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Questions and answer session with Kodaline
Hello how's everybody doing good so my first kind of question is when you start writing a song like that or indeed for the album as a whole where does inspiration come from how do you start is there a thought you have in mind is it an emotion you touch on where does the whole process begin um Where does the process begin probably an emotion you know once you start it depends on how you're feeling for me if I sit down and I'm feeling happy I'll start with something our mark might play a happy riff we have a song called brand new day which is a very happy song and we tried to make it really happy well I'm proud of this um [Laughter] uh yeah for me it's it's all about just an emotion and it depends on what I'm going through and I'll try right about that and then just get it off my chest by singing about it um but we are right and we're all different that's how I do it like someone asked us Does it get different
just before we came down here like does it get different from when you're in your bedroom trying to write the best song in the world and when you're doing it professionally and we really don't see ourselves as any different than when we're in our bedrooms you know we're still just trying to impress each other impress ourselves you know so the inspiration comes from the same place it comes for every part of your creative life you know it's like we try to bring as much of our real life into the songs as much as possible rather than trying to write something about something we don't really know about is there anything then that you oh i think in any previous ones you've What makes a good song written about that comes from such a deep part of you that you're worried about getting out there you're wrong about letting out or that you regret putting out there now i think that's when you know it's a good song when you're terrified to show someone something like someone if they know what you're going through and you're basically not just telling them you're basically singing it to someone I think that's when you that's when that's when you're on to something if it's so real that it makes you feel like almost nervous about showing somebody yeah i think it's almost like you know if you can write a song if you're afraid to say it to somebody or your best friend like you know you wouldn't talk to them about it but
if you can do that in a sound and confidently sing it out um that's something special that's like real emotion that's what makes for amazing songs but then again there's a lot of songs out there that mean absolute feko and they're they're catchy you know but i think for like beautiful songs that kind of really touch people in the heart and stuff it's it's got to be real emotion Working with new songwriters so i wanted to ask you about on this album you started working with a lot of new songwriters and collaborators do you feel like you've got to compromise any of that when working with other people um yeah it's a tote it's a totally different way of working um we've never we never really worked with anybody else only ourselves and on our second album we worked with a guy from summer patrol Johnny Mcdade but it was on one song so this album it was pretty daunting like having loads of people in the room and you know some people were really good at like producing sounds other people could be amazing at melodies orders amazing at words lyrics and um so yeah i found it very stressful because you know it's
hard it's hard to find a happy medium and you know you have to you do have to make a lot of compromises and you can't impress everybody but ultimately the song wins out like and you know there's usually somebody who's like i don't like it but you're like well look i don't care [Music] i think if you find it hard to trust someone in the room it can be difficult to open up yeah i think like Writing sessions before we start writing with somebody it's like it kind of varies from different people but like having conversations with them and just kind of getting to know the person the other person as well and try strike up some form of relationship because yeah like as the guy said you're trying to like if you want to try to get raw emotion out here you're talking about really personal things so it's hard to try and do that with a stranger so a lot of the writing sessions will start off with chats for like for an hour a couple of hours could be that you mightn't like an amazing song can happen in 10 minutes or it may take 10 weeks like you know it is kind of the best the best songs always write themselves it's like five minutes and they're just done or it's like once you have an idea and you know exactly what it is and you know exactly what you're trying to do it kind of it's it's it's just done
you know but i think that comes from just years of writing you know we've been writing I've been writing since i was 13 and I'm 30 now i act about 12 but now um so yeah i think it's just I'm still learning we're still learning you know that's the amazing thing about songwriting it's just endless and every day you can write something new you know so so you said with this album Collaborations you wanted to do something new and you didn't want to cover old ground in the third album look into the future do you see yourself working with different kind of collaborators is there anyone in particular that you want to work with or do you want to return to being just the four of you at the moment it's just the four of us and we're just back in like an industrial estate in north county Dublin that we've turned into like a makeshift studio and the atmosphere there is kind of better than it is going to la and spending like three weeks in the hills and working with someone who did this record some of that record like it that just didn't kind of it was it was enjoyable it was a learning experience for sure but I think when the four of us get together and we do it ourselves it's it's there's less conversation and we're
just kind of playing music together and it just happens kind of organically yeah like we grew up like I've known mark since i was eight and Vinnie since i was very young and jay for a long time and that's like we played back with the bands in high school and all that and last battle of the bands and uh talent competition we haven't let that go yet still ring them up every Christmas yeah but uh yeah we did like talent competitions and boskin and all that stuff you know so at the core of us as a band and our songs is the four of us and anybody on the outside songwriters and stuff like that can only maybe add to it but most of it has to come from us you know because that's when when we write our best music so so it seems like that sense of kind of community that you guys have is so important to you Irish Music Industry there's a lot of spotlight at the moment on the Irish music industry in general is that because that same kind of community permeates outwards it's because Irish people are awesome yeah no well he looks shocked he's telling the truth no there's
there's no like sometimes music can be competitive which is so stupid in my opinion and i think in Ireland that mentality doesn't exist i think any time we tour we try and bring not just Irish bands we tour like bands from all over the world but it's nice to give people a leg up because i don't think you're in competition with other artists you know it's not like someone's going to go like listen to this band and then this band comes out and go well i don't like both of them there's no reason you know a song is a song so we don't see it as a competition and in Ireland there is just that kind of community that i don't haven't seen anywhere else maybe it's just a small country it's a really small country but you do see them at all the festivals and at the same pubs yeah i think yeah the Irish community and the music community especially is even smaller in Ireland so that like bans from like u2 to the script to Hozier to ourselves like we we all like we all know each other on like first term like first name bases we're on tour with snow patrol at the moment and they also yeah these festivals yeah and it's like we see each other at different things and like everybody is friends with everybody like i don't think there's i think in like we're assigned to like an English record label and you kind of see that there is like competition
between English bands and stuff like that but in Ireland it's just kind of like oh that's amazing you're doing that show that's incredible i saw i saw the tour that you just did or whatever and that's amazing like you know and i think it's a much it's a much more community based and everybody kind of supports each other like you know and everybody's just happy for like such a small country to be able to produce such a plethora of amazing talents like you know when different singer-songwriters and bands and musicals why do you think it's it's the Guinness to be honest yeah there's something special in that you know so think about that how is it important to you because you started playing off in small pubs with a tiny repertoire how Staying grounded important is if you kind of keep that route whilst you're on the road and you don't go home for months on end how do you kind of connect back and keep keep treat your roots um i we all kind of do it in different ways but i think because we've known each other since we were kids um even some of our crew that tour with us we've known since we were kids and that kind of keeps us grounded like if anybody any of us get like a bit too big for their boots or turns into a bit of a diva
it's like bang straight back down to earth you know it's kind of just not like physical we don't hate each other yeah no it's just kind of cop-on you know and it's more of friends at home as soon as you come home from tour and you're like oh I was at this party in l. a you're like shut up no one cares what i mean so like that that gets taken away from me straight away and it's kind of yeah we just don't let each other go on like that because we're very very normal it's only when it's only like for an hour or two a day that we do something insane we go on stage in front of thousands of people or do this and that but for the most part we're just four normal dudes Come back down how do you how do you come back down how do you have that experience of being on stage in front of thousands of people and then go off stage and be full normal guys again it's loads of this like no no sorry no it's like I'm making it to be raging alcoholics uh no yeah i don't it kind of changes we all have different ways of coming down from stage i don't know yeah steps
as you can see this is like what you deal with like so no nobody's allowed to get too big um yeah i don't know it changes you know i'll have a couple of drinks together maybe I'll watch a movie or whatever it kind of depends like you know there's no no i don't think we've ever really suffered from like trying to come down from a show like i think it's just because the people that we surround ourselves with have been with us for a very long time like all the crew that we tour although the the touring party that we tour with now has got bigger and we're there's more things around us like we're on a bigger bus there's trucks carrying our gear yesterday he's here happy birthday Quinn um but yeah like i think because we keep at the everybody that that we work with like oh and we've kept them for such a long amount of time it's what it's one big family yeah it's a family but i think if when we first started we were pretty young we're still pretty young but um you're 30 man you're old right I'm only 20 yeah yeah i'm only 28 man ouch um anybody got any recommendations for old folks homes yeah sorry i threw up a point there I'm sorry it was difficult to come down at the
start i think just because like there was one summer where we got to play like out of nowhere we went from rehearsing to nobody at home in Dublin and then playing like Glastonbury and playing reading and going to Japan summer sonic doing festivals all over the world and that was pretty incredible but uh i think we just it was just like one big massive wave you know we were like deer in headlights for a while and then it took us doing two albums and then taking about a year off and going back uh to Ireland and like moving out for parents houses and all that stuff and uh kind of real stuff getting in the way real life to actually take stock and realize that we just traveled the whole world and sold two million albums you know [Music] and now i think we're in a really good place like when we tour now we kind of all have our own ways of coming down we you know we play the show do the best we can talk about the show afterwards usually hopefully it's gone good and nothing has gone wrong and then uh just switch off just go watch a movie or have a Guinness sorry um but yeah i don't know it's become the norm which is but i think the one thing that hasn't
