New year, new album. Cosmic trio Aliens Don’t Ring Door Bells will be releasing their second album later this year, and after hearing their three already-released singles, we cannot wait to listen to the rest of the new hit-packed material.
Kicking off 2023, Aliens Don’t Ring Door Bells catch up with Original Rock.
Hey guys, it’s a pleasure to speak with you! How are you feeling after your latest single ‘Big Old Nowhere’ was released recently?
We were really pleased with the response in the United States, UK and Europe and it seems the song was very popular with US college radio stations and mainstream radio as Big Old Nowhere peaked at number 23 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary Top 30 chart in November.
And your second album is out next year, we can’t wait to hear it! What would you say are the underlying themes that run throughout this record?
We think the record explores lots of snippets from experiences or feelings we have had in our life’s that are worth telling a story about as well as general observations of life from an Aliens Don’t Ring Doorbells viewpoint. In terms of the musical themes, we have aspects of British Pop, Americana rock, Blues, Soca, Reggae, basically a lot of the grooves we love, we put into these new songs.
You guys went on tour during the summer, how was that?
That’s right, we toured the UK in July this year playing in both Scotland and England. We missed Wales this time but we’ve played there before and hope to do so next year. In any case, we played some great venues and we ended the tour playing a showcase at London’s Dublin Castle pub where great acts such as Amy Winehouse and Madness got their start; it was a magical final night of the tour.
What was your best show on the tour and have you got a favourite place/city to play?
Well for the most recent tour we did in the UK, it was the Dublin Castle show which finished out the tour. We even had fans that saw us earlier in the year playing in Germany and Austria when we toured with Roachford, fly over for that final show. As far as a favorite place to play, any gig packed with people ready for a good time is always a favorite in our books.
How do you guys find tour life and being on the road?
We have our own way of touring in that we don’t all sleep on a tour bus parked outside the next venue all night anymore but rather we rent a good sized house that we can all fit in and that is central to the next 2 or 3 gigs and this, to us is a better solution.
Can you remember the first show you ever saw yourself, and what was that feeling like?
Dorian remembers seeing his first band which was the Edgar Winter Group. Back then Edgar’s band had Ronnie Montrose on guitar and Dan Hartman on rhythm guitar and both would later become stars in thier own right. Adam’s first show was seeing Sister Sledge in The New Theatre in Oxford. He remembers it as a great performance, especially when they turned up the house lights and talked to the audience and sang a Capela and for Adam as a budding singer, it was a spectacular watershed event especially when Adam and a friend were among those invited to come up on stage and dance; Adam’s first 15 seconds of fame.
How do you feel the sound of your music differs being played live compared to the recordings?
We really make it a point to write music we can play live and that goes for instruments and vocals as well. As we have three lead singers in the band, Adam, who does most of the singing as well as Dorian Foyil and keyboardist Mark Boden. Together we work to make our live vocals sound as good live as in the studio; in other words we don’t have one person singing all the harmony parts on the album; we use all three of us live and on the record.