Crimson Bypass' main man Ollie Black is still coming to grips with his bands success over the past twelve months as the band storms the music industry and already has a tour planned for the summer of 2012.
"We were together for two years before anything even looked like it was going to happen, we were 15 when we formed and just did it for fun, didn't think we'd get anywhere with it and just jammed in my garage."
The mancunian duo took the charts by storm with the track "Planetary" which has fluctuated in the top three for over five weeks and was written by CB's very own Kane Kings, who is also shocked by the sudden rise to fame. "The fact that this time last year we were practising in Ollie's garage with only our school mates knowing who we were and now everywhere we go, the hordes of people gathered outside the entrance is phenomenal."
When asked about their rise to fame, Kane, brought out the camera used to film the duo's first youtube appearance together. "We put this on youtube last year," playing the short clip of the mancunian jamming together, even though the quality wasn't the best, the song grips you straight away making you want to listen to the entire song. "We only put a small chunk of the song on to see partly how people liked it and their reaction to it, but it was mostly it was to avoid social suicide amongst the lads at school, didn't want to embarrass ourselves to much did we." However, the "small chunk" of the song was actually a big kickstart to the boys' high demand for music "Every now and again we'd post part of a new song, or the rest of another and sometimes even some solo pieces. Soon enough we were doing small gigs all over manchester, each time the crowds getting bigger and wilder."
"We've been compared with Rizzle Kicks, and the fact we're catching them up in terms of popularity is fantastic for us as they were our main inspiration to form as a duo but we still love our combination of rock and electronic music. It slots together so well and the fans love it so why not?" says Ollie, "Our demand is so high right now we may as well make the most of it as we could be nobody again in a couple of days".
We then came onto the subject of the negative impact the formation of the duo has had on the boys, "Don't even get me started on the haters" says Kane, "I don't understand how people can literally hate you and post awful things about you all over the internet just because they don't like the music you make. If you don't like it fair enough but don't hate us for it when you don't even know us." Ollie, however, had a different view on things, "I say let 'em hate, it's getting word out about us online and people read about us every day, whether it's positive or negative it's still publicity and we're getting more and more popular day after day. It's not as if we're ever going to meet these people anyway so let 'em put what they wanna put." As you can see the two clearly have different views on their "haters" yet their immense fan base keeps them producing their unique style of music.
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