When did you begin making music, and did you ever ponder a different career? I began making music when I was twelve years old by starting with the alto sax in my school’s marching band. It was not until I was 15 that I picked up a guitar. When I was 19 I kind of stumbled into the life of a performing musician. At that point I had no intention of...
When did you begin making music, and did you ever ponder a different career? I began making music properly when I was 14, although I was writing bits for myself and other people when I was just 12 and starting secondary school. I did think about moving into a different career when I was dropped from my first label (Warners). I wanted to become a tattoo...
When did you begin making music, and did you ever ponder a different career? I began making original music when I was 13/14. In high school, I had this solo project that was all electronic and ambient. I wanted to make music that was as if you were tripping out on mushrooms and playing the original NES. Before that, I only did cover songs of rock bands, I...
When did you begin making music, and did you ever ponder a different career? I come from a musical family so I’ve been making music all my life, but I only really started writing songs when I was about five. I’ve never really wanted to do anything else. I did briefly flirt with the idea of sailing the seven seas as a ship’s poet, but then...
When did you begin making music, and did you ever ponder a different career? Not really, music has always been in my bones. I started creating music when I was really little, but the first song I finished was when I was 13. How would you describe your music? I’d describe it as soulful, jazzy, dramatic and fun. What have you been up to so far and what can...
How did you meet and what’s the story behind your band name? We met while we were all studying together. The band name ‘ABBY’ is the name of a girl called Abby, she’s our everyday inspiration and all of our songs are like little episodes of her life. How would you describe your music? It’s pop music made out of classical, technoid...
When did you begin making music, and did you ever ponder a different career? I started making music on a farm in Norfolk in an old pig shed kitted out with some scrap carpet, couches, a couple of fan heaters and spray painted walls with a few dudes from college in 2003. The guys were already a band, I joined as the front man and got stuck in to writing...
How did you meet and what’s the story behind your band name? Richard and Sean met back at school and formed the band when they returned from India. Harvey, a long lost family friend of Seans then came into the fold after a freak meeting and bonding session in France. Later Tom and Richard met at a gig and. after a few name changes over beers in the pub,...
When did you begin making music, and did you ever ponder a different career? I have always made music and written songs since I was a kid but never took it seriously until recently. I considered many careers from film-making to being a psychoanalyst. How would you describe your music? Acoustic Americana with a twist of chamber-pop. What have you been up to...
How did you meet and what’s the story behind your band name? Jon and me are best pals who, both being musicians, decided it was silly that we weren’t playing music together. We met at The Sebright Arms in London. Our other bands (Lola Colt and The Lost Souls Club) were playing a show together and we bonded over our mutual loves of Nick Cave and...
How did you meet and whatʼs the story behind your band name? K.I.: Well, me and Deee are brothers. We met Mr. Hernandez at Concrete Jungle, a skate shop that he owned. We later needed a drummer and added Matty Mayz to the team. We analyzed our music and noticed how we mixed genres that usually don’t mix. Bam, the Oxymorrons popped up! How would you...
How did you meet and what’s the story behind your band name? ‘We’ is a funny thing – we started out just Abe and Rufus, wanting to make an album of Abe’s songs that we were working on, but our record ended up being recorded with a group of amazing musicians from other bands like Cornershop, Candy Says, The Soft Tops, Viarosa, The...