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It was a bit more relaxed this time, this is a bigger and much better album.” Not counting the demos, it was probably only nine or 10 days, but we knew the songs really well this time and we were well prepared, we didn’t have that luxury last time, we had to learn the songs and record them all in 10 days. Last time we spoke to you it was when your debut album was coming out and you’d said you’d had about 10 days to get the album done, did you get a little more time on this album? It really is an album by the fans for the fans.” We demoed and then we picked the 10 best. We went through all those and we whittled them down to about 20. We got the demos together after we did this big poll on social media, we asked all our fans what songs they wanted on the next album and we had hundreds of suggestions. “We started demoing before Christmas actually. How long did Act Two take to come together? We sat down with Collabro’s own Thomas Redgrave to find all about the making of Act Two, touring the thing and their plans to write their own material one day… There are also more contemporary covers, including Christina Perri’s ‘A Thousand Years’ and Kodaline’s ‘All I Want’. Once again a 10-track collection, it’s largely comprised of songs from musicals, including ‘I Dreamed A Dream’, from Les Misérables, ‘Music Of The Night’ from Phantom Of The Opera and the iconic ‘Memory’ from Cats. After scarcely taking a breather they’re back with a new album, which is, fittingly, called Act Two. They recorded their debut album Stars in the space of 10 days and spent the following year touring it up and down the country.
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Most 18-month old artists are usually still gigging in pubs or slogging it around the country on the toilet circuit, but Collabro aren’t most artists.įormed back in 2014, the fivesome put their career on an express train when they auditioned for Britain’s Got Talent and ended up going all the way to the final and coming out on top. “When we first got together we were looking at cruise ships, but we knew had to make this so much bigger” – hmv.com talks to Collabro