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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I love it, especially the ending. That's really cool. You
kind of don't expect that. The track is called Creature Culture.
The band is Brides, another great band from the UK,
and we are in our number two Newmarrow dose of
Matt Connorton Unleashed and let's see who we have here
via WhatsApp from the band Brides, Hello, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hello, thank you so much for having us on.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Absolutely absolutely okay, So who do we have with us?
Please identify yourselves. Tell us who you are and what
you do in the band.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
So my name is Joe. I do the singing and
play the rhythmsle Hi, Joe.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
My name is Alex, and I play the leads and
to some backing vocals as well.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Okay, and between the two of us we write all
the songs.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Oh, very good. Okay, so Joe and Alex yep, yeah okay,
Well guys, yeah, welcome. It's wonderful to talk with you.
I really like the I really like the EP. I
listened to the whole thing online. And now, how do
you how do you pronounce the title. What's the correct pronunciation?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
It's pronounced letche it's it's milk in Spanish.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Oh, okay, And we.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Started that because I had a roommate who he's got
an absolute phobia of people that drink milk. I'm a
man that likes a little glass of milk every now
and again.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Sure, yeah, I used to come into the room pronouncing that,
but that had a big old pine a leche and
it make his skin cruel. And from there we just
decided that was a good enough name for the album.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
That's funny. I yeah, I used to drink a lot
of milk when I was a kid, and now the
thought of drinking milk is kind of repulsive to me.
But but he had a he had a total phobia
of it. That's funny. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So
I'm really curious to know more about about these songs
and and kind of what your inspirations are. And I'm
glad that I'm talking to the two members who who
write everything because it is so interesting. We're gonna play
(01:54):
after our conversation. We're gonna play. You also asked us
to play We're Out of Gravy, and I also doesn't
but I'm actually going to play two songs at the
end because I'm gonna play that. But I'm also going
to play because you picked it. But there's another song
from the EP that I'm also going to play selfishly
at the end because I love it so much. But
I'll wait till at the end of our conversation ask
you about that song.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
But very excited.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, yeah, no, I love the whole thing. It's so
cool and it's different, you know, It's it's not something
that you tend to hear on the radio. You've You've
got a style and a sound that I think is unique.
But I am curious about I'm curious about influences sonically
because I was reading online I saw I saw both
(02:37):
Weezer and The Wiggles mentioned in the same sentence. I
don't know if that's accurate or not, but I'm very curious.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I mean, with regards to the guitars and the bass,
I think we get a lot of inspiration from bands
like Weezer, my Bloody Valentine.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
The best band of all time that is radio, so.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
A lot of driven guitars from that.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
But lyrically, I mean, we have we don't consider ourselves
a comedy.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Bando I say, but we like we like, we like
funny bit.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
We have fun as well.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
And I think that's what we like about the Wiggles,
the fact that they can turn these just really simple
concepts like a fruit salad into a.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Banger that everyone is screaming.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Yeah, so with Wiggles, with the Dicky's energy.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, yeah, we like we like to think of ourselves
as the Wiggles.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
But for gamers, oh that's great, that's great. And I
so I get a sense too that these songs are
kind of about celebrating individuality and and and uh different
and some of some of that I might be getting
from the song that I haven't mentioned the name of
yet that I love so much that I'm gonna play later.
But and I also kind of get that from the
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cover art too. Uh well, let's start actually, let's start there.
So tell me about the cover art for the EP.
Who drew that and what does it mean.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
The cover art was designed by a very very good
friend of mine, Richie Over at the Institute of Free Design,
and the coverer came about because when we were on holiday,
maybe about four years ago, we got these old beer
boxes and for whatever reason, we.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Played a silly game we turn them into robot heads.
