James Veck-Gilodi still has a lot of stupid goals for his band. His words. He'd like
Deaf Havana to headline Brixton Academy, and armed with fourth album ‘
All These Countless Nights' full of renewed vigour and a brand new view of the world; you wouldn't bet against them. But perhaps more importantly, "This sounds bad because you shouldn't do it for money, but if we can make a decent living out of it, it allows us to continue being a band which is the only thing we want to do. If we can achieve that, then we can keep making music, which is all I want to do; keep making music." In a world of stupid goals and dizzying heights, earning money from something you pour your entire being into seems the most reasonable request imaginable. "Some people get a bit funny when you say stuff like that. You shouldn't do it for money, yeah but I need to eat and pay my rent." Say what you like but Deaf Havana definitely give a shit about their band, "or I would have done something else a long time ago," explains James.
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Makes sense, but for a little while, they didn't care. By the end of 2014, they were exhausted with the whole thing and their passion for Deaf Havana, and each other, had waned. "There was a point where it seemed that everything we tried to do didn't work and we got beat down at every opportunity. I was looking at videos of myself playing years ago when we first started, and I was so energetic and looked like I cared, and then in recent ones I looked a bit miserable and that's why I wrote ‘
Like A Ghost'." It's a song that puts its hands up and admits that the passion was gone - but "It's definitely back now." One of the first songs written for the record, it came at a time where the love "had been beaten out of me somewhat, and I was feeling sorry for myself which is self-indulgent, so I shouldn't have done that. It's like anything, though, if you're sitting around feeling sorry for yourself, of course you're not going to feel excited about music, of course the passion is going to go. As soon as you get off your arse and start doing something, the passion comes back. Mine was self-inflicted somewhat just because I would blame it on other people coming in and beating us down and not giving us the opportunities we deserved or whatever, but it was really just me being too lazy. I was doing the minimal amount of work I could at one point and that was my own fault, I think."
