In late 2007, Andrew Hamilton spoke with Dane McMahon from Irish band, the Flaws.
FIRST you write the music. Then you get the money. And then...then you get the women. That’s how it works, right? No? Post big-studio rock and roll, things, it seems, just ain’t what it used to be.
Gone are the endless bar tabs; no more the lowly assistants, only too happy to trot off and fulfill your every M&M-related need. Could it be true? Could “sex, drugs and rock and roll” be a mantra for the past? Why not try this new vision for size? You finish up your eight-hour day, working on a building site or in an office somewhere — drive for three hours and play your heart out to a crowd for, wait for it, no money. You have a cup of coffee and then drive three hours home, ready for work bright and early the next morning. It sounds rough, but the days of big record labels are quickly coming to an end and, if you want to make it, you have to be willing to put in those hard yards. “We were all working right up to a few weeks ago; we’re still working some of us. So trying to do both could be a big headache. It was more pressurized, but then I guess there’s more satisfaction in the end. It feels good to know that we’ve done all of this by ourselves. But at the time, it was just torture,” says The Flaws’ bassist, Dane McMahon.
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