For me, the simplest form of all of that has been really powerful. During the tour I was so busy and distracted, I wasn't even practising well then. I'm horrible at reading scripture, praying or any of that stuff regularly and I'm really trying to start doing that, even after the tour. So with 'Zeal', I'm trying to create a world and a pursuit in myself that is back to the very basics. I think when faith is debated with theology, ideas and philosophy, it can be really helpful, but it can also get really 'head-y'. It's been easier to relate to people talking about faith as something I'm yearning for and a more enchanted wonder. Even people who don't have a lot of faith. Ruth: What have you most enjoyed about bringing the album together?Ĭhad: I have really enjoyed the clarity of the theme and how that has brought a lot of people together.
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Ruth: Do you still make music from your basement?Ĭhad: I just moved and I have a new studio space now that has windows and I can see trees. Now I'm getting back in the swing and I'm back to making some new music and it feels good. I spent the whole summer after that US tour and releasing that album doing nothing because I was so tired. It was influenced by the idea of losing a sense of childlike faith and a lot of regret that comes from that, and the journey to fight for it and return to it. What inspired you to write that and how long did that process take?Ĭhad: We wrote and released the album in about nine months last year. All of our other band names were too silly to really be real band names so we kept it. Ruth: Where did the name Kings Kaleidoscope come from?Ĭhad: A friend gave it to us completely randomly. Kings Kaleidoscope has always been 'Chad and friends' and I've got a group of 12 to 15 musicians that come in and out of the band, depending on the tour and where we are. We've done that for videos a lot or when I was a worship director at a church and Kings Kaleidoscope was pseudo-forming, we'd have between five and twelve people. Ruth: Kings Kaleidoscope started with ten of you or so?Ĭhad: It's always been different. We post stuff on Instagram and Twitter and people come and we kind of can't believe it. We find a venue, we rent it, we book our own flights and we just bet that people will come. We don't have a record label, we don't have an agent over here or anything like that. Ruth: Are there plans to come back to the UK/Europe?Ĭhad: We're going to try and come back once a year. We've come here and we're hoping to go to Brazil this year.
Ruth: You had so much energy considering you had two hours of sleep!Ĭhad: Yeah, I definitely had more of a wild energy tonight!Ĭhad: Amazing. I felt like I could really connect with them tonight in a powerful way. I felt almost vulnerable but in a good way with the crowd. We flew in, landed this morning, changed my guitar strings in the taxi on the way to the hotel, lay down for two hours, came here. Now they've just released a documentary 'The Adventures of Zeal' offering fans a behind the scenes peak at the journey behind their album 'Zeal'.Ĭhad caught up with freelance writer and blogger Ruth Clemence after their London gig to find out more about the tour, music and where his faith fits into it all.Ĭhad: This show was a whirlwind is how I would describe it. With an engaging set of songs from their latest and previous albums, interspersed with powerful moments of honesty from frontman Chad Gardner, Kings Kaleidoscope and the enthusiasm of the crowd made it an unforgettable night. That was the beginning of Kings Kaleidoscope's 'Zeal' tour in London on the 24 January.įor just one tour date in the UK, there really was no turning back and fans were not left disappointed - the atmosphere was incredible.
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