#miles kane is king

[kincoo]

spreading miles kane propaganda

[nicoscheer]

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He’s gonna be the fucking death of me first killing the joke and now silverscreen 😭😭😭

Indie rock icon, last shadow Puppets star and one of Merseyside’s most notable musical exports, Miles Kane, returned this year with his fifth album ‘One man Band’. Following on from his last two records which are packed with Glam stompers, the new album saw him dive back into the punchy Indie sound that first earned him waves of fans. We spoke with Miles about how his songwriting, style and sound have evolved over the years…

Q. You’ve had a productive spell recently releasing two albums in two years, have you enjoyed focusing on you solo work?

A. “Yeah, I think especially on this record. I just love making tunes, you know? I think on this one, it was great working with our James, my cousin from the Coral and Alfie Skelly too. Also, not having that pressure of a major label and just being fully in control of what I want to do. There’s always a plan and an expectation but I think I’ve really taken control of the ship on this album. I think I just got in a zone. It wasn’t a/masked but the quality of songs came quite quick, which doesn’t always happen.”

Q. How important to you is your visual identity as an artist?

A. “It’s always been massively important with me, whether it’s super stylized suits or glam rock makeup. There’s many sides to my sort of style, but on the new album I’ve just been feeling the more casual side both in life and in music. I just wanted it to be not super posed and sexy, I wanted it to feel more natural.”

Q. What drove you to write the track ‘Baggio’

A. “Im obsessed with Italian shirts and always have been as a kid. So I think it was a story about that childhood and my intriguement/ obsession with Italian football. It’s more of a song about childhood, reminiscing and remembering these specific little things. For me, it was World Cup 94, watching Italy and seeing Baggio. You could have said Oasis or something like that but Baggio’s a bit cooler and I think people around me like James and Alfie were like ‘Oh, this is so you’ because obviously they know me and I think that’s why it connected. I think at first some people were like, ‘ what are you on about there?’ but it’s these kinds of songs that I’m glad I stuck to my guts on.”

Q. Was it fun to explore the retro football style too with the single ‘Baggio’?

A. “Yeah, I love all that. I love all the old footy shirts because I think it sort of takes me back to a weird comfort memory of being a kid and I think a lot of those old footy shirts are super chic. The photo of me in the Baggio shirt wasn’t like a set up photo shoot. Chaz who plays bass was bringing his camera in and took that. I guess it was more candid and summed up the album better for me than trying to look cool or giving it the big one.”

Q. Are there any other celebrity icons or physical anchors you use to inspire your songwriting?

A. “Yeah, loads man. Rocky… fucking Al Pacino. There’s loads of wrestlers that I’ve taken inspiration from. I get very inspired by stuff like that, whether it be a jacket or it’s a bit of makeup or whatever, I’m quite obsessed. I get the mood of something I’m into and it’ll inspire me to do my version of that feeling. It sounds quite mad to explain it, but for me, that just works”.

Q. You’ve written songs on Merseyside, in London, America, at home or on tour… does your environment impact the kind of songs you’re writing?

A. “I’d say it’s more about where you’re at in your head you know. A lot of the songs on the new album were written up north and a lot was written on my couch in London where I am now. If I wanted to go and make a reggae album in Jamaica maybe that would have a big effect on it haha but, for me, I think it’s more about where I’m at in my mind.”

Q. How has Merseyside impacted you as a musician and as a person?

A. “Where you’re from is who you are, isn’t it, it’s everything. I’ve learned from all those Merseyside bands, The Coral, The Zutons, The Bunnymen, Teardrops, The Beatles. I saw them and wanted to be like them guys, you know? It was just engraved in me. I probably wouldn’t be sat here talking to you without them.”

