Words matter. These are the best James Righton Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m a ’70s guy at heart. I play a lot of Bowie and 10cc at home.
My nan, God bless her, used to buy the NME, then go to the chip shop and be like ‘ooh check out that’ every week, she’d be saying, ‘Oh have you heard the new single by Arctic Monkeys?’ and it’s like, I haven’t even heard this!
There was always talk that the Horrors didn’t have any substance but I think they’re proving people wrong.
There’s a few bands that I always read about that complain about everything: the travel, the fans… you know they could be working a 9-to-5 job. They should get out if they don’t like it. They should just get out. It’s quite easy.
Tom Rowlands does not rush a record.
People in bands should have a responsibility not to moan, not to complain about being in bands. Things could be a lot worse, you know?
I’ve learnt to control worry, control doubt, control my inner Virgo.
The Smiths did that well, putting words in pop songs you wouldn’t hear anywhere else.
We like music, we pretty much collect it, but I’m not geeky about it, although I’m usually in the record shop nearly every day.
With the second record there’s a need to show that we weren’t chancers, that we could play our instruments.
You have to set the bar higher and higher.
The elements of rave that we try to incorporate are the fun aspects.
When you’re growing up you also like to go out and party a lot, and the music that we would hear going out would be techno and electronica. And earlier stuff like the Prodigy. It kind of stood out from everything else. Y’know, ‘Firestarter,’ where did that come out of? It sounded alien and otherworldly.
If you look at the whole New Rave movement, the big common ground is definitely the fun element. It’s more outward-looking music than introspective.
I’m less self-consumed, less narcissistic, I’m more selfless, more considerate. I’ve just grown up. It’s a slow growth, because I was in a band for ten years. I was given the card to be able to live an adolescent life forever. You’re celebrated, the more of a child you are.
I’ve always loved melody and pop hooks, slightly left of centre but I have always tried to balance it with songs that have lyrics you can sing along to.
We didn’t want to be a po-faced, dull band – we wanted to have fun.
I’d say dance is as relevant to us as, say, pop. It’s as relevant as electronica, as relevant as ambient or experimental music. I wouldn’t say it’s something we spend more time on than any other genre.
Klaxons was a really great chapter in my earlier life, and now I’m older and happy doing other things.
We are indeed a party band.
We didn’t want to be another post-Libertines band singing about London and playing chords.
It’s fair to say I’m becoming addicted to endorphins.
Keira doesn’t play much music herself, but ‘Breakfast in America’ by Supertramp goes down pretty well in our house!
We have been fortunate enough to travel a lot and we focus heavily on melody and that really is an international language.
Within Klaxons, I never wrote the lyrics. I always wrote the melody and music with the other guys.
Our intention when we first started as a band, was to be a rave band. We kind of just got it wrong. We tried, but we didn’t have the talent or the knowledge to make a rave record.
Governments don’t get elected saying, ‘We’re going to lower GDP next year,’ governments get elected on saying, ‘We’re going to increase prosperity and the happiness and the wealth of our nations.’ But that kind of capitalism will only lead to the destruction of our planet.
We like people who come to our gigs to dress sharp and to impress.
We want our audience to enjoy themselves, we want every gig to feel like an event – of course there are musical elements of rave to our sound, but we wouldn’t strictly classify ourselves as that.
There’s nothing better than looking out into the audience and having a whole sea of glowsticks staring back at you.
We have high expectations and a high level of standard we try to reach in everything we do. Ideas get through if they are good enough, songs get their way in.
With Klaxons I had an instrument, so I had a job to play keys. Everyone’s roles get defined early in bands, so you’re ‘that guy who does this one thing’ and it felt too restrictive doing that.
New Rave was like the 60s – if you can remember it then you weren’t there.
