to go into a little
demo studio and do our songs there. We have tried recording
tracks on laptops "the quality was pretty good",
it can save a lot of hassle when doing demos. The Streets
album was recorded in his bedroom and it's like better than
anything else that is out at the moment. People should embrace
new technology, the whole garage rock thing seems to be coming
back, to use vintage gear, but I think its good to have a
mixture of both sides, using the old techniques but at the
same time embracing new technology.
Where do you see Kinesis fitting in with
today's music scene?
I'm not too sure about this, we have been on tour with so
many different bands we were on tour with Biffy Clyro and
Hell is For Heroes, we were quite suited to them they were
almost like our piers we have also been on tour with Queen
Adreena who are like Goth Rock and now we are with The beatings
who are Garage Rock but next we are going on tour with Hundred
Reasons who are EMO and I don't think we really fit into any
of those categories, hopefully we can detach ourselves from
any kind of scene and just exist on our own. I think that
a lot of bands unless you are on the forefront of the music
scene the 'brit pop' will be dragged into a scene and it will
be the death of them but if you can stand out on your own
you can grow along the way.
If we ever do make it big which I hope we do we will have
all the ground work, like we have done all the little gigs
in a ford fiesta so we will always remember where we came
from and we haven't just had someone else do it for us, we
appreciate what we have now because we have done a lot of
uncomfortable tours in the backs of transit vans and things
like that so when we got a van with a TV it was a huge luxury
for us, we just appreciate everything we get, but now we have
a TV and a play station so it's like we are living the life
of Riley!
What are your ambitions as a band?
Hopefully just to make the band as big as it can be on our
own terms so we don't know, we wouldn't call it a day if we
told like ½ a million albums we would try and get our
music out to as many people as possible its just about pushing
ourselves and making sure we don't fail.
What is in your CD player at the moment?
We have hundred reasons in at the moment because we are touring
with them next month, I listen to The Streets and standard
stuff like The Pixies and trail of Dead quite a lot of different
stuff.
Who chose the name Kinesis?
Well it is defined as a movement in response to a stimulus
so we wanted to do that ourselves create a stimulus, the hardest
thing about being in a band is choosing the name!
Who was the last band you watched live
and thought were amazing?
Oceansize, I remember seeing Oceansize and I came back from
the gig wanting to give up the guitar, I was trying to write
songs the day after and everything I did was pale in comparison
to their music. They were they last band I watched and they
really blew me away.
If someone comes to see Kinesis Live what can they expect?
Playing live at the minute is where we make more sense, because
we haven't recorded a full album yet. Live is where you will
capture the essence of Kinesis and also a lot of our energy,
the songs may not be note perfect but there is a spectacle
as well as sound, hopefully its quite a focused energy, we
are releasing quite a lot of our things but I hope we do it
in a positive way.
Kinesis will be playing at these venues
with Hundred Reasons
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