{"id":6130,"date":"2023-11-10T05:44:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T05:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=6130"},"modified":"2023-11-10T05:48:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T05:48:48","slug":"blog-interview-the-clockworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2023\/11\/10\/blog-interview-the-clockworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog interview: The Clockworks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/2U43xiT2TtdbvDuy9cSyul?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<p><strong>Clockworks! How are you doing?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Good thanks, looking forward to the album release. It\u2019s been all guns blazing for a while so looking to get the album out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congratulations on the release of \u201cExit Strategy\u201d how does it feel?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s fulfilling. We worked for a long time on this, and we\u2019ve had to learn a lot to get to here so it\u2019s fulfilling to now be able to put a body of work out into the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your favourite track from it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think each song has its story, and for us each song has two stories: the story within the song and the story of making it. So, it\u2019s impossible to choose a favourite really. One of the mental analogies we always had for creating this album was building a house. You have different rooms that suit different needs, and then you try to make sure those separate rooms have a flow and a cohesion that allows a building to feel like a home. The different songs are different rooms in the house, some you might go to when you\u2019re sad, some when you\u2019re fired up and so on. Because the album is parsed in that way in our heads, I think it makes it impossible to choose a favourite.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>It was recorded at the holy Mecca, Abbey Road, what was it like recording there?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abbey Road was incredible. There is a definite feeling about the place but it\u2019s not like a Cathedral: We didn\u2019t feel compelled to be deferential to it. At the same time it was inspiring to feel like what we were making was part of a long lineage of music made within the same walls. The staff and studios themselves were brilliant and we appreciated how dedicated everyone in the room was to making the best work possible.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>This has to be asked\u2026 what\u2019s your favourite Beatles song?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Right now, today, off the top of my head: Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds. Something about it makes me feel something I can\u2019t explain. But then there\u2019s about 100 other Beatles songs that do that. They were incredible.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>You are a band from London, how did The Clockworks come into being?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We currently live in London, but the band are from Galway in Ireland. Sean, Damian and I met at school and bonded over music. A few years later we met Tom, who\u2019s from Limerick, in Galway City and it all went from there.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What did you listen to starting out?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to remember exactly, but I think a lot of bands like The Smiths, The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, bands we grew up on really. We always had our individual tastes outside of that, but I think that was where the Venn diagram overlapped the most.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019ve also been gigging, tell us a funny story from the road.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This one is from a while ago but it does spring to mind. We were playing a show in Dublin and the stage was way too small for the band to fit on so we had the drums on stage and the rest of us had to stand in front of the stage, beside a fire place with a lit fire so it was roasting. For some reason the microphone situation was dodgy so we kept getting electrocuted quite badly. I got it into my head that it was my shoes that were making it happen so I took them off. It didn\u2019t help. So we spent half an hour playing in our socks in the middle of the crowd, dripping in sweat from the fire, getting blasted by the microphones every time we touched them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What have you learned about yourselves in the last three years post COVID?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve learned loads. One of the lessons that COVID taught us was to appreciate songs outside of the live show. We used to perform songs as we wrote them and judge the song based on how it was at a gig, but COVID meant that we had to write and finish a song as a song, rather than as a live performance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you pick up any new skills?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over the last 3 years we\u2019ve learned how to load up a splitter van in freezing conditions with extreme efficiency.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you listening to at the moment?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been listening to a lot of Philip Glass, James Blake\u2019s new album, and Pink Pantheress.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you looking forward to doing next?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re going on a long UK and EU tour in spring next year ahead of festival season. That\u2019s going to be exciting.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_0735.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_0735.jpg 400w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_0735-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_0735-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_0735-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Special thanks to Danny Watson <a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/dannydeathdisco\"> CDP\/CDP Radio Promotions<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clockworks! How are you doing?\u00a0 Good thanks, looking forward to the album release. It\u2019s been all guns blazing for a while so looking to get the album out. Congratulations on the release of \u201cExit Strategy\u201d how does it feel? It\u2019s fulfilling. We worked for a long time on this, and we\u2019ve had to learn a &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,191,42,118,129,52,247,179,143,132,30,177,150,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abbey-road","category-alternative","category-band","category-bass","category-drums","category-guitar","category-interview","category-ireland","category-london","category-lyricist","category-music","category-rock","category-songwriter","category-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6134,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130\/revisions\/6134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}