Issue Twenty-Eight
Also inside: The Cribs deep tan For Those I Love Hollow Sinatra Priestgate Malady PREGOBLIN Yard Act TRAAMS
‘The Evil Within’ by Matija Bobičić
We’d have expected this issue to be looking back on
In New York and Portland via Wakefield, The Cribs
festival highlights and waxing lyrical over new finds but
are getting over lawsuits and preparing for the release
no, the pandemic continues and bands are having to adapt
of their new album. Ryan and Gary jump on Zoom to
to a new world. The write, record and tour cycle is well
talk about how they’ve made their most “Cribs” record
and truly on hold. Goat Girl are back and there’s no doubt
yet. In London, deep tan are looking to build upon the
that in normal circumstances they’d have been taking over
excitement that surrounded their early singles. Following
venues across the UK and beyond. The four piece have a
their latest release, we check in with them to chat David
new member and have just announced their second album
Attenborough, writing over Zoom and the importance of
‘On All Fours’. We spoke to the band at Lottie & Rosy’s
magic. Staying in the capital, Pregoblin do their best to be
house via Zoom to discuss the writing process, Dan Carey
funny and give us a few details in between following the
and subverting expectations.
release of latest single ‘Gangsters’.
TRAAMS returned this summer with nine minute epic
Is the most exciting new music coming from the north?
‘The Greyhound’. They blow off the interview cobwebs
Leeds’ Yard Act make a decent case for it. With new music
and talk us through their return, realising who they are
on the horizon we gave them a call to discuss building
and hearing themselves in other bands. Somewhere near
your hype in a lockdown. Malady and Priestgate are bands
Atlanta, Hollow Sinatra is making sounds as intense as
we’ve had our eyes on for a while. They’re gearing up for
they come. New EP ‘Rapture’ should be seen as one of this
their next releases so we got in touch to get the details. To
year’s must listens. We give him a call to discuss the evils
round us off, Dublin’s For Those I Love have one of the
of American politics, Radiohead and our data!
more complex stories inside our pages. We get to know David Balfe and how his loss and his surroundings have
The inimitable Chrissie Hynde joins our Artist Series this
shaped his music and the person he’s become.
month and we chat to Welsh designer, Adam Jones about reappropriating Bar Towels.
3 Yard Act Fixer Upper
27 Adam Jones One Man’s Trash
7 Goat Girl Sad Cowboy
32 PREGOBLIN Gangsters
12 TRAAMS The Greyhound
36 The Cribs Night Network
15 Malady Wheel Of Fortune
39 Hollow Sinatra False Prophets
20 deep tan deepfake
44 Priestgate NOW
23 Chrissie Hynde Artist Series #8
45 For Those I Love I Have a Love
Whose work do you admire and why? Vincent Van Gogh. I love his paintings. I’m not all that up on artists. I don’t really understand installations very well, but I loved a light installation I saw at the Mass Moca museum in Massachusetts. It was like walking into an acid trip. I understood that one. I need to start going to galleries and museums. I got waylaid by touring in a rock band for 40 years. Now I’m more focused on painting. In the eighth edition of our Artist Series, we’re delighted
How did lockdown affect your creativity?
to collaborate with Chrissie Hynde. Having been waylaid by touring in a rock band for 40 years, Chrissie is now
I just kept painting. It changed the way I do music though
focused on painting. We particularly love her monogram
as I started doing it over the phone with my guitar player.
works, one of which we’ve used for our collaboration.
That was a new approach which opened possibilities... I
“I did a few monograms and this one was of my close
enjoyed that.
friend Ingrid Newkirk. She started, and still is the head of What role does music play in your painting? Or do you
PETA.”
see them as completely separate parts of your life? We caught up with Chrissie ahead of the launch of our collaborative t-shirt to talk art, lockdown and her favourite
I paint in silence and it’s very solitary. It’s a meditation
new band, who she discovered at a Julian Assange protest.
I guess. Music is different as I work with people and in front of an audience.
What’s your earliest memory of Art? Who’s your favourite new band? I can only remember drawing on sheets of paper with the girl next door on their garage floor, pictures of horses.
A London punk band called WE ARE One. I only saw
We were about 6 years of age. I don’t remember any art
them once at a Julian Assange protest. North London band.
particularly, my mother had some wire sculpture wall hangings in the house when I was little. Signs of the
What are you working on currently and what can we
zodiac.
expect to see from you in the near future?
How do you go about starting a piece of work?
I’m writing songs for a new album. And painting. Painting is my main gig now.
I buy a pre-stretched canvas and use oil paint. I don’t often have a plan, I just start painting. Tell us about a typical working day in your studio… Sometimes I start painting just after I wake up. My studio is a room in my flat. Or any time really. I live alone so have no distractions. Sometimes I’ll get on a roll and do 2 in a day. Sometimes I start one late in the day. Once I start I don’t stop till I’m done. Although once in a while, the next morning I might see something that’s bothering me and go back to it. I’ve learned to do that.
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Eleanor Philpot Rhys Buchanan Al Mills
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George Mitchell Geoffroy Pithon Jenny Zych Paul Waak
Lucia Lenders Ludi Leiva
Chrissie Hynde
Łukasz Golędzinowski Francesc Estrada REN
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Ross Jones
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