Hudson Taylor: 'Nobody was listening to us'

Having inked a major-label deal three years ago, Harry and Alfie Hudson Taylor probably expected to turn out an album pretty sharpish. The reality, though, was a little different.
“Our growth plateaued,” Harry reflects. “Arguably, it went down for a bit. We had a time where we were doing songwriting sessions with different people. You’d have a guy who says, ‘My favourite songwriter is Paul Simon,’ and you’d think ‘well, that’s a good start’. And they’d be so, completely, utterly different! Like, some weird Euro-trance going on or something. We’d be happy with what we’d done in the studio, but the next day we’d get a demo of a Hudson Taylor dance remix.”
“There were five versions of ‘Chasing Rubies’,” he continues. “Eventually, we settled on the one that came out as the lead single, but it’s another instance where we were played around a bit. Nobody was listening to us for a while.”
It’s fair to say that plenty are listening right now. For more from the brothers, check out the interview in the new issue of Hot Press, on shelves tomorrow!
Alternatively, you can buy it online here.