{"id":418,"date":"2011-03-09T06:53:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T11:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=418"},"modified":"2011-03-09T06:53:54","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T11:53:54","slug":"london-calling-good-dangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2011\/03\/09\/london-calling-good-dangers\/","title":{"rendered":"London Calling: Good Dangers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This band’s information floated over our transom with the following e-note appended:<\/p>\n

We wrote these songs in our living rooms<\/p>\n

We recorded them<\/strong><\/p>\n

We moved to north london so it was easier<\/p>\n

We didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t always agree<\/strong><\/p>\n

but that’s ok<\/p>\n

We made some art to go with the music<\/strong><\/p>\n

We made videos which took longer<\/p>\n

We have all been in other bands – this is our favourite<\/strong><\/p>\n

Good <\/strong>Dangers is – Maxim, Gavin, Johny, Jenny & Howard<\/p>\n

I listened to their songs and watched their video(s), and later, upon adding Abigail <\/em>to my daily playlist (listen to it streaming at bandcamp<\/a>), I found myself humming along and tapping my pencil to the beat while I worked. And then I took it upon myself to do some further investigation. Lead singer Gavin<\/strong> (top right) expanded as follows:<\/p>\n

Naturally the first question is going to be: Which bands were you in before? <\/strong><\/p>\n

That’s a bit of a secret, we like mystery.<\/p>\n

Where did you move to North London from<\/em><\/strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We all studied and lived south of the river after going to Goldsmiths College<\/a>, gradually we migrated north\/east so we could write and play easily. It’s good times in that part of London.<\/p>\n

Why did you name the new band “Good Dangers”?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The music has a tension about it.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s a lot of risk in putting music out there and giving up a part of your life to do that. We wanted to capture that in the name. Or we just came up with cause it sounded good. Can’t remember.<\/p>\n

The songs sound so light and airy, but your comment in your bio about disagreements makes it sound like getting there was hard. Was the songwriting difficult? How did you go about putting the pieces together?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sometimes writing is painless, the songs write themselves. Other times we massively disagree. Great songs come out of both situations. You can never tell how it will play out. The only thing you can guarantee is that we will all have an opinion!<\/p>\n

Are you all supposed to look dead in your press picture? If so, why?<\/strong><\/p>\n

No, although I agree we look a bit dead! There is something good about taking your clothes off and shutting your eyes, we can say that much.<\/p>\n

I watched the video for Brasilia<\/em>, and wow, there’s a lot to unpack there, visually. I saw a lot of footage I recognized as being disaster- or crisis-related, and a lot that seemed, at least in theory, to be harmless. What was all of that mixing about, and how does it related to the song? Also was it meant to evoke Brazil<\/em>, the movie?<\/strong><\/p>\n

No relation to that fantastic movie. Making that video, I used footage from growing up in Australia shot on super 8 and a bunch of archive footage that I felt summed up the themes in the song. The song is about memories and their potency.<\/p>\n

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