DMA's guitartist Johnny talks to me about how being impressionable as a powerful thing, primal energy at shows, how the myth of needing to have pain to make great art is bullshit and music mentoring - and there's some technical stuff here for the theory heads.

How Many Dreams? is out 31 March

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Songs: DMA's 'Olympia', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’

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