{"id":44145,"date":"2015-02-13T16:17:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T15:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=44145"},"modified":"2016-09-22T14:27:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T14:27:27","slug":"kodaline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2015\/02\/13\/kodaline\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile: Kodaline"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Coming Up For Air’, Kodaline’s second album, is out today. We caught up with the band and talked about living the dream, cucumbers and cabin fever.<\/p>\n

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I go from journalist to fangirl in 2.36 seconds every time I cross paths with Kodaline. I don\u2019t think they\u2019ve realised though, I laugh at all their jokes discreetly and I\u2019ve only hinted that we\u2019re besties once. They\u2019re guitar-wielding dreamboats with soft Irish accents, what\u2019s not to love? I very quickly discover that they\u2019re also one of the most easygoing bands I\u2019ve ever met. Steve Garrigan (lead) and Mark Prendergast (guitar) met at school and over the years, Vinny May (drums) and Jason Boland (guitar) joined the line-up.<\/p>\n

Today sees the release of Kodaline\u2019s second album ‘Coming Up For Air’. The sophomore offering comes with expectations for any band, often impossible to meet, because you have to maintain your style, supersede your debut\u2019s success and mix things up, all in neat little package of approximately 10 tracks. I ask the boys about the sinister second album curse but they\u2019re nonplussed. \u201cWe kind of avoided it somehow,\u201d Jason says, \u201ceveryone talks about the second album syndrome. We didn\u2019t really stop before we started recording so we didn\u2019t have a moment to let the pressure build up or to even have any pressure. By the time we were halfway through the record we didn\u2019t even think we\u2019d started it, so it kind of crept up on us!\u201d ‘Coming Up For Air’ was finished in just eight weeks. Mark explains, \u201cIt just kind of happened so quickly. We went in to write some songs and came out with an album!\u201d I\u2019m baffled, they chat to me about it like it\u2019s nothing, just another album, you know.<\/p>\n

Eight weeks in a room of the same four people sounds like hell to a lot of people, myself included, alarm bells ring and cabin fever sets in simply at the thought of it. Jason jokes, \u201cI tried to get away, there was a wall – it won.\u201d I\u2019m laughing like a hyena, it\u2019s the fangirl fever. Mark continues, very sweetly and sincerely, \u201cLike any band, there were times when it was tense, but you need tension in order to get the best out of us. It was nice to be in the one place for two weeks here and there and actually unpack your suitcase and bring your slippers with you.\u201d<\/p>\n