"...allowed our
second album in some respects to go unnoticed, but in other
respects they did try and push it but we didn't get any radio
backing on the second album and once that happened the label
kind of."
Barry suddenly draws a long pause.
"I honestly thought that they were going to ask us to make
another album and then they would drop us but they saved us
that embarrassment. I suppose we didn't have to go and make
an album and then they'd tell us there were no singles on it.
They just kind of cruelly but kindly let us go and from that
moment on, everything changed. The album started to get itself
together, our creativity returned, our optimism returned and
now we’re in a fantastic position, essentially, all because
we were dropped. So I can't have too much malice towards the
former record label because they've given us a great opportunity.
I'd rather be in a position we're in now rather than feel like
a caged animal in the hands of people who don't look after us."
The point is of course that the band was faced with a situation
and their decision resulted in a positive outcome.
"Take AC/DC as example," begins Barry. "The singer
died and they went and got a new singer and made their best
album 'Back in Black'. Bon Scott died not long before the album
and they didn't go, "Oh we're doomed". That actually
probably helped them write their greatest album. A true test
of a band to test their passion and commitment is to drop them
and see how they react. It any walk of live, not just in bands
you tend to learn more from the negative experiences in your
life than the positive. If you go out and have a good time you
get joy and opportunity. Really, you don't think about it because
it's gone but if something bad happened in order to deal with
it you've got to think about it properly. It's 'sort your head
out' and when you do you come out of that a stronger person
or a stronger band or whatever, it works. If everything goes
along smoothly it generally means that's there's nothing happening."
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