changed from the very start is that we're music fans just as much as we are luckily musicians you know so when we first got out onto like the festival circuit and we'd be finished at 3 30 we'd have the whole evening to go watch some of our favorite bands perform and that still happens like we're out with snow patrol and we're straight off stage and we'll go watch their gig for the whole thing so it's it's all just an amazing experience that we're really lucky to be part of still and the fact that we call it our job is just ridiculous like the doing festivals thing is as it's as much fun as it sounds like when you go backstage there's literally 10 dressing rooms in a row and it's all the bands that are playing that stage and there's bands who are your heroes who are like right next to you and you get to hang out with them and stuff and that's just inspiring and the whole time you're like don't find girl don't yeah so like it's it's still really really exciting so you said before and i found some Staying away from fame interesting you said that you don't think you're famous and how important is that kind of mentality to keeping you guys uh we've never i think it's very Irish like the Irish are the most self-deprecating nation there are you know you can go down to extravision and you'll see bono across the way in the league
thinks he's all that now you know but it's just part of our culture it really has been like Sheamus Heaney and the famous writers could always go to their local pubs and everyone would just leave them at it you know but we've always like we stayed it deliberately stayed out of our first few videos and all that because we didn't want to we just want to write music and put it out there you know we've never chased fame if we wanted to do that it's easy to go to celebrity or big brother or whatever it does yeah i think it's easy to do that if you get like a bit of success you can chase that and you can find it but we always steered clear of like those kind of parties or red carpets like the opening of an envelope some movies we just stayed away from all that and just yeah we're a band we've had some crazy yeah we've had surreal moments like we were playing in a show in l. a before and uh sasha burn cone was in the crowd and he just started heckling and uh just it was terrifying because it was so funny it was yeah it was surreal and if he was a gig like this it was like very quiet acoustic and we knew it was coming and and someone was heckling and we
didn't know until afterwards we're like borah but um yeah we found ourselves in these crazy situations you know we've got to meet some incredible people but even coming here and doing this is genuinely it's awesome yeah this place is amazing you know it's like this is the first thing this is the first time we've ever done something like this so it's kind of odd for us to be doing kind of this like people looking at us when we're talking yeah exactly if you could all turn around this would be way easier like are they looking at there's actually a match on behind the scenes there's a tv behind you and yeah and i think we yeah we didn't fall down that trap of trying to chase celebrity and i think also our friends are probably better crack so it's better going and for a point with those guys than trying to go to something where everybody's really pretentious and everybody's looking at themselves in the mirror like you know yeah and trying to get a photo or and all that stuff where we were just like I'll actually rather just go chat to my mates like you know my friends like you know so i think that's something that we still do now like you know when we have a show in Ireland it's a nightmare because there's about 300 of our mates and family and stuff like that like new cousins that you can yeah like thousands of cousins yeah exactly people you didn't relations
you've never heard of in your life being like oh can i get a ticket to your show and be like who are you so yeah so but yeah i think by again surrounding ourselves with close people we kind of avoid all that other stuff is that is that an odd thing in the music industry do you find yourselves Fighting against a tide having to fight back against a tide or do you think people haven't been supportive of you um people stopped asking us i think we yes people just stopped asking us yeah i we just the most important thing is the music and the shows you know it's a cliche but for us that's all it's ever been you know anything else is just like extra but the most important thing is playing a great show and releasing good music that we're really proud of and hopefully people connect to that you know um but like borat heckling yeah you know that's pretty cool I think we're more comfortable at home in our own circle and stuff that's cool i think What does it mean to release music now's a good time to chuck over to the audience so if anyone wants to ask a question uh put your hand up and we'll get a
microphone to you we'll go thank you very much uh for your talk uh I would just like to ask what does it mean to release music that you are proud of or that you you think is good because probably not many people listened to that before so how do you know they will work with the audience and you never really know if it's that's a great question you never really know if it's going to work or not um the best thing that you can do is just try and be proud of it and then put it out there like I don't have kids but i can imagine it's like sending your firstborn kid off to school you know out to the big bad world um because you prepare them so much you can only prepare them so much you know youtube comments yeah most of it about your kids and like that that's one way to check like sometimes we do look at the youtube comments and you kind of filter through some of it but some of it is people pour their heart out there you know people it's kind of crazy and sometimes you can read that and it can just break your heart you know like a song that will be about something that is personal to us someone on the other side of the world is telling us what that song means to them and how it helped them and like when that happens that's the most that for us is success i think that's the most rewarding thing
but it's scary i don't answer the question but it's very scary to put out a song yeah i think you just you just have to do it you know that's the whole thing about creating music and putting it out there you got to believe in it and just kind of just put it out there yeah you're never going to impress everybody there's always going to be a load of people or some people who just hate it or like you know trolls online and all that stuff you know um it's just the way the world is but you just got to believe in what you do and just put it out and concentrate on the positive things like those people who really do like it can you tell or Can you tell or a surprise that a song that you didnt think was going to have that level of reception a surprise that a song that you didn't think was quite going to have that level of reception gets it or do you have a pretty good idea of which ones are gonna it's the odd time you'd be a a gig and someone will just pull their jumper back and they'll have like a lyric tattooed on their arm that like it was a song that wasn't even on an album that may have been in an ep and that lyric has meant more to them than probably did to you yeah when when people come up and they like talk about songs that were like b-sides and stuff like that that usually kind of catches me off guard but it's awesome
um you know I think i think we kind of forget about it it's like every stage throughout your kind of younger life there's this soundtrack you know and for us to be part of some young people's soundtrack as they grow up it's this whole thing that you just completely forgot about like i go back to like my first day of school i remember what song was playing in the car that was going in the gates and I know other people do so when they come to us and there's just been this moment in their life where everything's gone either really right or really wrong and that song can help them through in any way it's like it doesn't matter if we think it's the best song in the world as long as it means that much to them it's done its job and you said about the youtube comments how hard is it to stay away from the How hard is it to stay away from the negative negative stuff do you ever veer into that do you ever take any video i think i remember one of our first shows uh we were playing a show in Dublin and like a really important loads of people were saying oh oh this review was coming out in the guardian and it was over here as well and um loads of people like you know industry people were saying oh yeah i don't know have you have you read it yet and all this so i just decided not to read it and then i was like
let's we're not going to read it and then we were doing an interview with somebody else he was like have you read it yeah I'm not going to read it what's the point you know like it doesn't matter there's people here tonight and they're here to listen to us and sing our songs back like why would I even focus on that and yeah i think the guy gave us like minus a star or whatever i don't know you basically completely just ripped everything apart you know but if you if you focus on that all the time you're just gonna drag yourself down you know it's you gotta stay positive it's very very very very easy to like rip it out of somebody's music but like the work that goes into it and it's you know it's their creativity and they've spent a lot of time doing and all that i mean I'd love to see even though i didn't read this article but I'd love to see that journalist try and release some music you know but it's at least better about it yeah i didn't read it wow I'm not bitter I'm not bitter I didn't even read it we've never ever been critically acclaimed and it's not what we set out to do because there's bands that are Is Kodaline a critically acclaimed band critically acclaimed and then they break up or they just don't have any courses bans that are quickly claimed and are
very popular but we've we've got a career and we've got like a fan base that are kind of they're a great community community and that's way more important to us now don't get me wrong if our next album got five star reviews I'd read them but but we don't we don't write music for those people or frankly it's one it's one person's opinion the most important thing again is just playing the best show that you can with the best with music that you believe in you know and just doing that and then connecting with the fans i think like yeah as as the guys have said and I've alluded to earlier like playing a sold out show to us means so much more than one person's opinion on on an album or on a song or on that one show that they went to see that's one person's opinion when you're playing to two and a half thousand people or whatever it may be if it's 200 people in the room like they're like that they were there they saw the show they loved the show like we read we control all of our own social medias as along with the record label so we have access to all of our facebook or youtube or twitter or instagram so we can re if we post a picture of a show we can read people's comments being like it was an amazing incredible this song was amazing blah blah blah and like that to us means so much more than what one journalist's opinion is so
like yeah when it comes to that kind of stuff like yeah they could be like the guy's dog could have died that morning and he's in a bad mood and he's just like you know what I hate Ireland so it's like all right okay whatever he may not have even listened to the album and he probably had 10 albums to get to and he could have had a bad day it's true yeah let's take another question Equipment if there is one yeah I'm the guy who wrote the review [Laughter] and my dog did die sorry first of all thanks for coming down and i wanted to ask you more about just you know about equipment because there's some musicians who are very picky about the guitars they use or you know the brand of the symbol and all of that so where do you guys fall in that could you pick up any instrument and be happy with it or do you have a certain brand and uh amp wise you know pedals is it very specific if i don't have a sparkly drum kit i don't play it no i think we i think we're kind of like it's expected of us to sound good and if
we've got nice equipment it makes a sound even better and but like you can write the most amazing song on a guitar that has two or three strings you know but I think if if we're like now we're at a stage that we're we put effort into our production how it looks how it sounds so the better our equipment it does kind of make the show yeah i think when you're younger you definitely always look at getting that like 2 000 euro guitar that really expensive fender whatever but then the second you get a little bit higher up and you're looking back you're trying to find the beat up old guitar in the back of a pawn shop because that's going to sound the best so people it's always just looking at the grass from the other side it's you can really make music the intention is so much more important it all depends on like they say you know you got to go to a guitar shop and pick up guitars and feel it out some people prefer like a really really cheap guitar because they just like the the feel of it and it's like sound you know this guitar here is like four hundred dollars uh our guitar tech bought it in America and he just like spent a lot of time making it and i it sounds great it's fairly well i think it sounds great sounded great did you hear it but that was like beat up it's like 30 years old it's just but it's got like an atmosphere vibe if you tried to plug it in and use it on stage and put it through mics and stuff
