Your name:
Matthew
Gaffen.
Where are you from?
Lewisham,
South East London, born and raised.
Name of band:
Hearse
Pileup.
Who else is in your band?
Tony
Hoang and Wojciech Tybus.
How would you describe yourselves?
Angry.
Spiritually successors to punk but with influences from hard rock,
desert rock, and stoner/doom metal.
Who are your main influences musically?
Queens
Of The Stone Age, Sabbath, Iggy and the Stooges, Motorhead, etc.
What do you hope to achieve in music?
Social
change on a global scale. More realistically, getting people to party hard
whilst realising some of civilised society’s greater (and
possibly necessary) evils. We try to write music that speaks from
relatable, day-to-day, real life situations, but highlights wider
socio-economic wrongs.
What has been the highlight of your career
so far, and why?
Our
last gig at The Miller in London Bridge was a fucking killer - totally brought
the house down. Plus it was the first event by Junction Sounds - an independent
promotions group that puts on regular nights for musicians that is
run by musicians, which I run with the lead from The Milk Bar.
And what’s the moment you want to forget?
Oh god,
we once got lumped in to play the AAA in Knigtsbridge to 'Salad-Eaters' as
Wojciech puts it. White-collar types who didn't really appreciate the
aggressive nature of our sound. Needless to say we cleared the room with our
first two chords, and the house kit, (which was damaged and patched back
together with drumsticks for support struts), exploded in the last song. Spinal
Tap eat your heart out!
If you could choose just one of your songs
to represent your music, what would it be and why?
I guess
it'd have to be Pretty Shiny Things still - it's simple, and our sound has
started to move on a little as we start to get ready to record our first album,
but it still resonates with what we're about; raw passion and making lots of
noise!
Where can we listen to it?
Where can we find out more about your
music?
http://www.facebook.com/Hearse.Pileup
https://twitter.com/HearsePileup
http://www.reverbnation.com/hearsepileup
http://www.youtube.com/user/HearsePileup
www.hearsepileup.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/HearsePileup
http://www.reverbnation.com/hearsepileup
http://www.youtube.com/user/HearsePileup
www.hearsepileup.bandcamp.com/
Our
official website is www.hearsepileup.de/ad
Anything else you’d like to say about your
band that I forgot to ask?
Our EP
is out now. We're completely independent, we run our own promotions group
and occasionally our own nights, we build the website ourselves, do our own
graphic design and music videos. The only thing we don't do is record
ourselves, we leave that to Dropout Studios in Camberwell - great bunch (http://dropoutstudios.co/)
Go check out the promotions group we run: http://www.facebook.com/JunctionSoundsEvents
Go check out the promotions group we run: http://www.facebook.com/JunctionSoundsEvents
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