When did you begin making music, and did you ever ponder a different career? I probably started making music shortly after watching Nirvana Unplugged on TV. It prompted me to learn the guitar – in fact I taught myself to play guitar by pausing the video and learning the chord. I have considered giving up music on occasion but I have no Idea what else...
How did you meet and what’s the story behind your band name? Heffron Drive is named after the street I lived on in Burbank, California when the band was formed. Funny thing is, Dustin and I were born in the same hospital, lived in the same city (Wichita, Kansas), but we met for the first time on Heffron Drive in Burbank, California. Small world. How would...
How did you meet and what’s the story behind your band name? The name took some considerable thought. We knew we wanted “Brother” in there somewhere, because we felt like that conveyed a little bit about us as a partnership. The name Eli sprung up from a few different places, there are some biblical references to Eli in the old testament, and...
It has been a busy Sunday for Juju and Ben. This afternoon the garden was full of people helping to build a 4-metre-wide canvas for a show next week. Ben has been working on their latest recording in the garage and is now making some final tweaks to the code of a Candy Says iPhone app. Juju has put their 9-month-old son to bed and is now chopping and mixing...
How did you meet and what’s the story behind your band name? We all met on the internet. I used to send demos from the UK over to Ryan in Australia and then when I moved to Australia we started to jam properly. Our band name was one of several dumb name choices. We went for the least silly one… I think. How would you describe your music? Indie-pop...
How did you meet and what’s the story behind your band name? Me and Tom have known each other our whole lives and then we met Jacob at secondary school in Birmingham We came into contact with Adam at a club where we were amazed to find a scared little blonde boy being sexually slapped across the face by a rather large welsh lass who thought his...
When did you begin making music, and did you ever ponder a different career? When I was a little girl I envisioned myself singing on a huge stage for thousands of people! I’ve always wanted to be a singer and have taken piano and vocal lessons since I was a kid. I also thought about being a teacher or a doctor but only as a ‘back up’...
When did you begin making music, and did you ever ponder a different career? I started Making music in my early teens. Bands like Eric’s Trip and Sebadoh were a big influence to me then with their DIY recordings and songs about subjects I could relate to. I’ve never really considered another career but had a lot of jobs. Lobster fisherman, Dish...
How did you meet and what’s the story behind your band name? Jamie and Justin are brothers and have been playing in bands for most of their teenage and adult life. The same goes for Joe and Dan. Jono is one of Jamie’s best friends and had just moved back to the UK from Australia. It was all circumstance really. Everyone just happened to be in the...
How did you meet and what’s the story behind your band name? We met at music school in 2004 and started playing together around 2008. The name was inspired by the famous Benjamin Franklin quote – ‘in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes’. We were born in New Zealand and it has to do with a play on our...
2013 is proving to be a fairly fruitful year for Don Broco. Their twelve tour dates during February and March sold so well that they added a further five dates to their Priorities tour for April, which also sold out. I caught up with drummer Matt and guitarist Simon in Wolverhampton on the second of their April tour dates to talk inspiration, aspirations...
When did you begin making music, and did you ever ponder a different career? I left school at 15 and joined a rock and roll band. We got signed and toured for 11 years. Before I knew it I was a musician. I turned around one day and there I was, a muso without even knowing it! I wanted to be an archaeologist but only because of Indiana Jones. How would you...