New album, fresh start for Pale Blue Eyes  - Brighton date - video Dailymotion

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Pale Blue Eyes play Dust, Brighton on Friday, April 11 on the back of their third studio album New Place on their label Broadcast Recordings.

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00:00Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor for Sussex Newspapers. Lovely

00:06this afternoon to speak to Matt and Lucy from Pale Blue Eyes. Now, it's a bit of a fresh

00:11start with the third album, isn't it? You've made a big journey in slightly difficult,

00:16well, difficult family circumstances, a big journey from Devon to Sheffield, and the third

00:22album now, which is, say, a bit of a fresh start, isn't it, Lucy?

00:26Yeah, it feels like a sort of weight lifting, and it's quite a sort of positive, like, like

00:31you say, it's like new beginnings, new players, new people, setting up a new studio here in

00:35Sheffield and just kind of navigating all of that together, but with the sort of backdrop

00:41of Pale Blue Eyes being a very fun vehicle that we kind of used to go around and play.

00:46Does the album feel different?

00:49It does to me. Obviously, it's really tricky to know how it feels to people hearing it

00:54for the first time. To us, it feels like a, yeah, definitely a positive progression

00:58and like some, some like elements of Pale Blue Eyes are still in there, but then we've

01:03tried a few new things, had a few, you know, brought in a few new instruments, a couple

01:07of new players, and just all sorts of, yeah, just trying things out, which has been really

01:14fun and quite liberating, I think.

01:16Yeah, and Matt, obviously, it's been a really difficult time for you, hasn't it, losing

01:20both your parents in fairly quick succession. The first albums were uplifting despite the

01:26circumstances, but you're saying with this album, especially with The Move, you've been

01:30so much more focused on the album, haven't you? It hasn't been a distraction to difficulties

01:34elsewhere.

01:35Yeah, I think we've had an amazing amount of support through that journey and through

01:41that process, but through the nature of that not being a day-to-day part of our lives,

01:46we have had time to focus on these songs and go, yeah, go a bit deeper with how we've

01:53written and collaborated on them.

01:55What sorts of things are happening lyrically on the new album, would you say?

02:00I think because there's been so much change, and obviously, you know, not living those

02:07circumstances anymore, I've been able to focus in on other areas of things that have like

02:12inspired me or moved me or like subjects and experiences that aren't really anything

02:18to do with that time and that world, and it being a fresh start and having Headspace has

02:24opened up like a different world of kind of subjects that were in journals or books or

02:30just floating around in my head, which I've now had time to focus in on and write tunes

02:36about.

02:37That sounds great. And loosely, Sheffield is your family area, isn't it? But Matt, do

02:41you now feel at home up north?

02:44I think so. Like Lou's mum every year like buys me a Sheffield United shirt with my name

02:49on the back and her favourite player. So I've got like four or five of them.

02:53Do you have to wear it?

02:54So I think I'm now being, oh, all the time. Yeah, every day, day in, day out, to Christmas,

03:01you know, family dinners, Sunday lunches.

03:02We're going to the football tomorrow, aren't we? You'll have to wear it for that.

03:06I love it here, actually.

03:07How are Sheffield United doing? Going brilliantly, is it?

03:11Really well. Really well, actually.

03:12No, really good.

03:13Oh, they're doing well.

03:14Yeah.

03:15Yeah, they're going to probably go up, I think.

03:17I think we'll go up.

03:18Having fairly recently gone down.

03:19I said wheel, though. So that, I said wheel, which I may not have said four or five years

03:25ago.

03:26You're being a supporter, clearly.

03:27I am still an ex-football fan at heart.

03:30Those football shirts are working their magic. Fantastic.

03:34Before long, you're heading south for a date in Brighton.

03:37Congratulations on the new album and really lovely to speak to you both.

03:41Thanks.

03:42Thanks for having us.

New album, fresh start for Pale Blue Eyes - Brighton date

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