Beady Eye's drummer Chris Sharrock have recently chatted with FasterLouder, revealing that the year 2013 was really terrible for the band. Read the full interview below.

Having spent the first part of the year recording their second studio album, "BE," with producer Dave Sitek, the band and their new material received a much warmer reception than they did for their debut "Different Gear, Still Speeding." Then, a few shows into the start of their album tour, guitarist Gem Archer was hospitalised with severe head trauma after falling down stairs at his home, leading to months of forced inaction and loss of momentum.

With Archer now fully recovered, the band ended the year with an extensive UK tour and as a last minute addition to the Big Day Out line-up as one of the replacements for Liam Gallagher's former brit pop rivals Blur. Ahead of Beady Eye's debut Australian tour drummer Chris Sharrock (ex-the La's, ex-World Party and Oasis drummer for their last world tour) reflected on the year that was with FL's Michael Hartt.

CS: Yeah it was. We didn't think we were doing anything in January, actually. This came in at the last minute. It was a surprise, "Yeah, we're going to Australia!" It'll be good to get some heat and some sun. We've always wanted to play Big Day Out. I've never played it. I don't know if the lads have ever played it.

Yeah, yeah. [laughs] No, not really. That would be in bad taste. It was more like "Oh wow. That's funny." We got the irony of it. It's no big deal, really. That was all a hundred years ago, wasn't it? We're just glad to be out, glad to be going somewhere. Especially Australia.

It was our annus horribilis [latin for horrible year]. I mean, we put BE out, we did about eight gigs and then Gem had that accident. That put us out of the game for three months. I think that's why it's been a bit quiet. You've got to keep it in perspective though. It's only music. As long as our mate's alive and back to full health, that's all that matters, really. It was a sh-t thing to happen at a sh-t time as well, but we're back on form now.

It was great to be back. We had these 10 or 11 UK gigs booked in. We were kind of racing to make sure Gem was better. His timing was pretty good. Although when the accident first happened, we had to cancel a few things in Europe and Japan, it's great that he was alright for that UK tour. Those gigs have been the best gigs we've ever done or so people were saying anyway. It was a positive end to the year.

We were probably all working on music individually. There's probably a few songs going to come out of it. It was mainly just time off. Cooking, washing and cleaning [laughs].

No, we're not bringing the horns. The last time I saw the horns was just before Gem's accident. We didn't use the horns on this last tour we did. It's good when we have them. They'll be there on a keyboard sample so it’ ll sound like they're there [laughs].

I think it'll be a mix. I don't exactly know what the set is for this is. It'll probably be the same as what we've been doing at our Brit gigs. It's a bit of both – heavy on the new album, I'd say. I'd say it's 60 percent new, 30 percent old stuff and 10 percent some really old stuff.

Yeah, I think we'll be probably sticking a couple of them in there. Keep the punters happy.

Yeah, kind of. It would've been nice to do but at the end of the day you think "Well, I did the gigs." It wasn't meant to be, I guess. I'll live with it.

A bit of both, I hope. I know that as soon as we finish in Australia we fly home, we've got about three days at home then we're straight off to Europe. It'll just be a quick change of clothes [laughs]. Then we're off to Japan as well. I think that takes us up to early March and after that, I don't know if we're coming off the road or we're going to do something or if we're going to have time off.

Oh really? We're going to California? You've made my day! I didn't know we were doing that. News travels slow around these parts. They don't tell me anything. I'm just the drummer! [laughs].