The Zutons - Tired Of Hanging Around

What about Valerie - do you really "miss [her] ginger hair"?

"That wasn't so serious - but it sounds big and kinda funky. It's a happy accident, that song. Most of the best tunes are ones you write quick and they don't take much hassle. They're two of the more natural songs on the album. I've obviously had less time to write these songs than I did with the first album - but it's the ones that come in ten minutes that are the ones you're gonna keep."

And why's the album called Tired Of Hangin' Around?

"Because it's a positive and a negative. That song is about waiting at a bus-stop and someone's ignoring you - and getting annoyed about not being taken seriously. And how that fires you up. But I am a bit tired of being in Liverpool just now, and tired of going backwards and forwards to London. I'd rather be out there all the time, playing again."

Frustrated but energised, jet-lagged but raring to go, The Zutons are back with a big, ballsy album, brimming with urgent saxophone and meaty riffs, those unmistakeable swampy rhythms, that vivid lyrical wit, muscular pop and jump-around anthems.

"It's The Zutons, but better" is how McCabe sums up Tired Of Hangin' Around. "There's five of us and we've never been into the same things. I don't feel like we've nailed the sound yet, and that's exciting. We never will - it's gotta grow."

And now that the studio toil is done, The Zutons can get back to what they do best. Bringing their songs to chaotic life on stage.

"It toughens you up, playing all those gigs,' muses McCabe. 'I can't relax in the one place any more. I think that's gonna be with me all my life. Got to keep moving... and that's good for The Zutons."page << 1 2 3 4 5 >>