As long as you’ve got your Queens of the Stone Ages, your Foo Fighters, your Jack Whites, they’re all playing rock n’ roll music there’s just not a lot of it in the popular music world. Bonnaroo was the nearest we could get this time.Įo8: Some people have said that y’all are “bringing rock n’ roll back,” how do you feel about those kinds of statements?īT: That’s quite a bold statement that people are making rock n’ roll has always been around and it always will be around. We get to do things like that.Įo8: You’re playing Bonnaroo in June, but there’s no Nashville date on the tour, I’m so sad! Does Bonnaroo count as your “Nashville” date?īT: Yes…do you know, we played in Nashville at the end of last year and we had such a fun time there that I’m sad that we’re not going back to Nashville. I’m playing a show in a couple of hours and I’m still sitting on the beach. Our schedule is always pretty intense but we push ourselves to look around. We love playing shows there and eating the food, we always have a good time when we’re in America, and I think we’ll have a bit of time, you know. It was a privilege to be there.Įo8: You’re about to start an extensive North American tour, kicking it off with a performance at Coachella what are your expectations for the tour? Will you have time to do any exploring or is your schedule pretty intense?īT: We’re really excited. To win any kind of award for doing music is brilliant I think. It was a little bit of a shock, to be honest, but it was great.

We didn’t really expect it, we were up against Coldplay and One Direction. Fortunately, I managed to stop hyperventilating long enough to ask him a few questions:Įo8: Royal Blood won the award for Best British Group at the 2015 Brit Awards this year, what was that experience like for you?īT: It was pretty mad. The band was set to play a show in Spain, and Ben was speaking to me from a beach in Barcelona. I had the most incredible opportunity recently to interview drummer Ben Thatcher, one-half of British rock duo Royal Blood, who won the award for “Best British Group” at the Brit Awards this year (like our Grammy awards), beating out bands like Coldplay, alt-j, and One Direction.

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