Baby makes Waves

ROCKER’S NEW OUTLOOK AS A FATHER

CIRCA Waves are back with a new album and steely new determination since frontman Kieran Shudall became a dad.

The singer hopes the songs on latest collection Sad Happy will show his son that anything possible.

Kieran told me: “Being a dad is absolutely amazing and it gives you a different outlook on everything. It makes me look at my music and the band in a different way. Everything is for him now. It’s just f**king mental and I love it.

“Now I’m seeing life through the lens of how he would in the future, and I’m very excited to say, ‘This is when I played Glastonbury,’ and he’ll say, ‘Honestly? You’re so fat and bald now.’

“He’ll see how these four losers from the north of England became a band and travelled the world, and hopefully that inspires him to do whatever he wants to do.”

Does he hope his son will inherit his musical genes? “No pressure – but he has to be a massive success,” Kieran chuckled.

He found out he was going to be a dad when writing the “sad” part of their new two-pronged Sad Happy LP. Kieran explained: “I was like, ‘I have four months to write all the music I can and then my life is gonna be flipped upside down.’ I had a deadline.

“I was writing three or four songs about everything, anything that came in my head. It was good, because I do get bored very easily.”

Any future music might be a little less rock ’n’ roll, though: “I don’t sleep anymore so that’s interesting, a lot of my songs are about how I am sleep deprived.

“Maybe the next album will just be about that. It will be very moody, tired.”

Circa Waves are taking the album on the road, but Kieran isn’t worried about coronavirus as he’s been “essentially inhaling and ingesting germs on a hourly basis” throughout his career.

He said: “That’s why Keith Richards is going to live forever. It’s the way we are built.”