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Feb 25 2007
Dont Be Scared Of Ghosts Print E-mail
Saturday, 24 February 2007


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You might not be familiar with Ghosts yet, but in 2007 their harmony-drenched guitar-pop anthems will be impossible to avoid. Ghosts first met at school and have been together, in one guise or another, ever since. Newly signed to Atlantic Records, Ghosts release 'Stay The Night' 19th March. The band have just put the finishing touches to their debut album, set for release in Spring 2007 which is a must for your CD collection.

 So why the name Ghosts?

“We didn’t call ourselves Ghosts because we felt invisible it’s because we’ve gone very pale with all the time spent in windowless studios,” explains keyboardist Mark Treasure. “We failed to get signed with our previous names so decided to change the name. Ghosts is also one of the oldest songs we recorded.”

Ghosts’ CDs and downloads are selling like hotcakes. They’re also tipped to be the biggest band of 2007. When asked how he felt things were going he simply replied: “We’ve been so busy, nobody lets me sleep anymore! It’s insane.”

He’s definitely not complaining though, the band have been on tour at many venues up and down the UK and Scotland including Barfly in London. Mark gushes about his love for performing to their fans:

 “I like performing because it’s such an adrenaline rush when people start singing along with us. I also like the fact that if you made a tiny mistake the moment passes and it’s forgotten. With recording, you have to make sure it’s perfect and improve after ever take which can get tedious.”

Mariah Carey’s backstage requests include honeyed tea and Beyonce prays with her entourage before entering the stage. Ghosts appear to be less high maintenance.

During the last ten minutes before we go on [stage] I tend to generate an obscene amount of saliva. I never need to spit though, I just cough a lot.”

When you’re a singer and musician performing many shows, you’re bound to make a mistake or two and Mark is no different:

 “In Brighton I broke a guitar string, I was given another one that didn’t work so I just gave up with the guitar and sang with just the mic which I had never done before but quite enjoyed. Having a guitar is like a barrier and it makes you feel more secure.”

Ghosts are four men that have to be in close proximity every day when they’re on tour and maybe slightly less when not touring. Are there smelly socks left around the tour bus you ask? Nothing as bad as all that he assures us.

I bite my nails a lot and we’re quite messy because I’d rather live in a lull of disorder. My mum used to paint my nails with that gel stuff to stop me biting them but I ended up liking it! Other than that I think we’re quite civilised human beings.”

He adds: “Being together for so long as a group has definitely been an advantage. A lot of bands get signed very quickly and are sometimes put together and find out they don’t get on. If we were going to hate each other I think it would have happened by now. We’ve spent a lot of time together and nobody’s dead yet!

Recording their debut album was an amazing experience for the group and they upped and left their jobs as soon as they secured a publishing deal. They took the cash they had and went off to Sweden.

It was the best thing we ever did. We got away from the distractions in London. It’s so easy to procrastinate in London even though we had our own rehearsal room,” recalls Mark.” We stayed in our drummer’s uncle’s cottage which was in the middle of nowhere. We wrote ten songs in eight weeks and half of them made the album.”

Every artist has a track that’s closest to their hearts and when asked about which that was for Mark, he clams up for a moment. He then reveals that Something Hilarious is the most personal track on their album.

It’s a bit weepy. I don’t want to get into specifics but it’s about the breakdown of a relationship I was in.”

The UK has many new artists releasing music and a good measure of the talent we now have is the BBC Sound Of 2007 List which includes artists like Mika, Just Jack, Sadie Ama and Enter Shikari. We asked Mark what his thoughts were about making the list.

 “That was wicked. I always used to read that list when I was in an office list thinking ‘why aren’t we on that?’ I think we’re the lowest profile band to blag it on there. It’s very flattering to think that in the public vote we came third. Enter Shikari aren’t really my thing but I think their music is well put together and interesting. I really like Mika though.”

According to Mark: “our goal for this year is to sell sh*tloads of records”.

If Ghosts keep banging out the hits like they have begun to, they won’t have a problem.

 
The new single ‘Stay The Night’ is released 19th March 2007

 

 

For more info: www.ghostsmusic.com or www.myspace.com/ghostsuk

Words: Rashmi Shastri




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written by melissa , June 03, 2007
they sound SH=T
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