Michael Smith, Journalist

“It’s come up a lot, but I’ve been quite militant about not resorting to the computer. I hope that’s not dogmatic, but I do feel that there is just something about watching a live band, when there is something recorded, that I just find takes away from what you’re seeing.

I come from a spiritual family – I don’t even say spiritual because we are all spiritual people when we are born; we lose some of it but still everybody can come home

“To us I guess it feels pretty natural. It’s a progression that has been slowly taking place over the seven or so years of us being in a band.

“It’s a pretty lonesome record but you know, that’s just how it came out."

“I’ve been a fan of Rufus since his first album came out back in ’98. I was in my late teens at that time and was just bowled over by him as I have for every recording he’s made since then, and even gush over him now as we’re working together.”

“Hopefully people will see what the new album has in it for me, the message of joy and happiness.”

“I don’t think we intended it but all the songs are all sort of about pretty important people in a couple of our lives, so I guess there’s a bit of almost a nostalgic vibe to the songs."

"I didn’t survive particularly well, especially the first year. I had no money and I couldn’t afford a band. Like I thought I could go over there and just play with a band like I had here, and the reality very quickly came upon me that the cost of touring..."

"Instead of thinking, ‘I’m going to write about love’, ‘I’m going to write about this’, I was, like, ‘I’m going to write a song where I hit a low A and a high C’, you know what I mean?"

New frontman, new drummer, new album, but one listen and you know that it’s still very much The Angels. Rhythm guitarist John Brewster explains it all to Michael Smith.