November 10, 2025 • 24 mins
There’s something beautiful about a guitar line that smiles while the lyric aches — that’s the trick Autocamper pulls off again and again. The Manchester band’s debut What Do You Do All Day? shimmers with that mix of brightness and bruising honesty.
Their story feels fittingly accidental: friends of friends, a project that almost happened, and finally a pub meeting that did. Out of that came a lineup stitched from deep-house childhoods, folk-festival summers, and an indie-pop instinct that just feels right. The result is a sound that breathes — light, melodic, a little dreamy, and grounded in real feeling.
When we talk about writing without irony, Jack laughs — it’s harder than it sounds. He writes from feeling first, letting words find their place once the music starts to move. Songs might begin as rough acoustic sketches or on a laptop at 2 a.m., but they only really live once the band’s in a room together. Everyone adds something different: the drummer’s electronic sensibility, the little melodic turns, the patience to leave space. It’s what makes the album flow the way it does — shifting vocals, thoughtful pacing, and hooks that sneak up on you later.
The reactions have been wild — singalongs in Glasgow, thoughtful notes from fans, and the odd review that missed the point entirely. That last one kicked off a bigger chat about how we listen, how we care, and why honest fanzines still matter.
At the heart of it all is sincerity. Autocamper’s not chasing cleverness or cool detachment — they’re after connection. And as they look ahead, they’re set on moving forward, not repeating themselves. The goal: keep it real, keep it human, keep it melodic.
If you like your indie rock with heart and a hint of ache, start here.
Spin the record, find your moment, and if it hits — tell someone. That’s how good music travels.
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colleyc (00:37):
Here we are, folks.
Season six, ifitibeyourwillpodcast.
I like to reach across thepond, and I have a lot of
ancestry, so I think I have aspecial place, has a special
place in my heart over in theUK.
And I'm heading into Manchestertoday, and I'm pulling in Auto
camper.
Auto Camper just put a newrecord out.
(01:01):
Great title.
What do you do all day?
Question mark.
That's a very good question.
We'll ponder a bit of that.
But I'm super excited to talkwith them.
This is kind of uh they'resuper jangly and indie and uh uh
shit.
We'll throw some psych in thereas well because they have a few
songs that are pretty darntrippy, which I love.
(01:22):
So, guys, thanks so much forhopping on here and sharing a
little bit about uh you guys andyour band and your music and uh
how it all came to be.
Yeah, well, I listened to therecord one time through, and I'm
like, these guys, I gotta talkto them.
(01:42):
It's like what are they whathave they done here with this
record?
And then it was the firstintroduction I had to Auto
Camper, but I then went back inand started to dive around a
little bit more, and it was justoh it's beautiful.
Just love it.
So where did all this start,guys?
So this record that just cameout like you have other
(02:07):
recordings that came out.
How did Auto Camper come to be?
I guess is my question.
Like what were thecircumstances or the run-ins or
the that that brought you towhere you are right now me and
Jack and Ariel Yeah and you Idon't think you actually watched
(02:30):
them.
Autocamper (02:30):
I think you spent the whole time outside.
Yeah, we met then throughpeople with my friends and then
started a band that neverhappened.
And then decided we needed somemore people.
So we met Neve.
colleyc (02:49):
Guys, it's really hard to hear you.
Autocamper (02:53):
Well that that'll be my computer making loud noises.
Oh my god.
colleyc (02:59):
What did we go I don't but carry on?
I can hear you now.
Autocamper (03:03):
Oh no.
So we met Neve.
No, where did we meet?
It was on the website.
We met Neve on an internetwebsite, but not a dating
website.
And then we arranged to go fora drink in a pub, and I was
going to a geek across the road.
There was an umbrellas concertor a band that are on
(03:23):
Slumberland Records.
And then Sorry, Harry'schewing.
You met R I met Arthur that Imet Arthur that same night after
me and Harry met Neve.
But Neam and Harry didn't go tothat concert, which levels out
me not watching the Oriel'sattack.
colleyc (03:43):
And like was there an an automatic kind of chemistry
that you guys felt with what youguys like to listen to and kind
of grew up listening to?
Autocamper (03:55):
Yeah, I'd say so.
Like we we all had similarinfluences.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't know.
I didn't think we grow uplistening to any of this kind of
music.
So I just stumbled into whatwas the music you grew up
listening to?
colleyc (04:12):
Curious.
Autocamper (04:14):
It was all like like deep house and techno, because
my dad was a DJ.
