With ALL THINGS GO, their third record, Mighty Oaks embark on a new chapter in their band history. After ten years, countless gigs, two albums and four EPs, everything is changing, and everything is still the same. How? Because it’s still Ian Hooper, Claudio Donzelli and Craig Saunders. It’s still their stories, their songs, and their friendship forming the very heart of Mighty Oaks. Three men who’ve grown up with the band since they first recorded a few songs in a living room in Berlin. So what’s new then? “We got rid of all preconceptions and limitations. We felt like we couldn’t do that before“, Ian explains. “With the term ‘handmade folk music’ we’d given ourselves an invisible set of rules. And this time we felt like we were allowed to break those rules.“ A process that didn’t come easy at first. Craig: “We started working on new material, the way we used to do it before.“ But it just wouldn’t work, it just wouldn’t click like it used to. It took a year and a half working on a new record, crammed between tour dates and writing breaks, until the band realised: it won’t work. Not like this. There had to be some change. Even if it hurt. After all, the relationship between the bandmates and friends had begun to be affected, too. The uncertainty about the new material, but also the uncertainty about where to go from there weighed heavy on everyone.
