Wednesday, 18 December 2013

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Queller Drives to Success


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n a world exclusive, and incredibly rare, solo interview in this week's Clash! Magazine, Queller drive front woman Beth Warner speaks frankly and openly about everything including plans for a world tour and Writing her own personal songs for their newly released album ‘Voyagers Return’. The album, like Queller drives past work, remains a polished gem of pop-punk/rock, but there’s a cutthroat unique edginess to this album like no other. Tracks like “Future Us” have wowed the public getting to No.1 of the rock charts within a week of its release. This band have been on the scene a while but never with such power. They may become one of the most iconic punk bands and go down in history joining those such as Blink 182 and Green day. Their second album is risky and thrilling but the risk has definitely payed off as their fan-base has only grown since its release.

Britain’s own ‘Queller Drive’ are not only used to the heat, but they've got quite a handle on this whole tour thing as well. Having been set up to play for Leeds 2015, with a tour in between, it's no wonder the band has seen massive growth in their fan base. After all, we are led to believe that hard work pays off and this band is a true testament to that. Its all about the music with this band, they truly do show that you can be whatever you want to be,  despite coming from such ordinary backgrounds themselves they started off playing gigs in pubs or whatever they could get and slowly they have worked their way to the top and we are glad to see them up there.

Here Beth Warner speaks out about the bands sudden rise to fame. A year ago this band was practically unheard of now everyone knows their name.

Hi Beth, Our Clash readers would love to know how you are coping with the sudden fame.

I’m absolutely great everything seems perfect right now, I just hope it stays this way

How does it feel becoming one of the new hit Punk bands?

It feels amazing, me and the guys couldn’t be happier. It’s something that we have always

wanted to do, and although it’s been a lot of tough work to get to where we are it was all worth it because knowing that our music can make goosebumps and induce tears, right now we feel super human.

Previously you’ve toured with All Time Low, how was that?

That seems like ages ago now, but the fans were really supportive with us and cheered us on. All-time low are a brilliant band and we were privileged to be their supporting act. I think this is what really kick started our career as a band so we owe a big thanks to them.

Your first single ‘Future Us’ was a massive success selling over 3 million copies, where did you get the Idea to write this song?

This song was really special to me and the guys because it was the first one we wrote as a band, we said it definitely had to go on one of our albums if we ever became successful and here we are. We really wanted the fans to feel connected to us and the song really puts across the message that you can do anything you want.

You’ve just recorded the video for your current single ‘Future Us’ can you tell us anything about it?

Well it’s out next week, so you won’t have long in waiting to see it. Let’s just say it’s very nostalgic and personal because it tells a story of us as a band basically. It’s very weird creating a music video, nothing like I thought it would be like.

You are now compared to huge bands such as Blink 182 and Green day, how does that feel?

I feel extremely honoured to be compared to such iconic bands, I grew up listening to their music and being even half as good as them would make me proud.

How has your music evolved since you first began playing music together?

I think with our first album not being as successful we were a lot younger and weren’t so experienced with the music business, now we have matured more and written a lot of personal songs together, I always think if you’re personal the fans will see that.

If you had three words to describe how you are feeling as a band right now what would they be?

[Laughs] I would say amazing, exhausted and ecstatic

Lastly, what’s your ultimate direction for your band? We’ve heard rumors about a possible World tour is that true?

We were definitely considering a world tour, nothing is certain yet but that’s definitely on the cards and the direction we want to consider in the future. Right now we want to carry on doing what we are doing and hopefully keep up the success.

We hope to hear a lot more music and success from Queller drive. Their next single ‘Generations’ is available now on iTunes and the video will be released this month.


 

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