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April 14, 2026 12 mins
Rex Talks to Sam Carter from The Architects as we get ready for them playing at The Concrete Street Amphitheater in May! Get tickets at www.concretestreet.net
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
There you go. Ah, there he is.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Do you like doing these zoom things or is it
easier doing the old school radio type interviews?

Speaker 1 (00:08):
I do, you know what, I can't. I don't mind
doing them. It's it's just, yeah, it's kind of the
new normal. I think.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Yeah, I used to have like be on the phone
and just sort of pace around my flat and do them.
But I guess this one, this one, it's nice to
kind of I guess put a face to the to
the voice.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
You know, that's true.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
But then on the other hand, I had to like
trim nose hair and shave and then pick out a shirt.
I gotta what do you call it? Like a hangar
booby right here, you know, and we could see it's
I've never worn this shirt before.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Well I think you look you look great.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
My girl said, she goes, wear the green. It'll bring
out your eyes. You really, she goes, And y'all also
share kind of the same hair going on here.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
But my wife is always talking to me about my
color palette. So I fill you with the green and
the brain out whenever I wear some of this in
my color, she's see your eyes are there now? I'm like,
I wasn't walking around the fucking.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Suwhare Everything else that I wear is black, so that
if you look at my closet, it's all forty black
namer shirts. And then yeah, this one Amazon thing that happened,
I don't know, it was an ambient order.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
You wake up and you're like, hey, who bought me this?
Oh me, look what showed up?

Speaker 2 (01:22):
And then you know, she convinced me to buy three
more that I've never worn in various colors. I always
go back to black, just like man. So you guys
are going to be here May I should tell people
I'm talking to obviously Sam Carter from the Architects, You
guys are going to be here May fifth, at Concrete
Street Amphitheater. Have you've been in Corpus before?

Speaker 1 (01:44):
I think we have, but I think it was a
long long time ago.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Well the weather hasn't changed, it's still a thousand degrees
just so you know.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, it's going to be real America.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
I think it's like a place where not many bands,
so I don't think really get to ghost maybe from
this side of the pond.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
So I'm looking forward to it. I think we have
done there before.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
We did a lot of We did a lot of
extensive touring when we first started touring America, which was
like sixteen seventeen years ago, but nobody knew who we
were until sort of maybe the last six years. So
it was good that those tours were completely useless, but
we kept it going, kept at it, and yeah, it's exciting.

(02:28):
You know, we're always just grateful for grateful for any
opportunity to play to people that want to come to
see our band.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
So yeah, we're looking forward to it.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
That has to be weird for you guys, because I
know iHeartRadio. You guys were nominees for Best New Rock Artist,
and you're like twice, did you want to shout like
we've been here since two thousand and four?

Speaker 1 (02:48):
No, you want to go at this cool?

Speaker 4 (02:50):
They think we're young, brilliant. Okay, yeah, don't don't listen
to the other ship. Yeah, I know what you mean.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
It's definitely one of those things where it's like I
also in those situations, I'm like, I would love to
win and go up and be like, we have eleven albums,
so this is very cool to be to be a
young new artist.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah, you know that's cool. I guess that kind of
means that there's still still room to grow.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
I think, especially in America, there's definitely like, yeah, stuff
to do, and you know, that's that's.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Why we do it. We want to keep going and
take this band to the to the maximum.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
You know, do you find that in America people are
just now discovering who you guys are and if you
were going to send somebody because you know, whenever we're
gonna go see a show, we always listen to that
band's music on the way to the venue, and there's
always hidden gems that you haven't heard before. Yeah, is
there an album? Seeing how there's eleven of them now,

(03:49):
is there an album that you would suggest people listen to?
That's sort of I know it's difficult, all encompassing of
what you guys are. If they had never seen you before,
which album would you direct them to?

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Probably the last one, I know that, I know it's
a real yeah, but I think I think, really I
think on the one.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Before the last one, yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Think it was a bit more like self indulgent, a
bit more like Rocky and what we were listening to
at the time, And I think the new one has
a bit more architects DNA in there, and I think
we really did try and I know, like every band
says this, but we didn't do it for our you know,
two previous ones. Yeah, but we tried to get what

(04:35):
is what is like I guess like our usp are
like the thing that people like about.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Our band throughout the record, rather.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Than it just being you know, architecture just doing whatever
the hell they want. I think it was more like, okay,
we can experiment with that, but with the dna of
what is special about our band and what people resonate with.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
So I would say that one.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
I would also say it's different, but I would say
we have an album called Loss for Us Together, and
that was the first record really where all around the world,
not just in the UK. That was the moment where
it was like, oh, these guys are pretty good and
that that was our seventh record.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
It kind of from there.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
It was like, oh, this could be a thing, and
it was kind of when we realized like, oh we
we can, we can do this, and yeah, so that's
a special part. I mean, we played one song off
of it and that's and that's a fussing interlude.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
But just as a just as a I know, we've
played two songs of it. But it's just a yeah,
it was.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
It was a real time I think for the scene
and for that genre of music that that record was cool.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Now eleven deep, Now, at what point did you realize
when making the albums? I know you do it all
for the love and the art of it, but at
what point did you say, you know what, I might
be able to sustain a life doing this. I might
be able to pay bills doing that.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
I think about last week.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
That's when that's when he actually started making money doing this.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
I was taking twenty years.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
No, I think I think around Lost forever. It was
an exciting time, but it wasn't necessarily like like a
life changing we've got this in the bag. It was
just very much like set up for that and it
was like, if you play cards right here, we we
should be okay. But I would say.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Honestly, I wouldn't say until for those that wished to exist.
So what three albums ago, Yeah, that's when you went
got number We.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
Got number one in the UK and in Australia, and
I think when we got given the like you've got
the number one album in the country award, that was
like holy shit, like.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
This is a really big yeah moment.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
You know, this isn't just like this isn't just like
number one in the rock charts or this was like
us being number one in the bill Wards, which was
like an amazing thing that I didn't think anything like
anything would ever happened like that with the band, But
that felt like after that, we did some release shows
and then it was Yeah, it was apparent that there

