Following on from February single Container, Boston Manor have
shared another excellent (and pretty damn heavy) track called Sliding Doors.
The song arrives ahead of this month’s sold-out UK headline tour,
and as the title suggests it came about after frontman Henry Cox began reflecting on “all of the
decisions that I’ve made that have led me to the life I have and how
circumstantial a lot of it is”.
He explains: “It got me thinking about how Boston Manor started.
I’d had a few conversations with Dan [Cunniff, bass] and Mike [Cunniff, lead
guitar] – who I barely knew at the time – about starting a band. But at
that time I was in art school in a different city and I had a bunch of other
stuff going on. I was also starting like two other bands with different people
so I figured it was just something that you talk about.”
Of the very specific origins of the band, Henry continues
that, “I’d gone home to visit my parents for the weekend and had taken a bus up
to north shore to go and visit a friend, I was on my way home and the bus
basically crashed. It wasn’t bad, no-one was hurt or anything, but I had to get
off. It was super late and buses basically stop running at that time in parts
of Blackpool. I had been texting Mike and it turned out the bus had crashed at
the bottom of his street, so I just went round to his. We basically ended up
writing the first song from our demo that night. We played our first show a few
weeks later.
“If that car hadn’t pulled out on that bus, we probably never
would’ve started Boston Manor and been all the places we’ve been, I wouldn’t
have met my wife and half of my friends. I don’t know if I would even be
playing music now.”
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