We did it. We were going to throw them away
and I just thought they.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Were there, you know, one day. One day, this piece
of you know, rubbish is going to come.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
In great use. And then we were we were debating
what to do for the album cover. We knew it
was going to be good lecture and I had to
have something milk related. We liked the idea of all
of us.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Riding on the back of a cow, but beyond that
we needed to sort of capture they.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
We had to get like little propters.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
So you know, on the on the cow, we're all
sat on the cow, and then I'm at the front
as well. We all like to do our silly little
poses and to ride a cow.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Yeah, we have a stunt cow to be able to
ride for the reference images, so it's all of us
balancing precariously on an amph We then sent to the
artists and said, can you just do this but pretend
we're on a cow instead, and then yeah. So we
just wanted to get this sense because the album was
quite distorted and quite spacious, so we wanted to get
this sort of grandiose sense to it. And I think
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the easiest way we saw that, combined with the robot head,
is what if there was a huge robot assessing the
cow for whatever the farious reason.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
And I think on perhaps a future release, we might
get a sequel image to that, showing what might happen
next between the robot and the cow.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Okay, okay, I like that idea. Yeah, so I encourage
people who haven't seen it go online and uh and
and check out this cover and yeah, the robot, the
guy with the robot head is holding the cow. I
actually didn't realize it was a cow when I first
looked at it. I had to kind of study it
to even even figure that out. I was like, oh, yeah,
I think that is a cow that they're sitting on. Yeah,
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so that's that's very cool. Do you have You must
have got a lot of questions about the cover, right,
I assume people ask you all the time.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, that was a lot of a lot of people
seem to really be liking it, which is obviously great,
But then the comments to be bad about the cover is.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Yeah, we thought people were just looking at it and think, oh,
that's pretty cool, but people have really wanted to know
the rationale behind it.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I think we're lucky enough.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
To be able to work with a talented.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Artists who did this for us.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
And I mean, we we've got a gig on the
thirteenth September, our next headline show, and for that, the
same person who designed Richie, the same person designed to Cover,
has designed some tarot cards that will be giving out
to the audience members with some of our faces on
them and some artwork relating to the songs. Oh wow,
and we've we've made little milk cartons as well to
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give out and the box yeah yeah, it's got a
little robot head key chain in it and the couple
of sweeties. So yeah, we've we've leaned very hard into
this whole milk and robot thing.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Just look at so many people that come back so
interested in it. Will make the most situation.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I think that's the first time anyone's ever used a
sentence like that on the show. We've leaned very hard
into the milk and robot thing.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I'm honored to be able to bring that to Deer
for you.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
No, I love it that. It is so cool if
you can do something that you know, that that makes
you stand out but also creates this kind of you know,
over time. Because I assume you're a relatively new band.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Right Yeah, yeah, we had our first concert in January
this year.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Ready, Oh yeah, okay, so you're very new. So over time,
you know, as long as you continue to to do
this type of thing with the cover and the you
know and and you know, these concepts, it you know,
a mythology will kind of build around the band, if
that makes sense. And I yeah, yeah, And I think
that's a great thing to have because you know, it
creates interest and it it uh, you know, if if
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you can even pull you know, you might pull some
people in who are just kind of interested in the
image and what does it all mean, and then they
they listen to the music and then they're they're you know,
then they become permanent fans because of the music. But
but yeah, having having something that kind of pulls people in,
I think is a great strategy. And it's and it's underused.
It's it's not something a lot of artists really do.
(08:02):
If anything, a lot of artists try to kind of
fit in with whatever is going on at the time.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
I think there's a big trend towards at the moment,
especially with the big push for marketability on social media
and everything.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
A lot of people put an image.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Of themselves as the cover image because I helped boost
engagement and everything.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Sure, but I don't know, you know, being.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Admirers of the Beatles and Pixies and radiohead bands with
really iconic.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Front images, we just them.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Yeah, we just we just wanted something that lived up
to the scope at least what we thought of the record.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
And I'm really really happy to just come out that well.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah, absolutely so. In terms of the songs themselves, I mean,
are you are you? I mean I kind of might
have been reading into it a little bit. I don't
know what are the songs supposed to be about. I mean,
is there a cohesive theme or is it? Is it
just it seems like you're there's almost these different like
each song almost to me is kind of like its
(08:55):
own character in some sort of story that I don't
quite understand. Again, I don't know if I'm reading too
much into it. Tell me if I am.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
But I really yeah, well definitely they all kind of
they're all like so how we do it is me
and Joe, We like we come up with the songs
like on our own, and then we come together, then
we put them together.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
I give any input or he gives any input back
to me and then.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
But they're all very like individual to us personally, Like
with lyrics, there's a lot of a lot of things
going on.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I think one I think.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
We like to take like quite personal subject matters and
give them a bit of a larger than life persona,
which is which we've done through sort of characterizing each
one of these songs. I mean, one of our tracks,
Common Inferno, is all about two clones who fall in
love with each other and face the consequences for that.
