BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.1.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:7171@xyzbrighton.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200314T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200314T190000 DTSTAMP:20200302T140020Z URL:https://xyzbrighton.com/events/palace-brighton-chalk-march/ SUMMARY:PALACE DESCRIPTION:\n\nWith their sublime second album\, Palace have pulled off a rare pop trick. Songs steeped in darkness emerge in to light\, from bleak situations spring fresh starts. Bathed in the band’s atmospheric alt-roc k\, the future feels brighter and more optimistic.\n\n\n\n\nLife After is both an album about loss and a manual to moving on. “I’m writing this song\, to help you breathe again\,” sings Leo Wyndham on the opening ti tle track\, a shimmering ode to survival. By the epic\, seven minute-plus closer Heaven Up There\, the theme of Life After is obvious.\n\n\n\n\n “Hope\,” says Leo. “Hope and positivity – seeing the light at the end of a long tunnel. It’s about going through tough times and coming ou t the other side.”\n\n\n\n\nPalace didn’t start their second album wit h any plans in place. Buoyed by the reception of their debut\, 2016’s S o Long Forever\, and near two years of sold-out shows and festival slots t hat won them fans worldwide\, the London-based trio of former Dorset schoo l friends had a new-found confidence that they were keen to capture on rec ord.\n\n\n\n\nBetween tours in 2017\, Palace returned to their Tottenham s tudio-come-shared warehouse space\, The Arch\, where So Long Forever was demoed\, and simply plugged in and played.\n\n\n\n\nOur sole aim was to w rite better songs “Some songs have an all-enveloping wall of guitars\, o thers are stripped right down. It was about finding the right mood for eac h song\, not settling on one sound.”\n\n\n\n\nSome of the songs had been written on the road\, referencing both relationships that had broken down and new bonds that had been forged. Others took shape in the studio and c aptured events that were taking place in the trio’s lives\, often only r ealised in retrospect.\n\n\n“Touring our first album definitely changed our outlook on life\,” says Leo. “So Long Forever dealt a lot with los s\, but to stand on stage and hear those songs sung back at us\, to witnes s the impact they’d had on our fans was incredible. From a bad situation came so much positivity.”\n\n\n\n“We took that energy back to The Arc h. As a band\, we felt much more confident. We could hear that we’d step ped up a gear. Writing and recording came more naturally\, and my lyrics b ecame more outward looking.”\n\n\n\n\nConfidence shines through Life Af ter. Touring has improved the trio’s playing\; their song structures hav e become more varied. They’re now not afraid to take risks\, whether str ipping back songs such as the sensual Bones and the acoustic Face In Th e Crowd or playing with tempos as on the sensational\, shape-shifting Ca ught My Breath\, on which the outro turns in to a chant.\n\n\n\n\nLeo’s vocals are more exposed\, and the band’s always emotional songs have gai ned gravitas.\n\n\n\n\n“Before Palace I’d never sung to anyone\,” sa ys Leo “I genuinely had no idea that I could sing or write songs. It’s been a case of learning on the job and building our confidence.”\n\n\n\ n\nThat confidence was key to recording. For the first time\, many of the original demos made it on to the album\, which was largely produced by Cat herine Marks (2018’s UK Producer of the Year\, who has previously worked with St Vincent\, Wolf Alice and PJ Harvey) and Luke Smith (Foals\, Slow Club) at Willesden’s Assault &\; Battery studios.\n\n\n\n\n“Catheri ne loved the demos we’d done at The Arch and wanted to build those up ra ther than re-record them\,” explains Rupert. “There was a purity and a spontaneity to them that she spotted straight away.”\n\n\n\n\n“The bi g lesson we learnt was not to over analyse\,” says Leo. “That goes for life as well as the music. There’s a track on the album called All In M y Stride\, which is really a note to self. It’s about putting problems i n to perspective\, dealing with them and moving on. No matter how hard lif e seems at times\, there’s always hope.”\n\nPresented by One Inch Badg e\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://xyzbrighton.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/ 02/PALACE_Brighton.png CATEGORIES:Live Music LOCATION:CHALK\, 13 Pool Valley\, Brighton and Hove\, England\, BN1 1NJ\, U nited Kingdom GEO:50.820157;-0.138693 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=13 Pool Valley\, Brighton a nd Hove\, England\, BN1 1NJ\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=CH ALK:geo:50.820157,-0.138693 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20191027T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR