Hooray For Humans

Hooray For Humans: DIY Popstars

With H4H’s debut album Safekeeping, Alan admits that he "kind of went a bit crazy doing it if I’m honest", which has lead to a more measured approach with recording new material this time around, "I don’t think I’d immerse myself in it [next time] that deep because…I mean, it just completely took over my life and our lives. If you’re losing objectivity over it as well because you’re so intense about it, then it sucks the fun out of it as well," he says. "So I think for the second album we will probably take it a lot easier – it will be much more of a group effort, writing as well, because I just couldn’t handle writing a whole album on my own again!"

Although the band haven’t yet officially started working on the second album, they are releasing a new 7" single , called Already Sleeping, on Hideaway Records in March. "The new songs on the 7" are pretty different to the album so I think it’s really a good thing that we have a stop-gap. It will provide a nice sort of bridge between the first and second album because it’s different styles," says Alan. After the release of the 7", it’s all systems go for the band, with an Irish tour in March, followed by a UK tour with the band Super Tennis.

After all the success they’ve had over the last year or so, I’ve no doubt that H4H will get even more popular in the not too distant future. But regardless of this success, and even if the media interest somehow died up in the morning, H4H wouldn’t stop what they’re doing. Because, as Alan explains: "If I’m honest, sometimes I see a band and they just seem so desperate or something, there doesn’t seem to be any love for music there, it just seems to be ‘We wanna be big’ or ‘We wanna be cool’ or something. That’s just so far from what we are about. We started just because we enjoyed playing the music, and loved what we were doing."

Aoife Barry (c) February 2008

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