The View on being indie survivors and that on-stage bust-up: “Being in The View can be volatile sometimes”
nme.comThe View frontman Kyle Falconer has spoken to NME about ‘Exorcism Of Youth’ – their first album in eight years – as well as coming back together after a lengthy hiatus and the on-stage bust-up that saw them cancel gigs earlier this year.Ahead of the band’s return on record, the Dundee band made their comeback with a series of Scottish gigs last December following a years-long hiatus.“It was a wee bit nerve-wracking, man, once we put the tickets on sale because we didn’t know what it was going to go like,” Falconer told NME.
He continued to explain that the band’s management only wanted to put one night at Glasgow’s O2 Academy on sale, but they ended up selling out four nights at the venue. “That felt good because it was like, ‘Fuck you, you thought we were only going to do one’.
But it’s class [to be back], it’s just great.”In May, The View brought their live show back to the UK with a gig in Manchester and a planned show in London.
The latter was scrapped and the former abandoned before the end of the set, though, after Falconer and bassist Kieran Webster came to blows on stage.“It was just personal stuff,” Falconer explained. “We’ve made up about it now.
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