The Punk Archive: So how did your set go down?
Laurence: Yeah, went down really well. It was amazing, our crowds always go mental, and they were singing every word, doing everything we wanted them to. It just felt so good. We had a really tough year, so to come along to a festival we played last year and to see such a reaction was off the scale. It was so good, man, it made me feel so good, because we've had such a shit time, and to know that all those fans are still there, fucking loving what we do, that's all that matters.The Punk Archive: So what does the rest of the year hold for you? What are you going to be doing after this?
Laurence: Well, everything's new. We've had a lot of issues with management. We've just amicably split with our last management company. We're going on tour in April, and have called it the ‘Cabin Fever Tour’ because we've been suffering from a lot of cabin fever. We're touring with good friends of ours called DEAD. It's gonna be great. We're gonna do that, and then finish our second album. We've actually written two second albums. One we went to America to record with our friend Wil Francis from Aiden. We went to record with him, stayed at his house: fucking brilliant… he's like our mentor. We realised that the album we wrote with him was insane, very conceptual like the first album. Some of the songs would go through genres: like one minute you'd have metal, and the next prog, then obviously pop, piano, orchestral… We thought we were straightening ourselves out, but in fact we just went insane! We realised we couldn't really release it, because people were going to be like “what the fuck is this?” We're going to keep it as a sort of ‘lost album’, which we'll then release. What we're going to do for our next album, is we're aiming to get the really pure essence of what Fearless Vampire Killers is, and just hammer it out. We played a couple of new songs today, which went down really well.
The Punk Archive: So it's an exciting year ahead, then. Should be better than last year…
Laurence: Yeah, it will! Last year started great, we went on the Kerrang! tour, and all this stuff…and then it just fizzled into misery.
The Punk Archive: But you'll learn from that, surely? As a band, you'll get a lot bigger…
Laurence: Yeah man, definitely. And we did. We learnt from it, and we realised that at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what the industry think, it doesn't matter what the press think. All that matters is those people standing at the front, at the beginning of a show. If they love it, and if they love what you're doing, that's all that matters. We've missed it so much and we can't wait to get back.
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