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Of course, you recently released a video called PYD with Elijah, and with a video starring wrestlers from across WWE, AEW and NJPW with the likes of Ruby Riott, Rhea Ripley, Adam Cole, Will Ospreay, Ali starring. That's a lot of favors to pull in, and a unique way to pull the wrestling world together, which brings together the idea of Beautiful Life for me too! How did it all come about, and how happy were those guys to all be in the video or did some take a little convincing?
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Mark: Do you know what? It's so awkward asking people, "Hey, can you just mime these words for a song that you don't know?" It was quite awkward.
Luckily I'm close friends with a lot of them, or at least close enough that I could approach them and ask them. We had a long list of wrestlers that we wanted to be in the video, but some people didn't get back to me - understandably, because it is very awkward to ask somebody, "Hey, can you just mime these words about wrestling?"
But the guys who did do it, I'm super appreciative that they did it, and most people in the video are actually quite supportive of the band. Ruby Riott, I know she's a fan of our stuff and she's been supportive of the band from way back when I met her on the Indies, back in the day. Rhea Ripley is another one who's supportive, Drake Maverick, Marty Scurll - all these guys tend to be people who are my friends who have came to shows in the past or have shown an interest in my band any pass which is really nice. It's just really cool.
Matt: Seeing it online as well, people sharing it and their response to it was really cool, it was quite surreal. It was all these names from lots of different places and obviously they have really big careers, so it was kind of daunting in a way but it was great to see how enthusiastic they were about not just the video but their appearance in the video.
That song was the biggest news for about one day until Triple H tweeted out about your song - Brick By Brick - becoming the NXT Loud theme for NXT UK TakeOver: Cardiff. How did that come about, and how awesome is it to have your song as the theme for WWE's first ever Welsh pay-per-view?
Mark: It was perfect timing, wasn't it?!
Two thirds of us are from Wales and Si lives in Cardiff, and actually when we saw Triple H's tweet, it was just after we got off stage after the Cardiff show, so we'd just had this amazing, like, "Yeah! That was amazing! Oh, Triple H has tweeted about our song!"
It was so cool. I'll be honest, I'm not going to lie - we did specifically write that song trying to appeal more towards the wrestling world. Our music has always been... Not all over the place but our inspirations comes from a varied amount of places in music, and this one we thought to ourselves, "What the kind of song you would hear on a wrestling video game or a Tony Hawk's video game? Or a wrestling pay-per-view?"
We specifically wrote it hoping that something like this would happen and when it did, we're like, "Ah, okay, sweet! We did it well enough for it to be used!"
I'm really excited for it to be used. It is the first ever TakeOver in Wales, first ever televised WWE event in Wales, so it'll be very sentimental to me in general. Now the fact that the band gets to be involved in it as well is awesome - and seeing Triple H tweet about it was cool.
Matt: It was just so surreal, so surreal. We're still getting over it, we still haven't fully let it sink in.
Mark: We'll get him to do guest vocals next time.
That's coming up, don't worry!
NEXT: What wrestlers Matt and Mark want to duet and do cover versions with
COMING UP: How Junior cope with Mark's schedule
