The link to listen to the interview is http://www.zshare.net/audio/734250828031d80a/, for some reason it won’t upload on here!

Bombay Bicycle Club are a band that I’ve been following for a while. Since the age of 16/17, any demos that I could get my hands on, I’d take them and run a mile, shouting to anybody who’d listen that they had to give this band a chance. So the release of their debut album, ‘I Had The Blues But Shook Them Loose’ last year made me so happy that the band that I grew up with, had grown up themselves. Imagine my excitement when I was told by Fly FM that I had the chance to interview them at the upcoming NME Awards Tour, with the likes of The Maccabees, The Big Pink and The Drums playing on the bill as well. The gig itself was brilliant, The Drums’ frontman danced and gyrated like a young Ian Curtis, The Big Pink got away with playing feedback as music, The Maccabees were on top form once more (watching Felix the whole time was a treat), and Bombay Bicycle Club themselves stole the show.

The young indie boys down the front decided that these were the band they were going to get their ‘mosh’ (if you could call it that) onto, and the whole of Rock City came alive. ‘Always Like This’ was of course the clincher, and BBC delivered a tight set, storming through the now perfected songs that I’d heard a couple of years ago. 

The gig was a sharp contrast to their interview with me, as it wasn’t the best I’ve done. Shy and socially awkward frontman Jack and drummer Suren sat nervously in the dressing room with me during our interview, and it wasn’t until after that I decided that I’d had the wrong first impression of them; they weren’t rude, definitely not, in fact it seems they just plainly do not like the media side of the music business. Whether they’re being interviewed by a 20 year old journalism student or being watched by a thousand people, Bombay Bicycle Club just like to let their music do the talking.

Enjoy and stay classy,

Jaye x