A sight for sore eyes
The View talk about their reputation as party animals, celebrity friends and festival fever ahead of their Oxegen appearance.
John Walshe, 03 Jul 2007
Interviewing The View proves an extremely difficult proposition. Not because the Dundee quartet are unusually reticent. Indeed, frontman Kyle Falconer and guitarist Peter Reilly are extremely personable and chatty. However, they have the thickest Scottish accents this side of Rab C Nesbitt. Even Kenny Dalglish was easier to decipher.
The fact that a linguistics expert would have trouble understanding their Ps and Qs hasn’t stopped them from becoming the most successful new band in Britain, with a number one album, hit singles and sell-out tours all par for the course. It’s been something of a dream come true.
“We were just content playing Dundee, hoping it would go someplace,” admits Peter, “but the last six months have been crazy. We now need to get some new dreams.”
They’re living their particular dream, and loving it too.
“We just did a gig in the Royal Albert Hall with Noel Gallagher, and got a standing ovation after our set,” adds Kyle. “That was amazing.”
It transpires that Oasis were one of the formative musical influences on The View, and one of the main reasons they started a band.
The elder Gallagher, however, isn’t the only one of their heroes they've played with. Two of their earliest tours were with Primal Scream and Babyshambles, which must have been some introduction to the world of touring.
“It was like ‘this is how touring goes’,” laughs Peter. “It was a good introduction, though, straight in at the deep end.”
The fact that they now consider these musical luminaries as mates is not lost on them. While describing Bobby Gillespie as a “sweetheart”, Peter reserves his biggest awe-struck moment for former Stone Rose and current Primal Scream-er, Mani.
“We were sitting in Mani’s house, and I was playing his bass,” he smiles. “It was the bass he used to play in The Stone Roses and I was there thinking, ‘I’ve got a poster of you on me wall’.”
This summer sees the band embark on the festival circuit, a challenge they’re seriously relishing.
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