British - Musician | December 20, 1987 -
I play banjo, and in Britain, it's easy to get away with playing banjo because you don't often see it on U.K. stages. In America, people know when you're a good banjo player, so I was really nervous about playing out there. But we actually went down really well.
Winston Marshall
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We're not all Christian, so we can't be a Christian band.
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England's just very cynical. Like I am. Like we all are.
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I think we're all guilty of it as British citizens: if something gets big, we go, 'Ugh.'
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Irish people never think we're Irish. Americans think we're European or French.
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We know what we like in music, and we got into music to try and give back what we got out of it.
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It must be tiring being Bob Dylan for the past 50 years. People act like he's not even human, which must be hard work. Every room he walks into just goes quiet.
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Some people like the same thing forever, but I don't know. We kind of, like, listen to loads of different stuff, and our attention spans aren't good enough. So there was a bit of frustration when you're, like, having to play the same thing all the time because we play all, like, loads of different instruments.
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We don't want to be part of some Tidal 'streaming revolution,' nor do we want to be Taylor Swift and be anti-it.
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We look at our albums as stand-alone pieces of art and also as adverts for our live shows.
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This is how people are going to listen to music now - streaming. So diversify as a band. It doesn't mean selling your songs to adverts.
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Simian Mobile Disco changed my life. They put me onto the EDM world. Although they would hate that term, they're more techno.
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