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November 28, 2024 9 mins

No Cigar have just wrapped up a tour of England, their drummer Ned is back in Auckland now and called up to tell us his tales from the road; where the other band members are around the world, and introduce their brand new song, inspired by a trip to France called Chantilly. 

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Radio hdarchis Off the Record podcast with Greg Preven.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Let's have a chat with No Cigarre.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
And ned Kyolder. Greg.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
How's it going in your part of the world at
the moment? Where are you in New Zealand or.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Rocky in Auckland at the moment? I'm one of two
No Cigar members in New Zealand currently. The rest of
the band members are elsewhere around the world. Just coming
back from the tour in the UK.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
When did you go to the UK and when did
you get back?

Speaker 3 (00:30):
I got back a couple weeks ago. We went in
late October for our gig in London thirty first.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Of October Halloween.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
It was real crazy, not only because it was Halloween,
but because it was our biggest ever gig that we're
done worldwide and it was in London on the other
side of the world. We sold out nine hundred people
at as Lincoln Assembly Hall, so that the energy was
just just crazy. We were all pretty pumped for it
and just had this whole place rocket. It was a

(01:00):
pretty good feeling having released The Great Escape this time
last year. I think Willie might have had a chat
to you and to have all those songs been sung
back to us and a chorus of so many people
was pretty amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
And what percentage of the crowd do you reckon were Kiwis.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Oh, there was a decent expat community there for sure.
I think they always take it as a as a
chance to come and support a local band that's traveled
a long way to be there. I think there would
have probably been a little under fifty percent. Maybe there
might have been four hundred kiwis something like that, but
it was it was a lot of English, Like all

(01:36):
the English tended to be up the front and cranking
when these were English fans that have been listening to
our music for five years. A lot of them that
we talked towards afterwards were just huge, serious fans and
they were the ones up the front on shoulders holding
our records that they've just purchased fully kitted out in
no cigar merch. It was pretty awesome to see. But yeah,

(01:59):
really really good, solid key contingent. I think that's part
of our success in the UK has definitely stemmed from
just the amount of people that live over there at
the moment. So it's awesome New Zealand bands being able
to go over there and have such good support, and
Manchester was also really cool after that. We sold that
out and the whole place was rocking there. When Concubine

(02:20):
played actually over there, there was a near mosh but
that broke out in the front, just people going crazy,
so that was also really really cool to experience.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
This time last year, you went over to France the
All Blacks were playing for the Rugby World Cup. You
were hoping for a good result there. I remember you
guys telling us and you also spent a little bit
of time and a place that inspired the new song
that we're about to play.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Chance Lee Little Town. It's about a twenty five minute
train ride up from Paris and we parked up there
for three weeks. It was the first time that all
of us had been together for quite a few months.
We played the gig in Paris and we were naturally
pretty high after that, and then went straight into the
Roubill Cup, where the emotions came right down again, a

(03:06):
bit of a kick in the guts after the All
Blacks lost, and most of us were at Stayed Defferance
as well watching it, so there was there was some
huge mixed emotions on the Sunday after we were recovering
try to write some music, and we parked up. We
traveled all the way across the globe, would put a
huge amount of resource into it. We purchased a cheap

(03:27):
little drum kit that we had to get delivered to
this what was a really really cool done up stables
of the palace of Chantalie had been converted into a residence.
So we were parked up in this beautiful old chateau,
you know, hundreds of years old stone construction, in this
living room with an open fireplace, a nice aged would

(03:49):
all throughout it. So there was a really good feeling
in the morning that we started to write. We just
couldn't come up with anything, so we were a little
bit we were a little bit anxious. We had been
to all of us money to get to the other
side of the world. We had put so much time
aside from our daily lives. We'd left our partners who
were all back in New Zealand, and we couldn't come
up with anything. And this happened for about three or

(04:10):
four hours. So we decided, why don't we go and
see a little bit of chantali So we had a
walk down the riverside and we relaxed and we started
to laugh and we started to unwind. Then we arrived
back at the chateau, and it inspired us that we
were on the brink of Paris. We were on the
brink of maybe not being able to write the music

