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This song, it was actually kind of
cool the way it came about. Again, we worked with Steve Mack.
For me, it's kind of like one of those motivational songs, you know, where it's
it's, I mean, kind of like a gym song, you know, it's like,
you can do it. Come on.
We've never done anything like this before. Usually, um,
it's uh, like we'd write songs about personal experiences and stuff like this, but
this one was a bit of fun to make because we were trying to write a song that would
stand up in the final scene of a massive action movie.
When we got the first mix back
of the song, it it took it to a whole other level. It was like
some of the people we've been working with on this record have just
really knocked it out of the park sound-wise and it just sounds massive. Just can't
wait to try get that into the band situation and see how big we can make it.
Yeah, be a good song live.
Good song for the gym.
Jay would break out in a rash if he ended up in a gym.
I'm allergic.
I wouldn't be is
incredibly Irish. I think our our roots really shine through on this song.
It's a song just about kind of appreciating family and where you've came from and people around you.
It's sounds incredibly traditional.
Yeah, it's it's really fun to do it live as well because so much of the set is like big and loud and, you know, with all the instruments
And it just brings it down to that four of us. Like when we started touring, we used to go out to the middle of the crowd and just sing the four of us with like
no mics, no anything.
And it's really nice to bring that kind of moment back into the set.
It's filled that moment. Yeah, see how people react to it because it's it's been really really emotional.
We've been singing together for a long time. It's it's really special. So uh Yeah.
It's the first time in the set you get to see Vinnie's legs as well.
Exactly.
And they're lovely legs. Imagine you stood up and you were this high.
I mean you could be because you're sitting down for the whole set and then you just walk up like...
Can't wear that skirt anymore.
But anyway...
It's a shame you only get to see Vinny's legs once.
They're lovely legs. They are fine legs. Look at them. Tone. He's got very toned calves.
He goes to the gym.
And ill pipes are just a way cooler bagpipe.
Yeah.
It's an Irish... Think of Celine Dion's Titanic My Heart Goes On...
No, it's more like the Clancy Brothers and..
No, not like the final scene of Michael Collins.
Yeah, that's it.
She Moved Through The Fair.
That's what we were going for.
No!
Don't Come Around... Sometimes I look at songs as like just moments in time that are just like
captured emotions and at that time it was uh
just frustration and kind of like angry at somebody and just
being done with somebody and just being like, you know,
screw this, I've had enough.
The song is just about being annoyed at somebody. But uh, yeah, it's it's a real kind of bombastic
song. The chorus is awesome. I think it's going to be really interesting to uh
to play it live. And out of all the songs on the album, I think it's the most
different for us or in terms of the song itself, like melodically and and um
It's like a it's a It's almost like a different genre, or like going into a new genre for us and trying to really getting out of our comfort zone.
But it worked out really well.
Yeah. The end result is amazing. It's a really powerful song.
It's kind of you can imagine driving really fast listening to it.
I I have done.
Maybe you can because you you drive really fast anyway though.
It's a great song to drive really fast but within the speed limits.
Brother is about just kind of being there for somebody. Like, you know,
you can be, yeah, be your brother or your sister or your best mate and just kind of being that
you'd be with them through thick and thin and you've been through a huge amount, you know.
It's kind of like an ode to like friendship as well that like even if you're
best friends with somebody and you kind of part ways for a while
but like the second you come back together, like nothing has changed. Like, it's still exactly the same.
It's a really great song to play live.
the reaction to it has been amazing.
The video that we shot for it is uh, we got these amazing two uh, young kids who are brothers.
Um, in the video and it's it's a really emotional video.
It uh, it's kind of a very typically Kodaline video, pulls on the heartstrings a bit.
It's a bit heartbreaking, isn't it? It's a very heartbreaking.
Stevie Russell, who has, who we've worked with loads on different videos we've made,
uh made the video and yeah, I was bawling my eyes out when I watched that video for the first time.
That's the, that's the amazing thing about what we do is that like, we'll spend months making a song or recording it or whatever and then when we
hand the song over to a video director to make the video. We we see the finished product just the first thing we see.
Um, and it's it happened with All I Want and High Hopes and Brother, like the first time we watch it, we're watching pretty much the finished thing and it's we get to watch it
in the same way the fans do, so we experience it in the same way.
And that video is just chilling. It was just, I just thought it suited the...
music. And we actually got to meet the two brothers. They came to our show in Dublin and it was just really great to meet them there.
I think Brother was a really good introduction to the album as well. It was kind of the first track we released after being gone for quite a while.
And it's it's definitely pushing what we've done like sound-wise, but there's a really great song at the heart of it which is what we always kind of strive for.
There's lyrics in it like I kind of made up a story of like seeing this seeing an ex, you know, it's like
