Blossoms frontman Tom Ogden recently sat down with NME to discuss the unusual origins of their upcoming collaborative single with Declan McKenna.
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The band brought out McKenna at an intimate Manchester gig last week (August 5), with the one-off homecoming show at the Manchester Deaf Institute seeing the indie icons celebrate their breakthrough 2016 album as well as debut playful new track ‘Additional Driver’.
At the time, Ogden explained on stage that the collaborative track was about a “minor collision in a car at the Apollo roundabout”, and later told NME the song came about in the same AirBnb in Anglesey where they wrote 2024 single ‘I Like Your Look’ with CMAT.
As for the rest of the contents of upcoming album ‘Songs From The Wedding Cake‘ – which is due out on October 2 and available to pre-order/pre-save here – Ogden told NME to expect “playfulness”, as well as appearances from Rick Astley and Inhaler’s Elijah Hewson.
On the latter, he told us he’d been “singing like Eli” when he thought: “‘This bit would sound great with Eli singing it’.
As for the band’s longevity, Ogden said that’s what they’d been after from the start. “Resting on our laurels was never on the agenda for us, to be honest. Maybe because of where we’re from, once we got that opportunity with the record deal, we thought, ‘This is it.
We’re going to grab it with both horns and go for it.’.
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