Pedal To The Metal
They’ve toured with AC/DC, hung out with the Stones and inspired Def Leppard. Now, The Answer are ready to step up to the next level with their poppiest album yet.
Roisin Dwyer, 11 Oct 2011
They’ve played with The Rolling Stones, The Who, Aerosmith and supported AC/DC on their Black Ice world tour. They can count Jimmy Page, Joe Elliot and a host of other rock luminaries amongst their fans.
Yes, the last few years have been quite the whirlwind for The Answer.
Now their third long-player Revival has just hit the streets. Their most accomplished work to date, it is jammed with polished rock nuggets, catchy riffs, glossy production and arena-ready euphoric choruses.
Over afternoon tea in Dublin’s Library Bar, frontman Cormac Neeson is contemplating the impact a year-and-a-half on the road with AC/DC had on the long-player.
“Watching them work that crowd every night you can’t help soaking up the rock ‘n’ roll tricks of the trade,” he muses. “It was just hooky rock ‘n’ roll hit after hooky rock ‘n’ roll hit. I think we’ve managed to incorporate some of those songwriting principles on this album. You can tell by listening to it that it’s in no way trying to be AC/DC. There is that same kind of efficieny of songwriting though. You’re not wasting a beat or a breath.”
The band set to work on the album as soon as they’d returned from the massive slew of dates.
“We’d just come off that amazing tour and thought it was really necessary to channel all those good positive experiences and make an album that was on the whole quite an optimistic record. Full of energy and vibrancy and everything that it is to be in The Answer.”
Being on the road with one of the biggest bands in the world was an eye-opening experience. Happily the Australian rockers proved to be exemplary hosts.
“Brian (Johnson) and Ciff (Williams) came in to our dressing-room on the first night of the US tour, wished us the best and let it be known that they were more nervous than we were about what was about to happen,” says Cormac. “Brian is the kind of guy that you could walk into Whelan’s front bar and he’d be having a pint entertaining the whole place with stories. He’s a straight-up-Geordie-Old-Holburn-smoking dude who is very approachable. He’s hilarious as well. He’d just crack you up.”
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