Jon Seymour Interviews
Olivia Hyde From
So you’ve got a new album out now, would you like to tell us about it? Yes, it’s called Monstrous Child and it came out on 26th August. It’s actually a concept album. It started out as an idea for a music video. We had a few songs, and our guitarist Steve (Kilpatrick), knew a screen writer that wanted to get involved, as he was a fan of the band. When he heard Hollow he had this vision of a normal person who had been transformed into a powerful and deadly monster. We took that as a metaphor for someone that’s had something bad happen to them in the past. Along similar lines of “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” but in doing so, it can also make you a lot colder. Now that she’s got this new power, she’s seeing the world for the first time through different eyes, and she’s tempted to exact revenge.
get closer to her lover, because of her power and her lack of empathy, she tears him open and ends up killing him. The last track on the album is about the people we are. What happens to us throughout our lives defines who we are, and it doesn’t mean that we don’t carry the scars around with us, and that’s called Invincible Girl.
It would seem that you have a very active imagination, even if it is a little dark at times, not everybody could come up with something like this. Well I don’t really know what to say to that. I guess when people first heard the song Where Does It Hurt they saw me in a different light, you know “best not piss you off then” or something like that. It was just getting my self into the character, you know, trying to think if I had no empathy, what would I try and do? I had to start thinking about this guy who’s The album does seem to explore some of the the love of my life, what would a monster do to him? She loves him so much that being close to him or darker recesses of the imagination. Yes it does. The track Awake Now is about the girl next to him isn’t enough, but she doesn’t understand that tearing him open and covering herself with his opening her eyes and realises what’s been happening all along. When I write lyrics I try not to be blood is going to kill him. self indulgent, and I try to write them so that other So do people think you’re a bit weird sometimes? people can take something from it and make it personal to them. For instance, Awake Now could be How could someone take something personal from related to someone who’s been doing the same job that? for twenty years, and all of a sudden they realise that Yeah I guess that is a bit weird, but the way people they’re really not happy, or maybe someone who has could relate to that is like, ok when we do the song in been in a terrible relationship for a long time and all the show, I will ask the crowd if there’s anyone out of a sudden this light bulb has just been switched on. there that’s fancied someone or loved someone with As the album progresses there are more things that such passion that being next to them isn’t enough, the character goes through. In the song Chase The and if it was ok you’d tear them open and cover Demons she tries to reclaim her own sexuality, and yourself in their blood just so you can feel that you’re in the darker parts of the song, in her attempts to a part of them, which is closer than being next to
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