Your name:
Stewart Whiteford (Rhythm Guitar).
Where are you from?
Chadwell Heath, Essex, England.
Name of band:
Our Kingdom.
Who else is in your band?
Fraser Goodwin - Vocals
Luke Warwick - Lead Guitar
Stuart Wood - Bass
Sam Warwick - Drums
How would you describe yourselves?
Alternative post-hardcore.
Who are your main influences musically?
My personal influences are guitarists like Lee Gaze
(Lostprophets). I grew up listening to LostProphets so they were and still are
a great influence on me. So when it comes to writing I like to fuse their style
of music with a lot of British hardcore like While She Sleeps, Heart In Hand
and Bring Me The Horizon.
What do you hope to achieve in music?
We'd just like to be able to get as many people as
possible to hear our music, because we're extremely passionate about what we do
and we're very proud of all the music we write. So to have people listening to
us and being able to appreciate the hard work we put in, that's what it's all
about!
What has been the highlight of your career so far, and
why?
I think our first show as Our Kingdom. We got to
support one of our favourite bands Verses at Academy2 Islington where we ended
up playing to a mostly full room. So for our first show, that was pretty
special!
And what’s the moment you want to forget?
Haha! At our last show I snapped a string first strum in
and that night we decided not to bring a spare guitar, so I spent the next song
and a bit looking for another guitar! Thankfully Daniel Harris from Amaryllis
was lovely enough to let me use his Fender!
If you had to choose just one of your songs to represent
your music, what would it be and why?
Have You Ever Been To Coney Island?, which is the first single from our new EP (out August 24th) was the first
song we wrote as a band and I think it still represents us. We were going
through a bit of an ordeal trying to find the right singer, so when Fraser came
about we played him the song and he instantly had lyrics which worked and
fitting the vibe, so that's a pretty special song for us! We also open with is
live!
Where can we listen to it?
Where can we find out more about your music?
Twitter: @OurKingdom_UK
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