How excited are you for your upcoming shows, and what can attending fans expect? There are no words to express my excitement for the shows. The shows are going to be at the highest standard of any Finch show ever before. We are going to lose our fucking minds on stage and we hope that every one in attendance isn't afraid to as well. Every time we hit the stage, we're all going to be connected. It's going to sound amazing and we're experimenting with a lot of interesting production to help express the dynamics of the record. We are playing WIITB front to back with some surprises at the end so If you are a hardcore early Finch fan then you will not be disappointed. If you are, I will personally refund your money and apologize.
If you could go back and do it all again now, is there anything that you would change in your bands career? Yeah, I would only change what I thought I could. Maybe get rid of a virus that ended up destroying the band inside out the first time. That would have solved many, many problems that were to come which in the end made us all look like total careless assholes. We're not that, we're nice normal people and I'd like people to feel that connection with us. If the music is in your heart then we have something in common. We're all that much closer.
Alternatively, looking back on your career, what would you say has been one of your biggest achievements as a band, and why? We have so many big achievements and I think every little goal we set out for ourselves and accomplished is on par with every other achievement. They all took the same amount of heart, hard work and drive and creativity. I have a memory like an elephant but I'd say our biggest and most awestruck we'd ever been was playing to 80k people at Reading and Leeds with everyone singing every word. I've never been so high in my life (for the record, I was not on drugs), it was astounding.
How would you say the alternative music scene compares now to when you guys first started out as 'Finch' ? Well, alternative music has a different musical connotation to me than the label alternative that was so popular to throw around in the 90's. There are so many good bands doing alternative things nowadays that I would consider it an alternative to mainstream. The biggest alternative band in the world is Radiohead because they’re always evolving and taking chances, so to me doing something surprising and taking risks is alternative. I'm pretty sure that we thought we were doing something new and alternative when we wrote all of our records, we always considered ourselves an alt band, especially with Say Hello to Sunshine. I'd have to say getting SHTS out there was one of the biggest challenges of our career because we were still trying to keep a democratic way where everyone had a say, however at that point I think people were giving up on us but we just forged on. It's a miracle that that record got released, and it was an accomplishment. People wanted us to write WIITB part two but we physically couldn’t do it. We were evolving at a high pace and we had to be honest with ourselves, so we wrote that record just like the first one by making up our own sounds and vibes. It seemed to click with some people, whilst others loathe the record. We were just being Finch at that time and place. A BIG IF we ever make a 3rd album (probably won't) It will be the best we can make it but I promise it will sound nothing like sunshine or burn, as we are just evolving and being honest.
So what does the future hold for 'Finch' then? As in, are these going to be the final shows for the band, or can we expect something more? We have no plans on closing the doors on Finch this time around. It will always be there for us and everyone else, just sort of in a box. We have big plans for the end of this tour that I don't want to spoil yet. We are working on a documentary with amazing people who are helping us document the story of a band like us. It's less centered around the band and it’s mostly about the personalities. It will be very honest and real but It will look beautiful. In closing. I'd like to thank everyone who made it this far. Please come and see us at one of our upcoming shows, and if you want to correspond, it's fairly easy: Facebook.com/officialofficalfinch (find out when and where we'll be in your town or close to it and try and make a trip for this special occasion) twitter.com/officialfinch