We had the absolute pleasure to head down to KK’s Steelmill last weekend to have a chat with the awesome Amongst Liars while they were on tour with Theory of the Deadman. Check out the interview below!
How’s the tour been?
Insane! Second to last night. It’s been great, touring with Theory of a Deadman. Lovely guys. The crew’s great. Very professional. It’s all sort of very next level for us. It’s been fun to get out there and experience this week. And yeah, hopefully more of the same!
I imagine it’s the biggest tour you’ve been on?
Yeah, definitely. We did the Ayron Jones tour last year which was good. That was last November and off the back of that we’ve got onto this one this year, It’s been a nice trajectory we’ve been going on!
You put out your latest single in August, I assume that’s the start of the new album cycle?
End of August, yeah. We obviously had that one, and then we did this tour. We’re back in the studio in the next two/three weeks, as we have a couple of tracks we need to finish off. Then we have a single coming out in early November. The something coming out in early December, then something mid-late Jan. Then the album obviously coming out on the 1st of March!
We’ve got seven/eight tracks done and we’ve just got two more to do. Then that’s it! Got the artwork done, that’s all sorted. So it should be fine!
How would you describe your sound?
It’s nice to not be pigeonholed. It can be detrimental for support stuff. It seems to fit this tour pretty well! And Ayron Jones is a bit different to Theory so in a way it’s been good as we can then match on with other people. It’s not just sticking to one genre. It can be more modern and have some more interesting sounds, and we can figure out how to get onto other stuff.
I think there’s a lot in it: punk, grunge, modern rock. Sometimes heavy, sometimes chilled… sometimes medium. Sometimes theatrical. It covers a few rock genres really. We generally just do our own thing, we don’t want to be pigeonholed.
I think we’re just heavy alternative rock. If someone says it I’d go through all the things we just talked about and then I’d go ‘basically heavy alternative rock’!
It’s good to hear that, although there are definitely good communities out there, it’s good to not be stuck in just one!
There’s like a vicious cycle with that sort of thing. It’s all the sae bands doing the same festivals and the same things. It’s really cool, but it feels like that’s all they do. Which is great, they’re obviously selling places out, but we don’t really want to be part of that kinda thing. We want to be a part of everything! Dip into little genres and shows here and there.
I think it’s good from an audience perspective as well. On this tour it’s been really mixed age ranges. Everything from kids to up to 50s/60s. We’re reaching lots of people, it’s great! We were thinking maybe the rock scene was falling down but it’s alive with teenagers and early 20s people. It’s doing great!
Have you got anything planned for the end of the year/start of next year?
Playing Leo’s Red Lion in Gravesend for Wardy’s birthday. We did a show for him a couple of years ago and loved us. November 11th I think. We’re gonna be getting a big Briton show in February, that’ll be our next thing that we put all of our shit into. A big headline show. Not sure where yet, maybe Green Door Store. We just want to have another big show before we go out on another tour.
The plan is to try and do a tour around the album then, basically. But one big show before that would be cool. We’ve got so many releases coming up, we want to get people to know the tracks. We’re playing three album tracks today, two of which people have never heard. They’ve been going down really well!