KomodoRock.com recently spoke with GLYDER guitarist Bat Kinane. Following is an excerpt from the interview:

Q: I understand you have an EP coming out soon called Weather the Storm?

Kinane: "Well, the first track that we recorded for that was ‘Fill Your Head With Rock' for the Swedenrock Festival CD. Then I got thinking that with the tour coming up in the UK with Y&T; in September, I'd like to have something else to offer people that already had ‘Playground For Life' and the first album. There was a bit of material that I wanted to record anyway, and having something new to go with a tour always creates a better buzz."

Q: Would you like to talk us through the tracks on the EP?

Kinane: "I don't know if you know ‘Brewin' Up A Storm'. There was a band called THE STUNNING from Galway who had a hit single with this in 1990, so that's actually a cover. We play it in our covers band so we decided to record it. It's got a kind of Doors vibe with the keyboards and Tony's voice in the low register."

Q: I understand ‘Love Never Dies' was inspired by Bram Stoker's Dracula?

Kinane: "Yeah, I wrote that song around 1999 with a friend of mine. Glyder played it in the early days, but we didn't do anything else with it, so we decided it should go on the EP. I used to play in a thrash metal band when I was a teenager, but I gave up on the rock ‘n' roll dream and started playing in a covers band. I still continued to write bits and pieces here and there, and every now and again I'd get inspired to do something original again, because for me that's where the buzz is. I had an idea to make an album based around Bram Stoker's Dracula and recorded two songs - ‘Love Never Dies' and ‘The Dead Travels Fast'. I then forgot about them, but when Glyder happened a couple of years later I brought a few songs and ideas with me - even some of the riffs on the first and second albums are things I wrote from years ago. The Dracula thing was just a crazy idea at the time but nothing ever came of it."

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