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00:00Hi, I'm Andrew Trendle. You're watching NME. We're back at Reading Festival 2025 with Beansteller.
00:12Hello. How's it going?
00:14Pretty good. How are you?
00:15Good. Yeah, we just got in, played and now we're here.
00:19That was an amazing set. How was it for you?
00:21Yeah, it was good. I was just saying it felt really weird because we had London last night and it feels like...
00:27Kind of woke up and just played the show, like within 12 hours, you know, just playing two shows. Funny, yeah.
00:33It was a breakfast set.
00:35Not enough breakfast sets?
00:36Yeah, not enough breakfast, yeah.
00:38Did you bring croissants?
00:39I had a croissant earlier. I had a bap, as you would say, a bacon bap before I played.
00:45Ah, he knows the lingo.
00:46That gave me everything I need, yeah.
00:49But if you go to Leeds, they call it a cob. It gets very confusing the further north you go.
00:53The words for bread change. England is pathetic.
00:56But for it to be a bap, it has to be on the roll, right?
00:59Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:00Okay, okay. So if it was just like white bread, that'd be a sarnay. I've heard that too.
01:04Yeah, yeah. I don't think I've ever had a sarnay in brown bread.
01:08Okay.
01:09Some people call it, also they call it a cake up north. This gets really confusing.
01:13A cake?
01:14Yeah, a bap is also a cake.
01:16Yeah.
01:17It's like a bacon sandwich, but like...
01:20Oh, like a bacon wrap?
01:21Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:22No, no, no.
01:23It's like a roll with bacon, but we can...
01:27A roll is a roll in America, right? A roll is a roll.
01:29Yeah, yeah. Well, in New York, when you say a roll, it's kind of the specific...
01:33It's like a Kaiser roll, if that rings any bells. Like if you go to a deli, you'll get it on a roll or a hero.
01:38And the hero is like a long, like, you know, submarine roll.
01:42But I don't know, this is neither here nor there.
01:44Most anyone's ever talked about bread at the Reading Festival.
01:46Yeah, very passionate about it.
01:48We love carbs.
01:49We love to eat.
01:50Yeah.
01:51Kaiser roll is a good band name or a good, you know...
01:53Yeah, there's already the Kaiser Chiefs though, right? Yeah, they kind of monopolize the Kaiser.
01:58But maybe in the next slide.
02:01Amazing set, as we were saying.
02:04Is that a Thinline Jazzmaster?
02:06Oh.
02:07Thank you for asking. It's a Thinline Jaguar.
02:09Oh.
02:10I just got it back in March.
02:12I had to go to Canada to get it because the Trump's new tariffs, I couldn't get it shipped over without spending another $1,000.
02:19So I smuggled it. I smuggled it from Canada.
02:24Hear that, everyone?
02:25Hear that, Donald?
02:26Lock me up, lock me up. Try it.
02:27Ice are coming.
02:28Yes, you try.
02:29Beautiful guitar. Google it.
02:30Yeah.
02:31But do you guys feel the weight of playing a festival like Reading Leeds or is a show a show?
02:35We strive for like a show's a show. I think that that's like a really... I think you should treat like every show the same.
02:42And I think if it's like a festival or if it's like, you know, middle of nowhere and there's only like 20 people there or something, I feel like ultimately what you're doing should...
02:52You should try to be kind of, you know, tapping into the same thing every night. But obviously it's like easier said than done.
02:59But I mean, it's like a pleasure to be here. Like last night when we were in London, we were... I was telling people that they were like, oh, what more do you have for the tour?
03:08And we're like, oh, we're doing Reading. There was a guy who was like, that's like, that's awesome. And I was like, I guess it is cool. So yeah.
03:14You weren't like channeling Kurt Cobain vibes today. No, no, I wasn't wheeled out in a hospital gown. But maybe next year.
03:22Next year? Yeah, depending on how my year goes.
03:25And you guys have played some pretty amazing shows recently. We just talked about Prima. You were at the Fontaines show at Finsbury Park, right?
03:35Yes. Yeah.
03:36What's it like being on the road to Fontaines?
03:39Oh, yeah, it was good. We did a tour with them in the U.S. That was really fun. We really love touring in the U.S.
03:47And those venues were really cool. And then, yeah, we did a few shows with them earlier in the year.
03:53They were really cool. One in like Lyon. And then how do you pronounce the other town?
03:57I think Arles. Yeah, something like that. And those were like in like Roman Colosseum type venues.
04:04And those were like very surreal. Yeah, I don't know. They're very nice people. And they've been, yeah, it feels nice. It's good.
04:14What's it like backstage with Fontaines?
04:16Well, they're normal guys. But I do want to shout out Bailey, their guitar tech. And he taught us about like a contact cleaner and stuff.
04:30So he's been there, you know, their team has like been like just as like welcoming and like helpful.
04:37So I feel like, I don't know, like when you're opening up for like bigger bands like that, you always want to try to like, you know, like, what can I gleam from this experience?
04:46And I think like, you know, like seeing an operation like that and how like well oiled it is like you, you kind of are like, okay, like, how can we like implement that in our own way and stuff? So, yeah.
04:59Highlight of the set. Always on my mind. Beautiful song.
05:04Thanks. That's it. No, I mean, what can you tell us about the decision to put a song like that out outside of the album and, you know, the confidence to kind of lean on a love song like that?
05:19Yeah, I think like we wanted to, we wanted to put out a few songs that kind of, I don't want to say bridge the gap between the next couple of records, but we felt like we had a lot.
05:31We wanted to get out of our system and get out of our system. Then usually like before we were like a band on like a label, we would, you'd write a song and you'd put it out and we'd like put it on Spotify ourselves or whatever.
