Tahita Bulmer, New Young Pony Club chats to I Like Music

Tahita - Umm, I don't know really, I wouldn't say that. I feel like there's constant momentum going but its weird 'cos a lot of bands who started after us have almost worked too fast to get albums out. And it becomes not about being better. I always thought the music industry would be about being better, but you get into that whole corporate thing where, even if you're working with an independent label, it's like "well, this band are a bit further along than you". Even though they're perhaps not as good as you, they get more attention because they've got an album out! So that's why the bill for this (NME Indie Rave) tour looks like it does; with us on first.

ILM - So you steadfastly decided "this is how we're going to do this...we're going to do this at our own pace"?

Tahita - Yeah, we wanted to do it at our own pace. We didn't want to rush. We would've liked to have got the album out sooner. Our record label (Modular) were a bit tempted with 'Ice Cream' - they want it to be a big hit, it IS a bit hit, everybody thinks it's a big hit - and they wanted to put it out in a big way, but of course in a UK chart environment you have to 'build profile' and all the rest of that cr@p, which, to my mind is ridiculous. It's a great single...just put it out! Put it out...massively...and people will buy it!
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