1. CONTENTS IMN MAGAZINE - DECEMBER 2012
12 CONCERTS COMING UP
What will you have them
chance to see this month?
15 YOUR SAY
Give your own opinion or hear
what other people have to say.
16 LETTER FROM THE
EDITOR
08 RECOMMEND & REVIEW 58 GUESS WHO’S IPOD? 60 THE UK’S NEXT BIG STAR?
17 MUSIC NEWS
keep up to date with the latest
music, band and artists.
31 LANA DEL REYVIEW
The singer takes a look at this
month’s events.
48 PULL OUT POSTERS
Pull out and put up!
62 CAPTURE THIS!
See this month in pictures. 25 INTERVIEW: 54321
85 MONTHLY CONTEST
Win concert tickets right here!
06 THE AWARDS
Has your favourite band won?
Find out here!
19 SNOW PATROL
Backstage their full-force tour! 40 EXCLUSIVE: JAMES CASEY 35 MUSIC CHARTS
20 BEHIND THE MUSIC 33 THE SECRET DIARY OF THE 51 MUSE
See what goes on behind the KILLERS! On how they’re facing their
scenes! All their secrets are unleashed! biggest challange yet!
21 MUSIC VIDEOS 37 THE MAKING OF A BAND 57 ALL ABOUT FANS
The good and the bad See here how it can be simple! What type of fan are you?
23 THE TOP 10 INDIE SONGS 42 Old BANDS COMING BACK! 65 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE
The download musts! Who are making a comeback? On being in the spotlight.
29 THE SCRIPT! 44 MUMFORD & SONS 73 NOAH + THE WHALE
What it’s like being back on tour! Up close and personal. See them back in the studio!
27 THE NEW & UPCOMING 45 COLDPLAY 80 THE PRODUCERS SECRETS
Who do you need to look out for? Insider reveals all on new album! Find out what you didn’t know!
01 DEC 2012

2. 5
4321 is more than just a How did the band come together? Ashleigh Ravenscroft goes
name, it is a countdown to
something about to hap-
The band is a family band really so
there’s me, my 3 brothers and my
man Rory Taylor on how
pen and its happening cousin Liam who plays the bass. changed
now and will continue to happen! We’ve been playing together for
With their new original EP years really and in all sorts of carna- Did you always want to be in a
‘Motion Picture Scenery’ the band tions of bands with various other peo- band growing up?
has successfully combined their two ple as well but finally now we’ve Err, I always wanted to perform I did-
favourite genres; classic American settled on the family, we’ve had vari- n’t really care how it came about. I
film soundtracks and 70s British ous friends come and go and join the was kind of an attention seeker as a
Rock! The band insists that the EP band but we get on really well. It’s child and I think this is how’s it mani-
must be listened to in full to be ap- quite sickening really but we do get fested itself later into a job, which is
preciated. I met up and sat down with on really well. So yeah we’ve been quite nice!
their very own frontman, Rory Taylor playing together as this band for
at the popular and iconic Cavern in about 2 years but before that we Who are your idols in the music in-
Liverpool whilst they were getting were playing as a similar line doing dustry and why?
ready to perform for the first time covers, corporate events, weddings Well, my biggest idol of all time, oh
since Rory’s appearance on ITV and all sorts of stuff like that. This is actually I can’t say that. My two
show Jesus Christ Superstar. more fun though! biggest idols of all time are Freddie
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3. BELOW: (Left to Right) Callum Taylor, Olly Taylor,
Rory Taylor, Liam Capleton, Barnaby Taylor
backstage with 54321 front they did ‘cus you just think we’re not knew on the day of the final I wasn’t
w nearly being Jesus has
even close. I wish we were but we’re going to win; I just had a feeling I
not, just to that energy and to that knew Ben was going to win and I’m
their life... magic that they put out! genuinely happy for him! I’ve been to
see the show and I think it’s ab-
Mercury and Michael Jackson; How did if feel being part of the TV solutely fantastic!
they’re my biggest inspirations. Fred- show Jesus Christ Super Star?
die for his sheer vocals and his It was quite strange really; it was a Has being on Jesus Christ Super
showmanship was just something very odd experience because from Star affected you and your band?