So that was all like all thatwas on in the house when I was
growing up.
Whoa.
So uh yeah, that was uh yeah, Ikind of found found my own way
with that.
Well I'm glad I'm glad tolisten to that.
colleyc (04:33):
Yep.
Do you like how did theevolution then like how did you
get to kind of more toppy,jangly, indie?
Like, what was the gateway thatbrought you into deciding,
okay, yeah, let's let's make aband around this style of music,
even though that it's somethingthat you might not be all that
(04:53):
familiar with.
Autocamper (04:55):
I think that's what me and Harry kind of like bonded
on when we were talking aboutbands, because it was like there
was a band called Perspect fromfrom Leagues that we both knew
of, and that we were both like,yeah, I like them, and then the
pastels was the other one.
Yeah, right.
So that's why we uh initiallydid that.
The twee stuff at thebeginning.
(05:17):
Right.
colleyc (05:18):
And and Jack, what about like what what were you
writing like how did music startto come into your into your
purview?
Like what what was it thatstarted you thinking, yeah, I I
I want to write songs and be ina band and perform for people
and release records?
Like, when did that seed startto sprout inside you?
Autocamper (05:41):
It's probably been like since before I can
remember.
Like when I were a kid, musicwas just about a lot.
Like my nan used to take me tofolk festivals.
And I've always just like mydad was quite like open-minded
with how like I interact withmusic, I think, when I was a
(06:02):
kid.
So he'd play stuff like he'dhe'd just play stuff on the
radio or he'd play stuff justrandomly.
And if I liked it, he'd keepplaying it and stuff like that.
So like I it's and a lot ofthose bands that I listened to
when I was like three or fourare still bands that I really
like now.
And it's weird because I sortof like I found myself
(06:22):
gravitating towards things thatthey are without kind of
consciously doing that when Ilook for stuff.
If I'm kind of looking for newthings to listen to, if that
makes any sense.
Totally.
I get it, man.
colleyc (06:35):
That's I I like it.
I like the the path that youguys are weaving.
Well, there's several reviewsthat mention this sense of I
don't know, a bit of silliness,melancholy in your songs.
When you're writing, are youconsciously trying to capture
those quiet moments in life?
Like, where did the inspirationfor these songs emerge from in
(06:59):
the process of writing writingthem or going, you know, write
putting an album together?
Where does the feeling comefrom?
Yeah, like I was kind of likedoing a deeper dive into the
lyrics of and looking at some ofthe reviews of the record.
And there's this, you know,this this there's this
subtleness to like everydaymoments in life, and then how
(07:22):
you guys kind of turn them ortwist them a little bit.
How do you approach writing thelyrics and where are they
inspired from most of the time?
Autocamper (07:33):
It it's kind of like, I don't know, it's not a
case of me thinking about whatI'm actually.
I don't sit down and go likeI'm gonna write a song about
this.
Right.
It's just kind of like how I'mfeeling at that moment, and then
it'll all kind of come outwhile I'm making the music
happen as well, or like makingthe initial song structures
happen.
But but ladies can be verycruel can be very cruel, and I
(07:57):
don't like paying council tax.
Right.
So there are two things thatmake me very sad, and and that
comes out in the music.
Most of my songs are about sadthings happening
relationship-wise.
So I think it's just it's justlike it's just about being
sincere with what you'reexperiencing.
(08:19):
I think we've always had thiskind of fim in with like
sincerity and kind of avoidingirony or that's the one we've
said from the start.
Yeah, it's always been kind ofa driving force of our
friendship in general, really.
Yeah, definitely.
Like just kind of being honestwith what's going on and what
(08:39):
you're doing and what you'recreating.
It's important to just behonest and yeah, uh like put
your bollocks behind it in away, kind of like you know, have
a bit of a and if they getkicked, they get kicked hard.
Mainly by mainly by me andlady.
colleyc (08:57):
Oh the trauma is coming out here.
And do you find that it'seasier to write songs about you
know the gut-wrenching issuesthat we experience in life more
so than because I mean therecord is very light in the
(09:21):
sense that it I when I listen toit personally, I kind of feel
uh happy and uplifted and likeare you are you trying to play
those two where the music that'suh that's uh accompanying the
lyrics are kind of in differentthoughts in your mind?
Autocamper (09:40):
I think I think it's in it's in the same spot for me
anyway.
But writing the music musicoutside because it's like it's
kind of it's not like a sadness,it's like a wistfulness.
