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Deaf Havana return to King's Lynn for sell-out hometown gig

• Published 11 July 2019

Deaf Havana performing on the last night of their April 2013 acoustic tour at the Albert Hall in Nottingham

A rock band who have had had three UK top 10 albums have admitted they are nervous about returning to their home town for a sell-out gig.

Deaf Havana , external formed at the College of West Anglia in King's Lynn, Norfolk, in 2005.

Drummer Tom Ogden said the group were excited to be playing the town for the first time in almost 10 years.

Ogden was "gobsmacked" their gig at the 900-capacity King's Lynn Corn Exchange , external on Thursday evening had sold out.

The band have sold more than 200,000 albums, and in over a decade of touring have played at Glastonbury, Download, Reading and Leeds festivals, but their last show in King's Lynn was at Bar Red in 2010.

The band have also written songs inspired by Norfolk, such as Hunstanton Pier

"I knew a few of our friends would be coming, and my wife and mum and dad, but didn't know it would sell out," he said.

"I am a little bit nervous about it, to be honest."

He said growing up in King's Lynn helped the band to develop as "in this area there was not a lot to do apart from spending time with friends and playing music".

The band have also written songs inspired by the region, such as Hunstanton Pier.

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They have had three top 10 albums in the UK: Old Souls (2013) which reached number nine, All These Countless Nights (2017) which hit number five and last year's Rituals which reached number eight.

Drummer Tom Ogden said the group were excited to be playing the town for the first time in almost 10 years

The band moved to London in their formative years.

"London is the big place for record labels and getting people to come to your shows," he said.

Ogden, who now lives in a village near Long Sutton, 14 miles (22km) from King's Lynn, said the band were pleased to help local bands The Extons and the Eluders by offering them support slots at the Corn Exchange.

"It's nice to give other bands from our town the opportunity to perform," he said.

Ogden, who lives near King's Lynn, said the band were pleased to help local acts by offering them support slots at the King's Lynn gig

His advice to people starting bands now is to "keep playing until you get really tight as a unit".

He said keeping a band together could be "hard as you live in each other's pockets".

"We are lucky we've been very good friends. That is the key for us. That is what has kept us going."

Ogden said growing up in King's Lynn helped the band to develop as "in this area there was not a lot to do apart from spending time with friends and playing music"

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Deaf Havana are an English post-hardcore quartet from King's Lynn in the UK. The band was formed in 2005 at the King's Lynn campus of The College of West Anglia. The band's early releases along with constant touring developed a strong fan base in the UK music scene. The name Deaf Havana came from their former guitarist Sebastian Spitz, but the name itself has no literal meaning. Deaf Havana was formed when the original members met at the King's Lynn campus of The College of West Anglia.

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Deaf havana – 22 | ep review.

Kings Lynn six-piece Deaf Havana have released their four-track EP 22 complete with two brand new tracks. Find out what we thought here.

There’s nothing more disappointing than the excitement building post-album with the release of an EP to find no new material. Instead you’ve come to find tracks you’ve already heard or that have been inconveniently remixed. Kings Lynn six-piece Deaf Havana have left no room for frustration with the release of their EP 22 . The band planted clues of new material through the musical background to their Old Souls documentary ‘ English Hearts’ . The four-track EP includes single ’22’ , new acoustic wonderment that Deaf Havana have turned into a delicacy, as well as two brand new tracks to sink your teeth into. Generous lot aren’t they?

The EP opens with single ’22’  in a self-assured affirmative fashion that glides into vocals from impeccable frontman  James Veck-Gilodi  through rapidity. The track explores the harsh realities of tour life, and despite a dark context, it is emitted through a positive pictorial of buoyant guitar tones and optimistic melodic musicality. If it wasn’t a firm favourite from latest album Old Souls, it will undoubtedly be after listening through this EP. It is the clear embodiment of the band taking their personal experiences, and turning it into folk-pop-rock finesse.

‘Drive All Night (English Hearts)’ follows with a delicate guitar style in sync with ‘Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!’ leading the way with beauty as the track sees the band become more experimental. The instrumental of the track saw itself emerge on their ‘English Hearts’ documentary, but intertwined with vocality and lyrical content, the final product is much more than your typical Deaf Havana. The use of instruments such as a maracas make an appearance allowing you to be transported right in the middle of a Flamenco. Whilst it lays thin with lyrics compared to other tracks, its dare to try something new is welcoming.

