"Not throwing stones at you anymore...": Kids in Glass Houses interview

For those of you who don't know, I occasionally write for our university's student newspaper The Waterfront, and more specifically, for its music section.

Last March I interviewed Aled Phillips, vocalist with Kids In Glass Houses, when they played at Sin City in Swansea, with the intention of getting the interview published in the paper. However, for one reason or another (it was the end of term, meaning the next issue was five weeks away, plus there was some kind of 'email glitch', apparently) the finished article never graced the pages of The Waterfront.

So now, seeing as the band are due to release their new album 'Dirt' next month, and I now have this blog, I thought it would be a good time to finally get the interview published in one form of another. I know it's old, but some of the questions are still kind of relevant.

Like I said, I spoke to Aled last March, the day before they embarked on an arena tour supporting Fall Out Boy. It's interesting to see how some of the things he said back then have changed, like the release date of the album (only seven months late).

Anyway, here it is, enjoy...

"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."

It's been a while since my last entry, in which I said I hoped to write a review of the latest Relient K album, and I'm sorry that I never got around to that, maybe I'll do it at some point.

I was going to start the new year with reviews of both the new You Me At Six and Motion City Soundtrack releases, but today something happened that I felt was more important to comment on. And in the end, these reviews, much like the Relient K one, will wait.

It's not so much music related, but when I started this blog I did say that I'd inevitably use it as an output for my various meditations.

Sadly, today (ok, yesterday if we're being overly pedantic) the world received the news that the novelist Jerome David, or J.D., Salinger passed away at the age of 91 (a BBC article about his death can be found here). He the was author of one of my favourite books of all time, from which the title of this whole blog owes its name. Of course I am talking about 'The Catcher in the Rye'.