Yeah, then it so it kind ofit's it's that thing about like
you might be sad, but you'restill experiencing things and
you're still living.
(10:01):
Yeah.
I'm not really, yeah, I'm notreally going for like woe is me,
or sort of like oh the boy betthe girl and now the boy is sad
because the girl likes anotherboy or you know, killed the dog
of the boy or whatever.
But it's more like um like froma listening perspective, a lot
(10:21):
of kind of like happy songs orcertain melodies or things in
production of songs will make mefeel a very strong emotion.
And I think that's kind of whatI aim for.
Like, and it's it's hard toexplain, like it's not something
you can put into words.
I think it's just like it it'sjust music, and like wistful's a
(10:41):
good way of putting it, becauseit's like you'll hear something
maybe like even like ambientmusic, there's there's things in
every kind of bit of music thatmight just kind of set off that
little trigger in your head andyou just kind of like get all
fizzy, you know.
Yeah, it's like when peopleit's not that fizzy.
It's good.
That's that's sweet.
I'm glad that my pain andsuffering could do something
(11:03):
like be like water.
Again again.
Yeah, I I'd like to think thatour music gives people a similar
kind of vibe to like, you know,when like teenagers listen to
videos of dogs licking yogurtpots to go to sleep, stuff like
(11:25):
that.
I'd like I'd like people to I'dlike people to get that out of
it.
colleyc (11:32):
And how did how did you guys assemble this this this
latest record?
How did it come to be?
Was this a collection of songsthat you guys sat down and
created together?
Or Jack, are you bringing inmost of the the the finished
song?
Or like how does the band getfrom an idea to actually okay,
(11:52):
let's put this down on tape?
Autocamper (11:54):
I kind of half-arse it with a with an acoustic
guitar or whatever, until itgoes into the room and then
everyone sort of kicks it about,and that's when it becomes a
song.
Right.
It's kind of collaborative asfar as that goes.
Right.
colleyc (12:09):
Right.
And and do you find that eachperson brings I mean, I guess
it's a pretty obvious question,but I'm gonna flush it out
anyway.
Do you find that each musicianbrings their own, like you were
mentioning that you know, youused to your dad was a DJ, and
you know, like that's what yougrew up listening to?
Like, does do you see thosekinds of influences seep in
(12:31):
through members of the band tokind of create this kind of
unique sound that you get?
Autocamper (12:38):
Yeah, definitely.
Arthur's got like Arthur thedrummer's got his own sort of
like way of bringing a demo tous in so much as like he creates
it as a as a song on his laptopin a sort of like electronic
format.
Right.
And then we reinterpret it.
Neve's got a very particularstyle of of writing.
(12:58):
Right.
Um and she's got her own vibeto it, and and Harry is I'll let
you explain yourself.
Explain yourself, yes.
Yeah, no, I tell us aboutyourself, yeah.
Accent and thing.
Right.
Uh he's he's very good, he'sunderselling himself, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's nice.
(13:19):
I think I had one song whichwe'll never see the light day.
Yeah.
Uh but yeah, I kind of I kindof retreated on writing.
I think I'm there at justputting finishing touches on the
people's stuff.
colleyc (13:35):
Right, right.
Well, I'm sure it's far morethan that, but your subtlety in
answers is very nice.
He's a gentleman.
Yes, absolutely.
Well, all I mean Manchesterthat's what they produce, is
gentlemen, correct?
Autocamper (13:52):
No, no, definitely not.
Not anymore, not anymore.
Maybe in the late in the late1800s, yeah, yeah, sure.
Yeah.
The Industrial Revolution was agreat time that made many many
men very rich.
colleyc (14:09):
Record July.
Around the beginning of theyear.
Yeah, yeah.
Autocamper (14:18):
The record it's been good.
I I think it's it's always hardto to kind of gauge how people
are liking it, because there's alot of times where people will
come up to you and go, Oh yeah,I love the new album.
I'm sure whether they're beingserious or they're just saying
(14:38):
it to your face.
That might be quite cynical,but I feel like everyone's
really enjoyed it.
Like even like friends and Iguess people whose opinion that
I care about.
Yeah, have really liked it.
And I think that's like a verytelling kind of thing.
Yeah, sure.
So I've got wind.
(14:58):
There it goes, there it goes.
Sorry about that.
Yeah, like yeah, just echo whatwhat what Ari said really, in
so much as like when there arepeople's opinions that like I
know they're being honest, itmeans a lot.
It's nice.
It's nice.
