I think it gave us an insight into the fact that we don’t actually need to be as nervous as sometimes we make ourselves. I guess when you’re still on the upward slope, and with a sold out show tonight, it doesn’t really make sense half way up to be like “Yeah, we’ll start from the bottom again with a completely different sound.” This year you’ve played TRNSMT, Bestival and other festivals, what were the most important experiences that you learnt from these bigger gigs?ĭylan: I think what I learnt at TRNSMT was, it’s harder to see if your pedals are on during the daylight, than playing inside a venue.
Prentice: But I guess we’re not really at the stage in our careers, where we would be like “we want to completely change our genre” just because we’ve not even got our first record together yet. Prentice: Yeah, I mean we never write tunes in a way that’s like “oh, we want a slow song”, or “we want a fast song.” It’s always whatever idea comes, that’s what we run with.ĭylan: There’s definitely some songs, like maybe I’ll be working out a guitar part and we’ll decide to do something else as it sounds quite characteristic of a Vistas song, so we don’t want to do something that’s in too many of our other songs. I suppose if you’ve got the structure of it, then it could almost be like a jigsaw type approach to the songs, which in a way might make it easier as you’ll be able to piece it together to create a Vistas song. Yeah, like we’re happy with the way the songs are at the moment, I guess it’s not necessarily harder to continue to write songs because we’ve always got inspiration to write new tunes, we’ve always got little ideas and riffs going about.
As you say, it’s maybe like a second album thing where we need to maybe experiment a bit more or whatever. I think at the moment we’re happy with the way our sound is. You can maybe hear Vistas elements in all of our songs, like things that are maybe characteristic of our songs. Prentice: I think we’ve definitely carved out a bit of a style for ourselves. This might feel a bit like a second album question, but now that you’ve started getting your sound together, has it made the song writing any more difficult or are you getting into the groove a bit now with it? We’ve only been a band for about a year, so we don’t have hundreds and hundreds of songs, so I think the songs we have, we all have a really special connection with. Its’ hard to say, I mean every song is special. ‘Medicine’ will always hold a really special place for me anyway. That was the first tune that got added to some Spotify playlists and things. Then our track ‘Medicine’ I think after we had that written and recorded we were like that’s a proper song and that could go somewhere. It was one of the first songs we ever learned to play together so that’s obviously pretty special for us. Prentice: I guess there’s some key songs that mean a lot to us, like ‘Sign Language’ is the first song we ever put out. That’s pretty much been the Gallaghers' approach since the mid-90s, hasn’t it? It’s like yeah, honestly the next one’s amazing!ĭylan: Well, I mean it’s usually the song that you’ve not heard yet, is the favourite. What song of yours are you most proud of?ĭylan: I dunno if this is a cheesy answer, but usually for me it’s whatever our newest song is. This band was just a really good outlet for that. That’s what started it for me anyway.ĭylan: I think for myself, I just wanted to continue doing things that are creative. We really just wanted to be successful with the music we make and create as much of it as we could and play live as much as we could. I guess it just stemmed from a love of being in a band and the fact that we didn’t want to get proper jobs, so we’d just do this.
We want to be able to play gigs for the rest of our lives. We want to make, it, well, whatever you define as making it. As a band we’ve always set our sights quite high. Prentice: I think we just like being in a band. To cut to the chase, we're sitting here in Edinburgh, you're due on stage shortly.what are you guys doing it for?ĭylan: I think we just enjoy playing music with each other. Little Indie's Richard Cobb caught up with frontman and rhythm guitarist Prentice Robertson, and lead guitarist Dylan Rush from the band, ahead of their sold out hometown show at The Mash House in Edinburgh last Friday. Vistas, the high energy guitar-pop four-piece, have had a hugely successful year, from playing Trnsmt and Bestival, to amassing hundreds of thousands of Spotify plays of their single 'Strong Swimmer', to latest outing, 'Retrospect'. ".We think it’s a good band name, easily chanted.
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