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From Bio: Pulled Apart By Horses are less a gang and more one big fucked-up dysfunctional family. The Leeds quartet are a tightly-knit rock band who make music that thrills and menaces, their songs armed with suckerpunch riffs and zinging choruses. They formed in 2008 out of the ashes of various bands in Leeds. Since then they have existed in their own chaotic ecosystem, embarking on relentless tours around the world and stopping only to make 2010’s punkily infectious self-titled debut and its snarling 2012follow-up \u2018Tough Love\u2019 (produced by Gill Norton – Pixies\/Foo Fighters etc.) . Everything they’ve done has been drenched in a sense of youthful recklessness, of all or nothing ardour. With third album \u2018Blood\u2019 they have taken things a step forward with wider musical and lyrical themes, embracing their love of psychedelic cinema and developing as a band whilst retaining the thrilling \u2018Horses sound.<\/p>\n

In nice and cold England, James Brown called in for a chat about the band\u2019s upcoming return to Australia, their latest album, their upcoming NEW album, highlights, and much more\u2026 so lift your shoes high and get up with James Brown\u2026<\/p>\n

You\u2019re heading back to Australia for some shows, what can fans expect on this run?<\/strong>
\nActually on this run that we\u2019re doing, we\u2019re doing a few gigs in the UK, warm up shows with a band called The Cribs and then we fly out to Australia after that, and we\u2019ve already started work on the new record and it\u2019s gone quite well and happened quite fast. So we\u2019re actually going to be playing some new songs on this tour, we thought we\u2019d road test some of them in Australia, so we\u2019ll be doing some new stuff and I\u2019d say to expect a lot of hair, a lot of sweat and loads of riffs *laughs*<\/p>\n

No strangers to Australia, do you have a great memory of a previous tour here?<\/strong>
\nOh yeah, we did a show at one of the smaller festivals called Golden Plains festival in Meredith and we came over to play that, there was loads before us but towards the end of the set everybody started taking their shoes off and pointing them in the air and the entire crowd at the stage that was watching us all had their shoes in the air. We were really worried that we\u2019d done something wrong and everybody was going to throw shoes at us *laughs* because we said something that we shouldn\u2019t have said, then we came off stage and spoke to the promoter and we were like \u201cOh no what did we do wrong?\u201d and they were like \u201cYou got the boot\u201d we said \u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d he said \u201cIt means best band of the festival, when everyone takes their shoes off and holds them in the air it means they think you guys are the best band of the festival\u201d but we genuinely thought we were about to have a thousand shoes thrown at us like we\u2019d said something really offensive to Australia *laughs* it\u2019s great, that\u2019s what\u2019s cool about coming out to Australia, stuff like that wouldn\u2019t happen in England, no one would even think of taking their shoes off at a festival and holding them in the air, it\u2019s just like things like that make you want to go back, it\u2019s just a cool thing.<\/p>\n