I don't like bad reviewsthough.
Bad reviews are mean I think Ithink there was a guy in Uncut
(15:22):
who who reviewed us and gave usa six out of ten.
And he he only mentioned otherbands in the review.
Yeah.
I think there was like sixother bands in the review.
Yeah.
And then gave us a six out often.
And they were all crackingbands as well.
Yeah, yeah.
Right, right.
I was just I thought that waskind of hilarious.
We get, yeah, that's the kindof one thing that drives on me a
(15:43):
bit.
It's all that seems to happenin a lot of reviews that are
bigger reviews are just we getcompared to a lot of other
bands.
Right.
Whereas like in smaller reviewsor fanzines or something like
people really care about whatthey're writing about, then they
really find something in it,and that can be where most of
like the the sort of like, oh,you didn't know you'd done
something that like that tosomeone sort of thing comes
(16:06):
from.
Yeah.
But yeah, it's just kind oflike, yeah, I don't like
laziness.
colleyc (16:10):
Yeah.
Autocamper (16:11):
But a lot of time on that album and uh yeah.
colleyc (16:15):
And I mean, have you guys have toured with this
record a little bit?
Like have you done some shows?
Autocamper (16:21):
Yeah, we started toured it from the day it came
out for like a week and a bit.
Okay.
And then we sort of took we'vetaken the gas off um the last
sort of like two months.
Okay, okay.
colleyc (16:35):
And is like what's coming down the pipe for you
guys?
So we're you know almost done2025, 2026 is around the corner.
What can fans and listenerslook forward to with autocapper?
Autocamper (16:49):
Um we're gonna go to the new world, we're gonna get
on an aeroplane, um, we're gonnago to the continent, to Europe,
to do many things that would beillegal in England.
Like not cueing.
Yeah, like not cue out.
Yeah.
Smoking banana skins in thesmoking.
(17:11):
Smoking indoors, yeah.
I've I've got right yeah, we'regonna be smoking indoors,
that's what we're gonna bedoing.
That's the that's the answer toyour question.
And smoke, will you maybe playa tune or two?
I don't know if people payingthese enough money, yeah.
colleyc (17:30):
Have you noticed have you noticed that the shows that
people are warm to the songs,like they they recognize them,
or you know, every now and thenfan like singing along with you
guys?
Like getting to that pointwhere where you can start to see
the influence that the record'shaving on a population that you
might not be familiar with.
Autocamper (17:51):
There was a guy in we played a game in Newcastle,
and there was a guy we laterfound out is Peter from the
Nibums, who's like an old C87band, I believe.
Yeah and he he he knew a lot ofthe words to the songs, and
that was kind of that was thatwas kind of cool.
Yeah, Glasgow was really kindof I had yeah, a lot of people
(18:14):
in Glasgow.
I had Fraser McCallum barkingthe words back at me every time
I looked at him, it wasbrilliant.
And the and the album had onlybeen out for two days at that
point as well.
Like it's been a learner.
That's dedication, yeah.
Like I'd like to dedicate thispodcast occurrence to Braven.
colleyc (18:31):
There you go.
And when you guys kind of lookto the next the next record or
the next EP or single orwhatever, like are you guys
looking at extending the soundthat you've created already with
the latest record, or are youguys looking at also like okay,
let's let's get a little bitmore of that house action in
(18:53):
there, or let's you know try tobring in this or that like are
you guys seeing how you want togo after the next record in a in
a different way, or do you wantto follow the same vein that
you started with with thisrecord?
Autocamper (19:08):
Probably, probably something different.
No, yeah.
I don't I don't think we haveany interest in repeating
ourselves.
Yeah, I think that's like quitean important thing.
We've not really I think we'regetting to the point now where
we might start sitting down andthinking about that and writing
and stuff like that.
But as far as I'm concerned,like having thought about it for
(19:30):
a few weeks, it is like I wantthings to be better, different
than better.
There's no point in doing thesecond thing that's kind of what
a lot of bands do now, and I'mbored of it.
Right.
colleyc (19:45):
Yeah.
Well, I just want to say that Ithink that uh what do you do
all day is a really greatrecord.
And I answer that question withwell, I listen to Auto Camper,
of course, because it's it'sreally a great record through
and through.
I really love the sequencing ofthe songs that you guys put
together.
Like I find they flow superwell one into the next.
(20:06):
And the variety, like theshifting of the singing, of the
vocals, and like there's so muchhappening, it's so much fun to
go back and revisit becausethere's a lot of subtleties in
there that you might not getafter even three or four
listens.
