Win tickets to Kodaline
That Kodaline is ready to release its second album has still to sink in with the men who made it. The Dublin quartet didn’t plan to follow up last year’s 350,000-selling In A Perfect World so promptly. In fact, they didn’t plan at all. Sparked by an experiment that inspired them to shake up their sound, the band started recording and couldn’t stop.
Just eight weeks later, Coming Up For Air was complete.
Coming Up For Air’s sense of adventure stems from its lack of planning. Nothing was set in stone. Every song dictated its own direction. When Play The Game suggested a gospel singer, it got one (Christina Matovu). When the gorgeous, acoustic guitar-backed Better called out for strings, they come courtesy of an orchestra in Prague. That same string section appears on lighters-aloft, soon-to-be couples anthem "The One", the album’s second single, originally written for the wedding of Kodaline’s engineer Phil Magee, who hails from Swords, the same Dublin suburb as the band.
"The One" wasn’t intended to be heard again, but one night on tour in Toronto, the band agreed to let a fan up on stage to propose to his girlfriend and decided to dust down the song. When fan footage of the performance started spreading on YouTube, it was obvious they had to record it. For years to come, "The One" is set to soundtrack countless first dances.
PRIZES
A pair of tickets to Kodaline at the Commodore Ballroom on May 10
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Contest Deadline: Monday, May 4, 3:00 am
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