CoolTop20’s In the spotlight: The Electorate
by Lean at CoolTop20 https://www.cooltop20.com The Electorate is Eliot Fish, Nick Kennedy and Josh Morris from Sydney. “Eliot usually plays the bass. Nick usually plays the drums and Josh usually plays the guitar. We all sing.” Eliot and Josh went to high school together and formed a band called The ...
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Interview with The Bedlam Furnaces: ‘I’m driven by musical themes and storytelling, there’s a palette of sounds holding the songs together’
The Bedlam Furnaces gave us their latest album, Fever Dream, earlier this year, dealing with loss in all of its configurations. Led by guitarist and multi-instrumentalist/composer Ian Allison, working with regular collaborators, The Bedlam Furnaces is a London-based project. They describe themselves as ‘symphonic ...
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Interview with Cucamaras: ‘Pre-Covid, we’d focus on writing two minute bangers but we’re realising you need that variety’
Nottingham-based band Cucamaras stomped into 2021 with their aggressive post punk anthem ‘Death of The Social’ and will bring out their next single around July. They comprise Olly Bowley (guitar/vocals), Josh Hart (guitar/vocals), Joe Newton (drums) and Dan McGrath (bass). They took their name from a bar of the ...
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Interview with Lonely Bunker: ‘I’ve always been in punk bands, the melodies are heavily rooted in that’
New York-based singer-songwriter Lonely Bunker gave us his second album 7 Songs, Vol. 1 earlier this month, which sees him move away from his punk roots and embrace his poppier side. Lonely Bunker is the solo project of Jay Stewart, also known as the lead singer and guitar player for skate punk veterans Symphony of ...
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COOL TOP20’s In the spotlight: Jack Francis
by Lean at COOL TOP20 https://cooltop20.com Jack Francis is a Southampton (UK) based Americana/folk singer-songwriter. “I grew up in Southampton, which is on the South coast of the UK. I’ve always enjoyed the local music scene here – there were lots of venues when I was growing up and there still are ...
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Interview with Mulholland Jive: ‘If Muse ever asked me to go on tour with them, I’d die happy’
Cambridge-based funk rock instrumental band Mulholland Jive brought out their EP Intergalactic earlier this month, a magical musical journey through the world of sci-fi. Mulholland Jive's sound can best be described as very piano heavy, with a healthy dose of synths, sax and guitars thrown in, which seems fitting ...
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Interview with Megan Black: ‘I feel like a less cool, female version of David Byrne!’
West Lothian, Scottish singer Megan Black, has put together a new band and has just released a video for last year's single, 'Hang Out Dry'. The track deals with the helplessness of addiction, as the lyrics show: 'The drugs can’t help him no more, no more, no more, no more than I can.' As Black puts it: 'For ...
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