Interview with Alfie from The Young
Grace: Can you tell us a story behind your latest single 'Seeing The Life'?
Alfie: Seeing the Life came together really quickly, the chorus came first and I wanted to do something with it. I had the intro riff knocking about and used that and went from there. I guess the song's mostly about being bored of everyday life and the 9-5 expectations pushed upon people. The result of being 23, angry and wanting something more.
Grace: You have some live dates scheduled for April 2021 (fingers crossed!!) Do you have a favourite story from a previous gig?
Alfie: Yeah fingers crossed! Every gig we do always has an entertaining story behind it. My favourite moment of any gig for me was looking out over a sold out crowd of people for our headline show at 'The Fighting Cocks’ for ‘This Feeling Big In 2020’ and seeing all our mates having it out down the front all singing along and on each others’ shoulders. It meant so much because it felt like a milestone for us as a band and a lot of our pals have been with us supporting the mission from the start. They’re just as important to an atmosphere at live shows. They were buzzing just as much as we were.
Grace: I watched a lot of your livestreams over Summer, I particularly loved your cover of 'Someday' by The Strokes! Is there a song by another artist that you wish you had written?
Alfie: Thank you very much! That’s a good question, there are so many songs by other artists I wish I wrote, we actually speak about it a lot as band! If I had to pick one song I wish I wrote it would be ‘There She Goes’ by The La’s I never get bored of that song.. so simple yet so beautiful. Or for obvious reason ‘Merry Christmas Everyone’ by Slade.
Grace: Where did you get your music tastes from?
Alfie: I would say we got our music tastes passed down from one an another.Tom (guitar) showed me all of my favourite bands when we were kids and I showed my younger brother George (bass). Josh (Drums) would have got a love for music from his granddad who was in a band called Matchbox.
Grace: What did you want to be when you were young?
Alfie: From an early age I knew I wanted to be on stage entertaining people, the stars collided when I met Tom around the age of 11 and we decided to give it a go.
Grace: Do you have any weird/useless talents?
Alfie: I can move my ears if that counts as a talent? And Tom can flip his eyelids inside out 😂
Grace: What's happening next for The Young?
Alfie: World domination at some stage! For the meantime we’re keeping busy reaching out to as many people as possible with our new single ‘Seeing The Life’ and working on our social media presence with videos and live streams. We never really worked with social media as we’re definitely a live band rather than an Instagram band but we understand that now more than ever, having a presence online is very important. We also plan on getting back into the studio when our mate Bojo let’s us and creating another masterpiece of a single for some lovely people to wrap their ears around.
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