The Zone

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Eli Hewson (second right) with band members, Josh Jenkinson, Robert Keating, and Ryan Mcmahon

inhaler want to make it on their own terms, like any band.

The way You tell your story, which is actually their front-man, The Son of one of The World 's biggest Rock Stars is almost irrelevant.

" Yes, Elijah Hewson has something from his father on-stage magnetism, he has longing for the voice of a familiar. Yes, there is a certain similarity in the unkempt 80s mullet.

" Yes, his father is the U2-singer Bono .

But the 20-year-old singer, guitarist, songwriter-and his band mates spent 2019 characters - not the least of which is 170 music critics, DJs and musicians, who have voted, You will be on the fifth place on the BBC-music-Sound-2020 List -That You have what it takes to be More Than U2. 0.

inhaler s sound combines a recognizable widescreen sweep with a baggy Madchester vibe and modern, synth-embedded indie melodies. The anthemic My Honest face is their stand out track so far.

At the same time, You have to build relentless Gigs and a fan base of their own. They supported Noel Gallagher on two major summer shows, and has recently opened their first US-tour as Support for the flowers.

her tone has enjoyed more muscles than a lot of indie time, and they say their upcoming debut album is about the impact of his generation, the dependence of smartphones and Social Media .

So, if the inhaler can make You build on their 80s and 90s influences (both parental and otherwise), while the feeding of their own generation, the taste and the concerns That a young audience will delight, for the Bono -band, Yes, almost irrelevant.

Hewson and his band mates Robert Keating (bass), Josh Jenkinson (guitar) and Ryan Mcmahon (drums) sat down to talk about where inhaler come from and where You go in the year 2020.

inhaler were chosen for the BBC Sound of 2020, the List of panel of 170 music critics, radio, festival Booker and former candidates - including Lewis Capaldi , Chvrches and Billie Eilish . The Top Five were:

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starting in 2019, You will be treated?

Ryan: Better than in any other year as a band.

Eli: We started two or three years ago to do, just like children in a school-band, and covers this sort of thing. I don't think any of us knew what we wanted to school. The Band was something we always enjoyed, so we decided for this year, and it's really worked out well.

they bonded over their musical tastes in the school, right?

Robert: We were the Only kids to a certain type of music and That is exactly what brought us together in a special way. [It was] the love of rock music.

Eli: It was really everything with guitars. We All wanted to Play Guitar in The Band .

Josh: I was in a different school, but I met Eli at a party and he gave me also I Wanna Be Adored by The Stone Roses.

What else do You bond?

Eli: It was a lot of music in Manchester in the ' 90s, and the whole Britpop and Oasis thing. Every child That is 16 and sees That it is, I want to be in a band'.

" Tell me something about the name of The Band , they're All asthmatics?

Eli: no, Just Me . We were struggling to find a band name we could All agree, for a long time. I'm calling asthmatics to My Sister as a joke, used to give us The inhalers and it somehow caught.

we liked it, because it's something That You That You can rely on and it is a pick-me-up, and it refers to the things That we talk about the new material on The Album .

What is the control in your texts?

Eli: How Young People Grow Up these days, it is interesting to see how addictive the things are, and this is for the people on the mobile phones and Social Media .

I'm also to note, I would just like to You always look on my phone. I can't just go and stand and go to a place without checking something. Inhaler is - take it, if You can't breathe, and You have a medical Problem, but it is in connection with self-medication, and it is an incentive. There is a wealth of stimuli That we have today.

I can see it in my friends. We sit and eat together in the evening, and everyone is zombied on your phone. Or, 'Where are we going next?'

Are You in search of a simpler time?

Eli:. We are not trying to slam the. I think it's interesting to see what effect it has on people.

Josh: It is an observation. .

Robert is . to say it is a bad thing, because it could be a good thing, All of these things are out there.

Ryan: It's more just us trying to understand how You go about dealing with something like this, through the music, as well, because everything we do is under the eyes of All . You play a song at a concert and it could go wrong, but it is always there. Everything is so accessible. It's crazy and it's never been like That before.

If You write where and when You in The Zone ?

Eli: With lyrics That I definitely on My Own . Usually in my room with an Acoustic Guitar late into the night.

You have your own place?

Eli: no, I live at home with my parents, as we All are.

You always complain about The Noise ?

Eli: Not as much as You should.

You Have to grow, to event places and get taken on tours?

Eli: I did, but it's funny, I don ' T really so much storage You really. I was much younger and my parents would not Take Me out of school or something

did You know That You want them to in this world?

Eli: It's funny, I was really into the music, as a child, and I actually began Only in the music, when I was 13, and I discovered That it is to grow in My Own way. With nothing, You the angle For You have created your own views. I was just interested in it as a child. To All of You .

Bono and wife, Ali, with baby Eli in the year 2000

You think You have learned from your father, consciously or unconsciously?

Eli: in any case, unconsciously, Yes. Only by listening to him play a song in The House , and heard it, and he criticised it, and this kind of stuff. But I would never ask for advice - Only tips on where I next year, and this sort of thing will live. I try not to ask him about music. to do

Because You want it your way?

Eli: Yes, definitely.

You think That the family connection is a Pro or a con?

Robert: I don't really see it as nothing. It doesn't really affect us, apart from the fact That the talk about them in interviews, which is fine. It is what it is. We love our band, we meet Young People from All over the time That like Our Music .

Eli: many U2 fans don't come to our concerts, All of which are really nice. You have All the help really very willing, so this is of course an advantage. But I would say, it is also a obstacle You can do if You try to things their own way. But we are not complaining at All .

You have just been On Tour in The States with flowers.

Eli: the two Best weeks of our lives.

Josh: It was my and Ryan for the First Time in The States so we were just overwhelmed by it All .

Robert: We saw the White house, we saw The House from Home Alone in Chicago. That was Pretty Cool .

You Have All the scenes You create?

Josh: no, but Ryan saw the sticky bandits for the whole trip, because he had a hat on.

Eli: If we formed a band, I saw success, he drove us Across America in the back of a van. We have done it.

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