it'd probably be quite difficult you know like there's there's also in terms of writing um there's a piano in my parents house that's like it's like a hundred euro 20 years ago you know and it's bashed up and it's out of tune and i wrote some of my best songs on the piano and i still love playing it it sounds awful but there's something about it that's inspiring um so it's a matter of opinion really it's you know pretty much yeah sorry yeah like you can we have like we're kind of at a kind of fortunate position where like companies or brands will come to us and be like we would you play this we'll give you all these and it's kind of like yeah that's fine if you want to do that it's nice it is great like here's yeah guitars all you have to do is play them yeah okay but like for me the companies that i use for my drums and stuff that are companies that when I first started playing drums they were what I wanted to get to like you know some now I'm in the really fortunate position where these companies want me to play there to use their equipment like you know whether it be the drum scan or the drum sticker or the symbol manufacturer like and they come to me being like yeah we'll give you all these symbols of you to play them and like if you said that to like nine-year-old me when I was
starting being like oh don't worry that company that like you aspire to want to play that you can't afford they'll come to you and give you all that stuff for free like class so so now so now it's great like but yeah i for me and i think for all of us like we we endorse things that we actually want we like that we actually use we actually love playing and stuff like that so but yeah like as the guy said like yeah all beat up stuff is just as good as brand new out of the box stuff or sometimes even way better like you know so Advice for Sharing um what advice would you give to someone who is afraid to share like a song or a piece of art or something like that like what would one sentence from each of you just like to the point what's like what advice would you give you're on the spot don't worry you can do it don't ramble don't ramble don't don't no I think you just if you believe in it and that's against this the cheesy thing to say but if you what you've ever made whether it's a song or a poem or anything if you believe it and you you love it if you really love it no matter how hard it is to show somebody you should show somebody and see if they love it yeah
maybe that first wall is that you're worried about sharing it with everybody maybe share it with five people first we still get that you know sometimes it's hard to show anyone's song because it can mean so much to you and the song might not actually be that good but what the song is about means something to you and you just have to trust you know everyone's instincts that's why it's good to show people things because i think the longer you keep it to yourself the more let down you'll be if it's not good but if it is good and someone else likes it there's no better feeling that wasn't that's a really long sentence just take out all the footsteps yeah there wasn't there was no full stop um i think yeah you just just do it what's the worst that can happen you know feel the fear and do it anyway that's one sentence cliche but yeah um you can pick your favorite sets from all those and [Laughter] I'll give scores out of ten later Personal Songs have you ever written a song but then thought that it was too personal even just with you once you shared it between you guys and said actually I think this just they should stay here or do you always know they want to get out there we um we wrote a song that's on this album um and it was about um a young young lady that passed away at
one of her gigs and for us it was a like at the time we'd like obviously we didn't know what happened it was a massive show for us in Dublin it was in front of I don't know how many thousands of people it was a big deal for us huge thing we're on cloud nine uh our tour manager and production manager and the booking agent came to us i don't know about an hour after the show i was just like listen guys uh somebody got taken their names away and she's now and she passed away so that kind of gone from like one extreme to the other so for us um we kind of the only way that we could really put that or kind of deal with that emotion i guess was we the four of us went to um jay's studio and we wrote a song and we wrote it for the family because there's not that we could write in a letter or say to them in person that could express the sorrow that they were feeling like you know and this is what like what we do is we write songs like so we just kind of did the only thing that we know to do is write songs and so we wrote a song uh mark drove down to the family uh the family's house and gave them a cd with the song on it and said this is just for you and your family and you can share with whoever you want and that's kind of it and then mark left i didn't want to listen to when they
were there because it's a personal thing that we wrote just for them uh and then they rang and said that it was an incredible song they loved it and they and when it came to releasing the album and they were like we want other people to hear this song we think that you should release it it should be on the album i think you should spread the word and say what it was about so that was a song that it was very personal to us and we didn't think we thought it was going to go as far as us and the family yeah it was just a gesture to the family you know but even at the start when we were asked about it we didn't want to talk about it and then i got a text off the girl's mom and she was like talk about it as much as possible you know like what you've done is amazing and that was that was one point where we were like it was too personal to like do anything and it wasn't for us it wasn't even a Kodaline song it was the song that we wrote for them but it was it was damn that they wanted us to do it like to kind of uh release it so yeah I suppose that's an example of one that was really personal you know but I'm glad we did it because yeah it makes it doesn't make them happy but they come to our shows and we stay in touch and stuff so it's really nice let's take another question from the floor
don't be shy First Time Playing Together hey thanks for coming uh could you tell us about the first time all four of you played together uh yeah the first time we it was was out in creek studios it's a same place yeah same place that we wrote that song yeah same place at jay's studio and we actually we were looking for a bass player um but mark mark knew jay true a friend and we had all crossed paths loads of times I think but just unaware of each other and we didn't know he played bass um but we went through tried a few people out and it just wasn't kind of working and then we all went out to the studio and i sat at the piano and i think we played like an Eddie James song I'd rather go blind uh I loved seoul back then and uh yeah I think straight away we're all just like this is awesome this is great and and yeah it kind of worked we just that day we're like yeah okay let's do it awesome cool so we had to get him out of
baggy jeans and into skinny jeans but that was that's pretty about it you need to cut your hair as well well yeah but I don't even think it like I'm not going to use the word audition but we definitely did audition we came to i know we actually did audition people that was less of an audition but yeah we did it in London and like it was awful because we rented rehearsal space and it was like job interviews not for us for them so someone would come in and like within five minutes we'd name a few bands we like and then we started playing music together and it was just so wrong and with jay we didn't even see him play bass we didn't even actually do that as a full band when we said you're in the band yeah he didn't even play bass we were just saying to you he just it could have been a disaster yeah but yeah we just knew it's just it's a it's a strange thing when you just know I mean I remember the first time the four of us walked down the street together I just felt i just felt like this feels right in some kind of weird way I didn't feel that [Laughter] yeah yeah yeah it's yeah it was Mark and Steve it's such a tough thing like myself mark and steve have known each other for years i remember actually we played a battle we played a battle with the bands right and it was me and mark and there was two other friends of ours and we won the bat and
Vinnie was in the band and we won the battle of the bands and then um Vinnie just joined like five other bands so he was in like how many bands were you six bands yeah probably he was in loads of bands drummers are in short supply right so he wouldn't turn up for like rehearsals then he was like i'm rehearsing with this other band and we're like oh i find you're out and he's like all right and then next year he was in what two other bands in the yeah he was in two other bands and uh uh we won again without him so he doesn't really hold grudges Steve like the guardian [Laughter] but then he came back and he's like uh can I be in the band again yeah well i also think the drama that you had at the time who was a really dear friend of mine yeah but you were like you can't play drums in the studio and I was like and I can so yeah that's true yeah there you go I don't know where that story is going I don't know i think i was going to say something nice i was going to say something else about James I can't remember okay I was just trying to annoy you um no Vinnie was always an awesome drummer yeah thanks uh yeah no sorry i was going to say he's
like yeah myself mark and Steve have known each other for such a long time that and we used to skateboard together when we were teenagers like so we got we had like all this kind of chemistry just between the three of us and we had been in bands and with other bass players and stuff like that and like playing gigs and then when we got signed it was just the three of us and so we had this really strong brand so trying to find somebody then that kind of fit in with all of us and got had the same stupid sense of humor that we did because we all think that we're hilarious but we're not um so yeah trying to find somebody that actually just like fit in with us and that was probably the most important thing like first so yeah so like as we said like jay didn't even play bass the first time it was like we just sang and then i think we went and went out for points with like all of our families and stuff like that and then we realized right he can't handle his dream he can handle the point he couldn't at the first one like i think i have a photo and he's like glassy after like two two pints of Guinness i was like right this way you gotta cop on like [Laughter] but uh but yeah and then yeah just kind of clicked and that was it and he's devastatingly handsome so it worked out so yeah
let's take another question uh let's get a hand in the back in the far back Big in Japan hi uh thanks so much for coming um you mentioned touring in Japan earlier um and in your song brand new day um I've always noticed the kind of parentheses uh lyric we could be bringing big in Japan i've always wondered if there was like if that was something someone said to you if there was some kind of story behind that there is a story behind that it was Dara Carol it was a friend of ours sent us we had no band name for a long time and for like five minutes we were called big in Japan and yeah it was it was on the it was for like remember a brand new day when we were writing brand new day brand new day is about the band leaving our hometown like make believe you know just going we could travel the world we could be in a band we could play all these shows and it was almost like a tongue-in-cheek lyric of saying we could be big in Japan and when i wrote it that's what i meant but i didn't know about that thing the bit dara what does he think he he wanted he just suggested that as a banner but then we were in Japan playing the song for the first time and it got to that bit and we kind of looked
at each other and just had a bit of a laugh we're like I can't believe we're here singing this lyric but yeah i didn't know people would actually make that lyric out we tried to kind of hide it and like put effects on it so it wasn't out there but that's a funny one it's a good question yeah Japan's a fun place to play it's a mad country as well like it's just yeah but yeah it's a lot of fun there was a girl at the very back there were questions with your hand up as well sorry Favorite place hi um so obviously you've done shows all over the world and i got to see you when you're in Malaysia um i guess i was just wondering what's been your favorite place so far or an interesting experience you've had while traveling that's really tough favorite place you see there's a difference kind of what favorite place and favorite gig favorite play i love like that part of the world and we're about to go there for like five or six weeks we're going to manila again and vanilla Kuala Lumpur that's a long list but it's the first tour we're doing that it's like with a show and then there's like two or three days off in between then a show so I think we're gonna get to see a lot of the world but what do we do in
