{"id":26088,"date":"2025-02-12T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=26088"},"modified":"2025-02-10T20:26:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T20:26:20","slug":"frankie-clarke-frankie-the-studs-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=26088","title":{"rendered":"Frankie Clarke – Frankie & The Studs Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First off, thank you for taking the time to answer some questions. I am hopeful that the news I saw regarding the fires around Los Angeles being better contained are true, and the long recovery can begin for everyone affected by them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Thank you! Yeah it\u2019s been a pretty crazy fucked up start to the year here. Thankfully the fires are out now! It\u2019s going to be a long road to recovery, but the community has really come together like I\u2019ve never seen before to help each other and it\u2019s awesome to see.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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    I had not realized how long I have been listening to you until I realized the \u2018High on Yourself\u2019 single came out almost 10 years ago now. Frankie and The Studs have just released your first full length album through Deadbeat Records which contains a mix of new songs and some former singles. Ironically, one of the more recent singles \u2018Drain Me\u2019 is not on the album. How did you go about determining what songs made the album?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      Almost 10 years already?? Damn!! So you\u2019re probably also wondering what took us so long haha. Yeah, we decided not to put \u2018Drain Me\u2019 on the record because that song came from a time of experimentation during lockdown and we wanted to go back to our roots and put out something more raw. We actually had a lot of songs that were in the same universe as \u2018Drain Me\u2019 and we re-recorded them as a live band. Whenever we play \u2018Drain Me\u2019 live, we play it totally differently to fit our 4 piece live band setup. So we wanted the whole album to just reflect what it feels like to go see us live. I\u2019ve always thought of us as a live band, and to go back to the 10 years thing. I spent a lot of time just playing and getting all that experience under my belt. Right now felt like the right time\u2026 I know who I am as an artist, and the band feels solid. My bandmates are my best friends. We\u2019re all in it together. The band went through some different iterations over the years and I\u2019ve been fortunate to work with incredible musicians, but there were times the band felt more like a solo project, but now we feel like a band\u2026 so it was time to put out an album!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      One of the new songs has to be relatable to anyone who has worked a few jobs in their life is \u2018Fuck this Shit.\u2019 My daughter has grown to love the song and is very careful to just sort of mouth the words to the chorus. From live clips I have seen online, the song understandably gets the crowd singing right away. I catch myself playing it at least twice in a row each time I play it. Did the song come quickly when you were writing it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        Hahah that\u2019s awesome, I always tell children to cover their ears if we\u2019re playing an all ages show. Yeah our guitarist Frank Salazar actually wrote that song and when he showed it to me I came up with the lyrics to a second verse pretty quickly, because like you said, I think we can all relate to that feeling!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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