The Sunshine Underground

“We just chucked everything from the rider at the crowd,” continues Craig.

I ask how the tour has gone and with a little help from Fi, Craig remembers it started two days ago in Norwich. Fi and Nathan bid us all farewell as Craig starts to discuss the tour.

“It feels like it’s a proper tour. We’ve got a proper tour bus, pretty good merchandise and lights for the first time. It’s good. It feels like everything is going in the right direction.”

That’s largely to do with some successful song writing, of which the song ‘I Aint Loosing Any Sleep’ has played a large part. Was it about anything in particular?

“I can’t remember. It’s about people that I don’t like,” laughs Craig. “Can you imagine if you wrote it about your guitarist who you didn’t like?” he asks of Matthew. “And you make him play it all the time, that would be a bit harsh. I can’t remember. Usually I write lyrics when I get a reaction off of things. That’s a bit of a crap answer.”

Yes, but it’s honest. The band may or may not have a particular suited method for writing songs but one thing for sure is if you place them in a room and won’t let them out until they’ve written a decent song they may not be able to oblige.

“We’ve got to be relaxed and comfortable and those songs come at weird times,” explains Craig.

“You can’t plan a song,” adds Matthew.

“Sometimes people have these things about taking a week off and the idea is to write a load of songs and come back,” explains Craig. “Some weeks we have none, other weeks we have a hundreds.” >>

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