Old Souls track ‘Kings Road Ghosts’ is given an acoustic makeover on this EP and certainly doesn’t lack elegance or refinement. For any fan of Deaf Havana, its no hidden secret that their stripped back approach is them arguably at their best. With no more or less than James’ voice and an acoustic guitar, the track’s transformation craves for the entirety of Old Souls to be re-worked such as Fools And Worthless Liars was back in 2012.

But, the true highlight of this EP is second new track and closer ‘Whiskey’ . Its reflective nature is showcased through gorgeous harmonies from brothers James and Matthew Veck-Gilodi.  Its honesty and dark stance create an eery allure that is hard not to fall in love with. Its a wonder as to why this track didn’t make Old Souls. But that’s just the problem (and by problem, we mean a very good one) with Deaf Havana. Their ability to write and create easily conveyable material in a musically refined grace is consistent and on point. With their tours getting larger and billing’s higher, there’s no saying goodbye to this talent any time soon.

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Deaf Havana, originally from Hunstanton, launch new album The Present Is a Foreign Land

Rock duo Deaf Havana have had to cancel a much-anticipated return to West Norfolk – but are still riding high after releasing their latest album.

Brothers Matty and James Veck-Gilodi, who originate from Hunstanton, had been due to play the High Walls Festival in Congham on Saturday.

But the event was called off earlier this week because of a perceived fire risk, the venue being surrounded by barley fields and weekend temperatures set to top 30C.

Deaf Havana was formed at Lynn’s College of West Anglia in 2005 and have been a successful chart band for well over a decade, becoming a duo last year.

New album ‘The Present Is a Foreign Land’ was released last month.

Matty joined us for a Zoom call from his kitchen before it was announced that the festival was cancelled. He said: “I spent all of my high school years in Lynn and many childhood summers at Hunstanton beach.”

The new album has been described as deeply personal, especially the track Nevermind.

“This song is about the back end of 2019/first few months of 2020, which was pretty much the lowest point of my life to date.

“I tried to channel that emotion into the vocals when I recorded it,” said James.

The album is written about the thoughts and feelings of the duo during that time.

And now the duo are to hit the road again.

“We’re touring around the UK in November. It will be our first opportunity to properly get out to shows again, it’s our first time getting out since 2019 so it’s really exciting.

“You very quickly fall out of practice after not doing live shows during lockdowns.

“All of the shows we’ve done so far have been really nice.”

Deaf Havana have risen through the ranks during their time as a band, earning themselves coveted accolades including three Top 10 albums in the Official Charts.

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Matty described their music as “sad pop rock” and that hits the nail on the head, as a fast-paced and upbeat tune doesn’t always mean the music you’re listening to is necessarily happy.

If you like alternative indie music, with a good bit of electric guitar, this is the kind of album for you.

It wasn’t until my second listen that the lyrics really hit me, and the album touches on some dark subjects such as alcoholism and even mental health issues.

The lyrics are deeply personal, and if you’re going through a bit of a life change and find yourself reminiscing, you might find some songs relatable.

A recurring thought I had when listening to this album was “this would sound great live”.

It’s the kind of music you listen to with a pint in hand on a summer’s day.

Overall, this album was enjoyable, some songs I’ve favourited to listen to again, others are personally not my cup of tea, but they might be yours.

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Deaf Havana: An Interview

Hunstanton has never been referred to as the Nashville of the East Midlands, but it’s responsible for breeding one of the most exciting bands around. Having met at College in King’s Lynn, Deaf Havana ’s early work owed more to the post-punk and hardcore movements than their recent tracks suggest. After 8 years and a couple of personnel changes, their sound has mellowed and developed into something altogether more thoughtful. After years of self-producing EPs, they were signed by A Wolf at Your Door Records in 2008. They soon attracted the attention of major labels and won a contract with BMG in 2011.

Fresh from supporting the likes of Muse and Bruce Springsteen, the remainder of 2013 is set to be an exciting time for the boys from Norfolk. Following the release of new album ‘Old Souls’ in September, they go on tour in October. We caught up with them in the relative tranquillity of St. John’s Wood to discuss their Norfolk roots, opening Reading Main Stage and brotherly love:

Was there a dream when Deaf Havana began?

