The debut album has
been selling well in it's opening week, with predictions that
the album will end up top twenty, though a modest Wrekked Train
explains that it wasn't the aspiration of the band to do so.
"We didn't go into the studio with any intention of making
a chart bound single or album. We just went in and did what
we wanted to do. In a way it's been great because people have
gone out and bought some of it. We're not being dictated to
by the record company with regards to what we are supposed to
do because there is obviously a market for it."
Then the band must be going by it's own plan? Or maybe not as
the Priest suggests.
"There's never been a career plan ever. All we know is
one day to the next is that we're doing B-sides in a couple
of weeks and we know what the B-sides are going to be and we
know what gigs we are going to be playing and we don't know
how that's going to go. We don't think 'well if we release this
single now it'll be the optimum time to sell more units'. There's
none of that sought of thing, not with the band anyway. We do
what we've always done, everything that has happened has happened
naturally. The same goes for the remixes there has never been
any plan to make a load of remixes in order to make our name
bigger. We just take what comes along."
Now you couldn't mention the Lo Fis and remixing without the
remix of "Diamonds Are Forever" On the "Listen
Without Smother" EP.
"That's the best thing we've ever done," says a very
proud Wrekked Train with a huge smile across his face. "We
had to record it and mix it in less than a day."
"It was a mad day," announces the Priest. "We'd
never ever been in a studio before in our lives. By then we
had only done some rough ideas on a four track. It just worked
out, it was a really wicked mix that came out on a limited CD
thing, so it never got released properly."
Is there any particular TV theme tune or Film song that you
would love to get your hands on for a remix?
"Only Fools and Horses," exclaims the Priest. "It's
got a nice drum beat at the start. We sample a lot of film tracks,
but nothing springs to mind now." >>
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