Good Shoes chat to I Like Music

Its best to look at it with blinkers on, not to compare yourself to anybody or how anybody else is doing, just create the best thing possible and then do your own thing basically. Like what we do with our artwork and with our tours. We have learnt with this album that, for the second album, we want to avoid certain types of press, like print press. We want to just keep on doing what we were doing and believing in it.

A good idea is to play your music to your parents and friends and see what they think as they're not likely to lie to you. If they say its crap then give up! Haha!

ILM: What do you define as a pair of really good shoes?

RHYS: For me, I'm wearing some high top silver Nike shoes now but I wouldn't say they are necessarily good. I would say like Brogue shoes, but all of mine have got holes in the bottom now. When I went to Art School I used to care about this stuff but now I have like three jumpers, a pair of jeans and one pair of shoes. That's all I wear now and I've stopped caring about anything like that.

ILM: Our website is called ilikemusic.com. Please finish this sentence: I Like Music because…

RHYS: …Surely no-body knows that, you just like it cos it gets you moving. I feel a bit stupid answering that! It can inspire you can't it? It's the same reason I like art. You listen to a piece of music you think is amazing or you see a piece of art and you just, well in the way my mind works, it inspires me to do something creative or better it or do your own thing. You only hear a few songs like that. When I heard the first Klaxons song or when I heard Foals for the first time, or The Strokes - which is what got me into indie music - it inspires you and makes you want to keep on playing. page << 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 >>