Tom: It started as a covers band doing these awful, soppy little covers. We honestly didn’t think anything would come of it; we were playing a few gigs out of town.

James: I guess we never really thought about it, did we? We literally started it because we were bored; we lived in the middle of nowhere, we had nothing else to do. I don’t think we ever thought even past playing in Ryan’s bedroom a couple of years ago.

Tom: We did a tour of Norfolk. That was about as far as I thought we’d go.

James: Obviously, as you progress and it becomes a bit more serious, you do have dreams. You want to be on the cover of that (points at a copy of NME on the table). But at the start, not really.

You mentioned where you’re from, which, from the songs you’ve written about Hunstanton, clearly means a lot to you – does it remain an important place, even when you’re touring the world?

 James: For me it does, especially when I go back there, which is not very often these days. I’m not actually from there but I spent the key years of my life, like 11 to 18, there which is when you discover who you are. I guess it helped shape me into the weirdo that I am. But it’s a bit different for Tom, because he didn’t actually live there.

Tom: I live like half an hour away. When I first met these guys, I used to hang out there quite a lot but I didn’t really know them until I was 18.

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You’ve now been signed to BMG records for 2 years, have you noticed a significant change in the way you operate since signing with them?

James: We’ve got a lot more freedom now, which is strange (laughing) when you’re signed to a major. We’ve always done stuff ourselves quite a lot and it hasn’t really changed, no-one’s interfering or anything.

Tom: They seem to know what they’re doing so we kinda let them get on with it. And they let us get on with the creating music side of things. I don’t know what the label does really. Printing, promoting, whatever; occasionally give us a bit of money. All for that!

In May, ‘Boston Square’ was named Zane Lowe’s ‘Hottest Record in the World.’ When you look back at your careers so far, does it often feel like a series of individual achievements, rather than a continuous journey?

James: That’s a good question. For me personally, I see it as a whole, one journey. But I guess we’re all different. It’s all relative though. If you’d told me that that would have happened like 4 years ago, I’d have shat myself. You get used to these things and it becomes more normal. Well, not normal, but there are things you think will be amazing but often aren’t. Opening Reading Main Stage (2012) I thought was going to be like some euphoric, life changing experience. It wasn’t. It was good, but it was just a gig. Those things that you think are going to be massive milestones aren’t as big as you think they’ll be.

Tom:   We feel like we learnt a lot from it. If we weren’t to get things like that, we’d question who’s working for us. I see it kind of the same as James, when we do certain things like that, it is a tick for me. But it’s not mind-blowing.

James: Everyone I’ve spoken to says that as well. It’s something you appreciate more when you look back on it, in retrospect.

Tom: If we were like 18 and played 4 gigs before in pubs and then someone said you’re doing Reading Main Stage; that would be mental. And bad.  There’s only so many bad covers you can play!

James: I think it all just comes with it and, for me, it’s one sort of journey.

You’ve supported a number of bands from a huge range of styles and genres, such as The Cure, Bruce Springsteen, Muse, Enter Shikari. Does that variety say something about your own music?

James: I guess our older stuff is more in that Enter Shikari scene; not the same genre but you know what I mean. Later we’ve started to get a lot more like Muse, Bruce Springsteen, and stuff like that. That’s more the market I want to be going into, obviously. I guess that just shows how the song-writing has changed. For me personally, it feels like we’re writing songs that we should have been writing the whole time.

Tom: I think the newer gigs we’ve been getting are what I’d like to keep getting. They’re like really respected, big rock bands. What I want us to be really.

If you could resurrect any artist or band to tour with, who would it be?

James : Jeff Buckley

Tom: Mr. (Johnny) Cash

Matt: Nirvana

Tour Manager: I haven’t got a clue. Tupac. No, Biggie.

Being brothers, James and Matthew have known each other for the longest time. Does this change the dynamic when touring?

James: Not really…

Tom (interrupting): There is some sort of brotherly arguing that goes on. Like last night, James was going ‘oh why are you so drunk? Why are you so drunk?’

James: Well who gets that pissed and falls asleep on the table?

Tom: But it’s the same as I have with my brother, so yeah.

Matt: It is always just stuff like that, stupid little stuff. I mean, we can be the Gallaghers if you like. We could work that in.

Tour Manager: You also look after each on tour though, don’t you?

