THEGAYUK WINTER 13 /14 Issue 1
So do the boys like Lady Gaga’s artistic
Timmy: It’s a smaller team (than their
progression and her new album? Timmy’s not sophomore album), but it feels like there’s a
so sure…
good musical cement in with our musical
bricks.
Timmy: I’m just putting it out there now, in
Mark: Because we’re an album act, it feels
her vocal she’s sounding a bit too theatrical
like you need that cohesion with our album.
and I know that we’ll get a lot of hate for this, With so many other acts it’s about the single.
I’m not sure I can connect with it, I could
connect with her earlier songs…
The Overtones, having sold well over a half a
Mark: Yes, but you could connect with it the million records in the UK alone, have
other night when we went to the G-A-Y bar… survived the downfall of ‘Concept’ albums.
Timmy: I don’t remember.
They were signed at a time when Soldiers,
Mark: Yeah you do – We’ve got it on Vine!
Nurses, Fishermen, Priests and alike were
Timmy: I still don’t remember.
being offered contracts left right and centre.
Seemingly The Overtones have survived
Mark pulls out his phone and sure enough the where others have failed. They’ve shrugged
boys are dancing a perfectly routined,
off their initial press splash story; of being
impromptu set for Gaga’s Applause in the
painters and decorators, ‘discovered’ by a
middle of Soho’s G-A-Y bar, complete with
passing record exec. They’ve become a bit of
amused onlookers in the background.
an ‘album act’. Which is not to be sniffed at.
Where most artists are living and breathing
I’m interested, do the boys choreograph and
on the success of a 99p single, these boys are
style themselves, or is there a team of heavy
very conscious of how important the notion of
duty creatives,
a collection of songs,
marketeers,
bundled together by
consultants, stylists
an artist is.
and life gurus behind
them?
‘Saturday Night At
The Movies’ is
Darren: We’re very
predominantly an
hands on with
album of cover songs
everything, so we’re
from the movies.
very lucky boys.
Lachie: So, we were
The boys, I’m told,
sitting in the big
were basically
Warner’s boardroom
handed a cheque for
talking about the 3rd
the first album and
album, and there
told pretty much to
were songs on a list,
get on with it. Mark
and as Mark said we
speaks up, with a
are an album act,
thoughtful
and so there can be a
considered tone...
theme running
throughout the
Mark: It’s good because in the first album we album, which I think works really strong