(07:14):
was something in the world that had changed, you know.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
But I never really feel that settled.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
I always feel like I take stock of what we've done,
and I used to never do that.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
I used to just always be looking forward.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
And be like, what's next, what's the next tour, Where
are we going, How are we going to do this?
I think when you get older, I'm definitely more reflective,
and we'll finish a tour or on an album cycle
and I'm like, you know, this is an amazing opportunity
and an amazing time and an amazing career.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
I'm like, I'm not done. I'm like, Okay, this is awesome.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
Hold on to it and look back at how far
you've come, because I think that really means you soak
up what's coming up, because you're like, we didn't have
overnight success.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
We didn't have a like Bang your Head and Coachella.
It was like, yeah, it was a slow build.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
I mean to the point where on our last tour
of the UK, two of the shows were the biggest.
Two of them were the biggest headline shows we'd ever
played in those markets, and it's like it took us
twenty years to get there. But you know, we were
doing the same venue that Paul McCartney did in London,
and you know, we're doing the same venue that Harry
Styles just did for his opening thing in Manchester, and
its like, you know, when you're playing venues with acts

(08:26):
like around that, that's when you're like, you know, maybe
I should be a bit kinder to myself and go
like well done.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
The perspective and hearing you talk about it, it's it's
such a mature you know, monologue basically is what yeah, yeah,
you know. Hearing you talk about it, it's it's, yeah,
you can tell it's very mature and learning how to
appreciate all of it. Which maybe maybe if you guys

(08:52):
had stardom, like big fat stardom early on, maybe it
would have gone gone to your head and you could
have been gone by now.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, And I think, do you know what, Like when
I joined Architects, I was I just turned eighteen and
I'm thirty seven now, and I think if we had
the success that we have now when I was eighteen nineteen,
it would have been a bad, bad It would have
been bad for me because I think I still had
a lot of a lot of growing up to do.

(09:20):
But I think, yeah, at this point, that's what's so
great about about our band. You know, we've been through
some highs and lows, and you know, the lows have
been pretty brutal, and the highs have been amazing. But
we've had each other, and you know, the four of
us have still so close.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
A lot of bands don't have what we have.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
You know, we go everywhere with each other. The four
of us are always with each other. We're always at
dinner together, and when we're at home, we're you know,
even though we're Me and Ali live near each other,
but you know, Dan lives down in Devon and I'm
going down there to see his kids, and you know,
they're coming up to see us here. It's like it's
not it doesn't feel like a job or like we
have to do stuff. It's just like, I'm just stoked

(10:02):
there in my life. I can't believe I get to
do this.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
It's a joke, it's it's a really it's a gift
when you find that, wait a minute, someone's going to
pay me to do something that I really love to do.
And they always say, you know, you never work a
day in your life.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
If you're doing I feel like I'm getting away with murder.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
I'm like, I'm waiting at one point for someone to go,
oh fucking hell, this is crazy.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
Get off the bus, get out of here. How the
hell did you get back here?

Speaker 3 (10:33):
But no, yeah, I think you know, it just took
so long to get to where we are that you're
just grateful for everything, you know.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Well.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
I played both songs on the radio this morning. Yeah,
I'm one of I think the few radio people in
the country that if I see a song and I'm like,
I don't want to hear that, and I'll pull it
and I'll play something else that feels more like me,
or feels more like the show, or whatever mood.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
That I happen to be in. So it was kind
of fun.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
I did it like two for I played them back
to back.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
So that's you know, that's the best man. Wow.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
So Concrete Street Amphitheater, May the fifth, prepare yourself for
a massive amount of humidity.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
It is.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
It is ninety eight percent of humidity pretty much daily.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
In courtation in real America.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
Are you are you doing the whole bus thing or y'all?
I mean, I know you guys fly here and then
what do they put you in a bus and they
take you around to every city where you're doing shows?

Speaker 1 (11:35):
We go.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
We have Mexico first, we're going to do a headline
show there. Yeah, and then we fly in and yeah,
it's it's on. Then we're just in the in the
bus and then traveling around and then fly home and
then straight into European Festival summer. So it's yeah, NonStop.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Wow, that's incredible momentum for your band and people who
are just now discovering you. I'm sure they're going to
take a deeper look into architects music. Well man, thanks
for taking some time and just chatting it up with me.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah, thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
I wanted Sam Carter of the Architects everybody. Concrete Street Amphitheater,
May fifth, You grab your tickets to concrete Street dot net.
You have been awesome, made it too easy.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
Somebody I'm getting paid for this really stupid life.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
That's what I mean.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
In music, and I always say to my friends that
even ones that aren't like doing like massive.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
Ship, I'm just like you turn up.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
Even people that are playing in weddings, I'm like, you
turn up, you play music.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yeah you get that's so cool, beautiful. I'm also lucky
to have that.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
You know, we'll see you at Concrete Street coming up
May the fifth, it's the Architects. Grab your tickets at
Concrete Street dot net. Sam Carter, thank you so much again.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
Thank you so much, mate. I appreciate it.
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