Ghosts chat to I Like Music

ILM: Your debut single 'Stay The Night' is out on March 19th, and is already A-listed on Radio Two. It's a cracking tune. Can you describe its whole vibe and how that track took shape?

SIMON: Basically, we started our publishing deal in March last year and just jetted off to Sweden for a few months to write some songs, and sat in this little cottage for three weeks not really getting anywhere. And I think the origination for it was that, we were listening to I'm Still Standing by Elton John and thought we should try and write something with a drum beat like that. I don't know quite how it happened. We were all just stood in a room and I had a mic in front of me and Robbie set that beat running, and the melody came out.

And we were kind of obsessed with key changes at the time, hence this weird key change chorus thing, and the words just seemed to spill out really naturally and seemed to fit the vibe of the track. There was nothing contrived about it; it just seemed really natural, the whole thing. But we spent ages trying to make that chorus work. We had an original chorus in there and we were like, 'no, let's throw a weird chord in there'. We're quite obsessed with the key change at the minute and that's one of the first illustrations of that.
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