So I I just want to say thatit's a really great record that
(20:27):
you guys put out.
And this has been really funtalking with you guys, uh the
Catholic characters for sure.
And I'm I definitely encourageour European brothers and
sisters to go and check you guysout, get a t-shirt if sell them
a record, go and say theseguys, you know, buy them a
(20:49):
drink, support these guys.
They're doing some really coolstuff, and check out the record
uh they just put out over thesummer.
Guys, I wish you all the best.
Thanks so much for taking a bitof time and joining me on you
guys in the future and me in thepast.
It's been a real treat, sothank you.
Yeah, we'll look out here in afew hours.
(21:09):
Yeah, I'll catch up eventually.
All right, guys.
Cheers to you and all the best.
Here we are, folks.
Season six, ifitibeyourwillpodcast.
I like to reach across thepond, and I have a lot of
ancestry, so I think I have aspecial place, has a special
place in my heart over in theUK.
And I'm heading into Manchestertoday, and I'm pulling in Auto
camper.
Auto Camper just put a newrecord out.
(01:01):
Great title.
What do you do all day?
Question mark.
That's a very good question.
We'll ponder a bit of that.
But I'm super excited to talkwith them.
This is kind of uh they'resuper jangly and indie and uh uh
shit.
We'll throw some psych in thereas well because they have a few
songs that are pretty darntrippy, which I love.
(01:22):
So, guys, thanks so much forhopping on here and sharing a
little bit about uh you guys andyour band and your music and uh
how it all came to be.
Yeah, well, I listened to therecord one time through, and I'm
like, these guys, I gotta talkto them.
(01:42):
It's like what are they whathave they done here with this
record?
And then it was the firstintroduction I had to Auto
Camper, but I then went back inand started to dive around a
little bit more, and it was justoh it's beautiful.
Just love it.
So where did all this start,guys?
So this record that just cameout like you have other
(02:07):
recordings that came out.
How did Auto Camper come to be?
I guess is my question.
Like what were thecircumstances or the run-ins or
the that that brought you towhere you are right now me and
Jack and Ariel Yeah and you Idon't think you actually watched
(02:30):
them.
Autocamper (02:30):
I think you spent the whole time outside.
Yeah, we met then throughpeople with my friends and then
started a band that neverhappened.
And then decided we needed somemore people.
So we met Neve.
colleyc (02:49):
Guys, it's really hard to hear you.
Autocamper (02:53):
Well that that'll be my computer making loud noises.
Oh my god.
colleyc (02:59):
What did we go I don't but carry on?
I can hear you now.
Autocamper (03:03):
Oh no.
So we met Neve.
No, where did we meet?
It was on the website.
We met Neve on an internetwebsite, but not a dating
website.
And then we arranged to go fora drink in a pub, and I was
going to a geek across the road.
There was an umbrellas concertor a band that are on
(03:23):
Slumberland Records.
And then Sorry, Harry'schewing.
You met R I met Arthur that Imet Arthur that same night after
me and Harry met Neve.
But Neam and Harry didn't go tothat concert, which levels out
me not watching the Oriel'sattack.
colleyc (03:43):
And like was there an an automatic kind of chemistry
that you guys felt with what youguys like to listen to and kind
of grew up listening to?
Autocamper (03:55):
Yeah, I'd say so.
Like we we all had similarinfluences.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't know.
I didn't think we grow uplistening to any of this kind of
music.
So I just stumbled into whatwas the music you grew up
listening to?
colleyc (04:12):
Curious.
Autocamper (04:14):
It was all like like deep house and techno, because
my dad was a DJ.
So that was all like all thatwas on in the house when I was
growing up.
Whoa.
So uh yeah, that was uh yeah, Ikind of found found my own way
with that.
Well I'm glad I'm glad tolisten to that.
colleyc (04:33):
Yep.
Do you like how did theevolution then like how did you
get to kind of more toppy,jangly, indie?
Like, what was the gateway thatbrought you into deciding,
okay, yeah, let's let's make aband around this style of music,
even though that it's somethingthat you might not be all that
(04:53):
familiar with.
Autocamper (04:55):
I think that's what me and Harry kind of like bonded
on when we were talking aboutbands, because it was like there
was a band called Perspect fromfrom Leagues that we both knew
of, and that we were both like,yeah, I like them, and then the
pastels was the other one.
Yeah, right.
So that's why we uh initiallydid that.
