The past year has been something different for the ground
breaking Indie Rock Band, Launch PadMcQuack. Forming in 2006, they were an
unheard-of local gang of boys that played covers in their friends garages and
in after 3 long years they reached fame through a chance meeting with one of
the most biggest Indie record labels. Now, in 2013, LPMQ is touring to promote
their new album, Back to Basic,
bringing them all around the world from London to Seoul.
However, the bands progression to world fame isn’t as simple
as it sounds; behind the scenes in an exclusive interview, Launch Pad McQuack
talk about their experiences on tour and the difficult obstacles they had to
face leading up their near break up last year, a decision shrouded in mystery.
“We though enough was enough,” says reclusive lead singer
Nick Green. “We can’t keep putting off this new album, the fans want it and we
want it.” After their 2009 success Red
Pony, the band struggled to release their sensational 2010 album Seven Eleven and worried about their
ability to meet fans’ expectations and go bigger with a third album.
Nick Green normally writes the quirky and enigmatic lyrics
that are typical of an LPMQ song and Ryan Ridley, the talented guitarist,
writes the music alongside him. In the days after the release of Seven Eleven and the waves of positive
reviews, the band had to worry about their first European Tour, but Green and
Ridley were also concerned about what to do next.
The next two years was a back and forth between hiding from
the spotlight and trying to come up with a direction for their new album. It
wasn’t until late 2012, when bassist, Jerry Coleman, decided to write the one
off song Writer’s Block, were Green
and Ridley able to come up with an idea for their future.
In this exclusive interview with INDY, Nick Green and Ryan
Ridley answer the questions we’ve all wanted to know the answers to and give us
an insight to why the band nearly decided to call it quits and how they managed
to come back from two years of hiding.