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Photography Courtesy of Dave Clarke
Polyphonic Spree
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DE-ROBED, BUT NOT DE-THRONED AFTER THREE YEARS, THOSE SOLDIER GIRLS AND BOYS ARE BACK AGAIN WITH A NEW ALBUM AND A NEW LOOK. SPREE MAINMAN TIM DELAUGHTER TELLS JASON DRAPER WHAT HAPPENED. “We go through so much bullshit to try to do what we’re doing at this point that, when we get a chance to play live, it’s a victory for us,” Tim deLaughter says. ‘Laughter’ might make part of his surname (which is, in fact, pronounced to rhyme with ‘daughter’… or… ‘slaughter’), but it’s not in his voice right now: “There’s 27 of us on one bus [going] around here in the States, the thing’s broken down twice. We’ve had to switch to coaches that have upright seats where you sit up for 20 hours and drive from one place to another. We don’t get a shower every day, we don’t make much money – we charge the same price for a ticket that a five-piece charges. Believe me, it’s not all sunshine and happiness for this group…”