The twee stuff at thebeginning.
(05:17):
Right.
colleyc (05:18):
And and Jack, what about like what what were you
writing like how did music startto come into your into your
purview?
Like what what was it thatstarted you thinking, yeah, I I
I want to write songs and be ina band and perform for people
and release records?
Like, when did that seed startto sprout inside you?
Autocamper (05:41):
It's probably been like since before I can
remember.
Like when I were a kid, musicwas just about a lot.
Like my nan used to take me tofolk festivals.
And I've always just like mydad was quite like open-minded
with how like I interact withmusic, I think, when I was a
(06:02):
kid.
So he'd play stuff like he'dhe'd just play stuff on the
radio or he'd play stuff justrandomly.
And if I liked it, he'd keepplaying it and stuff like that.
So like I it's and a lot ofthose bands that I listened to
when I was like three or fourare still bands that I really
like now.
And it's weird because I sortof like I found myself
(06:22):
gravitating towards things thatthey are without kind of
consciously doing that when Ilook for stuff.
If I'm kind of looking for newthings to listen to, if that
makes any sense.
Totally.
I get it, man.
colleyc (06:35):
That's I I like it.
I like the the path that youguys are weaving.
Well, there's several reviewsthat mention this sense of I
don't know, a bit of silliness,melancholy in your songs.
When you're writing, are youconsciously trying to capture
those quiet moments in life?
Like, where did the inspirationfor these songs emerge from in
(06:59):
the process of writing writingthem or going, you know, write
putting an album together?
Where does the feeling comefrom?
Yeah, like I was kind of likedoing a deeper dive into the
lyrics of and looking at some ofthe reviews of the record.
And there's this, you know,this this there's this
subtleness to like everydaymoments in life, and then how
(07:22):
you guys kind of turn them ortwist them a little bit.
How do you approach writing thelyrics and where are they
inspired from most of the time?
Autocamper (07:33):
It it's kind of like, I don't know, it's not a
case of me thinking about whatI'm actually.
I don't sit down and go likeI'm gonna write a song about
this.
Right.
It's just kind of like how I'mfeeling at that moment, and then
it'll all kind of come outwhile I'm making the music
happen as well, or like makingthe initial song structures
happen.
But but ladies can be verycruel can be very cruel, and I
(07:57):
don't like paying council tax.
Right.
So there are two things thatmake me very sad, and and that
comes out in the music.
Most of my songs are about sadthings happening
relationship-wise.
So I think it's just it's justlike it's just about being
sincere with what you'reexperiencing.
(08:19):
I think we've always had thiskind of fim in with like
sincerity and kind of avoidingirony or that's the one we've
said from the start.
Yeah, it's always been kind ofa driving force of our
friendship in general, really.
Yeah, definitely.
Like just kind of being honestwith what's going on and what
(08:39):
you're doing and what you'recreating.
It's important to just behonest and yeah, uh like put
your bollocks behind it in away, kind of like you know, have
a bit of a and if they getkicked, they get kicked hard.
Mainly by mainly by me andlady.
colleyc (08:57):
Oh the trauma is coming out here.
And do you find that it'seasier to write songs about you
know the gut-wrenching issuesthat we experience in life more
so than because I mean therecord is very light in the
(09:21):
sense that it I when I listen toit personally, I kind of feel
uh happy and uplifted and likeare you are you trying to play
those two where the music that'suh that's uh accompanying the
lyrics are kind of in differentthoughts in your mind?
Autocamper (09:40):
I think I think it's in it's in the same spot for me
anyway.
But writing the music musicoutside because it's like it's
kind of it's not like a sadness,it's like a wistfulness.
Yeah, then it so it kind ofit's it's that thing about like
you might be sad, but you'restill experiencing things and
you're still living.
(10:01):
Yeah.
I'm not really, yeah, I'm notreally going for like woe is me,
or sort of like oh the boy betthe girl and now the boy is sad
because the girl likes anotherboy or you know, killed the dog
of the boy or whatever.
But it's more like um like froma listening perspective, a lot
(10:21):
of kind of like happy songs orcertain melodies or things in
production of songs will make mefeel a very strong emotion.
And I think that's kind of whatI aim for.
Like, and it's it's hard toexplain, like it's not something
you can put into words.
I think it's just like it it'sjust music, and like wistful's a
(10:41):
good way of putting it, becauseit's like you'll hear something
maybe like even like ambientmusic, there's there's things in
every kind of bit of music thatmight just kind of set off that
little trigger in your head andyou just kind of like get all
fizzy, you know.