05:41And the whole notion of being in like an album cycle or whatever is kind of weird.
05:46So we had these three songs and we wanted them to have some life outside of being in an album cycle.
05:53So we wanted to do them. And now, now that we're working on our, like our next record, it like, it kind of cleared the pipes in a really good way.
06:00Yeah. Well, that was it. I was going to ask if the breakaway EP tells us anything about what's to come or is it just a matter of like punctuation and carry on?
06:06Yeah, it doesn't really sound anything. It doesn't sound anything like what we're writing now and it doesn't sound like the first album.
06:12So I think it's just, it's its own thing. So yeah, I wouldn't take that as like a, to me, it doesn't feel like, it doesn't feel like a foreshadowing of anything else.
06:23Yeah. Yeah. The stuff we've been working on now, I think kind of speaks for itself. Yeah.
06:28Is there anything you can tell us about the energy or direction or vibe of the next album so far?
06:33We have a lot in our heads and like, we're working all the time on it and we've been like working on it kind of like since the first album came out.
06:42Um, and I think like, it's always a balance between like, um, I think it's really good to have your eye like set on like the, the main goal with like what you have for like a concept or like, just like what, you know, what you want the record to sound like.
06:58It's a balance between that and then also like remembering that they are just songs and that like, you need to just write songs.
07:05And so I think like right now we're kind of like in this balance of like, you know, you, you don't want to get too attached to like, what is it?
07:13What's the saying where it's like, like when you're like, like something up in the sky and your nose down to the ground or something.
07:19I don't know. I, so it's like, I mean, it's kind of revealing itself as we go, but, um, yeah, no, I mean, I think like, obviously like, uh, shit's getting crazy.
07:29Uh, so like, like, uh, there's like kind of like constant, um, lyrical, like influence from like what's going on in the world.
07:38And I think we are, yeah, I guess the one thing I'll say about is like, we are like obsessed with this, like album.
07:43Our, our first record had so much to do with place and we want this record to have a lot more to do with time.
07:50And now, um, not that this album, like won't have to do with like, like New York in subtle ways or whatever, cause that's where we live.
07:58And that's like, but I think like, ultimately, like we really want this album to feel like everyone, there's like kind of this collective consciousness happening right now,
08:08where it feels like everyone has a similar thought of like, where the fuck is this going?
08:13And like, I feel like they kind of want to like, without getting do me, we kind of want to like just tap into that collective consciousness, you know?
08:20It's a concept album about bread.
08:22Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Um, anyway, yeah, it's more or less about that.
08:27Um, being part of the Dirty Hit family, I was wondering if like, does Matty Healy ever chime in and give you guys advice on like dealing with hype or,
08:33and moving from one record to another or does he leave you alone?
08:36He leaves us alone. Um, we've talked to him a couple of times though. He's, he's cool.
08:41We, uh, uh, yeah, I mean, we toured with them and he was, he was a really nice guy.
08:45And then he came to, um, our show in LA with Fontaines and, uh, and talked, talked to him about there.
08:51But no, I mean, we, yeah, we don't really, we don't have that kind of relationship with him.
08:55But I think on that tour, he was really like, uh, we were, we were really disoriented playing like arenas.
09:01And like, uh, the biggest thing that was different for us was using in-ears as opposed to like the, um, wedges on stage, which we've always done.
09:09And so he was, he gave us a lot of advice for that.
09:11Cause we were like the first couple of shows were like, how the fuck it is. It's so weird.
09:15Like it doesn't seem like it's that weird, but it really is. So he was helpful with that.
09:19Yeah. This is the part of the interview where I ask you if you're still in touch with Ben Stiller.
09:24Uh, I wouldn't say we've ever really been in touch with him, but we've, yeah, yeah.
09:29Uh, we don't start that rumor. Um, no, but we, uh, yeah, he, uh, he's, he's a nice guy.
09:37We have, we don't know him, but we like met him years ago and he was, he was very cool.
09:43And he gave us his blessing with the name. Um, and then we met him again.
09:48He came to our show in New York at Bowery. Um, and he was, uh, he was very kind.
09:54Yeah. Well, didn't you like give him a hug?
09:56Yeah. Yeah. Well, he walked up. So like we played and he was like kind of hanging out.
10:00So like he came cause I met him before. So when he walked into our green room, I went in for a hug and he, he reciprocated it, but very tentatively.
10:08He's like, Oh, okay. I'm, I guess I'm hugging this guy.
10:11I've like forgot. He's like an A-list celebrity. So, um, yeah, but he was cool, man. He was, he, he dug it.
10:17He's shout out to capital punishment, uh, for the enemy listeners. That's his band.
10:21It sounds like the B 52s meets the birthday party.
10:24Oh, wow. What do you play?
10:25He plays drums and he's really good. So check it out. Yeah.
10:28So severance cameo incoming, not incoming.
10:31If they'll have us, of course. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
10:35Uh, what are you guys going to do after this interview?
10:39Probably get some food and then maybe ride some of the rides.
10:47Hopefully keep everything down. I've never ridden a ride here. So let me know how it goes.
10:51I was here like two years ago and I rode the swings that like go up high and I think I passed out cause the G force.
10:57I don't think I meant to be like swung around in the air, but I, maybe I'll do it again. Just see how it goes this, this time.
11:06But then watch some people, watch some music. Maximum G force for the chapel room.
11:12Oh God. Yeah. Maybe. Yeah. Maybe that's where I'll watch the set from.
11:15Good combo. Swing around. Pink pony club.
11:20Yeah. We'll see.
11:22Bean Stella. Thank you so much for your time.
11:24Thank you buddy. Thank you guys. Nice to meet you.
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