| The Earlies | - These Were The Earlies is out on 679 Recordings.
- The Earlies play Academy 3 on Wednesday 21 October. Tickets are £8 and support comes from Micah P Hinson and Half Cousin.
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Giles Hatton on… …the formation of The Earlies
"It was more by accident than design. I was working in a studio in town and I met John Mark there. He was a big admirer of the English electronic music scene, so he’d come from Texas to get a job in an English studio. It was there that we met Christian and we started making music initially that was supposed to be instrumental. Then JM went home and was in a record shop one day and was approached by this strange man Brandon, who got a job in a record shop in the hope of meeting someone interesting in a small Texan town. John Mark got him to sing on the few instrumentals that we’d done and the rest is history."
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…the changes in the writing process
"We made the whole album without meeting Brandon, so now we’re entering into this new phase. Brandon’s moved over here and we’re all together, so we’re doing new material now and seeing how it works. It’s turning out to be a lot more songwriter based. We’re trying to find our way to fuse the two ways together, still keep the old formula that we had but just move it forward a bit." …the aim of The Earlies
"We wanted to make an album that got back to the time when there was pop music but there was a classicism involved in it as well. People like Phil Spector, Brian Wilson, George Martin… these people were making pop music but it was complex pop music and interesting to people, so we wanted to make accessible pop music with depth." | "We wanted to make an album that got back to the time when there was pop music but there was a classicism involved in it as well." | | Giles Hatton |
…The Earlies on record compared to The Earlies live
"John Mark and myself, we’re just not what you’d call your typical musician, I’m not a trained player of any instrument. We just tinker with computers and get the sonic aspect of the record together. So we have to put the live thing in the hands of Christian and Brandon. Me and John Mark, as far as the live shows are concerned, are really spare parts, we just do what we’re told. I really like the live show. It’s different to the record and which is what I really wanted. I wanted people to hear the record in their home and have one experience and then come and see us live and have a different one." …avoiding Manchester’s influence
"It never really touched me. My dad brought me up on jazz and that sort of thing and by the time the Stone Roses came along, I was into the Byrds and psychedelia and stuff. I kind of missed out. Manchester bands I’m influenced by are 10CC and the Hollies, bands like that. I don’t see The Earlies as a Manchester band and we’re not in competition with anyone else in the city. I love Manchester, I adore the place, but as far as music goes, I don’t see it as affecting the music that we make." | 
