From Nothing To A Little Bit More

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Wolves, Warrington (6 February 2023). "Warrington Wolves - The Lathums to headline Super League season opener". Warrington Wolves . Retrieved 17 April 2023. For Scott and Ryan, it is a way to develop their musicianship, a way to live a life free from responsibilities, and a way to support their friend through his grief. Happily, for the rest of us, the joining of these three young men has resulted in some wonderful songs, the best of which can soon be found on From Nothing To A Little Bit More. Sometimes their excitement and focus present as confidence, something they could not be blamed for feeling. Alex disagrees. “Do you think we’re confident?” he says, shaking his head absentmindedly. “Just proud.”

Alex: “It was more inspiring, the fact that [Flowers] took the time to come and speak to us. He said, ‘You write great choruses’ and stuff like that. He was a proper gentleman. That’s how I want people who represent our industry to be: they don’t think they’re above anything. He was really encouraging to us, and said lots of nice things. You only get to live that kind of thing — going on stage with The Killers — once, so I’m sorted now, me.” Might Brandon Flowers join The Lathums on stage at the Castlefield Bowl? The Lathums Sign Massive Deal With Island Records". Only A Northern One. 11 March 2020 . Retrieved 24 January 2023. In June 2023 The Lathums made their debut on the Other Stage at Worthy Farm, Glastonbury Festival for a 45-minute set with the crowd getting bigger as each song was played. [11] Musical style and influences [ edit ] Discography [ edit ] Studio albums [ edit ] List of studio albums, with selected details and chart positionsYou’re playing your biggest headline show to date at Manchester’s Castlefield Bowl in June — do you have anything special planned? Alex Moore, frontman of the band, first met Scott Concepcion before the band formed. The band began as a music project at college in Pemberton, Greater Manchester. The members consisted of drummer Ryan Durrans, bassist Lewis Halliwell, guitarist Scott Concepcion and singer Alex Moore. The band are named after a venue that they performed at. It's commonly pronounced as "La-thums", rather than "Lay-thums". When asked how it's pronounced, Moore stated, "It's just how we pronounce it. It's just how it was christened." [5] Halliwell later left the band, so another stage school student Johnny Cunliffe was chosen to replace him. It’s preceded by their latest single ‘Struggle’, luring the listener in with a simple-but-effective piano motif and a soft vocal from Alex Moore, before building to become a heart-on-sleeve anthem likely to be belted out by all and sundry from the remainder of 2023. THE KILLERS ft. ALEX MOORE (THE LATHUMS) - How Beautiful Life Can Be Wien, Stadthalle, 12.07.2022 , retrieved 1 February 2023

AM: “This is a gorgeous piece of music, especially if you take the vocals away! It was fun recording this because it was out of our comfort zone. I was very proud of us after we’d finished it because we’d never done a song like this before. We didn’t really know what we were doing with it at the beginning, but we kept at it and it’s become quite special. It’s of its own kin, there’s not many songs like it about at the moment. It gives us more confidence to express things in different ways.” Krol, Charlotte (27 October 2022). "The Lathums announce new album 'From Nothing To A Little Bit More', share single 'Say My Name' ". NME . Retrieved 11 March 2023. NME caught up with The Lathums to discuss the open-hearted vulnerability of their new record, preparations for their biggest headline show to date and the advice they received from The Killers’ Brandon Flowers.Alex: “But put us on any stage anywhere, and we will fulfil. That’s all we do: we’re not even people any more, we’re just musical notes. We’re just part of the music.” The Killers covered ‘How Beautiful Life Can Be’ with Alex during shows in Vienna and Amsterdam last summer. That’s quite the endorsement… Not that the pandemic hampered The Lathums’ lofty ambitions too much, mind. After signing to Island Records in early 2020, the band’s debut LP shot straight to the top of the UK Albums Chart in October 2021, toppling Drake of all people from the Number One slot. “We will take on anybody in any big area!” Moore adds now about that memorable chart victory. “You can’t keep this music down.”

