Your names: James Bull (Singer/Rhythm Guitarist) Adam Bull (Lead Guitarist) Jacob Hall (Bass) Connor Pryde (Drums)
Where are you from? We're a Chesterfield/Sheffield based band.
Name of band: The Time Sellers.
How would you describe yourselves and your music? We are four working class lads. We like to make songs that people can relate to. Who are your main influences musically? Our main influences vary from The Beatles, Small Faces, The Who, Nirvana, The Jam, Oasis, The Specials, Stone Roses, The Action, Led Zeppelin and many many more What do you hope to achieve in music? Hopefully we'd love to make an album someday.
What has been the highlight of your career so far, and why? Releasing our latest single 'Thinking Back' and playing the single launch at the Rocking Chair.
And what’s the moment you want to forget? None, it's been great up to now.
If you had to pick just one of your songs to represent your music, what would it be and why? Thinking Back, because it's our most original song yet and it carries our trademark sound. It's also had a lot of interest from radio stations.
Well, me and Danny (bassist) are from Barnsley, Our
drummer Laura is from Chesterfield and Sean lives in Sheffield, originally
from Shannon Ireland.
Name of band:
Hands Off Gretel.
Who is in your band?
I’ve worked with my guitarist Sean McAvinue for
the last couple of years, we did a lot of acoustic gigs together over the
summer and wrote my first EP ‘My Reflection’ last year. Laura Moakes
the drummer and Danny Pollard the bassist joined us late 2014. That’s
my lil band.
How would you describe yourselves and your music?
The songs have been heavily influenced by my love of 90’s
grunge bands, the music does have this old-school feel but I think there
is something both nostalgic and new about this project, I'm not just
trying to be a copycat band.
I’d describe us as playful, we work hard, we take it
serious, but we aren’t serious, we are always laughing and enjoying ourselves..
the music allows us to have fun and I’ve always wanted to be
entertaining for the people watching me.
Who are your main influences musically?
LOUD women, my favourites being Courtney Love, Brody
Dalle, Kathleen Hanna, Kat Bjelland and Janis Joplin, they just have
these voices that cut through the music and grab you if you want them to or
not. The music I’m writing has particles of them inside it, I like that.
What do you hope to achieve in music?
I want Hands Off Gretel to awaken people, give
people a place to escape and make them feel part of something. We
can’t get anywhere without people's support and together we can make
a change.
Music comes in waves and we are ready for a change, right?
I want to look out at a sea of faces singing along and
feeling as good as we do and get that feeling of oneness we’ve been working
so hard for.
I know how good music has made me feel growing up and I
hope our music will do the same for others. I always felt I missed
out on my favourite bands, like I was never part of the scene they
were in, it all feels very dated. I want to bring back that homemade
‘girl doing it all herself’ approach, I want everything hand designed and
personal, to make people feel they connected with us right from the
beginning. We are not a band that will be morphed into anything we are
not.. no way!
What has been the highlight of your career so far, and
why?
As the band has only just started out and not played any
gigs yet it’s hard to pick the highlight. The best feeling has probably
been when we started to see the amazing comments about the band
moments after we’d launched our music for the first time, I was so
nervously excited I had to walk away from the computer chair before I threw
up.
And what’s the moment you want to forget?
Haha! If I tell you that, the last thing people will do
is forget about it.
Some things have to stay as ‘drunk moments’, I must tame
myself really, I can be an idiot.
If you had to pick just one of your songs to represent
your music, what would it be and why?
We haven’t released my favourite song yet, the three songs we
released FREE were some of the first I wrote for Hands Off Gretel,
But, I’m going to go with ‘BE MINE’. We have a video for that one.. but
we are going to make colourful, fun videos for all of the songs.
Anything else you’d like to say about your music that I
forgot to ask?
We hope to make more and more of it. We want to share our
journey with everyone and want everyone to feel part of it. We
want to meet the people that are supporting us and have supported me
for some time! There’s nothing more to say really, just that we
cannot do it without people's help and enthusiasm and it is this that
will drive us towards that dream!!
Chesterfield, Derbyshire, in the heart
of England.
Name of band:
The Natterjacks.
How would you describe yourselves?
