{"id":44794,"date":"2013-10-15T11:37:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T09:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/?p=44794"},"modified":"2013-10-15T11:37:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T09:37:55","slug":"stream-years-years-traps-remixed-by-armeria-olly-alexander-exclusive-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/2013\/10\/listen\/stream-years-years-traps-remixed-by-armeria-olly-alexander-exclusive-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Stream Years &amp; Years&#039; &quot;Traps&quot; remixed by Armeria + Olly Alexander exclusive interview!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/YearsAndYears\">Years &amp; Years<\/a> continue on the road to the success: after the launching of their EP &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/validation.maisonkitsune.bird.eu\/mk\/2013\/09\/music\/years-years-brand-new-ep-traps-now-available\/\">Traps<\/a>&#8220;, they&#8217;re now featured on the upcoming <a href=\" Kitsun\u00e9 Maison 15\">Kitsun\u00e9 Maison 15<\/a> with their eponym hit track! But today, back to the EP with the stream of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Armeria.Music\">Armeria<\/a>&#8216;s remix exclusively on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earmilk.com\/2013\/10\/10\/years-years-traps-armeria-remix-premiere-2\/\">Earmilk<\/a>! While listening to the track which &#8220;<em>relies on pulsating rhythms to\u00a0revamp the atmospheric record into a fun, shifty, house jam<\/em>&#8221; you can read the exclusive interview of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/YearsAndYears\">Years &amp; Years<\/a>&#8216; frontman-and-actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Olly-Alexander\/246956382274\">Olly Alexander<\/a> for Kitsun\u00e9 Journal below talking about beer, his hair, Enter the Void, Kitsun\u00e9, Hannah Murray and his character in Skins!<\/p>\n<p>Order &#8220;Traps&#8221; now on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/17m3ZZR\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>\u00a0or on our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/14F2291\" target=\"_blank\">webstore<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/114383309\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you become frontman of a band and actor so young? Does art run in your family?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wrote my first song when I was 10 years old and performed it with a dance routine for my school assembly. So I guess I&#8217;ve always had an embarrassing need to perform. We&#8217;re a pretty creative family, my gran was an opera singer and my mum sometimes makes models of castles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you reconcile your time between all your activities? Are you able to find a balance or do you favour one of them?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m always writing music but it can be hard to find the time for us all to be in the studio especially if I&#8217;m doing a shoot abroad. I&#8217;ve been acting pretty solidly for the last couple years but I think it&#8217;s time to prioritise music now. I&#8217;m kind of a workaholic so I like being stretched but sometimes I do feel like my brain might explode.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You play a young disturbed yet very kind photographer in the last season of Skins. How do you connect to this character?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Im not quite as deranged as Jacob, but I always identify with the loser in any story because that&#8217;s basically how I felt for the first 18 years of \u00a0my life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We have to ask, how is Hannah Murray (Skins, Game of Thrones) in real life?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s like a magical elf. We&#8217;ve been friends for a few years and we first worked together on God Help The Girl and then Skins, I&#8217;m trying to make it so we do everything together. Im kind of obsessed with her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/validation.maisonkitsune.bird.eu\/mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tumblr_mqi4l6cy0Z1rxfqnio4_1280.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44804\" title=\"tumblr_mqi4l6cy0Z1rxfqnio4_1280\" src=\"https:\/\/validation.maisonkitsune.bird.eu\/mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tumblr_mqi4l6cy0Z1rxfqnio4_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>About Years &amp; Years, how did the 5 of you meet?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>Mikey and Noel met at a rally against Heathrow Terminal 5 and they met Emre through some kind of musicians lonely-hearts website. A few months later I met Mikey through a friend, I was desperate to play music again so I basically forced him to let me be in the \u00a0band. We got our first gig a few months later and needed a drummer and thats how we drafted in Olivier.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>How do you compose and keep the balance being a quintet?<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>We spend a lot of time in a small sweaty room making loud noises so sometimes we go a bit mad.\u00a0Whenever things get tense we drink beer and eat pasta, that normally sorts things out<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your best and worst memory with the band?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Most of our gigs have gone pretty well. In the earlier days I used to get really stressed out, we played Notting Hill Arts Club and things were going really badly and I kind of had a panic attack on stage. That sucked. I think the best memory is probably when we heard Kitsune were going to release our stuff, it felt like we were finally a real band.<\/p>\n<div><strong>How does it feel to be on a Kitsun\u00e9 Maison compilation?<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I first picked up a Kitsune Maison compilation (no 3) in Toyko \u00a0when I was filming Enter The Void. I bought it and it became my soundtrack to my time there. I thought it was so cool. Six years on, to be part of number 15, kind of blows my mind.<\/div>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your favourite previous opus of the Kitsun\u00e9 Maison collection? Or your favourite track on this one?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Chela&#8217;s Romanticise is incredible, but Bicycle by Memory Tapes (compilation 8) is one of my all time favourite songs, there&#8217;s a remix by a guy called Little Loud which I must have listened to a million times.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/65ki407d5oE?list=PLQDkBMw9rGbiGoPNjJzEjO-mn86LsH_Ne\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019ll be playing in London for the Kitsun\u00e9 Maison 15 party and at our Kitsun\u00e9 Maison En Vrai! in Paris, where would you go if you could play live anywhere on Earth?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>I reckon Fuji Rock would be an awesome place to play and it&#8217;s not around anymore but cafe Sin-\u00e9 where Jeff Buckley played.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>What\u2019s next for Years &amp; Years?<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Writing, writing, writing, recording, recording, recording. Hopefully some good gigs, and an album in the not too distant future.<\/div>\n<p><strong>Finally, what question would you like to answer to but no one ever asked you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why is your hair so big and crazy? 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