So, your debut EP “Rewriting History” is available now. How long did it take to craft? Rob: It’s taken us the best part of a year really. We’ve been really busy in the last 6 months, and with the new line-up, which we’ve only had for about 2 months. But yeah, it’s taken us a year and we’re really happy with it all.
Will it just be you 5 or will you get in some featured acts, I read on your website you like to collaborate with other musicians? Rob: We have both a 3 and 5-year business plan, we take it very seriously being our main career goal. We’ve got a list of people that we’d really like to work with. You’ll probably find we’ll have a couple featured artists on the album, we do like to work with people and guest musicians so if anyone’s interested, get in touch with us via our website! We like something that’s different, we’ve got a guitar, bass, drums and keyboard lineup so any different instruments, we like to work with that. We’re open to pretty much anything.
How do Chasing Deer go about writing a song, does one person take the lead or is it a mish-mash of ideas until something sounds good? Adam: Normally one person will come to practice with an idea and then we’ll look at developing them together. Whether that’s just a riff or a lyrical phase, we all put our own ideas into it and craft it into a song.
Chasing Deer’s debut EP ‘Rewriting History’ is out now! Look out for Chasing Deer this year, they may well be christening Portland’s new stage.
Looking forward to the future, are there any plans for a full album? Adam: Well we’re already full steam ahead writing our album, due for a 2016 release, which will build on our sound and image so it’s quite exciting really.
You can read the full interview online at www.themicmagazine.co.uk.
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