En jente som jeg kjenner sa en stille natt til meg: Dorian, hvis du bare hører på band som blir nevnt i britiske musikkblader kommer du til å gå ned. Jeg så henne inn øynene og svarte: Baby, du vet det er for sent for meg. Hun så på meg og ga fra seg et stille stønn. Og så… En gentleman forteller aldri. Faller vel egentlig for min egen urimlighet der. Skjønner det.
Cazals føyer seg lett inn i rekken av band jeg intervjuer. De er britiske, henger rundt med Babyshambles og er fordømt kjekke. De slipper debut albumet sitt i år og har allerede gitt ut en rekke med fine singler. Verdt å sjekke ut er: ‘Poor Innocent Boys’, ‘Beat Me To The Bone’ og nå ‘Comfortable Silence’. Som de fine engelske guttene de er var de ikke vonde å be når Dorian spurte om en prat. Phil og Danny Cazals svarer:
DG: First of all, ’Comfortable Silence’ …Sirs, fantastic. Exciting times for Cazals these days?
Danny: We’re too humble to accept such generous compliments
Phil: But yep we’re amazing
DG: How would you describe Cazals, the sound, the lyrics?
Danny: The sound is pretty organic, the music comes pretty naturally through just playing all the time and just listening to music all the time.
Phil: My lyrics are just me being honest and trying to put it across the best I can in a musical context
Danny: shit, we’re deep.
DG: Touring with Babyshambles, Paddingtons and The Rakes. All fine bands. How has it been?
Danny: My kidneys still hurt from touring…
(c) Lele Saveri
Phil: All great bands, we could write a book about what happened on the 3 shambles tours we did alone, but its great that we’re also good friends with all the bands as well.
DG: Is it a struggle to make it as a band, even as talented as Cazals, with the amount of bands coming up?
Phil: Maybe, I don’t know. We just get on with what we’re doing and hope that that’s what people like and want to hear.
DG: How has the band changed from when you first started out to the sound you now have? In what ways have touring with other bands had an impact on you as a band?
Danny: the sound has changed massively from going from everyone playing in a band for the first time and learning that experience of writing with others…
Phil: watching great bands every night makes you want to go back and tighten up your act.
DG: Influences?
Danny: Bloody hell… I hate this question…pretty much everyone you would expect us to like and a few more.
DG: Tell us about Cazal Aid. Think the average Scandinavian has missed out on that...
Danny: We turned up to our little studio for the last day of mixing for our first single and when we got to the door the engineer was there and with a very sad expression on his face told us that some shit head had broken into the studio and stolen all of our equipment from guitars to keyboards, computer hard-drive, pedals and even a lap steel. So after many wandering thoughts on what to do to the bastard who stole our stuff we decided we’d be positive and put on a night in a Turkish drug den and get loads of friends to play and we’d collect the door money. Luckily enough a few of our friends were also up and coming bands so we had the rakes, bloc party, the Towers Of London all play and Erol Alkan and Paul Epworth DJ. A shed load of people turned up and we bought some new guitars. One of which I managed to lose
already on a drunken night out after a gig in Copenhagen…
DG: Is it bothersome being taken for a ’fashion band’ just because your sharply dressed? The price to pay when good-looking boys decides to play in a band together?
Danny: Yes
Phil: Yes
DG: The italian ’Rolling Stone’ described you as dandies. More of the same ignorant assumptions or is there some truth to that? Sounds romantic though.
Phil: Partly
Danny: I think in that article it was meant not in an styled fashion way but more of an attitude to the Englishness of the band despite the fact I’m Irish, then again Oscar Wilde was Irish too.
Endelig et band som vedjenner seg et visst dandy preg. Endelig.
(c) Gregory Nolan
DG: Why are you in band if it’s not too obvious?
Danny: To make friends and influence people
Phil: …and girls! Well I’m sure that’s what most bands do it for, we on the other hand do it for the love of music… the girls were already there.
DG: Do you think of yourself as a scene band? Or is it an empty constructed term as far as you care?
Danny: You like poking us with sticks to see if we’ll bite don’t you?
Kom igjen, bit nå… bare en liten bit…
Phil: Nope not a scene band… Have lots of friends who are in bands but we don’t sit around writing songs together.
Danny: …talking about how to take over the world.
DG: Any chance of seeing you in Oslo any time soon?
Danny: Loved to come over… Can you put a word in with some people and get us a gig?
Hjulene er i gang, men det er noe råttent i Danmark eller blant norske bookingfolk.
DG: Hopes and dreams for the future?
Danny: Best debut album of all time would be nice.
DG: Bands around that excites you? Bands worth checking out?
Danny: There’s loads of great bands around ones you probably haven’t heard of yet that we like our The Social and Illustrated Youth.
DG: Well, thank you Cazals and good luck.
Phil: Takker De goodbye
Danny: Fish terte er kald
Ja, Terten er kald.
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