Tour Manager: You’ll deny it but there is a little bit of looking after each other I’d say. They secretly love each other.

Matt: Hey, that’s no secret, boy!

Tour Manager: And they say I’m gay…

Every band has a different process when it comes to song-writing. What can you tell us about yours?

James: I always spend ages trying to write songs and I can’t write anything for like a year. And then I’ll just write the majority of the album in like 2 weeks. It always works like that. Also, I don’t know if this is necessarily the correct way to do it but I don’t really like it when everyone tried to have their input; it’s too many opinions. So, the way we do it is: either me and Tom or me and Matty will write the actual songs and then play them and everyone can do what they want on them. But we write the bulk of the actual song. I think it just works best when it’s less people; there can be too many people and it gets muddled.

Tom: Yeah, too many cooks and all that.

Matt: It just gets muddled. The songs we have written together are not as good I don’t think. For us, it works that way but obviously other bands do it completely differently. For me it’s quick, efficient and more concentrated. They’ve got a clear direction, whereas when there’s so many people putting in an opinion and their different slants on it, it does get a bit confused.

( On Tuesday, 13 th August 2013, Deaf Havana performed an acoustic showcase at House of Wolf, Islington)

On Tuesday night, there were a few songs that you (James) said you’d initially written for just acoustic guitar and vocals, before translating them for the whole band. Does this happen often?

James: Yeah, almost every single song. I don’t even have an electric guitar so almost all of them start on an acoustic guitar. And I think, for me, it’s also like a tester. If it’s a good song for me and 1 guitar, I think it’s going to be a better song when you put it in a whole band setting, in most cases. 9 times out of 10 that’s the case.

Preparing for that gig on Tuesday, we googled it and couldn’t find anything. What was the deal?

James: No idea. I think there were like 30 competition winners. They won a competition to go and then the rest of it was just press and radio people. But we’re so unorganised; we never know what’s going on so we just turned up and played.

Looking ahead to Reading & Leeds, you’re back! Who are you most excited about playing alongside?

Tom: Foals. Their new album’s one of my favourites.

James: I don’t know, I’ve barely seen the line up. Is there one in here (looking at the copy of NME once again)?

Matt: I’m just a bit upset that, they way it works with timing, we can’t see Nine Inch Nails and they’re my favourite band ever. As for playing alongside, the fact that we’re on the same stage as Johnny Marr is a pretty big one for me and James because he’s probably, well certainly my favourite guitarist ever. He’s definitely one of James’ too so that’ll be cool.

You said that opening the Main Stage last year wasn’t quite the experience you were anticipating. Is appearing on a slightly smaller, more intimate stage something you’re looking forward to?

James: Yeah, I am, I think it’ll be more fun. The only reason that that was the case was because you build it up so much. You think ‘oh god, playing the main stage, it’s so big.’ But the truth is, once you get up there it doesn’t look that big from the stage. I don’t know why that is; when you look at photos, it’s huge. But when you’re actually up there, for some reason, it doesn’t look that big and it’s not like a life changing experience, do you know what I mean?

Tom: Last year especially, I was stressing out, like saying ‘oh, we can’t get messed up the night before, we can’t do that, got to be on time, can’t have fun afterwards because we’ve got a big gig tomorrow.’ I definitely didn’t treat it this way. This year, I’m just going in to do what we do, instead of thinking about it so much. Just treat it like another show.

The new album, ‘Old Souls,’ is out later this year and you’re touring in October. Is it too soon to be talking about future plans?

James : In terms of songs, nothing. We literally finished recording it 2 or 3 months ago. I think we’re just going to try and branch out to as many different countries as we can with it and see what happens.

Tom: The album is released September 16 th . We’ll see how it goes down and go from there. But no more songs as of yet. We’re touring in October, ending in the Roundhouse (Camden) which should be fun. http://open.spotify.com/track/1SKFODiSoOmpy9xDdVZ8cr

‘Old Souls’ is released in the UK on BMG Chrysalis on September 16 th 2013. For tickets for their October tour, click here . You can keep up to date with the band via their website , Facebook or Twitter .

They’re due to play the NME/BBC Radio 1 Stage on Saturday (Reading) and Sunday (Leeds). Check out our guide for this day here .

