Your names.
Rick. Dan. Buddy.
Where are you from?
We are from a decaying industrial town in the North West
of England.
Vukovar.
How would you describe yourselves and your music?
We've been described as 'bleak-pop' and 'dark post-punk'
amongst other things, but we like these two.
Who are your main influences musically?
We don't have main influences. Influences are mostly
visual or from literature. But musically we take from lots of things and
appropriate it. Whether that's from Leonard Cohen to Suicide, Kylie Minogue to
Godflesh, D.A.F to The Last Poets, whatever. As a group we like to listen to as
many things as possible, always trying to discover new music; nothing beats
finding a gem of an acid house track or pop song for example that you've never
heard before and playing it to death, absorbing all you can before moving onto
the next.
The guys who produce our records, Phil Reynolds and Dan
Ankers, are the same. They put us onto a lot of interesting music too.The stuff
they do for our music is phenomenal.
What do you hope to achieve in music?
We want to be able to keep making records. We want
everybody in the world to listen to our music and find something in it. We want
to be able to live off our art. We want the world... We want to achieve lots of
things. Everything.
What has been the highlight of your career so far, and
why?
Supporting Brix & The Extricated and meeting her was
great. We all got along v well, a lot in common. We're big on The Fall, so to
see the Hanley brothers, one of the all-time great post-punk rhythm section,
whilst being involved with the show, was something else. We supported Blue
Orchids recently too which was fantastic. Our friends in Glasgow, Spinning Coin
and Breakfast Muff (you should really give them a listen, hint hint hint...),
invited us to perform there at the Old Hairdresser's which was a great DIY
show. DIY shows tend to be the best anyway, but it was lovely of them to ask
us. Also, meeting and recording with Graham Duff for our next record, PURITAN,
was one of those experiences whereby it still hasn't really been taken in as
everything was perfect. Meeting up with our favourite artist, Andrzej
Klimowski, was one of those moments too.
As you can tell, we enjoy what we do and the
opportunities that come out of the work that we put in. We enjoy every slight,
innocuous detail that comes out of it.
Any show we've played for so-called 'professional
promoters'. Awful. Being on stage and working together, we'll keep those
memories. But the events themselves, the audience (or lack thereof) etc etc
etc...
If you had to pick just one of your songs to represent
your music, what would it be and why?
At the moment, it would be The Blood Garden. It has the pop melody, it has the beauty
in its depth + production, it has the dark Badalamenti synths, it has the
delicacy and the noise simultaneously and has the shifting dynamics and most
importantly, has the influence of the transcendent moment from JG Ballard's
High Rise.
Where can we listen to it?
Where can we find out more about your music?
We are on itunes and Spotify but have neither programme
so no links. But we can give you social media and places to listen and download
and purchase the beautifully produced CD's, which is really the best way to
listen...
Facebook... https://www.
Twitter... https://twitter.
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