Malaysia we went in the rooftop oh that was amazing yeah we shot a video on top of a skyscraper at sunset and it was pretty amazing yeah that was a festival wasn't it yeah good vibes isn't it tough to remember specific sometimes [Laughter] but favorite part iwe're in New Zealand for a day and New Zealand yeah New Zealand is like insane it's really beautiful but I think like everyone really does have their own personal experience and collective leader isn't like one place but yeah i think that first trip we got to go to Indonesia we went really from like the center of the country went like a rain forest played a gig up on the top of a mountain in a rainforest and then at the end of it a couple of us stayed out and we went to Bali so we got the complete other side of it so i think it's like that for this next tour when you have a bit more time rather than just that show day to see a country you have such a deeper connection with the country afterwards because usually we just go from black box to black box you know every room kind of looks the same after a while this is the first room of books in it though just in case you're wondering what has been each of your favorite cake
ah see like oh it's really tough i said earlier to the people we met that was somewhere in Portugal and so I'm going to stick with that there was just a I don't know what it was it was just a gig in a tent at a festival that we weren't expecting the reaction we got and it was just this life-changing gig i don't know it's so hard to describe why it's it's like even i had awful gigs were so many problems with my guitar and there was songs where it didn't work but like my memory is not that my memory is just of the the energy it was just insane it was scary almost we got to we got to play with Ed Sheeran in Dublin he invited us up for two nights just to do one of our songs which is absolutely incredible he was playing in croak park which is it's really the dream venue for us it's like where we see ourselves getting to a couple years down the line we don't know how many but i did a very selfish thing and made it completely about me and got engaged at that concert as well just after we played honestly on stage so I kind of have to say that one yeah yeah that's true your wife is watching it's been recorded yeah yeah that that was incredible yeah that was like that was an incredible experience for us because like Croke Park it's it's a it's a lot of history it's a it's a Gaelic games ground 80,000 people
and we got to do that twice with ed and he's a lovely guy oh yeah that was kind of incredible I don't know like probably our for me it was the i think was the first gig that we did in Dublin or like first or second gig that we ever did in Dublin yeah yeah and if in the place called the sugar club it's like a 2 000 or no 200 sorry 300 300 yeah it used to be it used to be a cinema and so it's all kind of tiered seats and it was the first gig that we had like a ticket like a ticketmaster ticket that had like code line on it the crowd was of the 300 seats about 150 were like family and friends and stuff like that but there was a 150 people that i had no clue who they were um so they were my friends yeah they were chase friends yeah so like playing that show i think for us when it was like yeah these people like paid money to come see us and we didn't play i don't think we played very long we didn't have a huge amount of material like the first album i don't think it wasn't even out yet yeah it was only a year before we had a song out a week or so or two yeah released the video for all i want i think and then two weeks later the gig gets yelled out and i think it was because of that and like when people were singing back we like we play it all at once and people sang back that song because it was on
the radio for a couple of weeks in Ireland and that was a moment i was like holy [ __ ] we can do this for like we can do this as a job like this could like be actually this could what we could do as a living like so that was and it's probably one of the smallest my fav that was amazing because as Vinnie said it was like the first time we're like oh my god we could actually possibly do this you know but before that we i remember we went to Amsterdam and we played a show it was like oh yeah we got a call i think from somebody and it was like you got to come to Amsterdam and play this little festival thing and it was in the paradiso in Amsterdam i think it's London call and they do it every year and loads of media and stuff go to it and we turned up and did our sound check or whatever and then all of a sudden the room was completely packed and there was people outside trying to get in and that was my first time in holland you know as well and I just remember going what the hell is going on and something was happening in holland and then yeah that was a crazy year yeah and that that was my favorite show followed by the Irishman which was like two weeks after so yeah yeah the smallest ones the smartest ones it's all been downhill since then yeah exactly yeah let's take another
question uh yeah to the hand here Touring hi hello um i was just wondering if you ever went through a period of adjustment where you had to go from the feeling of playing in small pubs and small gigs to massive audiences if you ever experience like immense stage fright or nervousness you know walking out and seeing a massive crowd oh yeah our very first tour was with the cranberries um and that was around arenas in France and that was playing to like 10 000 people a night and they were some of the first gigs we ever did and they were absolutely terrifying like there was like sometimes you get these super fans that come to every show and like we have a few and they're amazing because you see a familiar face in the front row at every show and I remember the cranberries there was two girls and they just didn't like us for some reason and they started to hack because they they knew the set list and the order it was and like three gigs in we'd be shaking and they were just heckling us and they made it really hard for us but um but i think when it's when it's your own show and it's that many people it actually gets easier because you're just telling yourself wow these people are here
like to hear us play our songs we've already won them over like all we have to do now is just give them a really good night out and you know sing some songs with them so we don't really get nervous like with that kind of stuff well not really i mean at the moment on snow patrol it's different we're supporting snow patrol doing arenas around the uk and the first night i found difficult because it wasn't our crowd and most people don't know who you are and you really have to kind of prove yourself again and that can be kind of daunting but you you definitely get nervous before every gig and some gigs are really nervous and some gigs you just kind of sail on stage and it's like great yeah yeah those heckling people were hilarious and like i think we did like i can't remember it wasn't a very long tour i think it might only be in like 10 shows maybe or something like that over like two weeks or something but it was like one of our first experiences of touring uh ever and then yeah like leaving like not playing a show in Ireland and like i think before we even played any shows around the uk and it was like yeah we're playing lower shows in France and then yeah those people heckling us were pretty funny like but it kind of it it was like a way of throwing us into the deep end i suppose yeah it was just kind of it was things yeah yeah stuff and yeah probably
yeah but i like i remember like all the crew like obviously for us like we showed up in like a beat-up van and all of our gear was crammed in the back of it and then like the cranberries had like three massive tour buses and like five or six trucks filled with all their gear we're like oh god and I remember doing the show and that was grand and not that people not that their crew weren't like not nice to us or whatever or welcoming like but it was just kind of like yeah get up do your thing and then then we'll pull you off as quick as possible like and then after the first show they were just like you're from Ireland you're actually really good and then they were lovely to us like they couldn't do enough for us so like that the Irish thing yeah and that kind of made it easier first then and then then the French hecklers we didn't really mind that much then after that because then because then like for us it was just like then we just started playing for ourselves and we were just like this is great crack we're playing to a couple of thousand people at night as people are as the doors are open and people are kind of streaming in so like yeah we definitely we definitely we learned yeah we learned so much and we definitely got some fans from those shows like it wasn't particularly our audience i think it was the cranberries just again helping out a young Irish band and you know giving us like a little hand so um but yeah i definitely think we earned we
like we got some fans from those shows not those two people though all right let's take a couple more questions uh yep College uh thank you so much for coming um i was just wondering if you ever thought about what you would be doing if you weren't producing music yep wouldn't be here that's for sure none of us went to college like so i know jay did you tried it i tried colors yeah i tried colors twice didn't like it I did i actually sorry I'm lying I did i was in college for about six months and then i went back I failed some exams had to go back and repeat and i was like I remember my lecturer ringing me and i was like my band actually got signed and so i'll see you later and he was like wow so yeah like I was kind of in the industry already doing like operating lights for other bands and I really really enjoyed that because i got to be creative and i got to show up to work like whatever kind of time you want and you get to totally be yourself and do your own ideas and i really enjoyed that but obviously this is more fun i was in college and then i dropped out um
i was failing anyway um i i don't really know I saw sky tv for a while i saw sky tv for a while i worked in a bar um and then i played music in pubs and yeah i don't know i have no idea yeah I used to run a studio with who is now our keyboard player and we used to share a bunk bed in the kitchen so i have a feeling we'd still be sharing a bunk bed in the kitchen not that my wife would be too happy about that no one either but yeah maybe none of that would happen so and we probably I'll be banging on the door asking is there space in the bunk bed [Laughter] uh I was doing like helping my dad with his company like so I'll probably end up still working you were working in currency working in curry as well you were in a call center now I did a year in a call center yeah I used to fix broadband for people have you tried turning it on and off again you were that guy is it plugged in okay plug it in but how come you don't have broadband i can't get broadband where I live it's called Ireland we got this thing last year electricity it's amazing
yeah no yeah yeah I worked in like pc world for a while when I wasn't working for my dad's company and uh i don't for some reason they thought that I could fix computers and I hadn't got a clue I remember used to ring my mate being like how do you fix a mac how do you turn on a mac I don't know what I'm doing here so yeah I did that for a while that was awful sorry if anybody actually works in pc world still all right let's take one final question yeah the handler and then do you guys want to finish that thank you um so you mentioned the music video for all I want and that's like a really great video with an interesting story and i wondered if you could talk more about the meaning behind it behind the video yeah um the the video was kind of directed written everything by one guy no it was directed by yeah it was fell across Stevie Russell and uh he heard the song and he actually plays the character with the monster kind of face and he just dreamed of the whole idea himself and he came to us and he's like he was the first person that showed us real passion for the song he's like I think this song is absolutely amazing I had this video idea and on paper to be honest I didn't absolutely love the idea i kind of said a monster in an office i was like it's going to be
a bit strange but I mean he just like the first time we saw we pretty much saw what you guys see and i remember i welled up i couldn't believe that someone had made something that amazing to a song that we wrote um but it was all his idea like all the credit lies with Stevie and he also did high hopes we went straight back to him we were like here do this as well and he did brother and we're probably going to work him all the time he has this genius way of making a narrative and he doesn't feel like we need to be in the videos which I think is would just be a distraction even though we are in the old one video but I think whenever a bat like whenever we're the focal point of the video i don't think it has the same lasting effect as like a story that can totally pull you in for five minutes like it's hard to tell a story and you know it's to get something yes yeah yeah yeah it's incredible it's only a matter of time until he does movies like he's really really talented um and yeah we were just it just happened through a friend like we were making four videos and uh Steve what my friend couldn't do that he could only do one and he suggested Stevie and then Stevie came along with this idea and as mark said he played the monster the dog is his dog it was done on like a shoestring budget and uh yeah I mean it's it's really
emotional like it really complements the song as well it's uh Stevie is awesome yeah one last time Kodaline