Yeah, it's like when peopleit's not that fizzy.
It's good.
That's that's sweet.
I'm glad that my pain andsuffering could do something
(11:03):
like be like water.
Again again.
Yeah, I I'd like to think thatour music gives people a similar
kind of vibe to like, you know,when like teenagers listen to
videos of dogs licking yogurtpots to go to sleep, stuff like
(11:25):
that.
I'd like I'd like people to I'dlike people to get that out of
it.
colleyc (11:32):
And how did how did you guys assemble this this this
latest record?
How did it come to be?
Was this a collection of songsthat you guys sat down and
created together?
Or Jack, are you bringing inmost of the the the finished
song?
Or like how does the band getfrom an idea to actually okay,
(11:52):
let's put this down on tape?
Autocamper (11:54):
I kind of half-arse it with a with an acoustic
guitar or whatever, until itgoes into the room and then
everyone sort of kicks it about,and that's when it becomes a
song.
Right.
It's kind of collaborative asfar as that goes.
Right.
colleyc (12:09):
Right.
And and do you find that eachperson brings I mean, I guess
it's a pretty obvious question,but I'm gonna flush it out
anyway.
Do you find that each musicianbrings their own, like you were
mentioning that you know, youused to your dad was a DJ, and
you know, like that's what yougrew up listening to?
Like, does do you see thosekinds of influences seep in
(12:31):
through members of the band tokind of create this kind of
unique sound that you get?
Autocamper (12:38):
Yeah, definitely.
Arthur's got like Arthur thedrummer's got his own sort of
like way of bringing a demo tous in so much as like he creates
it as a as a song on his laptopin a sort of like electronic
format.
Right.
And then we reinterpret it.
Neve's got a very particularstyle of of writing.
(12:58):
Right.
Um and she's got her own vibeto it, and and Harry is I'll let
you explain yourself.
Explain yourself, yes.
Yeah, no, I tell us aboutyourself, yeah.
Accent and thing.
Right.
Uh he's he's very good, he'sunderselling himself, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's nice.
(13:19):
I think I had one song whichwe'll never see the light day.
Yeah.
Uh but yeah, I kind of I kindof retreated on writing.
I think I'm there at justputting finishing touches on the
people's stuff.
colleyc (13:35):
Right, right.
Well, I'm sure it's far morethan that, but your subtlety in
answers is very nice.
He's a gentleman.
Yes, absolutely.
Well, all I mean Manchesterthat's what they produce, is
gentlemen, correct?
Autocamper (13:52):
No, no, definitely not.
Not anymore, not anymore.
Maybe in the late in the late1800s, yeah, yeah, sure.
Yeah.
The Industrial Revolution was agreat time that made many many
men very rich.
colleyc (14:09):
Record July.
Around the beginning of theyear.
Yeah, yeah.
Autocamper (14:18):
The record it's been good.
I I think it's it's always hardto to kind of gauge how people
are liking it, because there's alot of times where people will
come up to you and go, Oh yeah,I love the new album.
I'm sure whether they're beingserious or they're just saying
(14:38):
it to your face.
That might be quite cynical,but I feel like everyone's
really enjoyed it.
Like even like friends and Iguess people whose opinion that
I care about.
Yeah, have really liked it.
And I think that's like a verytelling kind of thing.
Yeah, sure.
So I've got wind.
(14:58):
There it goes, there it goes.
Sorry about that.
Yeah, like yeah, just echo whatwhat what Ari said really, in
so much as like when there arepeople's opinions that like I
know they're being honest, itmeans a lot.
It's nice.
It's nice.
I don't like bad reviewsthough.
Bad reviews are mean I think Ithink there was a guy in Uncut
(15:22):
who who reviewed us and gave usa six out of ten.
And he he only mentioned otherbands in the review.
Yeah.
I think there was like sixother bands in the review.
Yeah.
And then gave us a six out often.
And they were all crackingbands as well.
Yeah, yeah.
Right, right.
I was just I thought that waskind of hilarious.
We get, yeah, that's the kindof one thing that drives on me a
(15:43):
bit.
It's all that seems to happenin a lot of reviews that are
bigger reviews are just we getcompared to a lot of other
bands.
Right.
Whereas like in smaller reviewsor fanzines or something like
people really care about whatthey're writing about, then they
really find something in it,and that can be where most of
like the the sort of like, oh,you didn't know you'd done
something that like that tosomeone sort of thing comes
(16:06):
from.
