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One year on from their tour of universities throughout the UK rock band Rage City’s lead vocalist Josh reveals his feelings about 2014.

“2013 was an amazing year playing at gigs throughout the UK’s universities but our 2014 tour has gone one step further!” Josh reveals “I can’t stop smiling; my life at the moment is just awesome. We’ve got some amazing venues on our 2014 tour, I can’t believe we’re actually playing at St David’s Hall in Cardiff and it’s sold out, we’re all just buzzing with excitement. We have 10 other venues including BIC in Bournemouth and the amazing Academy 3 in Manchester, what a result. We usually play in large towns in old cinemas etc which are often home to amateur dramatics societies, so the venues for this year are mind blowing!”

I asked Josh how he and the other two band members feel about performing at these larger venues “we are all bricking it to be honest but so excited as well. It’s what we’ve all always dreamed of and didn’t in our wildest dreams think it would come true! We’re just buzzing and can’t wait to perform. It probably won’t last haha but we’re just going to enjoy the ride. The stage set is really low key with just us and the lighting at its minimum, I mean people want to see our good looking faces and hear our music what more would they want? Ha ...but seriously we’ve done this so we can keep ticket prices low so our fans, which usually range from 16 to 20 years old, can afford to come to our gigs.”

“Do you get recognised much when you’re out and about doing normal everyday things?” I went on to ask Josh who was sat quite comfortably in my office in ripped jeans, a t-shirt and vans and with a massive smile.

“Omg we we’re in McDonalds in Cardiff just before Christmas when about ten 18 year old drunken girls, who seemed to be on some sort of Christmas celebration, started screaming our names and asking for pictures of us, it was surreal to be honest especially when you are hangover from a very drunken Black Friday night out and you’ve got a mouth full of a Big Mac!” Josh admits he enjoyed this feeling going on to say “But it was an amazing feeling to think us Rage City was recognised and actually had girls wanting our pictures, it was ace to be honest especially when some were quite fit...sorry should I not say that?” Josh laughs. “But seriously we all can’t wait to just go out on stage and perform in front of a load of people who have just come to listen to our music. It’s just the best feeling ever. This doesn’t happen to three boys from Abergavenny who started practising in our attic conversion, but ha it has and we’re all enjoying every second of this awesome time in our lives...what a story to tell our grand kids eh?”