You guys are a relentless touring band, what is it that you enjoy and get out of the live aspect of being in this band?<\/strong>
\nI think the live thing, I think any band is the same, it\u2019s mainly about performing and the atmosphere when you do perform and one of the most important things for us is to have this sense of well almost community, we want everyone to be involved and we don\u2019t want anyone to feel left out and it\u2019s more about everyone in the room than it is us, we\u2019re there to kind of make people smile and dance or hum or whatever, it\u2019s all about the atmosphere and I think when there\u2019s good atmosphere at a show especially like a smaller show, like an intimate show that it\u2019s just like the best feeling ever for us and it\u2019s probably a good feeling for everybody watching. I think the best thing about live is getting to see people and meet people and play to people and talk to people and we like to and it sounds cheesy but to engage with the fans and the audience because I think people remember that and it\u2019s just a nice atmosphere to be in rather than going to see a heavy band who don\u2019t speak a word, speed through a forty five minute set and stick their middle finger up and throw their guitar on the floor. Yeah that might be cool but we\u2019re not really about that, we want people to have a good time and remember and get involved.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve had the chance to play massive festivals all over the world and with some huge bands, has there been a specific so far can\u2019t be beaten highlight for you from any of your shows?<\/strong>
\nI always say this, but there\u2019s a couple. There\u2019s a festival here in England that you might have heard of called Leeds and Reading Festival and we\u2019ve played that about seven or eight times or something stupid *laughs* we\u2019re the house band, and I think it would have to be festival wise when we played the main stage at Leeds and Reading because we all went to the festival as kids and we\u2019d always be at main stage watching these huge bands like Rage Against The Machine, and Metallica and Slipknot and all sorts of massive bands and none of us ever thought for a single second or a day that it might be us on the other side of the barrier playing to the audience. We didn\u2019t really think about it and the first time we played the main stage we went out and we looked down and we\u2019d not seen it from that viewpoint before and I think it was just really kind of emotional and overwhelming for us, so much so that it was kind of difficult to play the first couple of songs because we were like \u201cOH MY GOD\u201d *laughs* so I\u2019ll probably never forget that. There\u2019s a band we\u2019ve made really good friends with over the years called Biffy Clyro and we toured with them, a fantastic band, absolutely amazing lads and we did a tour, our first ever big sort of tour was with them in the UK and we were just young idiots and they showed us the ropes. They showed us how to tour basically, like professionally, because we were just a couple of lads with a guitar and a little van and we never did a tour like that and they literally took us under their wing and showed us how to tour and how to basically not get drunk and mess up and sort out your equipment, and we learned loads of stuff from them and kind of became good friends with them. So I\u2019d say definitely the Biffy boys because it was amazing to play with kind of like minded band and stuff and they just kind of showed us how to do it I guess.<\/p>\n

\u2018Blood\u2019 is your third album and being out for over a year now, how has the last year been for the band?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s been really good, \u2018Blood\u2019 in the beginning before it was released it was quite difficult because we decided to spend a bit more time making the record, like the other records we made were written and recorded very quickly in between touring, so we purposefully took some time out from playing live which is really, really hard and kind of fucked us up a little bit because that\u2019s what we do and we\u2019re good at. People do sometimes say that \u2018Horses\u2019 are a better live band than they are recorded and so we purposefully kind of sat down and took some time out and spent a year writing and over three months recorded the album which we\u2019d never done before, so kind of a proper taking some time out and thinking about making a record rather than just being thrown into a studio for two weeks, which was kind of tough in the beginning but then once it was released we got a top 40 album in the UK which we never expected because we\u2019re a noisy bunch of lads or whatever, so that was fantastic. Being locked away for so long and then getting to get out and play the album was so much more exciting because it was like we were building up this sort of nervous energy so when we did actually go out it was this cathartic release and it was just really, really kind of amazing for us to be able to get back out and play all these new songs. It was good because I think that album went down a bit better in some other countries, got some radio play in Australia and Europe, so it was a really exciting time for us, but with such a high like that, when it comes to an end it\u2019s kind of like \u2018Oh\u2026 now what?\u2019\u00a0 So\u2026 and I probably shouldn\u2019t say but we pretty much have got a new album ready *laughs* because we\u2019re so eager to do it again.<\/p>\n

Are you finding it\u2019s becoming easier to create music now as a band with seven years and three albums under your belt?<\/strong>
\nI think with Horses it\u2019s kind of always been easy to do it because there\u2019s not one song writer, we all kind of write together and everyone\u2019s always got some ideas, and I think the thing with us is it\u2019s always been easy to write and we\u2019ve probably got close to sixty songs we\u2019ve never released, but that\u2019s the thing, we can write, but it\u2019s more kind of like what\u2019s the good stuff? So we can keep writing but you get to a point where you don\u2019t know what\u2019s good and what isn\u2019t and it\u2019s strange with us, people are quite precious about the music but we\u2019re not, we kind of like to send it around to people and say \u2018what do you think of this?\u2019 but we\u2019ve always found it easy to write, it\u2019s just whether the songs are shit or not *laughs*. The only way it could become easier is if we decided to just make sort of punk songs or we just decided to make rock songs or decide what to do and continue making that same thing, but if it became too easy I think it would become boring and we\u2019d lose interest in it, and I think fans would as well if we just put out the same sort of stuff, at least try and do things a little different, I mean it\u2019s not worlds apart but each album you can hear there is a different sort of angle, but yeah, it is quite easy but I think if it becomes too easy it just stagnates and we\u2019d just get bored.<\/p>\n

