![]() ![]() On ‘Baby’, we’d rehearse it to hell and just go in and do it. “And you can try a million things at once – I don’t think we ever did that. “It feels like we can be ourselves, and we can say, ‘I don’t think this is going to work’,” Lloyd explained. Tribes’ sessions in Dorset were self-produced by White, eliminating the pressure or stress of working with an outside figure who might not understand what the band wanted. “We’d be recording acoustic guitar and we’d have to wait for the warheads to end,” White added. “It’s pitch black and there’s massive tanks firing artillery.” “It’s a spooky place and it’s so remote,” the frontman said of the area, which is in the middle of an “army range”. The song – and the other new music the band has in the pipeline – was recorded in a cottage next door to Lloyd’s home in Dorset, where White became resident during the pandemic. “Before, we were maybe a bit more isolated from each other.” “We’re doing this from a position of listening and understanding and just being there for each other,” he said. “I like the line ‘ Seven times around the sun and all I’ve got’s the shadow I’ve become’, because I think I felt like that – just endlessly ‘Oh, what was the name of your band?’ It’s not a nice feeling, feeling like you’re not doing your best.”įor White, the new single represents the four friends’ potential and support for one another. “It’s the end and the beginning,” Lloyd said, calling it a “bridge” between Tribes’ past and their new chapter. But ‘Hard Pill’ came out and that led into everything else.” “At that time, we weren’t planning to do a record – we were just going to do the show. “I’ve been producing bands since and I was in the studio and this riff came out with the first lyric – ‘ You looked me in the eye’,” White recalled. ‘Hard Pill’, a swaggering juggernaut of a song that feels true to Tribes’ DNA while feeling fresh and new, was the first track to begin to take shape. With that thought in their minds, new material started flowing. The spirit of the band, which has always been very happy, was back, and people were feeling the same, so it was exciting to jump back on it.” ![]() It’d been so painful – the break-up – and so many years of this void. “It was like, ‘Maybe we should be doing this’. The London gig was upgraded to Kentish Town Forum due to demand and also sold out. “The next one sold out, and then the next one sold out,” Lloyd added, referring to warm-up gigs in Sheffield and Manchester.
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