![]() ![]() Last week, they performed their first gig in their home town: ‘The crowd was ecstatic,’ Spiros said, looking delighted. I wrote it at the start of the first lockdown last year.’Īs the chorus goes: ‘Take me back. When I started to write the lyrics, I was writing about old friends not hanging out anymore, why everything isn’t it like it used to be. (It does.) It’s that combination of the happy melody and sad lyrics. In Greek, we have a mood, something that is both happy and sad at the same time and this song gives me that vibe. I had a t-shirt with ‘California’ on it and I took the ‘take me back to California’ in the chorus from that. We knew the vibe we wanted it to have but didn’t know what would fit. I’d written most of the lyrics but we didn’t know what to put in the chorus. ‘It’s the first song I wrote but I haven’t been to the US. Interestingly, considering what a big song it is, they don’t open with it but use it as the fourth or fifth track in a set, choosing to open with their debut single ‘California’ (2020), which he cites as his favourite song of theirs. I was 32 years old, I’d been in other bands and I figured it was my last chance to make a go of it.’Īs the track kicks off: You got nothing to lose but you feel on a noose. The band didn’t really exist properly at the time. ‘I had to pressure myself to finish all the tasks, I literally had ‘nothing to lose’. ![]() ‘Nothing to Lose’ was inspired by his own personal struggles: ‘I remember I was under a lot of pressure at work, in the band and in my everyday life,’ he said. ‘I had to pressure myself to finish all the tasks, I literally had ‘nothing to lose’ It’s a classic, no-frills, hard rock song.’ ![]() It’s a very energetic song, it makes me want to blast it in my car, the lyrics help with that, they have an urgency. Actually, that riff is all we had at the start, we didn’t have any lyrics or the chorus. I tell him that the main riff really got stuck in my head and he grins: ‘It’s a joke in the band that it keeps repeating, it’s a classical rock-metal riff,’ he said. ‘Nothing to Lose’ has an insanely catchy main riff and licks and features Jo and Ellie on main vocals. ‘Nothing to Lose’, ‘Hell to Pay’ and ‘Under The Sun’ are in your face, riffed up, energetic rock songs. That ethos is very apparent in the three singles they released last month, all of which are around two minutes long or less. You thought you won the jackpot, but the numbers turned around.’ We don’t want to write longer songs because we don’t think we need to try to fill our songs with more ‘stuff’.’Īs ‘Bad Luck’ kicks off: ‘I know I’m bad, bad news, love, the kind you don’t wanna hear, still want to know about. It’s straightforward rock ‘n’ roll but it gets very punky in the chorus. ‘I’d say to him “Well, you know what you signed up for”. ‘Bad Luck’ will be released in mid-December and was written by Spiros, who writes most of their songs: ‘It’s about one of my friends and his ex-girlfriend who would get drunk and fight,’ he said. Their name came about after Spiros was tasked with coming up with one: ‘I was checking through my vinyl track lists for a name and I came across ‘Bad Habit’ and I thought it could be a good reference to us,’ he joked. I have a habit of bookmarking musicians I’m interested in and I’d bookmarked Jo and Severin, so I reached out to them,’ he said. ‘We wrote some songs but realised that we needed a couple of other people to complete the line-up. ![]() ‘Two years ago, Ellie started Bad Habits,’ Spiros said. Ellie, Apostol and Spiros have known each other since 2007, meeting initially on social media before going to to work on various musical projects together. The band comprises Jo (vocals), Ellie (bass/vocals), Spiros (guitar), Severin (lead guitar) and Apostol (drums). Athens-based alt rock punk band Bad Habits is gearing up to release their next single ‘Bad Luck’ next month, which is about a rocky relationship. ![]()
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