We’re happy to post our third Discover Unsigned interview! This time we interviewed six-piece Rock / Pop / Experimental group Keeping Pace With Planes, a great band from Cannock, UK!

How long have you guys been together?
We have been together since January 07. We formed from a load of other local bands and it just clicked instantly. Everyone knew each other but we were all to scared to say hello haha.

Where did the band name come from?
Cal, Sam and Tom were in a band called Renfield who wanted to add more members and they kicked there old drummer out, got Joe (our former drummer) and started playing from there. I (stefan) knew sam and cal through other friends and we just got talking and as a joke i said yeah i will play in your band… and things took of from there, our drummer joe left just after christmas and we decided that sam should play drums not bass since his idol is aaron gillespie (underoath drummer) so he went onto drums and we were good friends with rich who had done our promos and we recruited him on bass.

What would you say are the biggest musical influences for you as a group?
Lots of stuff. Cal’s dad is one of those old school rockers as is mine (stefan) ive been brought up on things such as bruce springstein and johhny cash where as everyone else seems to be rooted into the more modern stuff like Underoath and Valencia. We love unsigned bands from teh UK and US, we check out local bands all the time and we love nothing more than finding a new band and claiming we “founded” them.

Who are your favorite bands right now?
We all listen to reletivley the same stuff, Underoath, Cartel, A day to remember etc etc, but we still seem rooted in our old school like Usher and Blink 182 and stuff like that…

What are your main aspirations for this year?
We want to get signed by a major label, its high ambitions but we are all keen on doing this as our full tiem job so it seems realistic to do it. We just want to tour as much as possible and get people to know ouor music!

Tell us a little about your song writing process.
We just put random lyrics together and make songs. We come up with guitar riffs and just add things on fro there… its all pretty simple.

What’s the greatest thing about playing live music?
The crowd, The girls and the Beer!

What’s the best venue you’ve ever played?
Probly Kingsmead high School or recently we played the rock cafe which was local, both shows were packed out, it was great!

What would you do if you got signed?
We would probly become really arrogant and pretend we didnt know any of our old friends… haha! =) jokes!
We would love it, we wouldnt have money worries so life would be great!

Thanks for the interview guys!

Keeping Pace With Planes have some great upcoming shows over summer, so go check them out!

We’re happy to post our first Discover Unsigned interview! Today we interviewed four-piece Rock/Pop-Punk group In The Long Run, an awesome band from Surrey, UK.

Thanks for the opportunity guys.

- So how long have you guys been together? “We formed in about November 2007.
Myself [Tom], Dan and Matt played in another band, which came to an end due
to another member going off to university, which is when we started looking
for a new singer. We knew Diego from various places and knew he had a voice
on him. He came along to a couple of practises, and things just pretty much
worked out really well. But Winter 2007 was the starting point of In The
Long Run”.

- Where did the band name come from? “To be honest, we were talking amongst
each other about band names for a good month or so. When we recorded our
first track, we still hadn’t decided. But we had a few ideas running around,
and I pretty much bullied a couple of people into choosing In The Long Run
haha”.

- Who are your favorite bands right now? “Right now we’re digging The
Auteur, Blue Sky Summer and Look! I’m A Ghost in terms of local talent.. But on the major scale you can’t beat a good bit of Finch, Glassjaw, Funeral For A Frend or some classic Busted”.

- What are your main aspirations for this year? “This year is just our
starting off period. We’re recording our three track EP with Jason Wilcock
[Fightstar, You Me At Six, Reuben] at Stakeout Studios in June, and it
should be available at shows from July onwards. But we’re mainly just
getting In The Long Run to be a small stain on such a vast scene at the
moment. We’ve still only just got a full set down. So the demand we’ve had
has been overwhelming and we’ve already had some awesome opportunities
thrown our way. So fingers crossed for some more good things”!

- So tell us a little about your song writing process. “So far, we’ve written
all our songs around a guitar riff. We kinda hum a melody and then
transcribe it as best we can to a guitar. To be fair, our drummer’s had his
fair share of melodic masterpieces! The chorus riff for The Lights Are Off
was all his work. But then he really shown his worth with a killer beat to
go over the top. Next we all try and figure out a complimenting bass line
which works with both the drums and guitar. Then we leave Diego to get his
vocal melody process on. We haven’t been brave enough to try 2 way vocals,
but i think it’s on the cards for one of the tracks on our demo”.

- What’s the greatest thing about playing live music? “I’d say that the
best thing is probably either being able to get the crowd to participate,
even if it’s just to clap along to a small section of one song. If they go
along with it. It’s just like.. yeahh, i kicked that off! orr it’s having
someone come up to you at the end and saying that they’d enjoyed listening
to us. Knowing that at least one person has enjoyed us makes us feel
amazing”.

- What’s the best venue you’ve ever played? “We got asked to play at a nightclub in Kingston called Oceana on a student night. It was intense. Such
a buzzing atmosphere and the place was absolutely massive”.

- What would you do if you got signed? “I’d be utterly speechless! I’d
probably run down the high street screaming like a crazy man. Then ring our
close friends and let them know what’s gone down!”

Thanks for the great interview guys!

In The Long Run will be back in the studio in late April/May to record the third song for their EP which will then be available at shows and online! Be sure to check out Their Myspace!. You wont be dissapointed!