"It was that life-changing, light bulb moment" - Eat Your Heart Out's Caitlin Henry on Paramore's 'The Final Riot'

Newcastle rockers Eat Your Heart Out will release their second full-length album Can’t Stay Forever on Friday 9 September via Fearless Records.  An album shaped by change and finding positivity in the unknown, Can’t Stay Forever brings together elements of pop, emo and energetic rock through a lens of a band ready to challenge themselves and expectations along the way.

Boasting expansive songwriting, charged riffs and boisterously infectious moments throughout, Can’t Stay Forever readily builds on the burgeoning foundations laid by Eat Your Heart Out’s debut 2019 full-length Florescence, emerging in 2022 as a cohesive, assured and intensely likeable collective ready to take on the world. 

Having toured locally with Trophy Eyes, Hands Like Houses, Knuckle Puck and Real Friends and in the UK and Europe with American rockers Tiny Moving Parts, Can’t Stay Forever promises to be a transformative moment for Eat Your Heart Out, placing them at a level that is on par and at times beyond their tour more famous tour buddies. 

To celebrate the impending release of Can't Stay Forever and the three preview singles, Twenty Something, Sour and Down, we caught up with frontwoman Caitlin Henry for a chat about the album that changed her life, Paramore's The Final Riot!

The Album That Changed My Life - Caitlin from Eat Your Heart Out on Paramore's The Final Riot

"I don't know if it's allowed, but the first one that pops into my head that I honestly think is the most pivotal is The Final Riot!, the live album by Paramore. I know it's a live album, so I’m not sure if that’s technically counted. But I just remember getting that from Leading Edge or Sanity or whatever the CD shop was in our hometown. I'd heard one Paramore song on the radio at the time, and I was like: that was pretty cool.  I was very into The Veronicas and Avril Lavigne, so anything with that pop-rock sort of female vocals, I was like: 'yeah, this is right up my alley!'"

"I'd previously heard one Paramore song, I think it was Decode because I was massively, massively into Twilight then too. I was a huge Twilight fan. So I went to Leading Edge or whatever to try and find it and to try and find whatever CDs they had there - and the only one they had was The Final Riot! I remember bringing it home and putting the DVD in and watching the DVD and just being like: 'oh my god!'"

"Hayley Williams rocked so hard and I was sitting there and was like: 'I want to do this'. That CD was like my holy grail, and specifically the live versions of all of those songs. I heard the live versions of them before I heard most of the real versions of the songs! So although it's a live one, I think that is still just the one that always stands out with regards to hearing it for the first time and being like: 'what is this?'!" 

"It was that life-changing, light bulb moment of like: I wanna do this!"

Can’t Stay Forever on Friday 9 September via Fearless Records.