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Hello how's everybody doing good so my first kind of question is when you start writing a song like that or indeed for the album as a whole where does inspiration come from how do you start is there a thought you have in mind is it an emotion you touch on where does the whole process begin um Where does the process begin probably an emotion you know once you start it depends on how you're feeling for me if I sit down and I'm feeling happy I'll start with something our mark might play a happy riff we have a song called brand new day which is a very happy song and we tried to make it really happy well I'm proud of this um [Laughter] uh yeah for me it's it's all about just an emotion and it depends on what I'm going through and I'll try right about that and then just get it off my chest by singing about it um but we are right and we're all different that's how I do it like someone asked us Does it get different
just before we came down here like does it get different from when you're in your bedroom trying to write the best song in the world and when you're doing it professionally and we really don't see ourselves as any different than when we're in our bedrooms you know we're still just trying to impress each other impress ourselves you know so the inspiration comes from the same place it comes for every part of your creative life you know it's like we try to bring as much of our real life into the songs as much as possible rather than trying to write something about something we don't really know about is there anything then that you oh i think in any previous ones you've What makes a good song written about that comes from such a deep part of you that you're worried about getting out there you're wrong about letting out or that you regret putting out there now i think that's when you know it's a good song when you're terrified to show someone something like someone if they know what you're going through and you're basically not just telling them you're basically singing it to someone I think that's when you that's when that's when you're on to something if it's so real that it makes you feel like almost nervous about showing somebody yeah i think it's almost like you know if you can write a song if you're afraid to say it to somebody or your best friend like you know you wouldn't talk to them about it but
if you can do that in a sound and confidently sing it out um that's something special that's like real emotion that's what makes for amazing songs but then again there's a lot of songs out there that mean absolute feko and they're they're catchy you know but i think for like beautiful songs that kind of really touch people in the heart and stuff it's it's got to be real emotion Working with new songwriters so i wanted to ask you about on this album you started working with a lot of new songwriters and collaborators do you feel like you've got to compromise any of that when working with other people um yeah it's a tote it's a totally different way of working um we've never we never really worked with anybody else only ourselves and on our second album we worked with a guy from summer patrol Johnny Mcdade but it was on one song so this album it was pretty daunting like having loads of people in the room and you know some people were really good at like producing sounds other people could be amazing at melodies orders amazing at words lyrics and um so yeah i found it very stressful because you know it's
hard it's hard to find a happy medium and you know you have to you do have to make a lot of compromises and you can't impress everybody but ultimately the song wins out like and you know there's usually somebody who's like i don't like it but you're like well look i don't care [Music] i think if you find it hard to trust someone in the room it can be difficult to open up yeah i think like Writing sessions before we start writing with somebody it's like it kind of varies from different people but like having conversations with them and just kind of getting to know the person the other person as well and try strike up some form of relationship because yeah like as the guy said you're trying to like if you want to try to get raw emotion out here you're talking about really personal things so it's hard to try and do that with a stranger so a lot of the writing sessions will start off with chats for like for an hour a couple of hours could be that you mightn't like an amazing song can happen in 10 minutes or it may take 10 weeks like you know it is kind of the best the best songs always write themselves it's like five minutes and they're just done or it's like once you have an idea and you know exactly what it is and you know exactly what you're trying to do it kind of it's it's it's just done
you know but i think that comes from just years of writing you know we've been writing I've been writing since i was 13 and I'm 30 now i act about 12 but now um so yeah i think it's just I'm still learning we're still learning you know that's the amazing thing about songwriting it's just endless and every day you can write something new you know so so you said with this album Collaborations you wanted to do something new and you didn't want to cover old ground in the third album look into the future do you see yourself working with different kind of collaborators is there anyone in particular that you want to work with or do you want to return to being just the four of you at the moment it's just the four of us and we're just back in like an industrial estate in north county Dublin that we've turned into like a makeshift studio and the atmosphere there is kind of better than it is going to la and spending like three weeks in the hills and working with someone who did this record some of that record like it that just didn't kind of it was it was enjoyable it was a learning experience for sure but I think when the four of us get together and we do it ourselves it's it's there's less conversation and we're
just kind of playing music together and it just happens kind of organically yeah like we grew up like I've known mark since i was eight and Vinnie since i was very young and jay for a long time and that's like we played back with the bands in high school and all that and last battle of the bands and uh talent competition we haven't let that go yet still ring them up every Christmas yeah but uh yeah we did like talent competitions and boskin and all that stuff you know so at the core of us as a band and our songs is the four of us and anybody on the outside songwriters and stuff like that can only maybe add to it but most of it has to come from us you know because that's when when we write our best music so so it seems like that sense of kind of community that you guys have is so important to you Irish Music Industry there's a lot of spotlight at the moment on the Irish music industry in general is that because that same kind of community permeates outwards it's because Irish people are awesome yeah no well he looks shocked he's telling the truth no there's
there's no like sometimes music can be competitive which is so stupid in my opinion and i think in Ireland that mentality doesn't exist i think any time we tour we try and bring not just Irish bands we tour like bands from all over the world but it's nice to give people a leg up because i don't think you're in competition with other artists you know it's not like someone's going to go like listen to this band and then this band comes out and go well i don't like both of them there's no reason you know a song is a song so we don't see it as a competition and in Ireland there is just that kind of community that i don't haven't seen anywhere else maybe it's just a small country it's a really small country but you do see them at all the festivals and at the same pubs yeah i think yeah the Irish community and the music community especially is even smaller in Ireland so that like bans from like u2 to the script to Hozier to ourselves like we we all like we all know each other on like first term like first name bases we're on tour with snow patrol at the moment and they also yeah these festivals yeah and it's like we see each other at different things and like everybody is friends with everybody like i don't think there's i think in like we're assigned to like an English record label and you kind of see that there is like competition
between English bands and stuff like that but in Ireland it's just kind of like oh that's amazing you're doing that show that's incredible i saw i saw the tour that you just did or whatever and that's amazing like you know and i think it's a much it's a much more community based and everybody kind of supports each other like you know and everybody's just happy for like such a small country to be able to produce such a plethora of amazing talents like you know when different singer-songwriters and bands and musicals why do you think it's it's the Guinness to be honest yeah there's something special in that you know so think about that how is it important to you because you started playing off in small pubs with a tiny repertoire how Staying grounded important is if you kind of keep that route whilst you're on the road and you don't go home for months on end how do you kind of connect back and keep keep treat your roots um i we all kind of do it in different ways but i think because we've known each other since we were kids um even some of our crew that tour with us we've known since we were kids and that kind of keeps us grounded like if anybody any of us get like a bit too big for their boots or turns into a bit of a diva
it's like bang straight back down to earth you know it's kind of just not like physical we don't hate each other yeah no it's just kind of cop-on you know and it's more of friends at home as soon as you come home from tour and you're like oh I was at this party in l. a you're like shut up no one cares what i mean so like that that gets taken away from me straight away and it's kind of yeah we just don't let each other go on like that because we're very very normal it's only when it's only like for an hour or two a day that we do something insane we go on stage in front of thousands of people or do this and that but for the most part we're just four normal dudes Come back down how do you how do you come back down how do you have that experience of being on stage in front of thousands of people and then go off stage and be full normal guys again it's loads of this like no no sorry no it's like I'm making it to be raging alcoholics uh no yeah i don't it kind of changes we all have different ways of coming down from stage i don't know yeah steps
as you can see this is like what you deal with like so no nobody's allowed to get too big um yeah i don't know it changes you know i'll have a couple of drinks together maybe I'll watch a movie or whatever it kind of depends like you know there's no no i don't think we've ever really suffered from like trying to come down from a show like i think it's just because the people that we surround ourselves with have been with us for a very long time like all the crew that we tour although the the touring party that we tour with now has got bigger and we're there's more things around us like we're on a bigger bus there's trucks carrying our gear yesterday he's here happy birthday Quinn um but yeah like i think because we keep at the everybody that that we work with like oh and we've kept them for such a long amount of time it's what it's one big family yeah it's a family but i think if when we first started we were pretty young we're still pretty young but um you're 30 man you're old right I'm only 20 yeah yeah i'm only 28 man ouch um anybody got any recommendations for old folks homes yeah sorry i threw up a point there I'm sorry it was difficult to come down at the
start i think just because like there was one summer where we got to play like out of nowhere we went from rehearsing to nobody at home in Dublin and then playing like Glastonbury and playing reading and going to Japan summer sonic doing festivals all over the world and that was pretty incredible but uh i think we just it was just like one big massive wave you know we were like deer in headlights for a while and then it took us doing two albums and then taking about a year off and going back uh to Ireland and like moving out for parents houses and all that stuff and uh kind of real stuff getting in the way real life to actually take stock and realize that we just traveled the whole world and sold two million albums you know [Music] and now i think we're in a really good place like when we tour now we kind of all have our own ways of coming down we you know we play the show do the best we can talk about the show afterwards usually hopefully it's gone good and nothing has gone wrong and then uh just switch off just go watch a movie or have a Guinness sorry um but yeah i don't know it's become the norm which is but i think the one thing that hasn't