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In the run-up to Deaf Havana’s Reading and Leeds festivals slot in 2014, frontman James Veck-Gilodi was sure they would be their last shows. The band formed at college in Kings Lynn in 2005 had debts, things weren’t working out with their label and he was feeling disillusioned. But as soon as he started singing, he realised he wasn’t ready to leave the band behind. And so they began writing songs again. The result is All These Countless Nights , an album full of earnest balladeering and driven, melodic tunes drenched in nostalgia and emotion.

Their previous record, 2013’s Old Souls , was an unashamed homage to Bruce Springsteen, so it’s fitting that we meet in the Ace Cafe, a biker bar that through its decor nods to shabby Americana and the freedom of the road – despite now being being on an industrial estate in London. Deaf Havana are on the cusp of a new adventure, and this is what you need to know about them.

They’ve left dark times behind

“I wrote the last album in about a month,” says Veck-Gilodi, “but this one was over a period of about three years. It wasn’t as emotionally taxing.”

Old Souls , while not bereft of uplifting moments, could not be described as a cheerful listen. All These Countless Nights , conversely, comes from a different place: “Maybe I’m just more mature now and not so upset. I’m a hundred per cent happier compared to what I was.”

Veck-Gilodi’s relaxed demeanour is testament to his newfound peace of mind; he and his bandmates are in a jovial mood as they sip lunchtime beers. Their music sounds older than their 20-something years, but they’re full of the energy and hope of young guys navigating the ups and downs of their dream career.

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“We signed to BMG Chrysalis and thought they were going to do everything for us. I didn’t put as much effort in,” admits Veck-Gilodi. “I learned a massive lesson: that you should never remove yourself and assume someone will do your job for you.” He says the band wasn’t prioritised by BMG, but he understands why. “We don’t bring in the same money as Morrissey. At the end of the day they’re businesses. We found an amazing indie label called So Recordings. They care and are so passionate about us. I’ve never felt that from anyone else we’ve worked with.”

They love Bruce Springsteen and don’t care who knows it

“I just ripped off Springsteen unashamedly [on Old Souls ],” Veck-Gilodi says, laughing. “I love him, and I’ve always wanted to tailor the band in that direction. But these new songs are a bit different. I think people’s opinions will change when they hear the next record.”

As a band they lost faith, then regained it

After embarking on a solo tour with Deaf Havana’s keyboards /guitar player Max Britton in January 2015, Veck-Gilodi started tentatively songwriting again. Those songs were the beginnings of the new record, and Veck-Gilodi says the band have come full circle. “We love making music and hanging out. I took a lot of that for granted, and I won’t do that again.”

They haven’t forgotten their roots

Deaf Havana’s sound is a million miles from their early days as an emo/post-hardcore band, but Veck-Gilodi knows that’s how some people remember them. “Even now I worry about people thinking we’re that kind of band, because there’s still connections” he says. “But I think we’re different to those emo bands. As much as I’d like to appeal only to Springsteen fans, we can’t control that.”

Springsteen isn’t their only all-American inspiration

“I love Charles Bukowski,” Veck-Gilod says. “No metaphors, no bullshit. That’s the way I like to write. I take a lot of influence from him. I have films on in the background when I write, like Into The Wild – big landscapes, nice cinematography, slightly emotional.”

He could almost be talking about the sound of Deaf Havana.

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BBC Radio 1  favourites  Lonely The Brave  today announce their main support slot on  Kings Lynn  rock act  Deaf Havana ‘s UK tour. Joining them for their 7 date tour across the UK taking in towns sometimes less traveled but no less loved,  Lonely The Brave  will play songs from their top 15 debut album ‘ The Day’s War ‘ including singles and fan favourites ‘ Backroads ‘, ‘ Victory Line ‘ and ‘ Trick of the Light ‘. This will likely mark  Lonely The Brave ‘s last tour of 2014, and a final chance this year to see the live show that has garnered them so many fans and rave reviews from the likes of  NME ,  Rock Sound  and  Kerrang!

