Issue Twenty-Two Girl Band The Murder Capital Swim Deep Whitney Sports Team Speedy Wunderground
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Festival season is drawing to a close and we’ve all fallen in
Continuing with exciting returns, we speak to Swim Deep,
love with a new band or rekindled our relationship with an
Warmduscher and Jerkcurb about their upcoming releases.
old favourite. We do both in issue twenty-two as we speak
Sports Team continue to dominate festival line up’s and it’s
to both The Murder Capital and Girl Band from Dublin. The
been a while since we caught up. Alex Rice called us from
Murder Capital have released their debut album ‘When I
Lords to keep us up to date with their Reading Festival
Have Fears’ and we caught up with them at their hometown
plans and talk about the new single. Dry Cleaning are a new
album release show. Girl Band are back, a band that have
name from South London and we sent over a few questions
inspired guitar music in Ireland and beyond. We catch up
via email to see how they’re dealing with the hype. As ever,
with them as they prepare to release their new album ‘The
‘Who Are You?’ introduces you to some of our favourite
Talkies’. In Chicago, Whitney have just released their
new bands. This time we say hello to Powerplant, High-Vis,
second album. We get them on the phone for a chat about
Sinead O’Brien, Katy J Pearson, Saint Jude and more.
being done with cool. Is there a more important label than Speedy Wunderground right now? We sat down with the label to chat about how they work and the shift from singles to EP’s.
3 Warmduscher Midnight Dipper
31 Speedy Wunderground Will Not Be Slow
7 Jerkcurb Air Con Eden
33 Girl Band Going Norway
12 Whitney Forever Turned Around
37 Who Are You? Get to Know
15 The Murder Capital When I Have Fears
40 Dry Cleaning Goodnight
20 Sports Team Naval Flares
41 William’s Green Glastonbury
25 Swim Deep Sail Away, Say Goodbye
44 Art’s Cool Margate
Katy J Pearson Can you tell us who you are, where you’re from and about the music you make? I’m Katy J Pearson, I’m from Bristol and it’s a kind of 70’s tinged contemporary take on classic pop. What’s special about where you’re from? Has it inspired your music? Definitely - Bristol is a peaceful city with a wonderful music scene. It’s superb to be a part of, as everyone in the movement seems to be growing together. Plus it’s very close to my hometown of Stroud and sea and nature, and it’s great. Sinead O’Brien Can you tell us the story behind one of your songs? ‘TAKING ON TIME’ my latest release on Speedy
High-Vis
Wunderground is a lyrical examination of my positioning in the world. I reflect myself onto different surfaces and paint
We’re called High Vis and we play a sort of aggressive post
the results. The ‘walled city’ I speak about is Limerick,
punk. We’re made up of a bunch of misfits with a shared
where I grew up. I find this idea of the walls we make
love of bands like The Sound, The Chameleons and early
(physical and otherwise) fascinating. Frames, ways of
Joy Division.
seeing and perspective as so biased - in fact we can never really be unbiased. That’s what gives everyone a particular
Can you tell us something that you collectively hate?
and unique way of seeing; their own ‘frame’. Walls can be a defense, they can also be a division between order and
The limits placed on what defines a sound. We’re definitely
chaos. And what do gates mean when the walls fall down?
more interested in doing what we want rather than
Walls are the definite limits, somewhere to draw the line
conforming to a post-punk aesthetic. That’s why one song
and work backwards from. The track weaves in and around
might sound like Youth of Today and the next like the Stone
these themes in a rather cyclical nature ending up where we
Roses. We’re all hyperactive and listen to a lot of different
started out only different. It’s made to go on a loop! Maybe
things, so week-in week-out the influences are going to
it’s different every time it plays out.
change and that doesn’t change us as a band.
Saint Jude
Powerplant
Yoo I’m Jude Woodhead, from Forest Hill in South
We are Powerplant - a synth-punk operation. We hail
London. I make a lot of different kinds of music - I release
from around the isle and one of us is Ukrainian. Music we
electronica tracks under my own name, and I’ve just started
produce sizzles with synthesizers, giddy bass and barely
a new project called Saint Jude which is going to be more
cohesive lyrics.
focused on bringing together the electronic stuff with lyric Can you tell us something that you collectively really
songs I’ve been writing.
love? What’s special about where you’re from? Has it inspired your music?
Kasteel Rouge :)
My area’s far enough from central to have escaped the worst
Can you tell us something that you collectively hate?
of gentrification so far, it’s still got the weird interesting inner London things that are kinda getting pushed out of
When your mom won’t leave your room when you are
more central neighbourhoods.
listening to podcasts.
I couldn’t really say what effect it’s had on my music - I think it definitely has, because there’s a real sound and aesthetic to the music from South East London that for ages I kinda tried to resist but I’ve now kinda embraced more.
