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Interviews Features We The Kings Interview
| We The Kings Interview |
| Written by Maxwell Lynas |
 InterviewWe The Kings Tonight, The Glasgow o2 Academy is sold out and the queue, which is filled with big hair and bright colours, is already snaking around the building and creeping ever closer to those dodgy flats that sit a bit behind the Academy and it is only 6pm, still a few hours before tonight’s headliners You Me At Six hit the stage but tonight the Banter isn’t here to see You Me At Six, tonight we are here to have a wee chat with support band We the Kings. The Banter had the chance to have a wee sit down and chat with Travis and Danny from the Florida band just an hour or two before the rocked the Academy. How has the UK crowds been treating We the Kings so far on this tour? “Amazing, this has been the best time we’ve had coming over here, this is our fourth time and it is easily the best time, as well as the funniest time we’ve had.” Later on in the night I get to witness how well the UK crowds have been treating We the Kings, as the band are met with screams, that I previously thought only dogs could have heard and every song they played was sang back to them. We the Kings are treated like a headline act by tonight’s crowd even though they are just the support band. So, how different is it between being the supporting act and the headline act? “Obviously as a support band, you’ve got a certain time to get by, so some of the fans can be bummed out that we didn’t get to play one of their favourite songs. “So we just try to do as many songs as we can and try and win over some fans, so when we come back everyone will come out and say hi.” The end of last year saw the release of Smile Kid, We the Kings’ second album but did the band suffer from the cliché “second difficult album”? “Do you mean like a sophomore slump? I wasn’t nervous in the studio but that term was ringing in my head as it exists for a reason but we are really proud of the album and we’ve got a good response so far. “It was a little different because it wasn’t the label that was on us for a new record, our first record was still selling and selling. “We just had all this new material we want to get on a new record and get the new music out there. “We were ready for a new record and it wasn’t like “you have to get this record done” so it was much more relaxed.” Smile Kid was released to positive reviews and a good response from fans, so was the band happy with the reception the album received both here in the UK and back in the States? “Yea, our first record took a while to build a fan base and grow but this record has been like a rocket and just gone.” Danny pipes in saying he has noticed the response to the album in weird little ways such as seeing fans with Smile Kid tattoos and such.
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