How do you describe your music to people? Describing our music to people is quite hard some times, as we’re not like anybody else at this present time. It’s hard to categorise us in a sense we are a high-energy band with the music to back it. Some say we’re punk some say we’re rock and blues and we have even been told we sound indie. But to be honest I’d say we are all the above with a twist of magic to make it our own.
What image do you think your music conveys? We don’t really have an image we are pretty much jeans and t-shirt kind of guys we don’t have that 80s rock image or the 90 s indie pop image. So you could say we are between the rock and a hard place. You either love us or hate us.
What are your immediate music aspirations? Well being signed would be great but the music industry is ruthless, getting a record deal isn’t as easy as it used to be 10 or even 20 years a go. To be honest just to put out our album or selection of our own songs would be great. We love to gig, we love the live crowds and big stages, so one of the major festivals would nice in the UK. I guess trying to get some sort of management would also help push us in the right direction and keep us focused. But we intend to carry on regardless and be around for a very long time, and enjoy ourselves and please our fan base, for which is ever growing. We even have an all female contingent within the fans called the Lockettes.
Tell me more about the Lockettes, how did they come about who do they consist off?
Who have you met on your journey, any one to note?
Well you tell me, the female fans created it themselves - they didn’t like being called groupies, so basically all the female fans put it together and they said they wanted t-shirts. Steve Jones put together a logo to match the Flintlock logo and they loved it, now it’s growing and they organise to come to gigs together which is great as single females feel safer together
We’ve played with some great unsigned acts such as Kitty Lipps, The Separation, The Luv Spuds, The 1004’s and Liquid Limousine to name a few.
How would you define the word “success”? “Success” well every band wants to be successful earn loads of money and go on tours but to be honest just making great music and taking it to our fans, playing live and watching the fans having a great time to our music. In our eyes is successful! Don’t get us wrong we all want the rock star life style being a successful band isn’t always about the money, it’s more about the hard work writing great songs and the reaction we get from the crowd when you play a 3 and half minute song that you put your soul into and the room comes alive.
Do you have a demo or press kit or any other promotional materials? We don’t have any press kits or demos all our information can be found on the usual sites such as My Space, Facebook and many others that can be found at our web site www.flintlock-uk.com .
Do you have any personal contacts in the music business? As a band we don’t have many contacts only the ones we’ve made on our journey to success. One person who’s given us a few gigs is Hamish Jolly who does a lot of promoting for the Watershed in Wimbledon. He’s given us opportunities to open up for Hayseed Dixie and The Towers of London, which we got to meet all the members of the band as well, unfortunately we didn’t get to play for Hayseed Dixie as they brought their own support, but we got a free night out and got to meet the band who where really cool. Steve knows a few people from when he was a professional DJ but doesn’t have much contact with them these days.
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