02 – Interviews TEMP

With follow up to ‘Home and the Wild Hunt” imminent, Woodenbox head to the Ironworks on the 25th of November, so we caught with them to talk about the new album and loosing a Fistful of Fivers…   How is the recording of the follow up to ‘Home and the Wild Hunt’ going? The follow up is complete and we received the master today. I am so happy with the result. Its our first full production effort, as we did ‘home and the wild hunt’ ourselves in a college. So this one was a real treat with a few extra … Read more

After interviewing Electric SIx (here) it was clearly amiss of us not to speak to Toby Michaels (aka The Toby Michaels) who will be supporting the band on 23rd of November at The Ironworks. We felt duty bound to right the wrong and catch up with Toby. How does it feel to be supporting Electric Six? Its an incredible high for me, a seasoned and fun band, still bringing their music to the world after so many people wrote them off as a “one/two hit wonder”. Its a great feeling to be getting acknowledged by my pears too in getting … Read more

Red Sky July play Mad Hatters on the 16th of November Red Sky July are more than the sum of the parts indeed judging the band by preconceptions based on Ally McErlain  his wife Shelly Poole,  and Charity Hair ‘s previous music will lead you to the wrong pathway completely. The Americana/ country band have recently released their debut album and they were nice enough to respond to a few questions… Given the success that you have had as individuals , with that can bring advantages and disadvantages, how do you think that impacts on Red Sky July? The advantages … Read more

Following a successful gig at The Ironworks recently (see here) Christina Tatlow caught up with the The Sound of Guns…. The Sounds of Guns are a relatively new Alternative/Rock band  with their stereotypical leather fuelled rock persona and majority of the band having long hair – would be easy to pass them off as an imitation! However this is clearly not the case having supported bands such as The View, Delphic and The Courteeners. The band was formed  due to Simon’s (drummer) ambitions to carry on musically with Andy (lead singer) after a previous band failed subsequently meeting Nathan (guitar). … Read more

With their 3rd EP released in a few days, and a gig at Mad Hatters on the 20th of October, we caught up with the band to talk about the album, their plans and experiences of previous trips up North. You describe your genre as “indie pop”, how does that present itself in your music and how has the sound of the band evolved over the time since your formation ? It’s mainly a generic answer to a generic question, really – I’m still not completely convinced what it is, I’ve heard various takes on it; ‘indie-pop’, ‘indie-rock’, ‘country/folk-rock’. Some … Read more

With the forth coming Supper Club weekend coming next month (see article here), we manage to catch up with Ruth Fisher the organiser of Jazz Space to ask her about the concept, the line- up and a few other bits and pieces….   Can you tell us about the idea behind Jazz Space? Initially I was approached by Merkinch Community Centre,The Development Director  (Elsie Normington), who wanted to respond to a demand from people in the community who wanted to dance, to live music and remember the eras of the big bands and swing and have nowhere like that to … Read more

Munich play Madhatters  on the 15th of October as part of their “Into the Rain” tour. We catch hold of Slade from the band and almost get too much information…. You have been very positive about your time recording the forthcoming album; can you tell us what should we be expecting from the new material? Since moving in to our haunted house together, it has enabled us to be very focused and surrounded by music all day every day. Having built our own studio down in the cellar, this gives us the perfect opportunity to spend lots of time writing … Read more

Highland Hotclub has very recently started playing at the new Blue Note Nite. We were lucky enough top speak to them about the the night, the band and future plans. What is the history of Highland Hotclub? Stephen McKeand…… I am obsessed with all things guitar and it seems anyone who is anyone has been influenced directly or indirectly by Django Reindhart. So, it was inevitable I should seek out his work. Django took the New Orleans Jazz of Louis Armstrong & fused this with Parisian musettes and European folk music to create Gypsy Jazz. When you first hear these … Read more