JoshJonesCW12: February 2012

The Chiquitos

The Chiquitos are a brand rock band that has just released their debut album ‘Complexity’. They planned to release the album in late April but due to the recent success of their debut single ‘This Is Now’ they are releasing it at the end of this month. The Chiquitos consists of Will Stanway and Declan Challoner they said “we had been friends for years and have similar musical interests so decided we to form the chiquitos”. The chiquitos are originally from the city of Leicester and they started out playing small gigs in local pubs and bars around Leicester. Their success began when they started recording demos and uploading them to websites such as sound cloud and youtube.

In an interview with the chiquitos this is what we asked:

compared to your musical influences and the style of music you perform would you say they were similar?

I would say the type of music we write and perform is similar to our musical influences such as Greenday and the clash as we like to use styles and ideas from our influences when we are writing our songs. Thinks like the guitar tones and arrangements of our songs have also been stlyed around our musical influences and what we listen to.

What would you say was the idea/Story behind the album ‘Complexity’?

I would say our album complexity isn’t really based on a story we kind of just started writing songs for fun and it just hit off from there, In the album we just wrote songs about situations we were in and things we were going through like songs about troubles, life and love.

what are your feelings towards releasing the album early?

I was very keen to release the album early as it allows us to gain more publicity and to gain a bigger fan base. it will also give the album more of a chance to spread among the people over media like the internet and TV, I find this will benefit us as we are going on tour at the end of the year.

What does it mean to you to have been signed by virgin records?

At first we started sending our demo to record companies and also uploading our music to sites like youtube, sound cloud and social networking sites, we didn’t really think we would hear anything back from them. So i would say we’re surprised we are where we are now and we are extremely please to be working with virgin records and i am very happy with the album we have produced with them.

What would you say are the chiquitos plans for the future in life and career?

We will continue writing songs and will hopefully be releasing more albums and we are looking forward to touring the world later this year as none of us have done anything like this before so it will be an amazing experience and we are currently talking about releasing a live album of the tour. But to be honest i don't really like to talk to much about the future as is unpredictable we’re kind of just taking everyday as it comes.

What would you say to potential fans who may be interested in your music?

I would ask them to look us up on the internet and take a listen to some of our tracks we are on Youtube, Facebook and Twitter and we are always trying to increase our ever growing fan club on our website. We believe we our a breath of fresh air to this genre of music and we hope that you will enjoy it for those of you who haven't already heard of us.