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ISSUE 1 THE BRAND NEW MAGAZINE FOR BRIGHTON… AND BEYOND ABSOLUTEDONS How Don Broco are bossing it with a new album and a live show to die for PLUS: GIG GUIDE, NEW REVIEW SECTION, GABRIELLE APLIN, THE BEST NEW BANDS IN BRIGHTON AND BEYOND In association with Dare to believe. Protect your gear with the insurance it deserves. • Premiums from £3 a month • No excess as standard* • Add on public liability cover • Instrument & accessory cover, including phones, laptops and tablets T DISC Get a quote: EN OU D N U T allianzmusic.co.uk T S 0330 102 2068 S 20% T T U N D U E O NT DISC To get your discount select ‘BIMM’ as your college on quote page 1 Terms and conditions apply. * £100 excess applies for computer equipment. Allianz Musical Insurance is a trading name of Allianz Insurance plc. Welcome to Brighton Life, a newer, Dare to believe. better and far funkier version of the previous mag from the BIMM Music Journalism students, BIMM Life. 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D N RADAR 8 U T allianzmusic.co.uk T S Prentiss Mitchell REVIEWS 10 0330 102 2068 GABRIELLE APLIN 14 S 20% T THE GRADUATE 15 T U N D U BIMM E O NT DISC LIFE To get your discount select ‘BIMM’ as your college on quote page 1 Designed by 155 Creative (@155creative) | To advertise in BRIGHTON LIFE contact [email protected] If you would like to contribute to BRIGHTON LIFE, please email [email protected] l 03 Terms and conditions apply. * £100 excess applies for computer equipment. Allianz Musical Insurance is a trading name of Allianz Insurance plc. TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGH Don Broco’s third album, Technology, continues the rocking rise of the Bedford band. Lead singer Rob Damiana talks to Quinlan Barker and Tara Matthews about making the record and straining at the leash to play it live Since their inception almost a decade Rob: With this current tour, the album ago, Bedford quartet Don Broco have will have only been out a week or so, so gone from strength to strength. we don’t want to flood people with new On the back of two stellar albums, material, because we know what it’s like 2012’s alt-rock powerhouse, Priorities, as fans; you want to see the oldies that It was the first time as a band things didn’t It was the first time as a band things didn’t as they once did feel as fun or fresh and it hit us hard and funk-infused sophomore effort, you know and love as well. “ Automatic, the band now sport a UK Top When you’ve done pretty much the 10 album on their CV as well as support same set for the last three years, every slots for mammoth groups 5 Seconds of time you get to bring one or two songs Summer and Bring Me The Horizon. in to freshen it up it just gives it that The Automatic campaign culminated whole new lease of life for us and our in a sold-out show at London’s Alexandra fans. Palace in November 2017, which included an on-stage proposal, giant confetti Have these songs been a long time in cannons and prodigious pyrotechnics, the making? solidifying them as one of the most Rob: Not really, and that’s kind of been exciting live bands in the UK. the most exciting part of this album Reflecting in almost nervous process for us. As soon as we had a excitement, vocalist Rob Damiani, song we just recorded it and put it guitarist Si Delaney and drummer Matt out. We had the first single, Everybody, Donnelly provide a candid insight into the ready to go, and we were excited to story of album number three, Technology, play it, so we recorded it as quick as we revealing that although the journey wasn’t could, shot a video and got it out within the smooth ride they were expecting, a month. It’s a massively liberating it taught them valuable lessons on how experience doing that, because music is to make the Don Broco name go truly very much of the moment when you’re stratospheric. writing it and feeling it. Your new album, Technology, is finally Were there any difficulties along the out. It must be nice to be able get your way in the story of Technology? fans’ reactions? Rob: It was the first time as a band that Rob: It’s been a little while coming. It’s things didn’t seem as fun or as fresh been good to get a load of material out as they once did, and it really hit us before the album, which has been really hard. Some of it was probably stuff we nice to whet people’s appetites, and it’s brought on ourselves, not being able to meant we’ve been able to play a load of deal with the pressure and things not new songs already, which is always fun. always going the way we wanted them The live show’s the most fun thing we get to. to do as a band, and when you’re playing Unfortunately, the more serious it BIMM the same songs over and over again it’s becomes and the more pressure you just really exciting to freshen it up. get, the less free time you have. As the LIFE UK shows get bigger and bigger, you With three albums under your belt, how don’t have as much time to do the fun l has that affected your live set-list? stuff around it, but in a way that’s just a 04 The live shows are the most fun thing we get to do as a band ” fact of life. There’s constant self-doubt along Was this sentiment felt during the writing of the process and I think that’s something that the music? anyone has. There’s a constant drive to do Rob: I think for me the most powerful thing more and succeed, and you think, What are about music and the cathartic aspect of we even doing with our lives at some points, writing songs is you can turn a negative time but you’ve got to get past that. in your life into something positive by writing a tune about it, and you can dissect how you On the surface, there were no visible signs of really feel, almost like a diary. Even if there’s this distress. As a band, How do you deal with no resolution, if you write a banging song at these kinds of troubles in such a the end of it, you can tell yourself, Well, it was public world? worth it in the end. Rob: It’s definitely something no one would have noticed, and I think that was almost as How have you been able to put the false big a strain as anything else, because you’re sexual misconduct allegations made last year putting out this image that everything’s rosy, behind you? and even if things weren’t, you wouldn’t want Rob: It was a difficult period – it was massively to be moaning about stuff on your band hurtful to have my family, friends and fans Twitter. Any of our close friends or family read those lies about me. The person making knew the pressure we were under, but to the those claims fully retracted them and publicly BIMM general public we’re not going to be putting apologised but it was still obviously an awful out statuses of how depressed we are or thing to go through. I accepted the apology LIFE how tough it is because people don’t want to and re-focused my energy on finishing the hear that.