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OUR PROPAGANDA Our Propaganda are slowly emerging as a band to watch out for in the music scene and The Edge was lucky enough to sit down and discuss all things Our Propaganda from their musical influences, video games and how they have adapted to life in lockdown. Read on as we talk to Jack, Joe, Charlie and Harvey of Our Propaganda.
How did the band form? Joe: It’s kind of like the rule of six degrees of separation like you know someone, who knows someone who knows someone and eventually it all converged. It’s a really long story.
What was the inspiration behind the name ‘Our Propaganda’? Charlie: Basically, we were hunting for a new name for ages and one night I was watching footage of some of our shows and I said to Jack “this is kind of like our propaganda” and it sort of just clicked. Jack: Charlie, you definitely said our propaganda, but we initially wanted to use the name ‘Propaganda’, but it turns out it was the name of a German synthpop band in the 80s. So, then we thought maybe ‘The Propaganda’. No one liked that, then we went back to the original idea and we felt it just made more sense.
how have you adapted your performance to fit with the social distancing measures in place? Jack: Concerts are now sit-down gigs which changes it up a lot. Like in October 2019 we did a single launch at The 1865 and we had about 300 or so people in the room, but now with sit-down gigs we can now only have 160 people their max. Lockdown has given us a lot of time to think about how to do the set live now. We have done a few different variations of songs that we have kept in the repertoire, but essentially the difference is more to do with the audience. And whilst on some ways its really cool, because you feel like people are sat there and listening. But you are also missing that energy from the audience and though they are still giving it their all it isn’t the same as being up close. Joe: It’s really different because you are trying to keep it high energy but keep it in the performance and give everyone some semblance of a normal performance.
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