else. Again with Michael Jackson he the beginning from the very first audi- Yeah, you can’t underestimate the
was just an entertainer just like Fred- tion to the final of the show was six power of Twitter and the power of the
die was. The pair of them were really months on my life. internet. Being on a high profile
unique; they had no limits, no bound- I was standing there on the final show like Superstar got me a lot of
aries to their performances. Anything knowing that if I didn’t win it that was Twitter followers and I’m not really
anyone else could do they could do it the end of it and that was six months very technically minded with those
a million times better and that trans- of commitment all come to an end. things I’ve got my legs and voice so
lates to record and other various live But knowing if I won it, it was going I’ve kind of just used that. I’ve had to
DVDs they did. It’s just amazing just to change my life for a long time in learn how to communicate with this
performing now and watching what such a big role. It’s strange I think I fan base no matter how small it might
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4. be. You have to keep communicating ing of home here. I like performing was our first or second day in the TV
and engaging them with what you’re anywhere that’s got a crowd that studios and Dawn French walked in
doing and what’s going on so I’m wants to hear us and I think a lot of to our meeting and was like “Hi
doing my best to do that over Twitter performers would say that. But any- boys!” And she’s tiny and she
and Facebook. So regarding the where were people will come and lis- walked right in and gave us all a hug
bands profile yeah it’s got a few peo- ten is great. and that’s weird! Seeing these peo-
ple interested and opened some nice ple who you admire and you watch
doors and opportunities. Do you have a ritual before you on TV and you absolutely love, it’s
perform? just unbelievable! So I think meeting
Did you have a lot of support in It depends where I am. If I’m in the all those people makes the experi-
your hometown? Cavern its usually to have a pint, but ences so surreal. Singing with Gary
Yeah it seemed so! Again it was quite err no I don’t I’m not one of those Barlow as well was pretty cool and
strange because being down in Lon- people who has to turn on and off the was quite surreal. The whole Super-
don and being away from everything light switch a thousand times, al- star thing was just odd from start to
was a strange experience for me. though I do have to put my left shoe finish it was very strange.
I’m used to being in the centre of all on first, that’s a really strange one I’ll
of it. With other people being on the throw that one in. If I put my right What do you guys have planned
other side of the camera it’s not like shoe on first it throws me for the for the future?
having your audience directly in front whole day so I always put my left Well my plans in general for the fu-
of you all the time, where you can get shoe on first. There’s a fact about ture are to just keep pushing the
that feedback. You can hear the ap- me, so yeah I do. Oh, god! There I band and doing as much as we can.
plause you can hear people booing was thinking I wasn’t a weirdo but ac- But I suppose alongside that I need
maybe or you can hear whatever tually am. So there you go, left shoe to be doing things that further me as
that’s your direct feedback on stage, first. a performer as well so I’m touring
so to be on TV is a very different next year in a production ‘Rent’ which
thing. It appears back here I had a lot What has been your craziest expe- is a musical based in New York, it’s
of support when I came home a lot of rience? the 20th anniversary this next year
random people I never met before I think some of the experiences coming and we’re doing a concert
came up to me saying that they had through Superstar where you would tour with on with Kerry Ellis who’s
voted and everything. Its cool all the meet people or you would be in the from Wicked, We Will Rock You and
local papers have been great, the same room as someone, for instance all those things. So me and her are
local radios have been really good I was in the studio one day and Tim staring in it and we’re doing two or
with us as well, so yeah I really ap- Minchin came up to me and said “Hi three weeks of it, so it’s going to be
preciate it! Rory, how’s it going?” and I’d never good. I’m looking forward to that and
met him before and I was like how we’ve got some cool gigs coming up
Where’s your favourite place does he know my name but clearly and a supporting gig with Mel C and
you’ve ever performed? he’d been watching the show be- hopefully we’ve got a few other nice
Err, I dunno I know it’s really boring cause he’s got an invested interest in things coming up next year that I
answer but I don’t know if I have one. it. So that’s kind of strange to know don’t want to jinx by saying anything.
Obviously I love preforming here in that people know who you are. We So we’ll see what happens.
the Cavern, but there’s almost a feel- were in a meeting one day, I think it Interview & Photographs by Ashleigh Ravenscroft
27 DEC 2012