In the past twelve months, Those Damn Crows have gone from grassroots hopefuls to proper rock contenders, on the back of their game-raising album Inhale/Exhale. We caught up with frontman Shane Greenhall, backstage at London’s Forum a few hours before their headline show there. After that, he tells us, they head to Paris for a show with Ayron Jones, then back home for Christmas with their families, guitarist David’s wedding and laying down demos for their next album. “I never stop writing,” Greenhall enthuses. “I’ve probably done, like, three songs on this tour now.”
Can you sum up Those Damn Crows’ 2023 in three words?
Busy, intense, gratifying. At the start of the year plans were pencilled in, and that’s always kind of, ‘okay, we’ll believe it when we see it’. And when they officially happened, in Europe with the Goo Goo