CHANGE OF VIEW

WILD BOYS TAKING IT EASY

THE View are back after eight years – ready to change their wild ways for the sake of their children.

The Dundee trio, famed for hits including Same Jeans, Shock Horror and Wasted Little DJs, return with blistering new single Feels Like.

Singer Kyle Falconer told me: “We need to take a different approach to touring. We can’t keep partying every night.

“I’m not over the hill, but I’m 35 now. After three nights’ in a row – I think, ‘I miss my kids.’”

The View’s superb new album, Exorcism Of Youth, follows on June 9, made in Grenada, Spain, with Youth, the acclaimed producer for The Verve and Paul McCartney.

Youth also produced The View’s 2011 album Bread And Circuses, but Kyle laughed: “We were supposed to have gone to Spain with Youth for that album, but the record company wouldn’t let us.

“They thought we’d run riot and wouldn’t get any work done.

“Making this album, we hadn’t seen each other properly for six years and we were telling stories over dinner every night.

“Youth wanted to keep us occupied to stop us getting on the sauce, so he got us into art.

“He bought loads of paint and clay. I was painting Pokemon between studio sessions.” The View play at Neighbourhood Weekender, Victorious and TRNSMT festivals, having made their live return to 10,000 fans in Glasgow last December. Kyle, who released two solo albums, revealed: “I’d missed the reaction we get.

‘I painted Pokemon between sessions’

My solo shows were great, but it wasn’t as nuts as The View.”

Kyle, guitarist Pete Reilly and bassist Kieran Webster were just 17 when they began having hits.

They became known for chaotic partying, but Kyle has settled down with his partner.

He insisted: “We were mad back in the day, but it’s because we were so young.

“I did a lot of silly s***, but I wouldn’t change it, because what if everything changed and I didn’t have my kids?

“I write in a different way with the band. With other guys in the room, it’s more of a collective feeling.”