The Living End write songs faster than they can record them. So much so in fact that if they stopped writing today they would have enough material to last the next 10 years.
They estimate they have more than 100 unrecorded songs. "There's probably like 50 or something from the last album and probably the same with the first album" lead singer and main songwriter Chris Cheney tells. "With the first album we'd road tested a lot of songs and they just got thrown away as we were playing. With the second album we did the whole pre-production thing, which is getting all professional and stuff I suppose. We dwindled it down to 14 or whatever and the same for this one".
Songwriting isn't exactly what
Chris considers hard work.
"We had a lot of time to do it and it's a hobby, it's not work" he says.
"It's something I enjoy doing and they just pop into your head at different times during the day. Sometimes I'll show the guys something and it'll be like "Nah?" but that's cool. I hope it's always that way, but funnily enough the songs that are left over we say "We'll use that next time" but we haven't really done that yet".
For the new album they only took one old one from the musical cellar. "I think 'Maitland Street' was the only one that was hanging around and that was from before 'Roll On'. Everything else is new! One of them was written a couple of weeks before we recorded. 'Save Us', which is the single, was one of the last demos we did".
The Living End's third album is called 'Modern Artillery'.
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