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Interview by Roddy Cleere, May 1999With the release of 'Lavender Girl' they are now on their tour of radio stations and it was during the rock show recently that I had the chance to talk with the brothers Kenealy, Brian and Canice. Canice : " I suppose we kinda broke up three years ago. I don't know what the official line on that is really but in the end I hadn't spoken to Brian for a couple of months, I used to throw apples at his house just to show him that I was still alive (laughs). We have started writing songs again. Brian did his own thing, he had a band called The Valleys and I went off and made some strange recordings and Eamonn went off and did some work with Lord of The Dance and still is in fact." Did the guys miss the Engine Alley thing in the intervening three years? Canice: " We missed the good bits and didn't miss the bad bits!. We probably get a bit drained by getting involved in the industry and trying too hard. Those parts we kinda left behind. We did miss playing live together and writing songs. It was those parts we wanted to come back to. We did learn enough to know that there was ground that we didn't need to go back over, like personal stuff. Not to say that we would not have arguments but we would be more careful with those arguments. It's more concentrated now on who does what within the band. It's more focused on a certain kind of sound and we know what works. The attitude now is just to make music and I think that was always the attitude but we were caught up in the idea of making it really big. I don't really know what the big aims are any more but we are definitely more relaxed with everything now" What kind of music influenced that band? Canice : " Brian would be a bit of a Neil Young head. My angle would be punk, the Jam and the Clash. The whole structure of the band is around choruses." Is there a new album anywhere in the plans? Canice : " A new album? Yea. We have material in storage and we are always putting stuff down and testing the waters so to speak so we could have an album out soon. The reaction to the single has been very good. People are playing it on various stations. It's nice to see that people are genuinely please to see that Engine Alley are back again and hopefully we will be doing all the major cities in Ireland over the summer" At this stage of the conversation Brian decided that Canice was hogging the limelight a bit and joined in. Was he happy with the end result of Lavender Girl?
Brian : " Yes I have to say I am very happy with it. That's all we can do with it now anyway. We have to let it go now and see what happens with it. We never leave the studio until we are happy with what we have done and we have always kept that policy. We began work on this on the first of January this year. We actually demoed about ten songs and then we went back and picked three and the end result is what you hear"
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