I'd say the big thing, though, is the release of our very first single on September 23 with Rooftop Records. We have a load of gigs in the pipeline, the next one being September 2 with Pretty Green and Bido Lito! at Blade Factory. * So, what's next - and where can we find your music?
On a Wednesday we get down to the local boxing gym and spar each other. * Tell us something about yourselves which readers won't know.
I think first and foremost we're a gang of lads and whether it's band related or outside of that we're still always in the same group. * Away from the music, what do you get up to?Īway from the band we're just normal lads. These kinds of festivals are a great chance to discover them all. The 'scene' is so competitive and there's so many quality bands. I think this is an aspect of Liverpool that we love. We played FestEvol and Sound City this year and had a great time discovering loads of cool bands. Although we enjoy seeing the amount of quality bands Liverpool as a city produces nowadays. * Which Liverpool bands and what aspects of the city do you like?ĭefinitely the previously mentioned. Like a Bond theme or something Tarantino would use.įilm director Quentin Tarantino at Virgin in Clayton Square in September 2007. We try to write songs that could be soundtracks to a big movie. Having a trumpet player in the band helps with that side. We have a 'Spaghetti Western' vibe in our tunes so we listen to a lot of Ennio Morricone too. Not because they're fellow Scousers and we are biased but because what they do speaks to us more than other bands. I would say we like to try to find bands we're similar to with the sound we naturally stumbled across.Įcho and The Bunnymen have to be at the top of the list. * What are your influences and which artists do you listen to at the moment?īeing a sextet we have a load of different influences. We were all aware of each other from playing in different bands so everyone was excited but to be honest we had no idea how it would turn out.Įven when we started playing a couple of tunes together we felt an instant chemistry we started writing our own songs straight away. The first time we all got in a room together to jam and play a few tunes together some of the lads had never even met. * How did you get together and where have you played? We are in a position now where we feel proud of what we are creating and we're looking forward to showing everybody. We spent a while just writing and playing together, evolving and expanding, finding our style. It was our individual ideas and tastes that brought us in a practice room together for the first time. The six of us are all from the same part of Liverpool and have always been interested in the same styles of music. * Introduce yourselves and tell us a little about your background. Next up is a Liverpool Weekender with Pretty Green (Liam Gallagher's clothing range) at Camp & Furnace on September 2-4 alongside some of our favourite acts including Psycho Comedy, Tom Low and Fuss.īefore then we caught up with vocalist Frank Doran to talk Tarantino, musical influences and recording their debut single. Championed by The Label Recordings - the imprint to discover Hooton Tennis Club - they've subsequently played various Liverpool festivals including FestEvol as well as support slots for The Farm and Glass Caves. Their sound is huge, and it's catching on. Within the white washed walls of Baltic Triangle 's Blade Factory, here was a band fully in control of their sound and vision melding the Bunnies' stinging angular riffs, rasping vocal snarls and that trumpet proved to be the winning ingredient adding an Americana twist to their Mersey rattle. The first time we saw them they knocked us out the park. If this was played wrongly, it'd be a disaster. Stepping up to the plate on Merseyside are Red Rum Club - all monochrome imagery, whopping power chords and a trumpet. It's one of music's hardest balancing acts - on one side you've strutting peacocks Jagger, Mercury and Gallagher - on the other Chad Kroeger. You're wearing your heart on your sleeve, there's nowhere to hide and if it goes wrong you look like a dope. It takes a lot of bottle to write a big, ballsy rock song.
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