The Massive Pink’s frontman Robbie Furze had a love/hate relationship with their greatest hit ‘Dominos’.
The 2009 indie monitor – which was sampled on Nicki Minaj’s monitor ‘Ladies Fall Like Dominoes’ – is a fan-favourite and the band would by no means do their followers a disservice by not together with it of their setlist, however the singer admits he is “matured” since then and it isn’t the place he’s “musically” now.
Talking solely to BANG Showbiz, Robbie stated: “There was such part of my life the place I had a love/hate for that tune however , with out ‘Dominos’, I would not nonetheless be a musician. So there is a massive a part of me which I owe rather a lot to that tune. Musically, I do not suppose I am actually there anymore as a result of I really feel like I’ve matured rather a lot since ‘Dominos’. However , it is nonetheless an important tune. Some folks nonetheless adore it. I do not suppose it is really aged in any respect in 10 years. I feel that is an actual testomony to an authentic sounding tune. I went by means of a stage of hating it as a result of , it was a tune the place folks solely knew us for ‘Dominos’ and I used to be like, ‘Nicely what about all the opposite songs that we did?’ And everybody could be like, ‘Simply play ‘Dominos’. However you may’t not love your hit. You’ve received to respect.”
It was prompt that the band attempt to create a viral TikTok for the tune, however Robbie is not .
He stated: “Somebody was making an attempt to say that a few years in the past. To movie women falling right into a pool or one thing.
We’re a technology that doesn’t significantly perceive TikTok, and after we first began Instagram did not even exist. Can we not simply go on tour?”
The Massive Pink are supporting HARD-Fi at Stand Up To Most cancers at Union Chapel on February 6.
Tickets price £35 +reserving price and are on sale now from www.myticket.co.uk.