White Lies have become a firm favourite in the music scene and over the last few years they have toured with Kings of Leon, Snow Patrol, Coldplay and Muse. There second album ‘Ritual’ has just hit the shelves so I had a chat with drummer Jack Lawrence-Brown to find out what they make of their journey so far.
Your second album was released on Monday, can you tell us a bit about it?
I think the record is essentially a rock record, certainly more than the first. It has a lot more forays into electronic music and touches of electronic music that we have picked up over the last few years since touring the first record which I think was probably more straight forward than this one. It’s been an exciting few days, having to wait so long with it already finished and finally getting to release it was a great feeling as we have been sitting on it for about six months. It makes a difference for the live shows; it makes a difference for ticket sales and all that kind of stuff so it’s good that it’s finally come out.
You have been playing gigs all over the world, where have you had the best reaction?
The best shows are often the ones were you’re not really expecting much or you don’t really know what to expect. I think we have had amazing shows in Poland, the first time we went there we were blown away. We weren’t really expecting much at all as we had never played there so we were really shocked at the reception over there, the same in Russia. The same with Holland, its one of our biggest markets which is kind of bizarre. I think it’s usually the ones where you’re not really sure what’s going to happen and then if you have a good show you’re much more surprised by it. We could go and play a show tomorrow in Glasgow and we know it would be an amazing show as it’s always an amazing show there. If you’ve never been somewhere and you have no real idea of how its going turn out they tend to be the best ones.
