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\n<\/a>\u201cWe\u2019ve been busting our ass the whole time, but when you want to do something properly and there\u2019s a bunch of other people, like a major record label involved, they\u2019ve got things they have to work around as well in order for it to be timed right, so there you go, long story short, well as short as I can make it anyway\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

We love it when our \u2018Best Things You\u2019ve Never Heard<\/a>\u2019 go on to release full length albums and even more so when they are on a mission to take on the world, and with King Cannons\u2019 debut album \u2018The Brightest Light\u2019 released this week they are sure to do just that.\u00a0 This is a band with more passion that a fruit, more heart than a Care Bear and a live show that would blow even the sturdiest of barns away.\u00a0 Essentially this is a band that is one to check out immediately.<\/p>\n

We caught up once again with King Cannons front man Luke Yeoward to talk all about the new album, touring and what the future holds for the Cannons.<\/p>\n

Almost two years since the release of your EP comes the debut album, what took so long?<\/strong>
\nYeah tell me about it, well, when did we start writing?\u00a0 2011, January 1st<\/sup>, the start of the year, started writing, that took a while to get a new bunch of songs together because we didn\u2019t want to scrape together the best of the back catalogue like we did with the EP which wasn\u2019t even that great in my mind anyway.\u00a0 So got that together, then had to demo those songs and then whittle down the songs and then go in and record the songs and we did the first session\u00a0 with Tom Larkin at \u2018Sing Sing\u2019 and that was like a two week period, and had a bit of trouble with our old drummer then, so after that we had to get rid of him, and then we had to find a new drummer, and I wrote some more songs and the album got a little bit of an injection of life with these new songs which happened to be \u2018The Brightest Light\u2019 title track, \u2018Too Young\u2019 the latest single and another song called \u2018Too Hot To Handle\u2019 which I wrote with Tij from a band called Boy In A Box.\u00a0 Then we went back in to the studio in early February, recorded those songs, got the album mixed, went through all the sausage factory of music that it goes through to make a real record and got release date and June 22nd<\/sup> is the release date, so we\u2019re finally here.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been busting our ass the whole time, but when you want to do something properly and there\u2019s a bunch of other people, like a major record label involved, they\u2019ve got things they have to work around as well in order for it to be timed right, so there you go, long story short, well as short as I can make it anyway\u2026<\/p>\n

The album is diverse, as is the band itself, but how did you decide on the tracks that would make the final cut?<\/strong>
\nIt was pretty much that the songs that move you the most, the songs that I felt like I had the biggest connection with and the lyrics were strong and made sense next to the song before it and the song after it, and also stuff that has formality and most of, well 75% of the songs in my eyes are very pop structured songs which is great because I love pop music.\u00a0 All of the lyrics are very heart on the sleeve, soul on the sleeve, this is my story up until now therefore this is going to be the theme for our very first record so that people know our background and where we\u2019re from and what\u2019s going on in my life and our lives up until now.\u00a0 That\u2019s the general theme across the record.<\/p>\n

The Brightest Light I feel is the best song that Bruce Springsteen never wrote, complete with Harmonica solo, amazing!\u00a0 Why did this song in particular score naming rights of the album?<\/strong>
\nThanks mate.\u00a0 Well like I said, that song covers the overall theme of the album and it sounded better than calling the album \u2018Charlie O\u2019 ha ha ha ha.\u00a0 The Brightest Light really is you know?\u00a0 It\u2019s that thing, it\u2019s talking about teenage years as a punk rocker growing up and remembering as an adult that you\u2019re still free in the world and that you can embrace that freedom and still celebrate life even when things get kind of dark or things are looking a little bit shit, there\u2019s always a flip side and there\u2019s always a reason to rise above and I think \u2018The Brightest Light\u2019 says those things and that\u2019s how it earned it\u2019s spot.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>You did mention it before, but was there a conscious decision to not include older material on the debut album?<\/strong>
\nNo, the label wanted to put \u2018Take The Rock\u2019 on the album but to me that\u2019s repackaging old material and reselling it to people and that\u2019s wrong to me.\u00a0 Whenever I get in to a new band I always look through their back catalogue and if I want to find songs I\u2019ll buy their old releases you know.\u00a0 Our CD with \u2018Take The Rock\u2019 on it is still in the shops, it only came out a couple of years ago, if people want that song that\u2019s where they\u2019ll find it.\u00a0 That\u2019s what will make that EP special, the album is a new thing and we wanted to make it new and make sure that we\u2019re always stepping forward and we\u2019re not repackaging the same old stuff and pass it off as something new.<\/p>\n

You had Tom Larkin from Shihad produce the album, what did he bring out of the band that you may have not thought to do previously?<\/strong>
\nThe ability to really rock up our rhythm section and to get our drums sounding good, cause we record live, it\u2019s pretty important to make sure everything is really tight when you\u2019re not using a click track and you\u2019re not playing to a grid and you\u2019re not layering tracks, you\u2019re just fuckin\u2019 six people recording together in a room you\u2019ve got to make sure everybody\u2019s pulling their weight.\u00a0 Tom\u2019s had plenty of experience behind a drum kit and also behind a mixing desk so he managed to get out of us what was required and especially in the drum front and I thank God he was there for that because I\u2019d hate to think what it would be like if he wasn\u2019t ha ha.<\/p>\n