We set out to produce
a big sound seen as there's only the two of us and we do this by playing a
couple of instruments each and packing out the melodies with
harmonies. We like to drive our songs forward with plenty of banjo and the thud
of a kick drum accompanied by the shatter of a tambourine.
Who are your main influences musically?
We've been
listening to a lot of Ben Howard, Lana Del Rey, Fleet Foxes, London Grammar
& Fleet Foxes recently and I suppose what we listen to at a particular
time does influence what we write and play. Bands like Mumford & Sons and
Bears Den are also great and obviously key influences in our music,
especially our earlier stuff.
What do you hope to achieve in music?
We really do love
playing at festivals so we'd like to get further onto the festival circuit, the
atmosphere is just incredible. One of the best things about making our music is
hearing from people that they're enjoying it too so we just want as many people
to enjoy what we do as possible.
What has been the highlight of your career so far, and
why?
That'd probably be playing the Quarry Stage for BBC Introducing at Y
Not Festival last year - which we'll actually be returning to this August! It
was the biggest audience we've played to so far and the whole weekend was a
great experience with the release of our debut album being the following Monday
too!
And what’s the moment you want to forget?
Probably the
shows where there have only been two or three people sat at the back, they were
probably some of our family too! But even those might have got one more person
into our music so it's not all bad!
If you had to pick just one of your songs to represent
your music, what would it be and why?
Probably our new track In The Bark, which
will be released as the title track to our forthcoming EP, it's lively, banjo
driven, danceable and has a chorus which you can easily join in on, definitely what
we're all about.
Anything else you’d like to say that I forgot to ask?
If
you can, come down to one of our shows and have a chat! That's probably the
best place to see us, we aim to get it nice and lively and make sure everyone
has a great time.
Chesterfield, UK – a place too commonly referred to as ‘near Sheffield’.
Name of
band:
Trash.
Who else is in your band?
Daniel
Longmore, Evan Martin and Brad Weston.
How would you describe yourselves?
Kinda
surfy music for people who have never been surfing. We try to experiment and
add something new and colourful to the indie genre.
Who are your main
influences musically?
One of us likes McBusted, one of us likes Psyopus. That
should sum it up.
What do you hope to achieve in music?
If we had a cult
following, we would be in a life of absolute beatitude.
What has been the highlight
of your career so far, and why?
Actually having some recorded material we can
say is our own. And Brad’s lyric attempt, of course (‘times are gonna change,
high school is ending.’ Yes, he said this.)
And what’s the moment you want to
forget?
None yet, but our debut gig is yet to come...
If you had to pick just
one of your songs to represent your music, what would it be and why?
Fountain
Roulette – it’s the first properly recorded song we did, and marks where we
began to find our style. We all created parts around Dan’s structure and ended
up very pleased with it. The experience, both writing and practising, was very
enjoyable.
Anything else you’d like to say that I forgot to ask?
We are still a small band hoping for as much experience as the world can give us, so if you anybody wants us for a show, interview, lap dance, anything, please do hit us up. We’re lonely people. Also Evan’s looking for a copy of Ratchet & Clank for PS3.
Edgy, pop, with a cerebral punky edge, mellowing as we
get older and try new things!
Who are your main influences musically?
PJ Harvey, The Pretenders, The Doors, Velvet Underground,
The Boys, Blondie, The Red Guitars, psychedelic 60s bands! Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed and Ummagumma by Pink
Floyd.
What do you hope to achieve in music?
To leave some songs I am proud of when I shuffle off this
mortal coil and that people are still listening to; to record to the best of my
ability and to continue to create new sounds which are closer to what is in my
head. Also to die playing or to die trying.
What has been the highlight of your career so far, and why?
Potsdam, US - a sell out gig on our maiden journey to the
USA where people were being turned away and having people sing our own lyrics
back to us! It was amazing. Starting and finishing a song at the same time
And what's the moment you want to forget?
Signing a distribution deal with Dyskfunktional Records
from North Carolina.
If you could choose just one of your songs to represent your music, what would it be and why?
Dear Stalker - feel of the song, atmospheric lyrics,
brooding quality
Anything else you'd like to say about your band that I forgot to ask?
We are a mature band but with a clear agenda to continue
to innovate and create, making us pretty unusual in lots of ways and not stuck
in a musical timewarp, trotting out timeworn old favourites.
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