Yeah.
But yeah, it's just kind oflike, yeah, I don't like
laziness.
colleyc (16:10):
Yeah.
Autocamper (16:11):
But a lot of time on that album and uh yeah.
colleyc (16:15):
And I mean, have you guys have toured with this
record a little bit?
Like have you done some shows?
Autocamper (16:21):
Yeah, we started toured it from the day it came
out for like a week and a bit.
Okay.
And then we sort of took we'vetaken the gas off um the last
sort of like two months.
Okay, okay.
colleyc (16:35):
And is like what's coming down the pipe for you
guys?
So we're you know almost done2025, 2026 is around the corner.
What can fans and listenerslook forward to with autocapper?
Autocamper (16:49):
Um we're gonna go to the new world, we're gonna get
on an aeroplane, um, we're gonnago to the continent, to Europe,
to do many things that would beillegal in England.
Like not cueing.
Yeah, like not cue out.
Yeah.
Smoking banana skins in thesmoking.
(17:11):
Smoking indoors, yeah.
I've I've got right yeah, we'regonna be smoking indoors,
that's what we're gonna bedoing.
That's the that's the answer toyour question.
And smoke, will you maybe playa tune or two?
I don't know if people payingthese enough money, yeah.
colleyc (17:30):
Have you noticed have you noticed that the shows that
people are warm to the songs,like they they recognize them,
or you know, every now and thenfan like singing along with you
guys?
Like getting to that pointwhere where you can start to see
the influence that the record'shaving on a population that you
might not be familiar with.
Autocamper (17:51):
There was a guy in we played a game in Newcastle,
and there was a guy we laterfound out is Peter from the
Nibums, who's like an old C87band, I believe.
Yeah and he he he knew a lot ofthe words to the songs, and
that was kind of that was thatwas kind of cool.
Yeah, Glasgow was really kindof I had yeah, a lot of people
(18:14):
in Glasgow.
I had Fraser McCallum barkingthe words back at me every time
I looked at him, it wasbrilliant.
And the and the album had onlybeen out for two days at that
point as well.
Like it's been a learner.
That's dedication, yeah.
Like I'd like to dedicate thispodcast occurrence to Braven.
colleyc (18:31):
There you go.
And when you guys kind of lookto the next the next record or
the next EP or single orwhatever, like are you guys
looking at extending the soundthat you've created already with
the latest record, or are youguys looking at also like okay,
let's let's get a little bitmore of that house action in
(18:53):
there, or let's you know try tobring in this or that like are
you guys seeing how you want togo after the next record in a in
a different way, or do you wantto follow the same vein that
you started with with thisrecord?
Autocamper (19:08):
Probably, probably something different.
No, yeah.
I don't I don't think we haveany interest in repeating
ourselves.
Yeah, I think that's like quitean important thing.
We've not really I think we'regetting to the point now where
we might start sitting down andthinking about that and writing
and stuff like that.
But as far as I'm concerned,like having thought about it for
(19:30):
a few weeks, it is like I wantthings to be better, different
than better.
There's no point in doing thesecond thing that's kind of what
a lot of bands do now, and I'mbored of it.
Right.
colleyc (19:45):
Yeah.
Well, I just want to say that Ithink that uh what do you do
all day is a really greatrecord.
And I answer that question withwell, I listen to Auto Camper,
of course, because it's it'sreally a great record through
and through.
I really love the sequencing ofthe songs that you guys put
together.
Like I find they flow superwell one into the next.
(20:06):
And the variety, like theshifting of the singing, of the
vocals, and like there's so muchhappening, it's so much fun to
go back and revisit becausethere's a lot of subtleties in
there that you might not getafter even three or four
listens.
So I I just want to say thatit's a really great record that
(20:27):
you guys put out.
And this has been really funtalking with you guys, uh the
Catholic characters for sure.
And I'm I definitely encourageour European brothers and
sisters to go and check you guysout, get a t-shirt if sell them
a record, go and say theseguys, you know, buy them a
(20:49):
drink, support these guys.
They're doing some really coolstuff, and check out the record
uh they just put out over thesummer.
Guys, I wish you all the best.
Thanks so much for taking a bitof time and joining me on you
guys in the future and me in thepast.
It's been a real treat, sothank you.
Yeah, we'll look out here in afew hours.
(21:09):
Yeah, I'll catch up eventually.
All right, guys.
Cheers to you and all the best.
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