Q. Which is your favorite track to play live off the new record?

A. “I could play this whole album live to be honest! I think ‘Never taking me alive’ is my favorite track ever to play to be honest. It’s kind of my new ‘Inhaler’ or ‘Come closer’, it’s got that big old riff and the big energy. I love that side of my tunes. Making this album I really fell in love with playing guitar again. I really want the guitar to be at the front just as much as the words are. I’ve really embraced that side of myself. Again, it’s simpler and I think that suits me. I like those other sides of me, don’t get me wrong but give me a riff and some lyrics and that’ll do me mate.”

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Oh do I love him (the lipstick paired with him so openly talking bout using glam makeup in the above interview 🫶🏽🫶🏽🥰)

Please i can’t he’s so dog dad; good to know he loves Maxie just as much as we do (the audio says “you talking to me?!”(from taxi driver)

[misskattylashes]

^this^ I truly believe without Miles AM would have been a different band. I saw him support Kasabian in 2011 and he outperformed them too

why do you post so much miles kane

Because any real arctic monkeys fan, if they’re paying attention and they’re in this for the music and not because Alex Turner is cute, knows that miles kane has earned his place in our consciousness.

Because everyone who sees miles kane perform live walks away feeling like they’ve been handed a gift.

Because people who MEAN IT are so damn rare in 2012. There’s a hundred thousand Lana Del Rey’s out there trotting lifelessly onto the stage with a team of suits behind them in a laboratory calculating their every move, playing a numbers game to herd the most sheep they possibly can. They make music the way McDonald’s makes food. That shit is for people who aren’t smart enough to care.

Because right now miles kane is the best thing going in music. That’s no slight to arctic monkeys. If anything, they’re going to benefit from it. I’m convinced that miles is the reason the Arctics are suddenly motivated to get back in the studio rather than take a year off (which by rights they absolutely have earned). He’s been a shot in the arm to our band, and anyone who can’t see that is wearing blinders.

The Australian and French tours speak for themselves. I’m not the only die hard monkeys fan who walked away from those shows saying “oh my god, Miles outperformed them.” more importantly, the arctic monkeys know it too. They aren’t fools. He lit a fire under their asses this year… there’s a sense of urgency now that was not there before, and we’re all gonna reap the rewards.

Miles has a way of infecting people with some kind of giddy energy, but it’s not limited to fans in the crowd. Our boys caught the bug too. They’re finally having fun again. I’ve seen arctic monkeys in enough different atmospheres and enough different “moods” to know the difference. Bless him.

Miles Fucking Kane.

[misskattylashes]

Awwwwwwwww Miles is clearly homesick

[alex-turners-world]

I love it when he softly sings "cause you never give me nothing back" 🥺

[kincoo]

Miles' daddification

the way miles changed from the beginning of 2015 to the end is INSANE. like, how’s that the same man

[rymbrr]

thinkin bout sweaty miles kane vs dainty princess alex in these trying times

[depressedraisin]

we really do underestimate how fucking insane the combination of people behind the colour of the trap is. like the front man of arctic monkeys wrote half the album with miles, og 60s garage rock icon sean boniwell co wrote inhaler, gruff rhys from super furry animals and dan fucking nakamura produced it, lianne la havas and noel gallagher are singing backing vocals, half of demon strings who are damon albarn's in house string quartet are playing the string parts. kind of crazy for a debut from a guy just out of some lowkey liverpudlian indie bands

[28-destiel-505]

Alex tying the tlsp blanket on Miles

[sophaeros]

my miles concert just got cancelled bc hes sick 🧍

[kincoo]

Sharing some Miles Kane photos I had saved on my phone because I felt like sharing my love for him today 💕 ❤️ 💗

[nicoscheer]

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[emotinalsupportturtle]

He really is the king of cool

Miles Kane for numeromagazine 26.10.2023

[lovemkx]

mileskane Best tour of my life thank you all for selling them out and singing your hearts out! Miss you already love MK x

🎥 @ogden.ewan

[sstar-ggirl]

How I feel knowing hardly anyone writes for miles Kane.

[alex-turners-world]

Oh my god I love him 😂

Go, Miles, go