and turn them into something new and special. We have fallen in love with doing re-instrumentation of songs we’ve played all the time to make them fresh and exciting to play. Another important thing about a Hedley show is we always play all our songs because we know those are the times we’ve connected with our fans and moments we like to relive. Cageless has been a massive hit so far and is only getting more popular! Any songs that you’re particularly proud of on the album? You know ya, there’s a song called Bad Tattoo. It has a lot of intimate moments and that’s the side of song writing I’ve always been drawn too, those really raw real feelings. It’s an honest vulnerable song.
Let’s talk about the actual name of your album Cageless, what does this title mean to the band? It’s just the kind of eggs we eat (laughs). It represents a period of our life where you get a new lease on life, when you change things and break old habits. Change can often be this unwanted concept and we’ve all felt uncomfortable in our lives when things change, but I think the optimist in us looks at those experiences as a way to be freed from our old ways. For us Cageless represents the growth we’ve experienced and how we’ve changed over the years. Your most recent music video Better Days has a retro feel starting off in a laundry matt. Can you tell us about the creative process behind it’s production? We were kicking around some ideas and we had the idea of making a vid-
eo where we disrupt people’s days and make them better. We had the idea of potentially shooting it in real life and just surprising people, like the price is right kind of concept. But then at the end of the day we thought well maybe we should be safe. The idea of the video was just about making the mundane or everyday things in people’s lives better by surprises. And what better location then a laundry matt to disrupt peoples everyday life! Give us the rundown on the process that goes on between you and your band mates in terms of producing your music? So I think we all have evolved from a really cool place, we used to write music when we were jamming and then this evolved to us working in a studio environment. This became a really comfortable place for us to write. Studio first, jam space second. We write songs that
vibe that really sums up our style.”
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