‘ The Day’s War ,’ Lonely The Brave’s first album, was released on Monday 1 st  September having been  Zane Lowe ‘s  Album of the Week  on  BBC Radio 1   and received  5Ks  in  Kerrang,   9/10  in  Rock Sound  and an  8/10  in  NME . This follows from an incredible summer, with the band’s festival appearances including ‘ Download ‘ ‘ Glastonbury ‘ and ‘ Reading and Leeds ,’ having played with  Neil Young   at Belgium’s Lokerse Festival and with  Aerosmith  at Calling in London.  Lonely The Brave ‘s stellar 2014 looks set to continue as the band take to the road in December supporting one of the UKs most promising bands in  Deaf Havana . These shows will follow on from Lonely The Brave’s hometown show at Cambridge’s Junction venue on December 13 th , which tickets are available for now – FROM HERE .

SATURDAY                13               CAMBRIDGE, JUNCTION headline show

SUNDAY                    14               BOURNEMOUTH, O2 ACADEMY w. Deaf Havana

MONDAY                  15               FALMOUTH, PRINCESS PAVILIONS w. Deaf Havana

TUESDAY                  16               EXETER, LEMON GROVE w. Deaf Havana

WEDNESDAY            17               COVENTRY, KASBAH w. Deaf Havana

THURSDAY                18               BLACKBURN, KING GEORGE’S HALL w. Deaf Havana

FRIDAY                      19               MIDDLESBOROUGH, EMPIRE w. Deaf Havana

SATURDAY                20               LINCOLEN, ENGINE SHED w. Deaf Havana

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Deaf Havana

Deaf Havana are an English Alternative rock band from Hunstanton and King's Lynn in Norfolk. The band was formed in 2005, when the original members, Ryan Mellor, James Veck-Gilodi and Lee Wilson met at the King's Lynn campus of The College of West Anglia. The three were joined by Tom Ogden and Sebastian Spitz. This early lineup saw Veck-Gilodi singing and Mellor taking guitar and vocal duties, while Spitz was playing guitar, Ogden was the drummer and Wilson took up bass guitar. In 2006, Spitz was replaced by Chris Pennells.

In 2006, the band began writing songs for the first EP called Evangeline , released in 2007. This EP recieved strong positive reviews and gained them recognition. The same year, they started working on more new songs, resulting in a release of another EP, It's Called the Easy Life , which was released in 2008. In the beginning of 2009, the band went on a UK tour with We Are the Ocean and The Urgency.

After the UK tour, the band entered the studio to work on the debut LP, Meet Me Halfway, at Least , released in late 2009. Right before the release of the album, the band underwent an UK Metal Hammer tour with Young Guns and The Casino Brawl. Following the release, in 2010, they went on several tours across UK and Europe, including a headlining mini-tour around UK with All Forgotten and Francesqa, and an European tour with Emery and Emarosa. Just prior to the tour, it was announced that Mellor would not be touring with them due to personal circumstances, eventually leaving the band and replaced by Max d'Albiac.

2011 saw the release of Fools and Worthless Liars , their second LP. The first single, I'm A Bore, Mostly , was played by Zane Lowe and Sara Cox on BBC Radio 1. Just before the release of the album, they went on a supporting tour with You Me at Six, and after the release, they supported Skindred at some European shows, before returning back to the UK and went on a supporting tour with Architects. The band went on a headlining tour in 2012 with support from The Swellers and The Dangerous Summer.

In 2012, they started composing songs for the third album, Old Souls , released in 2013. During this year, the band announced a partenrship deal with Vevo. The album recieved positive feedback. In 2013, they went to support Bruce Springsteen at the Hard Rock Calling Festival. They also played Reading and Leeds festivals at the BBC Radio 1 Stage in 2013. At the end of 2013, they went on a headlining tour at eight locations around UK, finishing at The Roundhouse in London.

In November of 2015, the band released a new single, Cassiopeia , from the fourth album, All These Countless Nights , which was set to be released in 2016, but was postponed to 2017. In 2015, Pennells also left the band.

Following the release of All These Countless Nights , Veck-Gilodi and Phil Gornell (producer) went to work on the fifth album, Rituals , which was written as a challenge, to subvert the band's writing process, and present songs representative of the band in present. They wrote everything in a computer with the band coming up and playing all the parts. They set themselves a deadline of April to finish all the parts and if any of it was good, they would make the album available in August. The album was eventually released. On the album, 5 track also feature the London Contemporary Voice Choir with whom the band also performed at London's Union Chapel for the War Child charity.