changed from the very start is that we're music fans just as much as we are luckily musicians you know so when we first got out onto like the festival circuit and we'd be finished at 3 30 we'd have the whole evening to go watch some of our favorite bands perform and that still happens like we're out with snow patrol and we're straight off stage and we'll go watch their gig for the whole thing so it's it's all just an amazing experience that we're really lucky to be part of still and the fact that we call it our job is just ridiculous like the doing festivals thing is as it's as much fun as it sounds like when you go backstage there's literally 10 dressing rooms in a row and it's all the bands that are playing that stage and there's bands who are your heroes who are like right next to you and you get to hang out with them and stuff and that's just inspiring and the whole time you're like don't find girl don't yeah so like it's it's still really really exciting so you said before and i found some Staying away from fame interesting you said that you don't think you're famous and how important is that kind of mentality to keeping you guys uh we've never i think it's very Irish like the Irish are the most self-deprecating nation there are you know you can go down to extravision and you'll see bono across the way in the league
thinks he's all that now you know but it's just part of our culture it really has been like Sheamus Heaney and the famous writers could always go to their local pubs and everyone would just leave them at it you know but we've always like we stayed it deliberately stayed out of our first few videos and all that because we didn't want to we just want to write music and put it out there you know we've never chased fame if we wanted to do that it's easy to go to celebrity or big brother or whatever it does yeah i think it's easy to do that if you get like a bit of success you can chase that and you can find it but we always steered clear of like those kind of parties or red carpets like the opening of an envelope some movies we just stayed away from all that and just yeah we're a band we've had some crazy yeah we've had surreal moments like we were playing in a show in l. a before and uh sasha burn cone was in the crowd and he just started heckling and uh just it was terrifying because it was so funny it was yeah it was surreal and if he was a gig like this it was like very quiet acoustic and we knew it was coming and and someone was heckling and we
didn't know until afterwards we're like borah but um yeah we found ourselves in these crazy situations you know we've got to meet some incredible people but even coming here and doing this is genuinely it's awesome yeah this place is amazing you know it's like this is the first thing this is the first time we've ever done something like this so it's kind of odd for us to be doing kind of this like people looking at us when we're talking yeah exactly if you could all turn around this would be way easier like are they looking at there's actually a match on behind the scenes there's a tv behind you and yeah and i think we yeah we didn't fall down that trap of trying to chase celebrity and i think also our friends are probably better crack so it's better going and for a point with those guys than trying to go to something where everybody's really pretentious and everybody's looking at themselves in the mirror like you know yeah and trying to get a photo or and all that stuff where we were just like I'll actually rather just go chat to my mates like you know my friends like you know so i think that's something that we still do now like you know when we have a show in Ireland it's a nightmare because there's about 300 of our mates and family and stuff like that like new cousins that you can yeah like thousands of cousins yeah exactly people you didn't relations
you've never heard of in your life being like oh can i get a ticket to your show and be like who are you so yeah so but yeah i think by again surrounding ourselves with close people we kind of avoid all that other stuff is that is that an odd thing in the music industry do you find yourselves Fighting against a tide having to fight back against a tide or do you think people haven't been supportive of you um people stopped asking us i think we yes people just stopped asking us yeah i we just the most important thing is the music and the shows you know it's a cliche but for us that's all it's ever been you know anything else is just like extra but the most important thing is playing a great show and releasing good music that we're really proud of and hopefully people connect to that you know um but like borat heckling yeah you know that's pretty cool I think we're more comfortable at home in our own circle and stuff that's cool i think What does it mean to release music now's a good time to chuck over to the audience so if anyone wants to ask a question uh put your hand up and we'll get a
microphone to you we'll go thank you very much uh for your talk uh I would just like to ask what does it mean to release music that you are proud of or that you you think is good because probably not many people listened to that before so how do you know they will work with the audience and you never really know if it's that's a great question you never really know if it's going to work or not um the best thing that you can do is just try and be proud of it and then put it out there like I don't have kids but i can imagine it's like sending your firstborn kid off to school you know out to the big bad world um because you prepare them so much you can only prepare them so much you know youtube comments yeah most of it about your kids and like that that's one way to check like sometimes we do look at the youtube comments and you kind of filter through some of it but some of it is people pour their heart out there you know people it's kind of crazy and sometimes you can read that and it can just break your heart you know like a song that will be about something that is personal to us someone on the other side of the world is telling us what that song means to them and how it helped them and like when that happens that's the most that for us is success i think that's the most rewarding thing
but it's scary i don't answer the question but it's very scary to put out a song yeah i think you just you just have to do it you know that's the whole thing about creating music and putting it out there you got to believe in it and just kind of just put it out there yeah you're never going to impress everybody there's always going to be a load of people or some people who just hate it or like you know trolls online and all that stuff you know um it's just the way the world is but you just got to believe in what you do and just put it out and concentrate on the positive things like those people who really do like it can you tell or Can you tell or a surprise that a song that you didnt think was going to have that level of reception a surprise that a song that you didn't think was quite going to have that level of reception gets it or do you have a pretty good idea of which ones are gonna it's the odd time you'd be a a gig and someone will just pull their jumper back and they'll have like a lyric tattooed on their arm that like it was a song that wasn't even on an album that may have been in an ep and that lyric has meant more to them than probably did to you yeah when when people come up and they like talk about songs that were like b-sides and stuff like that that usually kind of catches me off guard but it's awesome
um you know I think i think we kind of forget about it it's like every stage throughout your kind of younger life there's this soundtrack you know and for us to be part of some young people's soundtrack as they grow up it's this whole thing that you just completely forgot about like i go back to like my first day of school i remember what song was playing in the car that was going in the gates and I know other people do so when they come to us and there's just been this moment in their life where everything's gone either really right or really wrong and that song can help them through in any way it's like it doesn't matter if we think it's the best song in the world as long as it means that much to them it's done its job and you said about the youtube comments how hard is it to stay away from the How hard is it to stay away from the negative negative stuff do you ever veer into that do you ever take any video i think i remember one of our first shows uh we were playing a show in Dublin and like a really important loads of people were saying oh oh this review was coming out in the guardian and it was over here as well and um loads of people like you know industry people were saying oh yeah i don't know have you have you read it yet and all this so i just decided not to read it and then i was like
let's we're not going to read it and then we were doing an interview with somebody else he was like have you read it yeah I'm not going to read it what's the point you know like it doesn't matter there's people here tonight and they're here to listen to us and sing our songs back like why would I even focus on that and yeah i think the guy gave us like minus a star or whatever i don't know you basically completely just ripped everything apart you know but if you if you focus on that all the time you're just gonna drag yourself down you know it's you gotta stay positive it's very very very very easy to like rip it out of somebody's music but like the work that goes into it and it's you know it's their creativity and they've spent a lot of time doing and all that i mean I'd love to see even though i didn't read this article but I'd love to see that journalist try and release some music you know but it's at least better about it yeah i didn't read it wow I'm not bitter I'm not bitter I didn't even read it we've never ever been critically acclaimed and it's not what we set out to do because there's bands that are Is Kodaline a critically acclaimed band critically acclaimed and then they break up or they just don't have any courses bans that are quickly claimed and are
very popular but we've we've got a career and we've got like a fan base that are kind of they're a great community community and that's way more important to us now don't get me wrong if our next album got five star reviews I'd read them but but we don't we don't write music for those people or frankly it's one it's one person's opinion the most important thing again is just playing the best show that you can with the best with music that you believe in you know and just doing that and then connecting with the fans i think like yeah as as the guys have said and I've alluded to earlier like playing a sold out show to us means so much more than one person's opinion on on an album or on a song or on that one show that they went to see that's one person's opinion when you're playing to two and a half thousand people or whatever it may be if it's 200 people in the room like they're like that they were there they saw the show they loved the show like we read we control all of our own social medias as along with the record label so we have access to all of our facebook or youtube or twitter or instagram so we can re if we post a picture of a show we can read people's comments being like it was an amazing incredible this song was amazing blah blah blah and like that to us means so much more than what one journalist's opinion is so
like yeah when it comes to that kind of stuff like yeah they could be like the guy's dog could have died that morning and he's in a bad mood and he's just like you know what I hate Ireland so it's like all right okay whatever he may not have even listened to the album and he probably had 10 albums to get to and he could have had a bad day it's true yeah let's take another question Equipment if there is one yeah I'm the guy who wrote the review [Laughter] and my dog did die sorry first of all thanks for coming down and i wanted to ask you more about just you know about equipment because there's some musicians who are very picky about the guitars they use or you know the brand of the symbol and all of that so where do you guys fall in that could you pick up any instrument and be happy with it or do you have a certain brand and uh amp wise you know pedals is it very specific if i don't have a sparkly drum kit i don't play it no i think we i think we're kind of like it's expected of us to sound good and if
we've got nice equipment it makes a sound even better and but like you can write the most amazing song on a guitar that has two or three strings you know but I think if if we're like now we're at a stage that we're we put effort into our production how it looks how it sounds so the better our equipment it does kind of make the show yeah i think when you're younger you definitely always look at getting that like 2 000 euro guitar that really expensive fender whatever but then the second you get a little bit higher up and you're looking back you're trying to find the beat up old guitar in the back of a pawn shop because that's going to sound the best so people it's always just looking at the grass from the other side it's you can really make music the intention is so much more important it all depends on like they say you know you got to go to a guitar shop and pick up guitars and feel it out some people prefer like a really really cheap guitar because they just like the the feel of it and it's like sound you know this guitar here is like four hundred dollars uh our guitar tech bought it in America and he just like spent a lot of time making it and i it sounds great it's fairly well i think it sounds great sounded great did you hear it but that was like beat up it's like 30 years old it's just but it's got like an atmosphere vibe if you tried to plug it in and use it on stage and put it through mics and stuff