Much of this development comes from age - Alex, Scott and Ryan were all born between 1999 and 2000 and are just now becoming men - but there is the added push of several motivators in the studio. One of them is Alex himself (“I get a bit obsessed and go down a dark rabbit hole”), though it certainly helps to have Arctic Monkeys and Kasabian collaborator Jim Abiss at the production helm. A special mention comes for John Kettle, a man who was once the boys’ college teacher and who has helped make How Beautiful Life Can Be and From Nothing To A Little Bit More into the triumphs they are. “He’s in another realm,” Alex insists. Acting as a pre-production “wizard” of sorts, Kettle helped Moore, Concepcion and Durrans to craft their highly developed, emotive songs on several occasions, touching into realms of new wave and even the darker corners of post-punk. Alex: “Maybe! I think he’ll have some more important things to do. But he’s always welcome with us.” The record features the likes of “Sad Face Baby,” which captures a yearning to connect with others who feel lost, and “Turmoil,” the recent single that saw the band swap punky squall for tender balladry. Alex: “Not the longest song I’ve written, but, yes, the longest one we’ve recorded. Eight minutes is a good chunk of time! I had the main idea and narrative of it. I find this a lot with [writing] songs: there’s too many avenues [to go down] and ideas to fit into one song, [so] it can get completely muddled. But it was nice to just keep going and going, but it was mostly improvised — that’s probably why it ended up being so long. The words are improvised, so you have to fit the length with the words. But if the story’s not finished, it’ll be incomplete.” Do you think you’ll ever play it live? AM: “This was a sweet little number me and Scott started when we were whippersnappers. We neglected it for a while, and it got pushed to the side. Then it presented itself again. There was a lot going on at the time that fitted a lot of the words—and the idea of being in a headspace all the way at the top and then all the way at the bottom and the different parts of a journey. It felt right, and obviously we were older and a bit more experienced, so it was easier to revisit the song and let it be itself.”

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Alex: “The smell, the looks, the sex appeal, the ingenuity. Mate, he’s got it all. And he plays the bass really well!”

Turmoil may do what it says on the tin, but in a deeply touching way: “that was written whilst I was in love, but I’m not now” Alex comments in the jocular tone he uses to hide all of his pain. He shows a similar English tendency towards levity when discussing Crying Out, a song that was written a long while ago but that fits seamlessly into the record. “I’ve only had like one girlfriend, and ‘Crying Out’ was before that. It’s like three different steps all in one album. Pre, during, and post-relationship. All of them are horrible,” Alex grins. AM: “This was another oldie and goldie, but it never really got its chance to breathe. A lot of fans mentioned it being special to them, but it was forgotten about. It felt good to give people that and let the song have its time to breathe and just be. We loved the song, and we’d already lived with it for years, so it was nice to revisit it.” AM: “There’s a bit of love in this one. There’s a lot of love, really. I wanted to take myself out of my own shoes and see things from somebody else’s perspective. In this scenario, it’s the perspective of a woman, which is hard for a man to do. I’m not saying I’ve learned how to do that but I wanted to give it a go and not think just about me. I think I learned more about myself—ways that I’m selfish but hadn’t really realised, and certain things like that. I think it was owning up to things, things that you could change to better yourself.” Aroesti, Rachel (24 September 2021). "The Lathums: How Beautiful Life Can Be – hearty 00s indie revivalism". The Guardian . Retrieved 1 October 2021.Undeserving’ isaraw and honest navigation throughthebattles that go on inside ones head, ‘its frighting whatthemind can start to think of at half past nine’. Ryan: “It’s not up to us though, really. It’s up to the festivals and the fans: if we don’t have enough fans, no-one will book us.” AM: “This was a very fun song to record. There’s a lot of melodies, and I know Scott had a whale of a time on it.” AM: “I wanted to have a song that brings an old, nostalgic feel but in a modern way. We always want to keep it fresh, we used to talk about that when we were playing in pubs as young lads. We wanted to have a song for everybody, it doesn’t matter who’s listening—there can be a song for everybody.” Continuing on tothepenultimate song ofTheLathumssecond album ‘From Nothing ToALittle Bit More’, they present usasong shrouded by yearning. ‘Crying Out’ has lead singer Alex Moore literally crying out for somebody,asense of desperation in his voice makes it allthemore emotional.