(04:33):
that we want, or maybe it was all going to explode,
and we were going to write as much at the
best song that we'd ever made. So Chantley birth from
there and it just came out of us, the song
and we just had this release and it just felt
so good, and this will be the first single of
that next album, and it was very glad. We were
very glad. We're very thankful that we went for that

(04:54):
walk just to get a bit of natural creativity. And
here it is Chantale. Now one battles better salved, something
sweet you, something better come correct, something better come complete.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
Because I fit dozen were wasted, Neddy a blinies for
the best of you is whatever bounce the er chant
It's already a heardache. Think that is brain new from
no Cigar. It's called Chantay And we're lucky enough to
have Ned from the band on a zoom from us now,

(05:31):
Ned thank you for bringing us at tune.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
It's a pleasure, thank you for playing it.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Need you're in Auckland. Half of the band are still overseas.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
They're slowly making it back to New Zealand now. I
think willis in Thailane testing the flavors of the world
as he likes to do. He's a big foodie. I
think Arthur's visiting his girlfriend and Magin in New York,
and Benson is still in London, so it is quite scattered,
but Josh and I are still representing an alta at
all right now.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, So this new song that we just played chantily.
There's a new album, your Third, coming out next year,
and that song will be on it.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
The album is going to come out in May. We've
got a few tours in the pipe as well, which
is cool. We've got a whole New Zealand tour coming
up in March which is soon to be released and
tickets to be released, and we're trying to just do
really cool small venues and get a lot of energy
surrounding them. So that will be Auckland, Dunedin, christ Church, Wellington.
We're going back to Maye for a festival, the Great Escape,

(06:30):
which is quite funny because it's the same name as
our previous album, our second album. But we're going back
over there in May and we're going to do another
tour and that will be throughout both the UK like
we've just done now, but we'll also tack on a
few European shows as well. That's all just getting worked
out at the moment. We then towards the end of
the next year we'll start to release some of the

(06:50):
music that we just recorded in Kent in a little
studio at a studio called Bluebells Studios, which we've just
recorded our fourth album. We're sitting on sitting on quite
a lot of music, which is good. We tend to
come together and write a lot.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Well. You guys are so good at working ahead. So
the new album that's going to be out in May,
we have sort of some French themes to it, and
then a year from now, I know it's a it's
a year from now, but there'll be some English inspiration there.
Can you give us any sort of a heads up
about anything that inspired you on that English session?

Speaker 3 (07:25):
Your environment really endorses your content wherever you are. When
we're in France, we're in the French countryside, we're in
this old historic stone building, This was last year in
Chontalet and I think there was a There was a
lot of sentiment that went into that album. There was
some gorgeous nature that surrounded us London. We were in

(07:49):
this studio. We probably went outside a total of about
three times. It was great. It was miserable over there,
but it was also created this moodiness an urban field
to it. But yeah, it's you know, the environment just
changes your mentality towards writing so much and being in
those two different countries and different areas when you are writing.

(08:11):
It's such a good product of the band with how
you approach things.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
And the fifth album, will you write then in New
Zealand or you're done with us you had to Thailand
or something and the next.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
Time, well, he's always wanted us to go to Thailand.
Funnily enough, it does make sense. It's cheaper. It's definitely
cheaper than the UK. The food is the most some
of the most delicious in the world, and anything really
goes over there. So who knows. We might write the
fifth album.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
I feel like we're getting ahead of ourselves because we
haven't got the third album about yet.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
That's we are. We haven't to get ahead of Ourselves, the.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
First single from the new album, Chantilee, if we want
to check that out or just keep an eye on
two dates as they pop up for March around New Zealand.
Where's the best place to find information about you guys?

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Nice Toga music, No.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Cigar Music on Instagram, Facebook, look at No Cigar your
website as well your YouTube channel with that live footage
from the London show mid from No Cigar. Thanks your
time on Hedache.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
Thank you very much geers for having us.

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Speaker 2 (09:24):
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Speaker 1 (09:25):
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