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Show CAMPUS 2 - g- song, Color Me In. He came up with the idea to have people painting and coloring the camera screen in front of them. So we got some of my friends together from Berlin and it was actually filmed in his living room. When Chris got back from Berlin and he posted on Facebook that he needed a trumpet player, a couple mutual friends suggested he get in contact with me. Well, about a 100 people started posting, John Gibbons John Gibbons, and I was like, guess there is no one else. He came to me with the song, The Steps on the Bombed Out Church, which John admitted to me yesterday he life. 2 The lady comes down off the stage, Reagan, and shes all LA smile and dolled up and she looks like someone from Hollywood. I was wearing a deer stock on my head and she came up and said, I love this! What is it? And I said, Its a hat. And the whole room cracked up as if it was the funniest thing anyone on the planet earth had ever said in the history of planet earth. I was like, Im brilliant. I didnt have to say much for the laugh. Yesterday we met a girl in Park City and she asked us for a lighter, but she couldnt light her cigarette properly. So I asked, Is that your first cigarette? And she said, No I usually smoke Camels. And I said, Thats weird, I usually smoke cigarettes. Smoking a camel. Thats funny, right. hated at first. He came to me saying, I want to put a trumpet in this song, and he seemed like a nice guy so I told him Id help him out. I learned that when you help Chris once, you are roped in for life. Ollie only came to record three songs with us and play the drums, and that was three and a half years ago. Ollie: Chris and I had a mutual friend. I was in a band called, Kill the Young and we produced a lot of albums with his producer, Rob Whitely. Then Chris was a friend of his as well There is a moody Blues song that says, "Thinking is the best way to traveL" When we challenge our minds to take us somewhere we embark on a journey. What started your music journey? Liverpools Silent Sleep must have anticipated colder weather here in Salt Lake City. The band is currently touring the U.S. and stopped at the Shaw Student Center on Jan. 27 to entertain students. Their debut album, Walk Me To The Sea, is available now. Silent Sleep, an alt-foband from Liverpool, England, lk performed at Westminster College on Jan. 27. Its second album, Stay the Night, Stay the Morning Too, debuted at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. The three band members, Chris Macintosh, Oily Gorman and John Gibbons, were interviewed before their performance. Macintosh sings and plays the guitar, Gorman plays bass and drums and Gibbons plays the trumpet and glakonshpeal. Why are you debuting your second album at a film festival and not a music festival? Primarily due to the fact that we work with a label based in SLC, and they have strong connections with the Sundance Film Festival, so it was kind of their suggestion. They flew us out from Liverpool and then I guess music festivals such as South by Southwest, which is the equivalent for the music industry, is kind of saturated. Youre competing with about 400 bands a day. But with something like the Sundance Film Festival, there arent that many bands playing so it kind of attracts a few more people to the gigs. You kind of stand out a little bit more. Yeah, and you probably get other fans you wouldn't normally get. Yeah, exactly. Its full of people who have been watching films all day, so at the end of the day its nice to give their ears a treat instead of their eyes. I understand that this isn't Silent Sleep's first Sundance Film Festival. What has the experience been like the second time around? I came actually for the first time last year, but I didnt have Ollie and John with me, so the gigs were a lot smaller. This time around we have been a lot busier. Ollie plays bass and drums at the same time and John plays trumpet and the glokenshpeal. The first song you will play is called "On the Steps of the Bombed Out Church" from your album "Walk Me to the Sea." What is this song about? Its about a church in Liverpool that was bombed by the Nazis during the Second World War. It remains standing in the center of Liverpool as a shell. Basically it has no windows and no roof. remember being a child walking past it and it had trees growing inside of it, and I never really appreciated how weird that I is. But looking back, Im like, that is dead weird, to have trees growing out of the middle of the building during the wintertime. But then eventually, the trees fell. Now they show films in it and have yoga classes, which I attend regularly. I basically wrote the song when I was away in Berlin, and it is about feeling home sick. The steps of the bombed out church are a really popular place to meet because it is central and where a lot of the buses stop when you are going into town. f 1 I understand this music video was filmed in the mountains of Park City. We filmed it last year. It was a very cold day up in the mountains. We filmed it with a guy called Danny Drysdale who has done The Killers last few videos, so it was kind of a big deal. But all he did was make me stand in the snow for hours until my feet went numb. So I dont know if it was some kind of practical joke on me or what, but the video turned out well. It took me about three days to thaw out, but the video turned out great. What made you want to film this here in Park City rather than in Liverpool? Well at the time when I came last year, the labels boss, Wayne Skulls, had organized this as a surprise. We went to his house and had a BBQ and Wayne introduced me to Danny, and he told me hed shoot a music video for me. It was a nice surprise and while we were here we figured it was nice to make the most of 11 I played in many bands. I was in a band called 28 Costumes, which was very rock and roll. Then a band called Hello I Love You, which is electronic rockpop kind of like the Postal Service. Then I moved to Berlin and started Silent Sleep. Initially, it was just me because I couldnt take all my instruments and stuff with me so I just brought my guitar so I could still write new songs. So thats where the journey started and first evolved. And thats where I hooked up with Ollie and John and other musicians way more talented than I am. If you imagine it to be a coloring book and I have the outline, then here are these guys coloring outside the lines. Just kidding they always stay in the lines and only use felt tip pens. and said theres another client, Chris, who needs some drums in the recording. I didnt have anything going on that week, so I was like okay, whatever. Got paid 30 quid for that For an American, how much is that? About $50, the most Ive gotten paid for being a musician. Weve been playing two to three times a day since we have arrived. Where has been your favorite place to play this year? From your album "Color Me In," What was it like filming We can unanimously say Flanigans. I love their fries. that? That was brilliant. A guy I met out in Berlin who was from Toronto, he was a film director who had moved to Berlin to have It was by far the best we played and the audience was just lovely. some fun for a year. We got along really well and he really liked the the mountains and the natural beauty around us. You've been getting all kinds of media requests while doing your mini tour at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, but I understand that last week was your first time on American TV on morning show. Good Morning Utah. What was that experience like? n P fCS3 4 IS er-- , t f s V - rf ? h rsa r ; a R m t- 5 W tl 11 Esc Hf i a? & rh 4. 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