British - Musician | August 23, 1984 -
You look at the instrumentation, and you can't really argue that we set out with commercial aspirations. Banjos and things like that are not part of some formula for global success. But it felt right, and I think there's some value to purity of intention.
Ted Dwane
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You can't really opt into something you don't believe in.
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Ninety percent of the time, I'm sitting in a bus driving through some place like the Colorado mountains and thinking, 'Wow, we're not in a pub in London anymore.'
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Whether people jump up and down when they see us or are completely quiet, it just feels really good that they're connecting.
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In December 2010, we embarked on a slightly strange tour of India. We played every kind of gig you could imagine over two weeks, from sports bars to hotel bars to a beautiful outdoor amphitheatre.
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There's definitely a negative correlation between the higher the profile and the enjoyment of the gig.
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It's impossible to tell how you're perceived. I think it's important not to think about it too much, because it really means nothing. Some people think we're a rock band, and that's ridiculous, and the idea of us being a folk band - you sit in a pub in Ireland and hear those guys play, and you're like, 'Yeah, we're definitely not a folk band.'
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Our spiritual home is definitely the U.K., but we have such a breadth of influence, and America's a huge part of that, as I think it is for most bands.
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None of us had really any interest in doing a sort of 'Babel 2.'
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Being a bass player in a band without a drummer for seven, eight years has been kind of weird.
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We kind of are Okies at heart. I don't really know what an Okie is, but I feel like one.
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There's a point with every record we've made that the album starts to assert its identity, and I think that's kind of what happened with 'The Wolf.'
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