CAZALS' DANIEL GALLAGHER TALKS ABOUT BLONDES AND MORE

With you as the band's manager, and another band member doing production, the Cazals in essence are a DIY band. Do you guess external management and third party music production could have boosted your success to the same level you've been experiencing recently?

"It depends who and when they came into the fold. At this point it would be very hard for someone to come in and manage the band as we have been together for 4 years and any new manager would have to gain our trust very quickly for us to allow them to take over all aspects of the bands management. We're quite active and opinionated and to put our career into the hands of someone who we didn't know, would be a tough thing for us to do.

"For production we have worked with quite a few people in the UK and while they were all nice guys, the sessions usually ended with Martin, our bass player, arguing with them over the sound and mix. So when Kitsuné came in and offered us to go to Paris to record, I said only if Martin is the producer. We're still quite open to work with people but it'd have to be someone who we connected with pretty quickly, like Julien Delfaud who engineered and mixed the album."

How do you see the future of music? Both generally in terms of the music industry, as well as related to yourselves as a band.

"I think the future of music is already set in place thanks in part to sites like Myspace, Last FM, Youtube and the millions of blogs, people are free to search through music from all over the world that they might like. Before most people relied solely on the music press and radio to guide their music tastes. Therefore the opinions of a few decided what music and bands got attention. While these sites also promote certain bands every week etc. - someone can come across a banjo player in New Zealand that they love by just quickly searching the Internet. Only people like John Peel really gave exposure to all sorts of music in the way that the Internet can. Having different music accessible to anyone who wants to find it is a fantastic thing and hopefully encourages people, who might be shy about playing to an audience, to upload their music and get a reaction to what they what they write and play. The only downside is I feel that mp3 isn't a very strong format for sound and a piece of music or song may lose some qualities when converted to it, which can be like looking at a poster of a Monet rather than the original. For Cazals we will hopefully be given the chance to record a second album next year and get to tour the various places we haven't as yet visited."

OK, one last question. Who's that blonde that is attending all of your recent shows?

"Which one?"

Stupid question! We should have realized there are many blondes amongst Cazal's fanbase and ask about the redhead instead :)

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