They are 4 Scottish lads - Rory Fleming-Stewart, Ben Buist, Grant Irvine and Kieran Smith; who create a positively radical sound. Describing their sound as 'Fun and fresh pop music' and with Nick Grimshaw visiting their show last Saturday and touring with Fatherson - not forgetting playing 'T in the Park' this summer; these boys are set for a rise to fame among the people of today - young and old.
I got the chance to ask the band a few questions about inspiration, fan pages and the success of their single 'Electricity':
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Q: First of all - you're now becoming more noticed as artists around social media with a big twitter buzz as a result. How rewarding is this for you?
MA: It’s really rewarding for us. It’s only recently that we really got the hang of social media, Twitter especially, but it’s such a big part of people’s lives right now and an unbelievable tool to get people listening and interacting with the band even if it’s just photos of us running around in our pants and socks.
It feels great having people tweet us about our tracks, I suppose it’s just nice that people care enough to talk to us.
Q: How long have you been together as a group?
MA: We’ve been together since February 2013 as Model Aeroplanes, though, we had played in various other incarnations since 2009 (when we were 13) but yeah, it was last year that we really knew that we could write songs people wanted to listen to.
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Q: Who are your musical inspirations?
MA: Our inspirations are always a really hard subject because to be honest we don’t have a handful of artist that we could narrow it down to.
I suppose the obvious ones are Scottish bands like Biffy Clyro and Twin Atlantic; bands that we basically wanted to be when we were in High School and like most 90s kids we’re experts on american pop-punk: MCR, Sum 41 etc. Our mum and dads’ CD collections featured everything from Nirvana to Martha Reeves to Paul Simon so we’re really are just an absolute jumble of genres and eras.
I suppose the obvious ones are Scottish bands like Biffy Clyro and Twin Atlantic; bands that we basically wanted to be when we were in High School and like most 90s kids we’re experts on american pop-punk: MCR, Sum 41 etc. Our mum and dads’ CD collections featured everything from Nirvana to Martha Reeves to Paul Simon so we’re really are just an absolute jumble of genres and eras.
Q: Are you surprised at the success of 'Electricity'? Did you plan for it to take off as it did?
MA: Electricity’s popularity totally shocked us. We’d had radio play and stuff before, with the first two singles but Electricity took off pretty quickly in comparison. The track was featured on Made in Chelsea as well as Lana Del Rey and The 1975’s personal youtube playlists, as well as being voted the most loved track on BBC Radio 1 not too long ago, which obviously really helped us. It’s crazy how much those kind of things can help.
Q: I saw you have fanpages on Instagram (modelaeroplanesusa) and Twitter - was that a cool moment for you?
MA: The fan pages are really cool. Again, I think the cool thing is that people in other countries actually care enough about the band and make a conscious effort to listen to us and show their friends - especially to a small band like us, it’s just hard to comprehend. It’s really nice and the ‘modelaeroplanesusa’ one’s comedy gold, they’ve got sick editing skills and they give each picture a wee story. It’s brilliant!
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Q: You can travel back/forward in time to do whatever/meet whoever you like. Where do you go and why?
MA: We’d probably go back to the stone age and put Kieran back. He’d never have to trip his body hair again.
Q: What songs are topping your summer playlist?
MA: 'I will never let you down’ by Rita Ora’s been stuck in my head for weeks, it’s an absolute tune but we’ll probably just put ‘You Can Call Me Al’ on loop until October.
Q: When can we expect new music from you guys?
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MA: We have another single that we recorded about a month ago and we’re in the process of scrubbing it up for release, we’re just taking time to make sure it’s just right.
Q: And are you planning to go on tour soon?
We’re really busy with festivals and gigs for the next month or so and come October we’re doing some Scottish dates with our good friends; Fatherson. After that we’ll be doing our own UK tour and then next year who knows?
Listen to the band HERE,
Follow them on Twitter HERE
and Like them on Facebook HERE
and HUGE thanks again for answering my questions!
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