Weapons Of Mass Belief

"After we did the festival, Music week called us '1 of the top 10 bands'. Suddenly we were in Music Week next to Franz Ferdinand. We were like 'What the fuck are we like? Out of all these hundreds of bands from all over the world'. Suddenly it was a buzz to see some recognition for what we were doing that early on, when we'd only just translated our kinda rap sound into a live band, like half a year earlier."

JG mentioned before about the development process. Did getting this sound take a lot of trial and error?

"I remember when Justin gave me one of his first backing tracks it was about 9-11. Since then we've progressed more on the crazy, naughty, dirty punk rock side but a lot of those earlier tracks are wicked hip hop numbers, that I think we'll probably play around with as B sides or albums and make them more naughtier and sexier."

Having never made a proper recording before, JG explains that the band is looking forward to recording the album and maybe working again with producer Damian Taylor, who worked on 'Black Line Ninja'.

"Damian's just programmed the last Prodigy record. He produced Bjork and UNKLE as well. We worked with him and we're just looking at whether we can actually do this record with him. Otherwise we'll be doing some sessions to choose certain engineers and see how the other relationships go."

JG writes the music, "but we collaborate on the development of tunes and things like that," he explains.

"Lyrically we're all inspired by different things, so that comes out on different tracks," adds Georgia. >>

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