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Drummers are tough.
Moon's' a good movie.
Tom Rowlands does not rush a record.
You have to set the bar higher and higher.
I think the best pop is always subversive in its nature.
It's expensive being in a band, way cheaper buying a laptop.
I'm a '70s guy at heart. I play a lot of Bowie and 10cc at home.
We like people who come to our gigs to dress sharp and to impress.
We didn't want to be a po-faced, dull band - we wanted to have fun.
I've learnt to control worry, control doubt, control my inner Virgo.
The elements of rave that we try to incorporate are the fun aspects.
I've always been attracted to odd chord changes and interesting melodies.
New Rave was like the 60s - if you can remember it then you weren't there.
We've never been ashamed of the fact we are, first and foremost, a pop band.
The human race only ever realises how serious things are when it's at your door.
Glowsticks look great. They look better than holding your mobile phone in the air.
The Smiths did that well, putting words in pop songs you wouldn't hear anywhere else.
We didn't want to be another post-Libertines band singing about London and playing chords.
To play the ultimate Reading set, you need to freak yourself out for a few days beforehand.
Within Klaxons, I never wrote the lyrics. I always wrote the melody and music with the other guys.
I always liked music that was melodic, but that had something a bit more wonky and odd going on too.
It didn't matter if we put out 'The Dark Side Of The Moon,' we weren't going to be liked by everyone.
Klaxons was a really great chapter in my earlier life, and now I'm older and happy doing other things.
There's a lot of crowd interaction at our shows. If they're giving off good vibes, we'll give good vibes.
There was always talk that the Horrors didn't have any substance but I think they're proving people wrong.
I just fell in love with someone who happens to be amazing. We had a beautiful wedding and there was a lot of love.
Keira doesn't play much music herself, but 'Breakfast in America' by Supertramp goes down pretty well in our house!
There's nothing better than looking out into the audience and having a whole sea of glowsticks staring back at you.
We have been fortunate enough to travel a lot and we focus heavily on melody and that really is an international language.
The most sacred thing is our family and our daughter and each other, everything else matters, but it doesn't really matter.
All of our albums are actually pretty similar, it's just the production that's different. Our songwriting is always the same.
In the band's early days people didn't really know what we were, and they decided to shout at us before listening to the music.
We like music, we pretty much collect it, but I'm not geeky about it, although I'm usually in the record shop nearly every day.
People in bands should have a responsibility not to moan, not to complain about being in bands. Things could be a lot worse, you know?
For me, my favourite music was things like The Bee Gees, ABBA and 'The White Album.' The 70s is the period that I love more than anything.
It was kind of obvious to everyone around me that I wasn't going to stay in the town I grew up in - I knew I had a dream of becoming something else.
If you look at the whole New Rave movement, the big common ground is definitely the fun element. It's more outward-looking music than introspective.
I will probably always be remembered as the person who used to be in Klaxons and there was a period of my life when I was trying to wrestle with that.
I've always loved melody and pop hooks, slightly left of centre but I have always tried to balance it with songs that have lyrics you can sing along to.
I remember feeling incredibly bored all the time, and I spent a lot of my time dreaming about what was going on in London, and fantasising about being there.
We have high expectations and a high level of standard we try to reach in everything we do. Ideas get through if they are good enough, songs get their way in.
For our third album, 'Love Frequency,' we've gone back to our old style. The album is full of songs that people can sing along to. They're songs full of hooks.
When you're in your twenties and starting out, the problem is that you care about being cool. Being older, I can care less about being cool, which is a liberating feeling.
Keira was in America when we were having our moment in the sun in the U.K., so she was oblivious. But over the years, she came to loads of gigs and loved 'Surfing the Void.'
Our intention when we first started as a band, was to be a rave band. We kind of just got it wrong. We tried, but we didn't have the talent or the knowledge to make a rave record.
People have used Crowley before, but we wanted to try and get a Crowley-reference song on the radio. We just wanted to have a go, and just try things. There was a kind of 'why not?' attitude.
With Klaxons I had an instrument, so I had a job to play keys. Everyone's roles get defined early in bands, so you're 'that guy who does this one thing' and it felt too restrictive doing that.
We want our audience to enjoy themselves, we want every gig to feel like an event - of course there are musical elements of rave to our sound, but we wouldn't strictly classify ourselves as that.
There are so many bands that after their second record are headlining music festivals, and they're still... suited to playing in a tent. Very few bands when they headline a festival can pull it off.
I'd say dance is as relevant to us as, say, pop. It's as relevant as electronica, as relevant as ambient or experimental music. I wouldn't say it's something we spend more time on than any other genre.