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An Interview With Deaf Havana: What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

The challenge of striking a balance between making money and doing what you love is a unifying growing pain for Millennial talent. Consumers have more options and information available to them than ever before, and however modest or abstract their definition, workers and producers are presented with an often unpredictable path to success. For the career artist, particularly those in the music industry, walking that line all the more makes for a continuous assessment of their chosen path.

This Friday, Brit-rock outfit Deaf Havana will release in the U.S. All These Countless Nights , its first album in four years. Their last album, 2013’s Old Souls , enjoyed considerable commercial success, earning it favorable reviews, a spot on the Top 10 albums list in the U.K., and the opportunity to support Jersey’s own son, Bruce Springsteen. For a band founded on a college campus in the U.K.’s Kings Lynn with roots in three high school friends, this was an arrival.

But a changing economy, coupled with the normal tendencies of a touring, working-class, band, saw the U.K. quintet struggle with financial issues and strained communications that pointed to the band’s imminent disbandment. Lead singer and songwriter James Veck-Gilodi (a 2005 founding member holding currently at the tender age of 26) planned the band’s final performances as a means to pay off its looming financial debts and tie things off.

But it was those little shows that put the band face to face with their fans, and with the reasons they ever became a band; the songs on this new record are the result of that period of time. Straightforward and earnest, All These Countless Nights is expansive and eclectic, evoking themes of loneliness and self-actualization polished by the deft hand of producer and engineer Adam Noble (Placebo, Paul McCartney, Ed Sheeran).

If resilience is the ability to adapt and recover in the face of change, for many artists, staying true and staying afloat have the potential to become mutually exclusive. But while this changing landscape creates obstacles of uncertainty for musicians and bands, this new economy allows one to seek out and nurture the market for that which is true: the music itself.

Today, Lee Wilson (founding member, bass guitar), Tom Ogden (founding member, drums, backing vocals) and Max Britton (keys, acoustic, backing vocals), along with James, are back with everything they got, which is everything they are: British, honest, sweeping, and catchy as hell. Matthew “Matty” Veck-Gilodi (lead guitar, backing vocals) gave us a window into the state of the band and where this album places them.

Where have I reached you today? Where does everyone call home?

Hello! You’ve reached me at my house in Brighton in England. James and Lee live in London, with Max just outside, and Tom lives back in the East of the country where the band was started.

Just after the announcement of the new album, All These Countless Nights , at the Reading and Leeds Festival in 2016, it was announced that you’d embark on your first UK tour in over two years. How do you expect touring now will differ from playing shows back in the bands beginnings?

Well first off, the shows will certainly be bigger than they would’ve been back in the early days of the band! But they will also be different simply because of the amount of material that we have to be able to put into a setlist. Whereas before it would’ve been rather more straightforward as to what songs would be played, we will have three albums’ worth of material to choose from by the time we go out on tour.

So the setlist we will play will be something we will have really thought over so as to flow well, but still be interesting and engaging for our audience.

The songs on All These Countless Nights , Deaf Havana’s first release since Old Souls in 2013, are the result of a period during which James is quoted as being “probably the most creative [he’d] ever been,” following a time the band was very close to breaking up. Please tell us a bit more about that time, and your journey to deciding you wanted to keep making music.

Well, somewhere during the year 2014, we were very disenchanted with the band as it was, we were simply playing shows to pay off the band’s collective debts and we weren’t enjoying being with each other, let alone playing music together. Then some time in early 2015 James sent over a demo of a song that just came to him (which ended up being the song “Cassiopeia”) and as soon as we all heard it, I’m pretty sure we all just went, “Wow: this is something that has to happen!”

And then as the year went on, James became more and more prolific in his songwriting and by the time we got round to getting in the studio, we had around 30 songs to choose from, which was amazing but something that came from us having had such a difficult and subsequently long time out from being an active band, I guess.

Let’s talk about the new album. One of the songs, “St. Pauls,” is a bit reminiscent of Bush (in a great way!) in spots, the studio version of “Trigger” is gorgeous, and personally brings me back to a very specific time I can’t quite put my finger on, and “Sing” makes a great nod to Placebo. What was it like working with producer Adam Noble? What’s your process like? How was writing this album different from writing your previous material?

Working with Adam was absolutely brilliant. The guy is a little bit of a genius and he and James work really well together. He just makes everyone feel comfortable in the studio, which definitely helped in getting the best takes we possibly could.