So is the new album going to be along the same lines as \u2018Blood\u2019 or are you going for something a little different?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s really hard to explain *laughs* it\u2019s kind of at the moment, it\u2019s sounding quite garagey like garage sort of thrash but some of it\u2019s sort of happy like almost glam like bordering on T-Rex kind of stuff and I think they\u2019re kind of feel good songs at the moment, \u2018Blood\u2019 was kind of a bit or an adventure in stereo, it wasn\u2019t progressive rock or anything, but it was a more kind of subdued with the you know hundred miles an hour riffing and more of a sort of subtle sort of laid back vibey tracks. Whereas this one\u2019s more like in your face, kind of not thrash but kind of rocky pop, it\u2019s a bit more feel good at the moment. But yeah, it\u2019s hard to put our finger on it because it\u2019s not quite finished and stuff but yeah, I\u2019d say it\u2019s pretty feel good.<\/p>\n

My photographer Annette adores you guys and wanted me to ask about the Blood Red Shoes 7”, and how you decided to do the covers \/collaboration and how did fans respond to it?<\/strong>
\nOh yeah, I forgot about that *laughs* that was another band that, you know you tour with a lot of bands and I\u2019m not gonna lie, some of them are horrible *laughs* and some of them are really nice people and Blood Red Shoes was the later of the two and we got on with them really well and we both really like each other\u2019s music, and I think it was in some downtime when we both didn\u2019t have anything to do and we literally said why don\u2019t we do something together, and we couldn\u2019t think of anything then I suggested we picked the favourite song of each band that we all liked and we just covered it. Yeah we just spent the day each recording it and we thought how can we make this cooler, we were like well, let\u2019s do a double sided vinyl, so each side each band does their own cover and we make it sort of cool and for the fans and stuff. So we kind of put that out not thinking much of it, it was kind of for our own purposes, we just wanted to do it for ourselves because we thought it would be funny and cool to hear each other play each other\u2019s songs, and we put it out on vinyl and it sold out in about a day or something which was really unexpected. So that was great to do, it was like a bonding really *laughs* it was a bit of bonding between the bands, but everyone really liked it. We should do another one really, but it\u2019s always times are difficult, part of being in a\u00a0 band you never really find time to do anything other than touring and writing albums.<\/p>\n

Lastly, let\u2019s look ahead to the future, so finish this sentence for me, in 2016, Pulled Apart By Horses will\u2026<\/strong>
\nBe undoubtedly touring the world again, and probably losing a few more hairs and gaining additional injuries *laughs*<\/p>\n

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Catch Pulled Apart By Horses in Australia at the following dates<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday 28th<\/sup>\u00a0Oct Dr Martens Party, Sydney –\u00a0BUY TICKETS<\/strong><\/a>
\nThursday 29th<\/sup>\u00a0Oct Crowbar, Brisbane –\u00a0BUY TICKETS<\/strong><\/a>
\nFriday 30th<\/sup>\u00a0Oct Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne –\u00a0BUY TICKETS<\/strong><\/a>
\nSaturday 31st<\/sup>\u00a0Oct Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne –\u00a0BUY TICKETS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Presented by XIII Touring<\/p>\n

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Essential Information<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

From:<\/strong> Leeds, UK<\/p>\n

Band Members:<\/strong> Tom Hudson – Vox\/Guitar, James Brown \u2013 Guitar, Rob Lee – Vox\/Bass, Tommy Davidson – Drums<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> http:\/\/www.pulledapartbyhorses.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Latest Release:<\/strong> Blood (Out Now)<\/p>\n

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