Following a reunion tour earlier this year that sold out in just six minutes, the boys’ hugely anticipated new album Spectrum has a release date of November 15.
We sat down with the boys to hear all about their split, the reunion, life on the road again and juggling the band with fatherhood…No, definitely not. After our last gig at Croke Park [Dublin, in June 2012] that was it, we were done. We genuinely weren’t enjoying it any more. It’s only in the last couple of years that I started to really miss the other guys and performing together enough to want to do it all over again.
If that was the case we could have done it years ago. We’ve been asked so many times. But it never felt right – we all only wanted to do it for the right reasons. If it was just about the money, we could have done a nostalgia tour then disappeared again. We wouldn’t have signed a new deal and recorded an album, with plans to tour again.respectively. After such a difficult time, does 2019 feel like a new chapterI feel like now it’s time to enjoy life – both family and band life.
That’s completely untrue. We started as a five-piece and five years in he decided he didn’t want to do it any more. We went on for eight more years and became a different band, and that’s the one you see today.Kian admits he has more singing parts on the album with his confidence growing following a solo album and concert in front of 20,000 peopleDefinitely. I’m much more confident. In the past we were told Mark and Shane sang the lead parts and that’s just the way it was.
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