Honours are a four-piece indie rock band from York who solely shaped final yr nevertheless went on to trigger a storm of their hometown and launched a whopping three singles in 2018 alone. Their songs have been performed on a number of radio stations and so they haven't solely performed but in addition headlined a large number of gigs of their brief time. We caught up with them to seek out out extra about their plans for the yr, their newest single and naturally the meanings behind their lyrics...

Hello guys and Comfortable New Yr! 2018 was positively a giant yr for you, what had been your private highlights?

Hey! Comfortable new yr to you too, it was a giant yr final yr for us and we beloved each a part of it. We acquired collectively and had our first gig in February 2018 as a headline present at The Crescent in York and we had been overwhelmed on the help that got here out for us that evening and that was an excellent begin for us. We acquired a robust set of songs collectively and simply booked a load of gigs for the yr. I believe going into the studio in Leeds to report a few of our songs was a spotlight for us, we hadn't actually had any expertise in a studio earlier than so to report our personal songs and have the end result we had was mega. Gigwise, we had some prime nights at The Stone Roses Bar in York, The Fulford Arms supporting our mates Whats up Operator and The Key Membership in Leeds to call only a few.

You handled your followers to newest single ‘Gone’ simply Four days earlier than Christmas! What has the response to it been like?

Yeah ‘Gone’, we love this track, I’d say Struan's finest work to this point in writing it. The catchy riff reminded us a bit of of The Stones Roses so all of us labored on it and got here up with all our personal authentic components and all of it simply clicked collectively properly. The response we have had to this point has been nice, it appears to be an actual crowd pleaser and will get everybody going and we like to play it stay!

You additionally celebrated the discharge with a single launch gig on Saturday the 22nd of December. How did the evening go?

The one launch was a prime evening, it was good to see so many individuals come down and we had an excellent lineup of bands with The Feens, Violet Contours and The Honey Smugglers who all smashed it. It was good to get it out and the evening was to have fun all of the exhausting work we put into the monitor.

Right here at The WonderWhy our focus is on lyrics and there are just a few traces in ‘Gone’ that actually stand out to us and that we’d wish to know extra about! So are you able to inform us what impressed the road “Come rain or shine there’s gonna be thunder”?  

It mainly signifies that generally in life there are conditions the place regardless of how good or unhealthy one thing will be there’s all the time gonna be the the thunder to make it higher or worse.

My private spotlight from the monitor is the next verse:

“Ship a message to the satan,

He desires to signal his life over to me,

This excessive prime felony claiming every little thing free of charge,

Say bye bye get gone to everybody you understand,

I’m sorry, I’m sorry to the individuals I really like.”

Are you able to inform our readers extra concerning the that means behind it?

I suppose it is fairly a miserable lyric, not essentially written about myself, however gathered from an expertise I've seen from another person's state of affairs the place they've tousled and harm the individuals they love. They contemplate themselves as taking up because the satan.

You launched your first single ‘Freedom’ in April final yr, how would you summarize the monitor?

‘Freedom’ was our first launch and it went down very well. That track can entice an viewers of any age with it is catchy guitar riff and massive sounding refrain. It is all the time one of many first songs to make our setlists.

A stand out line for me is “Effectively come on with me and set your self free”.  Is there a narrative behind this?

That lyric means seeing somebody going via life the mistaken means or trapped and also you giving them an escape path to free themselves from it.

One other nice lyric within the track is “I stand there and I dream to myself, Not against the law, simply the sense of confusion”. Are you able to inform us extra concerning the that means of this line?

It is about fixed daydreaming, if you need one thing so unhealthy and it is all the time in your thoughts however you snap out of it with the sense of confusion, in my case making it profitable with the band haha! Sooner or later hopefully...

Just a little over a month after the discharge of ‘Freedom’ you dropped second single ‘Duchess’. What does this track imply to you?

‘Duchess’ is a quick paced rock track, all the time performed as our final track at gigs to get everybody dancing. Loads of power goes into enjoying that one. It did very well in getting performed on Jericho Keys BBC Introducing Present and likewise acquired performed on BBC Radio 6 Up And Coming Bands To Look Out For which was a proud second for us!

The road “However I can’t be fooled into love” quickly evolves into “I’m a idiot in love with only a reminiscence to see”. Are you able to inform us extra concerning the story behind it and why you needed to convey a way of improvement within the track?

It was written about first assembly somebody and the way it evolves from nothing a lot, to the joy of simply the considered them after which falling in love with them. So the three phases of making an attempt to play it cool to being a soppy sod haha!

To date now we have questioned you in your launched songs nevertheless you might have been sort sufficient to ship us the lyrics to unreleased monitor ‘Shalala’ and subsequently we're going to end off with some questions concerning the unheard and unseen lyrics from what we're positive shall be one more banger from you guys. However earlier than we delve into that may you give our readers a touch as to what to anticipate from this track?

‘Shalala’ in the intervening time has solely been performed a handful of occasions stay, we wanted an acoustic track for our stay session on BBC Introducing, so it was put collectively actually rapidly. There are not any plans in the intervening time to report it, however possibly someday this yr we might launch it as a demo or a stay efficiency. It has fairly an Oasis acoustic sound about it. Possibly if we write just a few extra acoustic songs it might discover a place in our set after we play longer set occasions.

A spotlight for us on this track is the next line:

“Yeah I cry, yeah I break down if you say goodbye,

When your coronary heart beats it’s telling me, shalalalalala.”  

Are you able to elaborate on the that means of the phrase Shalala?

I will be sincere ‘Shalala’ has no that means on this track, it fitted properly with the melody so I caught with it. Plus the lads took the mickey out of it so I made a decision to keep it up simply to wind them up haha! It may imply the sound your coronary heart makes when in love, there you go, one other soppy that means.

A favorite a part of the track for us is the road:

“Love climbs a ladder of reality, each has no means down,

However I’ve seen it earlier than as I fell to flooring like a idiot.”

The track touches on comparable themes to different single ‘Duchess’. Are there any deliberate hyperlinks or shared meanings/ experiences used to encourage the lyrics?

There isn't a direct hyperlink between ‘Shalala’ and ‘Duchess’ however each are love songs of their alternative ways. ‘Duchess’ is extra of the progress of falling in love, and ‘Shalala’ is about already being in love.

Thanks for answering our questions guys, simply earlier than we finish are you able to inform us something concerning the band’s plans for 2019?

Thanks for the interview and hopefully we have made some sense into the meanings behind a few of our songs. We're gearing up for hopefully an even bigger yr in 2019, making ready some recent new songs to introduce into our set. We've got a brand new single popping out in March known as 'Your To Blame' which we're enthusiastic about. We're at the moment engaged on a music video for our newest launch 'Gone' which will even be launched shortly. Loads of gigs are coming in for up and down the nation, gigs with This Feeling and festivals in York are booked in and likewise we'll be excited to be enjoying some dates in London this yr which we've not performed but. Thanks once more for the interview and here is some hyperlinks to our social media if anybody want to verify us out and hold updated with us.

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