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How would you best describe the
sound of Toploader?
We are mainly rock, in an old fashioned
sense, we don't particularly stick to one sound, it's like
Achilles Heel which is really rocky and more raw than some
of our other stuff and then with songs like dancing in the
moonlight which is more poppy and mainstream, so we don't
stick to one sound really.
Is Magic hotel in the same style as your
last album?
Yea very much so, perhaps just a little
bit more confident and the sounds a little bit sharper. It
took us a few months to complete it.
Contactmusic.com has an area dedicated to unsigned artists,
What advise would you give to them?
Always believe in your self and focus on
that and it doesn't matter what anyone else says to you if
you think your able of doing it then that's what is important,
people used to say to me stop wasting your time being in a
band and now he is really proud of me. You can't think it's
going to be easy because it's not but it's worth it!
How did Toploader get together?
We were all mates, and we could all play
different instruments but we were all in different bands so
we decided to get a band together and we all knew we were
all quite good and when we played together we just clicked.
Sometimes a good successful band is about all about the atmosphere
live when you all play together, you could all be the best
musicians in the world but it doesn't mean your gonna make
the best music together, there has to be a gel there and for
some reason we all gelled really well.
So for the best Toploader experience
do you feel people have to see you live?
Without a doubt, personally I feel that
until people come and see us live they think all these weird
things about us and don't really know too much about us and
think of us as a supermarket advert band. And then they come
and see us live and there feelings change. I've got so many
mates who don't really like what we do but then they will
come and see us live and they love it. We are a lot more rocky
live, it was quite funny on our last tour we had so many kids
coming to see us because of dancing in the moonlight and they
were expecting to come and see some pop outfit and they end
up coming along and rushing to the front of the stage and
we come out and start playing really loud guitar music and
it really freaked some of them out. But for a lot of those
kids that would have been there first rock gig and I would
hope it would be a great introduction to it all really.
Magic Hotel is due for release on the 19th of August
www.toploader.com
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