Are any of the songs on Thieves cuts that didn’t make Guillotine?
Nic: No. We only put one previously released track on Guillotine because it was only ever on released on vinyl. So we thought we may as well chuck it on there. We don’t like when bands do an EP and then the entire EP ends up on the album. We just like to write really. There was plenty of stuff lying around. We believe that if was good enough to be included on the first album it should’ve been there and if it wasn’t good enough then it shouldn’t have been. The saying goes that bands have their whole lives to write their debut album but only six months to write their second. Was that true for British India? Nic: That’s true for anybody. We matured a lot in that year and we had time to write what I like to think of as, which is a cliché too, a mature album. Matt: It certainly helped playing live a lot. We’re playing live almost every weekend. We never really had that break we’re it would be just writing. We’re always sort of playing so we’re always fresh with ideas. How does the songwriti