it'd probably be quite difficult you know like there's there's also in terms of writing um there's a piano in my parents house that's like it's like a hundred euro 20 years ago you know and it's bashed up and it's out of tune and i wrote some of my best songs on the piano and i still love playing it it sounds awful but there's something about it that's inspiring um so it's a matter of opinion really it's you know pretty much yeah sorry yeah like you can we have like we're kind of at a kind of fortunate position where like companies or brands will come to us and be like we would you play this we'll give you all these and it's kind of like yeah that's fine if you want to do that it's nice it is great like here's yeah guitars all you have to do is play them yeah okay but like for me the companies that i use for my drums and stuff that are companies that when I first started playing drums they were what I wanted to get to like you know some now I'm in the really fortunate position where these companies want me to play there to use their equipment like you know whether it be the drum scan or the drum sticker or the symbol manufacturer like and they come to me being like yeah we'll give you all these symbols of you to play them and like if you said that to like nine-year-old me when I was
starting being like oh don't worry that company that like you aspire to want to play that you can't afford they'll come to you and give you all that stuff for free like class so so now so now it's great like but yeah i for me and i think for all of us like we we endorse things that we actually want we like that we actually use we actually love playing and stuff like that so but yeah like as the guy said like yeah all beat up stuff is just as good as brand new out of the box stuff or sometimes even way better like you know so Advice for Sharing um what advice would you give to someone who is afraid to share like a song or a piece of art or something like that like what would one sentence from each of you just like to the point what's like what advice would you give you're on the spot don't worry you can do it don't ramble don't ramble don't don't no I think you just if you believe in it and that's against this the cheesy thing to say but if you what you've ever made whether it's a song or a poem or anything if you believe it and you you love it if you really love it no matter how hard it is to show somebody you should show somebody and see if they love it yeah
maybe that first wall is that you're worried about sharing it with everybody maybe share it with five people first we still get that you know sometimes it's hard to show anyone's song because it can mean so much to you and the song might not actually be that good but what the song is about means something to you and you just have to trust you know everyone's instincts that's why it's good to show people things because i think the longer you keep it to yourself the more let down you'll be if it's not good but if it is good and someone else likes it there's no better feeling that wasn't that's a really long sentence just take out all the footsteps yeah there wasn't there was no full stop um i think yeah you just just do it what's the worst that can happen you know feel the fear and do it anyway that's one sentence cliche but yeah um you can pick your favorite sets from all those and [Laughter] I'll give scores out of ten later Personal Songs have you ever written a song but then thought that it was too personal even just with you once you shared it between you guys and said actually I think this just they should stay here or do you always know they want to get out there we um we wrote a song that's on this album um and it was about um a young young lady that passed away at
one of her gigs and for us it was a like at the time we'd like obviously we didn't know what happened it was a massive show for us in Dublin it was in front of I don't know how many thousands of people it was a big deal for us huge thing we're on cloud nine uh our tour manager and production manager and the booking agent came to us i don't know about an hour after the show i was just like listen guys uh somebody got taken their names away and she's now and she passed away so that kind of gone from like one extreme to the other so for us um we kind of the only way that we could really put that or kind of deal with that emotion i guess was we the four of us went to um jay's studio and we wrote a song and we wrote it for the family because there's not that we could write in a letter or say to them in person that could express the sorrow that they were feeling like you know and this is what like what we do is we write songs like so we just kind of did the only thing that we know to do is write songs and so we wrote a song uh mark drove down to the family uh the family's house and gave them a cd with the song on it and said this is just for you and your family and you can share with whoever you want and that's kind of it and then mark left i didn't want to listen to when they
were there because it's a personal thing that we wrote just for them uh and then they rang and said that it was an incredible song they loved it and they and when it came to releasing the album and they were like we want other people to hear this song we think that you should release it it should be on the album i think you should spread the word and say what it was about so that was a song that it was very personal to us and we didn't think we thought it was going to go as far as us and the family yeah it was just a gesture to the family you know but even at the start when we were asked about it we didn't want to talk about it and then i got a text off the girl's mom and she was like talk about it as much as possible you know like what you've done is amazing and that was that was one point where we were like it was too personal to like do anything and it wasn't for us it wasn't even a Kodaline song it was the song that we wrote for them but it was it was damn that they wanted us to do it like to kind of uh release it so yeah I suppose that's an example of one that was really personal you know but I'm glad we did it because yeah it makes it doesn't make them happy but they come to our shows and we stay in touch and stuff so it's really nice let's take another question from the floor
don't be shy First Time Playing Together hey thanks for coming uh could you tell us about the first time all four of you played together uh yeah the first time we it was was out in creek studios it's a same place yeah same place that we wrote that song yeah same place at jay's studio and we actually we were looking for a bass player um but mark mark knew jay true a friend and we had all crossed paths loads of times I think but just unaware of each other and we didn't know he played bass um but we went through tried a few people out and it just wasn't kind of working and then we all went out to the studio and i sat at the piano and i think we played like an Eddie James song I'd rather go blind uh I loved seoul back then and uh yeah I think straight away we're all just like this is awesome this is great and and yeah it kind of worked we just that day we're like yeah okay let's do it awesome cool so we had to get him out of
baggy jeans and into skinny jeans but that was that's pretty about it you need to cut your hair as well well yeah but I don't even think it like I'm not going to use the word audition but we definitely did audition we came to i know we actually did audition people that was less of an audition but yeah we did it in London and like it was awful because we rented rehearsal space and it was like job interviews not for us for them so someone would come in and like within five minutes we'd name a few bands we like and then we started playing music together and it was just so wrong and with jay we didn't even see him play bass we didn't even actually do that as a full band when we said you're in the band yeah he didn't even play bass we were just saying to you he just it could have been a disaster yeah but yeah we just knew it's just it's a it's a strange thing when you just know I mean I remember the first time the four of us walked down the street together I just felt i just felt like this feels right in some kind of weird way I didn't feel that [Laughter] yeah yeah yeah it's yeah it was Mark and Steve it's such a tough thing like myself mark and steve have known each other for years i remember actually we played a battle we played a battle with the bands right and it was me and mark and there was two other friends of ours and we won the bat and
Vinnie was in the band and we won the battle of the bands and then um Vinnie just joined like five other bands so he was in like how many bands were you six bands yeah probably he was in loads of bands drummers are in short supply right so he wouldn't turn up for like rehearsals then he was like i'm rehearsing with this other band and we're like oh i find you're out and he's like all right and then next year he was in what two other bands in the yeah he was in two other bands and uh uh we won again without him so he doesn't really hold grudges Steve like the guardian [Laughter] but then he came back and he's like uh can I be in the band again yeah well i also think the drama that you had at the time who was a really dear friend of mine yeah but you were like you can't play drums in the studio and I was like and I can so yeah that's true yeah there you go I don't know where that story is going I don't know i think i was going to say something nice i was going to say something else about James I can't remember okay I was just trying to annoy you um no Vinnie was always an awesome drummer yeah thanks uh yeah no sorry i was going to say he's
like yeah myself mark and Steve have known each other for such a long time that and we used to skateboard together when we were teenagers like so we got we had like all this kind of chemistry just between the three of us and we had been in bands and with other bass players and stuff like that and like playing gigs and then when we got signed it was just the three of us and so we had this really strong brand so trying to find somebody then that kind of fit in with all of us and got had the same stupid sense of humor that we did because we all think that we're hilarious but we're not um so yeah trying to find somebody that actually just like fit in with us and that was probably the most important thing like first so yeah so like as we said like jay didn't even play bass the first time it was like we just sang and then i think we went and went out for points with like all of our families and stuff like that and then we realized right he can't handle his dream he can handle the point he couldn't at the first one like i think i have a photo and he's like glassy after like two two pints of Guinness i was like right this way you gotta cop on like [Laughter] but uh but yeah and then yeah just kind of clicked and that was it and he's devastatingly handsome so it worked out so yeah
let's take another question uh let's get a hand in the back in the far back Big in Japan hi uh thanks so much for coming um you mentioned touring in Japan earlier um and in your song brand new day um I've always noticed the kind of parentheses uh lyric we could be bringing big in Japan i've always wondered if there was like if that was something someone said to you if there was some kind of story behind that there is a story behind that it was Dara Carol it was a friend of ours sent us we had no band name for a long time and for like five minutes we were called big in Japan and yeah it was it was on the it was for like remember a brand new day when we were writing brand new day brand new day is about the band leaving our hometown like make believe you know just going we could travel the world we could be in a band we could play all these shows and it was almost like a tongue-in-cheek lyric of saying we could be big in Japan and when i wrote it that's what i meant but i didn't know about that thing the bit dara what does he think he he wanted he just suggested that as a banner but then we were in Japan playing the song for the first time and it got to that bit and we kind of looked
at each other and just had a bit of a laugh we're like I can't believe we're here singing this lyric but yeah i didn't know people would actually make that lyric out we tried to kind of hide it and like put effects on it so it wasn't out there but that's a funny one it's a good question yeah Japan's a fun place to play it's a mad country as well like it's just yeah but yeah it's a lot of fun there was a girl at the very back there were questions with your hand up as well sorry Favorite place hi um so obviously you've done shows all over the world and i got to see you when you're in Malaysia um i guess i was just wondering what's been your favorite place so far or an interesting experience you've had while traveling that's really tough favorite place you see there's a difference kind of what favorite place and favorite gig favorite play i love like that part of the world and we're about to go there for like five or six weeks we're going to manila again and vanilla Kuala Lumpur that's a long list but it's the first tour we're doing that it's like with a show and then there's like two or three days off in between then a show so I think we're gonna get to see a lot of the world but what do we do in