On the one hand, the process of writing this record was pretty similar to how it has been in that James, or he and Max, would write a lot of the songs by demoing them on his iPad, or Max’s laptop and showing them to us all, which is pretty similar to how we have previously done things.

However, Adam Noble was heavily involved in demoing some songs, so James would take really rough demos to Adam’s studio and then the two of them would really craft and hone the song, turning it into something that sounds great and similar to what eventually would end up on the record.

The song “Seattle” talks about loneliness (“the life that chose me doesn’t know my name”) and makes some references to a state (Arizona) in the United States, as well as a city (Seattle). What’s this song about?

Seattle is basically about the time we spent touring America in early 2014. It was a very long tour where we played all over the country to hardly any people. It was in January and February so it was absolutely freezing and we would have the most incredibly long drives, and to get through those kinds of drives to play in front of 13 people in a 1,300-capacity venue is a little bit soul destroying to say the least!

I mean it wasn’t all bad times at all, we did have a lot of fun—just not very often, and the song is about how lonely James (but I know all of us did) felt on that tour. It just went on and on, and we really couldn’t wait to get home by the end of it.

James recently lent support to the launch of a new youth group for 17- to 25-year-olds through W est Norfolk MIND with a gig in King’s Lynn for STAR, or Supporting Transition and Resilience. Could you tell us a bit more about the organization and how you got involved in it?

I think James first got involved with West Norfolk MIND through a friend of ours, whose mum works for the charity, and as someone who struggles with anxiety himself, he was more than happy to do something for the charity. West Norfolk MIND is a charity for young people suffering from mental health issues, offering support and inspiring hope for recovery.

I saw a cool piece you did for Substream Magazine where you shared your playlist of songs you had in rotation while in studio. I’d say reading books could influence a writer, as listening to different artists influences songwriting. Would you agree with that?

Absolutely. I know that James is heavily influenced by the literature of Charles Bukowski; he really loves the way that everything Bukowski writes is very straightforward, to the point and not really hidden in metaphor or simile, which is something James definitely transfers into his lyric writing.

Describe the state of Brit-rock currently. What does the landscape look like in terms of an underground scene, the pop scene, and independent music?

I think the state of Brit-rock is pretty healthy at the moment. There’s a decent crop of bands doing really well at the moment, with a lot of records being released (like ours) in the early stages of 2017, which is great really. To have that sort of “competition” is definitely healthy for a music scene.

With regards to the pop scene, I think it’s great to have a band like The 1975 as big as they are—just a great pop band, and I think it shows people in other bands or anywhere that pop music can be exciting and interesting, which is great. It’s also great to see a band like Bring Me The Horizon managing to cross very much into the mainstream. Whether you’re a fan of the band or not, to have that kind of diversity creeping into mainstream music is very important.

What was the music scene like when you were growing up and getting into working with the band? What’d you listen to? What were your favorite venues?

The music scene where the band grew up was pretty terrible. There wasn’t really much on as we were right in the countryside in the east of England, so you wouldn’t ever have any really high profile or good bands ever come near to where you were, meaning we’d always have to travel. The closest place any decent bands would come to would be Norwich, which would take an hour or so to get to, but as a result would really make you cherish the gig itself. My favourite venues would have to be the Waterfront and the UEA, both in Norwich.

Deaf Havana is an 11-year-old band that grew up, so to speak, during a period that saw a very rapid, condensed evolution in the way that people (both young people and “adults”) discover and consume music. What are your thoughts on that as both consumers and artists? How does this consideration affect how you operate as a band?

Yeah, the industry has changed massively and is constantly changing and as a result, as a band you have to change and evolve with it. What with the rise of streaming, it has made all music more accessible, which as a consumer is something that I love.

As a band, it means that more people are probably going to stream your record than buy it, and so that definitely changes the way you look at packaging an album for release. I mean, if you’re going to spend money buying music, you’re going to want something worth buying and having a physical copy of—which I’m certain is why vinyl sales and packages are on the increase again.

You just have to be smart about it all, with the nature of music consumption being ever changing these days, you can’t really afford to take your eye off the ball. You really have to think of something innovative and fresh to promote yourselves and give people incentive to buy your music.

Deaf Havana’s new album, All These Countless Nights , drops January 27 on SO Recordings. For more information, visit deafhavanaofficial.com.

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