For anyone who has seen your live shows knows of the passion and heart put into each performance, was this something you specifically tried to get across in the recordings?<\/strong>
\nYeah man for sure, I only had a couple of specifications for this record when we went in to recording because I didn\u2019t really know what it was going to be about or what the sound was going to be or any of that sort of stuff, it was just learn as you go sort of thing as we\u2019d never made a full length record before or had that amount of time in the studio.\u00a0 I said it was going to be honest, it was going to be straightforward and it\u2019s going to be real, and a part of that is trying to capture that thing that we do live that people love and we love and what we\u2019re good at doing in to the studio.\u00a0 It\u2019s a hard thing to do, but like I said, back to that old fashioned style of recording is the foundation of it, if you can do that, then basically that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re hitting the road in Australia for the album launch, what can we expect to see at the shows this time around?<\/strong>
\nWell we\u2019ve got Tom Larkin as a special guest playing drums which is going to be hilarious and awesome.\u00a0 Also, we\u2019ve got a bunch of songs that we\u2019ve never played before off the album which is good, we\u2019ll be playing the album in its entirety, maybe a few special treats here and there of some random songs as we like to mix it up a bit every time we tour ha ha, and a really energized live show as per usual as we haven\u2019t played in Australia for a while and we\u2019re all really excited about doing some gigs.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been working on a set list and it\u2019s sounding really good and we\u2019re all really amped.<\/p>\n

Now, you\u2019ve just returned from a European tour, how did the shows go over there?<\/strong>
\nAwesome dude, we were playing to 1,500 \u2013 2,000 people, sold out every night because the band we were touring with are doing pretty well over there and we were just playing in front of these crowds that were just so keen, so keen, and they received our music really well, and I\u2019m pretty sure we gained a bunch of new fans and the people there were just really, really nice and the hospitality was nice, the venues were nice and the production was good.\u00a0 We were driving around in a fuckin\u2019 night liner bus you know, with bunk beds and stuff as opposed to a Ford Falcon station wagon ha ha, it was pretty cool dude, yeah.\u00a0 In Australia you struggle to get a dozen beers out of a venue, if you rock up in Germany they give you Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and a shower, so Australia step it up alright\u2026<\/p>\n

You have the album being released in a few territories over there, any plans to take it to all of them?<\/strong>
\nYep, multiple plans, it\u2019s just a timing thing.\u00a0 Rome wasn\u2019t built in a day, and our music being released over the world isn\u2019t happening overnight either, we\u2019ve got plenty of plans for it, at the moment we\u2019ve EMI releasing our record all across Europe, Australia and New Zealand simultaneously on June 22nd<\/sup> so I think for a first album having that major record release across that many territories is a pretty good achievement.<\/p>\n

What are the plans for the rest of the year?<\/strong>
\nWell, we\u2019ve got the album launch shows coming up, and we\u2019ll probably do a couple of shows back in New Zealand, maybe at the Auckland Power Station I think which would be pretty cool.\u00a0 We\u2019ll get down to Christchurch New Zealand which needs some lovin\u2019 down there with all the hardships they\u2019ve had over the last little while with the earthquakes and stuff.\u00a0 Then we\u2019ll be doing a big bunch of touring in Australia later in the year after the album\u2019s been out for a bit, get out to the smaller towns and way up north and way across and down and all that jazz and I think we might end up back in Europe before the year is out hopefully.\u00a0 Yeah so a lot of touring and just spreading the word that we\u2019ve got a record out and here we are and we\u2019re not going anywhere\u2026<\/p>\n

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

From:<\/strong> Melbourne, Australia<\/p>\n

Band members: <\/strong>Luke Yeoward, Jonno Smith, Dan McKay, Rob Ting, Mike Ting, Lanae Eruera<\/p>\n

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

Latest release:<\/strong> The Brightest Light (June 22 – Capitol \/ EMI Music Australia)<\/p>\n

Check out our review of ‘The Brightest Light’ here…<\/a><\/p>\n

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KING CANNONS \u2013 \u201cTHE BRIGHTEST LIGHT\u201d ALBUM LAUNCH TOUR
\nWith Special Guests MAJOR TOM & THE ATOMS<\/strong>
\nOn-Sale now
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THURSDAY 21 JUNE – MELBOURNE ALBUM LAUNCH \u2013 THE TOFF IN TOWN<\/strong>
\nTickets: $12.00 + BF
\nPhysical Album Bundle Tickets: $21.60 + BF (Collected on night of show)
\nwww.moshtix.com.au<\/a> or 1300 GET TIX<\/p>\n

THURSDAY 28 JUNE – SYDNEY ALBUM LAUNCH \u2013 OXFORD ART FACTORY<\/strong>
\nTickets: $12.00 + BF
\nPhysical Album Bundle Tickets: $21.40 + BF (To be received via post before 22nd<\/sup> June)
\nwww.moshtix.com.au<\/a> or 1300 GET TIX<\/p>\n

FRIDAY 29 JUNE – BRISBANE ALBUM LAUNCH \u2013 THE OLD MUSEUM<\/strong>
\nTickets: $12.00 + BF
\nPhysical Album Bundle Tickets: $21.50 + BF (To be received via post before 22nd<\/sup> June)
\nwww.oztix.com.au<\/a> or 1300 762 545
\nwww.oldmuseum.org<\/a> or <\/strong>07 3257 4089<\/p>\n

SATURDAY 30 JUNE<\/strong> <\/em>\u2013 RIVER SESSIONS FESTIVAL \u2013 MACKAY, QLD<\/strong>
\nTickets: www.riversessions.com.au<\/a>
\n(Major Tom & The Atoms Not Appearing)<\/em><\/p>\n

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