Malaysia we went in the rooftop oh that was amazing yeah we shot a video on top of a skyscraper at sunset and it was pretty amazing yeah that was a festival wasn't it yeah good vibes isn't it tough to remember specific sometimes [Laughter] but favorite part iwe're in New Zealand for a day and New Zealand yeah New Zealand is like insane it's really beautiful but I think like everyone really does have their own personal experience and collective leader isn't like one place but yeah i think that first trip we got to go to Indonesia we went really from like the center of the country went like a rain forest played a gig up on the top of a mountain in a rainforest and then at the end of it a couple of us stayed out and we went to Bali so we got the complete other side of it so i think it's like that for this next tour when you have a bit more time rather than just that show day to see a country you have such a deeper connection with the country afterwards because usually we just go from black box to black box you know every room kind of looks the same after a while this is the first room of books in it though just in case you're wondering what has been each of your favorite cake
ah see like oh it's really tough i said earlier to the people we met that was somewhere in Portugal and so I'm going to stick with that there was just a I don't know what it was it was just a gig in a tent at a festival that we weren't expecting the reaction we got and it was just this life-changing gig i don't know it's so hard to describe why it's it's like even i had awful gigs were so many problems with my guitar and there was songs where it didn't work but like my memory is not that my memory is just of the the energy it was just insane it was scary almost we got to we got to play with Ed Sheeran in Dublin he invited us up for two nights just to do one of our songs which is absolutely incredible he was playing in croak park which is it's really the dream venue for us it's like where we see ourselves getting to a couple years down the line we don't know how many but i did a very selfish thing and made it completely about me and got engaged at that concert as well just after we played honestly on stage so I kind of have to say that one yeah yeah that's true your wife is watching it's been recorded yeah yeah that that was incredible yeah that was like that was an incredible experience for us because like Croke Park it's it's a it's a lot of history it's a it's a Gaelic games ground 80,000 people
and we got to do that twice with ed and he's a lovely guy oh yeah that was kind of incredible I don't know like probably our for me it was the i think was the first gig that we did in Dublin or like first or second gig that we ever did in Dublin yeah yeah and if in the place called the sugar club it's like a 2 000 or no 200 sorry 300 300 yeah it used to be it used to be a cinema and so it's all kind of tiered seats and it was the first gig that we had like a ticket like a ticketmaster ticket that had like code line on it the crowd was of the 300 seats about 150 were like family and friends and stuff like that but there was a 150 people that i had no clue who they were um so they were my friends yeah they were chase friends yeah so like playing that show i think for us when it was like yeah these people like paid money to come see us and we didn't play i don't think we played very long we didn't have a huge amount of material like the first album i don't think it wasn't even out yet yeah it was only a year before we had a song out a week or so or two yeah released the video for all i want i think and then two weeks later the gig gets yelled out and i think it was because of that and like when people were singing back we like we play it all at once and people sang back that song because it was on
the radio for a couple of weeks in Ireland and that was a moment i was like holy [ __ ] we can do this for like we can do this as a job like this could like be actually this could what we could do as a living like so that was and it's probably one of the smallest my fav that was amazing because as Vinnie said it was like the first time we're like oh my god we could actually possibly do this you know but before that we i remember we went to Amsterdam and we played a show it was like oh yeah we got a call i think from somebody and it was like you got to come to Amsterdam and play this little festival thing and it was in the paradiso in Amsterdam i think it's London call and they do it every year and loads of media and stuff go to it and we turned up and did our sound check or whatever and then all of a sudden the room was completely packed and there was people outside trying to get in and that was my first time in holland you know as well and I just remember going what the hell is going on and something was happening in holland and then yeah that was a crazy year yeah and that that was my favorite show followed by the Irishman which was like two weeks after so yeah yeah the smallest ones the smartest ones it's all been downhill since then yeah exactly yeah let's take another
question uh yeah to the hand here Touring hi hello um i was just wondering if you ever went through a period of adjustment where you had to go from the feeling of playing in small pubs and small gigs to massive audiences if you ever experience like immense stage fright or nervousness you know walking out and seeing a massive crowd oh yeah our very first tour was with the cranberries um and that was around arenas in France and that was playing to like 10 000 people a night and they were some of the first gigs we ever did and they were absolutely terrifying like there was like sometimes you get these super fans that come to every show and like we have a few and they're amazing because you see a familiar face in the front row at every show and I remember the cranberries there was two girls and they just didn't like us for some reason and they started to hack because they they knew the set list and the order it was and like three gigs in we'd be shaking and they were just heckling us and they made it really hard for us but um but i think when it's when it's your own show and it's that many people it actually gets easier because you're just telling yourself wow these people are here
like to hear us play our songs we've already won them over like all we have to do now is just give them a really good night out and you know sing some songs with them so we don't really get nervous like with that kind of stuff well not really i mean at the moment on snow patrol it's different we're supporting snow patrol doing arenas around the uk and the first night i found difficult because it wasn't our crowd and most people don't know who you are and you really have to kind of prove yourself again and that can be kind of daunting but you you definitely get nervous before every gig and some gigs are really nervous and some gigs you just kind of sail on stage and it's like great yeah yeah those heckling people were hilarious and like i think we did like i can't remember it wasn't a very long tour i think it might only be in like 10 shows maybe or something like that over like two weeks or something but it was like one of our first experiences of touring uh ever and then yeah like leaving like not playing a show in Ireland and like i think before we even played any shows around the uk and it was like yeah we're playing lower shows in France and then yeah those people heckling us were pretty funny like but it kind of it it was like a way of throwing us into the deep end i suppose yeah it was just kind of it was things yeah yeah stuff and yeah probably
yeah but i like i remember like all the crew like obviously for us like we showed up in like a beat-up van and all of our gear was crammed in the back of it and then like the cranberries had like three massive tour buses and like five or six trucks filled with all their gear we're like oh god and I remember doing the show and that was grand and not that people not that their crew weren't like not nice to us or whatever or welcoming like but it was just kind of like yeah get up do your thing and then then we'll pull you off as quick as possible like and then after the first show they were just like you're from Ireland you're actually really good and then they were lovely to us like they couldn't do enough for us so like that the Irish thing yeah and that kind of made it easier first then and then then the French hecklers we didn't really mind that much then after that because then because then like for us it was just like then we just started playing for ourselves and we were just like this is great crack we're playing to a couple of thousand people at night as people are as the doors are open and people are kind of streaming in so like yeah we definitely we definitely we learned yeah we learned so much and we definitely got some fans from those shows like it wasn't particularly our audience i think it was the cranberries just again helping out a young Irish band and you know giving us like a little hand so um but yeah i definitely think we earned we
like we got some fans from those shows not those two people though all right let's take a couple more questions uh yep College uh thank you so much for coming um i was just wondering if you ever thought about what you would be doing if you weren't producing music yep wouldn't be here that's for sure none of us went to college like so i know jay did you tried it i tried colors yeah i tried colors twice didn't like it I did i actually sorry I'm lying I did i was in college for about six months and then i went back I failed some exams had to go back and repeat and i was like I remember my lecturer ringing me and i was like my band actually got signed and so i'll see you later and he was like wow so yeah like I was kind of in the industry already doing like operating lights for other bands and I really really enjoyed that because i got to be creative and i got to show up to work like whatever kind of time you want and you get to totally be yourself and do your own ideas and i really enjoyed that but obviously this is more fun i was in college and then i dropped out um
i was failing anyway um i i don't really know I saw sky tv for a while i saw sky tv for a while i worked in a bar um and then i played music in pubs and yeah i don't know i have no idea yeah I used to run a studio with who is now our keyboard player and we used to share a bunk bed in the kitchen so i have a feeling we'd still be sharing a bunk bed in the kitchen not that my wife would be too happy about that no one either but yeah maybe none of that would happen so and we probably I'll be banging on the door asking is there space in the bunk bed [Laughter] uh I was doing like helping my dad with his company like so I'll probably end up still working you were working in currency working in curry as well you were in a call center now I did a year in a call center yeah I used to fix broadband for people have you tried turning it on and off again you were that guy is it plugged in okay plug it in but how come you don't have broadband i can't get broadband where I live it's called Ireland we got this thing last year electricity it's amazing
yeah no yeah yeah I worked in like pc world for a while when I wasn't working for my dad's company and uh i don't for some reason they thought that I could fix computers and I hadn't got a clue I remember used to ring my mate being like how do you fix a mac how do you turn on a mac I don't know what I'm doing here so yeah I did that for a while that was awful sorry if anybody actually works in pc world still all right let's take one final question yeah the handler and then do you guys want to finish that thank you um so you mentioned the music video for all I want and that's like a really great video with an interesting story and i wondered if you could talk more about the meaning behind it behind the video yeah um the the video was kind of directed written everything by one guy no it was directed by yeah it was fell across Stevie Russell and uh he heard the song and he actually plays the character with the monster kind of face and he just dreamed of the whole idea himself and he came to us and he's like he was the first person that showed us real passion for the song he's like I think this song is absolutely amazing I had this video idea and on paper to be honest I didn't absolutely love the idea i kind of said a monster in an office i was like it's going to be
a bit strange but I mean he just like the first time we saw we pretty much saw what you guys see and i remember i welled up i couldn't believe that someone had made something that amazing to a song that we wrote um but it was all his idea like all the credit lies with Stevie and he also did high hopes we went straight back to him we were like here do this as well and he did brother and we're probably going to work him all the time he has this genius way of making a narrative and he doesn't feel like we need to be in the videos which I think is would just be a distraction even though we are in the old one video but I think whenever a bat like whenever we're the focal point of the video i don't think it has the same lasting effect as like a story that can totally pull you in for five minutes like it's hard to tell a story and you know it's to get something yes yeah yeah yeah it's incredible it's only a matter of time until he does movies like he's really really talented um and yeah we were just it just happened through a friend like we were making four videos and uh Steve what my friend couldn't do that he could only do one and he suggested Stevie and then Stevie came along with this idea and as mark said he played the monster the dog is his dog it was done on like a shoestring budget and uh yeah I mean it's it's really
emotional like it really complements the song as well it's uh Stevie is awesome yeah one last time Kodaline
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