Strawberry Guy Can you tell us the story behind one of your songs? ‘Mrs Magic’ is a bit of a strange one.. most people might
Lazarus Kane
expect it to be some kind of sensual song or something along those lines but it’s actually about a time trying magic
My name is Lazarus Kane, I’m from the United States of
mushrooms from Rotterdam. I was expecting something
America. I make music with old synthesisers and drum
really amazing, hence the lyric ‘please give me one last
machines. Some people call it popular music, other folks
show’. I guess I expected a kind of show from taking them
don’t really know what to call it. I’d probably call it luxury
whereas instead they just made my mind turn against me
lounge music.
and I didn’t feel comfortable in my own home.. hence me wondering ‘I don’t know, I don’t know, what I’m doing
Can you tell us the story behind one of your songs?
here’. I certainly don’t condone taking magic mushrooms at all, especially after feeling like that! Haha.
I have a song called ‘Nothing More, Nothing Less’ which is a song about writing songs. It’s a sort of Russian doll situation. What can we be excited for (from you) over the next 12 months? I believe that at least one of my recordings will become available before the end of the year of our lord two thousand and nineteen, but I’m not sure how much I can say. My management are desperate not to have another slip and slide like ’96, but we won’t talk about that.
Illustration by REN
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Art’s Cool
You’ve been an influential figure within the development of the new staple venue and record store, Elsewhere. It
Born out of small town boredom in 2013, Art’s Cool has
also seems to be a home for Art’s Cool. What was your
become a vital cog within the alternative realm of Margate.
role in that process and why was Elsewhere vital for the
Founder, Sammy Clarke developed a local reputation by
area and Art’s Cool?
hosting conventional early shows for the likes of Slaves as well as less conventional events at disused warehouses and
With 6 years worth of experience in booking/promoting
the local bowling alley. Art’s Cool have always looked to
shows and having accumulated a wealth of music industry
move forwards, but also move differently. We caught up
contacts on a local and national scale, I naturally fell into
with Sammy to find out how it all began and what we can
becoming the venue’s programmer and PR. As a promoter
expect in the future.
Art’s Cool began to outgrow the tiny confines of the Tom Thumb Theatre and we were beginning to hit a bit of a glass
Sammy, you’re the founder of Art’s Cool, can you tell us
ceiling with regards to the scale of the artists that I was
a little about how it all began and your intentions?
able to book there. So helping to open up a 150 capacity venue in Margate became integral to the future of Art’s
Art’s Cool came into existence as a necessary means to
Cool and it’s ambitions in remaining a part of a band or
bring something that I felt was lacking in Margate in
artists journey once they’d gone beyond selling out the Tom
2013. So one of the first things that I did was approach
Thumb Theatre.
Laurie Vincent (guitarist from Slaves) he’s also a brilliant illustrator and I wanted him to create a logo for the brand.
As someone who has always followed emerging bands
It wasn’t until I got chatting to Laurie during his creative
from afar, you must’ve been craving a scene to land on
process that I realised that he actually played in a band and
your doorstep at some stage. Is the music scene in Kent
so I ended up getting a new logo AND the headline band for
healthy and what have you done locally to try and make
our first night in one fell swoop! The night consisted of a
it a breeding ground for alternative artists and bands?
night market that I had curated with friends who were either makers or vintage shop owners, DJs, projections and bands.
Going back to the FOMO, cultivating what felt like an
The amount of people involved in the event created the
actual music scene in Margate was and still is a prime
feeling of being a part of community from the get go and
motivation for Art’s Cool. The increase in live music
the show was packed out.
coming to the area has increased exponentially and as a result so too has the amount of bands and musicians that
Art’s Cool operates across Margate, what was missing
now call Margate and wider areas of Kent their home. I
from the area for you to decide that Art’s Cool was
believe the music scene in Kent to be healthier than it has
necessary?
ever been. At least in my memory.
Apart from our local indie club night, there wasn’t anything
What does the future hold for Art’s Cool, what can we be
else to do on a weekend. As much as I appreciated that
excited for?
this night united me with the people that had similar music tastes to mine i.e indie/alternative music from the previous
We’re looking to expand our artist development roster with
5 decades, it started to feel a bit like groundhog day.
the possibility of a new record label on the horizon too. I’ve never felt more enthusiastic about, Margate, new music
It’s patrons just weren’t really interested in new music and
and the humans that make it. I’m always constantly inspired
I wanted to dance, jump and shout to the new music that I
by all of the other people doing amazing work in their own
was listening to and reading about being created in the rest
respective towns and cities too.
of the country. I felt a bit isolated from the fun and I was getting some serious FOMO before I even knew what that acronym stood for!
Art’s Cool
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A monthly showcase for Poetry/ Spoken word and acoustic music. 10 minutes per act. M/C Ray Roughler Jones and m/d Toby Andersen hope to bring the best range of talent to the upstairs room at The Italian Job on All Saints Rd London W11 1HE
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Josh Whettingsteel Aaron Elvis Jupin
Stefanie RĂśhnisch
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Josh Whettingsteel
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Elly Watson
Eleanor Philpot Ross Jones Sam Ford
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Georgie Jesson
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