Rebecca's about an angel that likes to have a bit
of a drink. And they're all based on people we
(09:48):
know really in real life who have had big influences
on us.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Yeah, and we've.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Dressed them up enough.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
So that those people don't necessarily know we're singing about them.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Well, now I'm curious, has anyone ever come to you
and said or ask you is that song about me?
Or did I have anything to do with inspiring that song?
Is that happened?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Unfortunately, we will be shot by a couple of people,
but I will say every person we have ever met
called Rebecca and the people at Home another one of
about tracts called Rebecca, everybody we've ever met named Rebecca
has reached out and said, oh my god, I can't
believe you wrote this song about me. I started off
denying it, saying, oh no, it's unrelated, but in the
end they just thought, oh, well, they're going to listen
to it.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah, of course it's about you. We're honored that you
let us write this about you.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
We aim for a sold out gig just with people
named Rebecca there.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
That would be great. That would be great. So the
album sounds really good. Where do you guys record?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
We recorded in two different studios. We did the drums
in a place called Arc which we've had a lot
of experience with recording there.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
But then for the rest of the track of the
guitars and bass and vocals and all the fun little
sounds you're in the background, we recorded at Brier Street
Studios in Liverpoo newer studio, but it was absolutely fantastic,
had a really really good atmosphere and energy. The owner
was super, super nice, and we were lucky enough to
work with just the best producer in the world, Rory Balz.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
And he taught me how to make coffee there as well.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
He did he thought you had to make a proper coffee.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Yeah, had a scream properly into the mic without clipping it.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
We were We've been really really lucky.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
To work with the people we have, especially like there's
a distortion layer on Common Inferno as well, like just
working that for ages as well, just just being able
to just blast that and.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Just yeah, get it perfect.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
If you're listen carefully, you'll find a lot of the
distortion layers are just Alex screaming into his guitar pickups feedback.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Really yeah, yeah, yeah, so I'd like tune it so
it's so it's in key and then just like scream
into it, run around the room, smash it on the
wall or something, and then.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Just try and get as much as many mangled sounds
as were good.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
That's interesting. That's interesting.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Took some perfecting to get right, but we got there
in the end.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
And then a lot of the little background sounds on Monsters,
this was again we were lucky to work with Rory,
who's been game for anything.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
He if you listen in the right headphone, nice.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
And quiet, he delivers a speech about an evil monster
destroying reality that took a lot of time to get
right because we were all just you know, wetting ourselves
laughing through it.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
But that's when we were kind of like we were
linking in that robot theme.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, yeah, again, trying to bring it all back together.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
So I mean to go back to an earlier question,
I think the common theme of the release is just
sort of desperation, not in the negative sense, not in
a sad sense, but I feel.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Especially when you're younger, you're just in such a.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Hurry to get everything done because you feel at the
time slipping away from you and whether that relates to you,
you know, getting into a relationship that might not be
the best just because it's the most comfortable thing, or
going a bit crazy on the old on the old.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Beverroonies for a week or two.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Yeah, is that sort of annic behind it, And I
think we've tried to capture that, and as I say,
take the Wiggles inspiration as well and make it a
bit fun.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
I'm curious, when you write these songs, do they do
they end up? Do any of these, for example, on
this EP, did any of them come out differently in
a significant way than than what you had in mind
or expected when you went in.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Yeah, so definitely, because me and Job that we've been
writing them for like two two and a half years
to two and a half years, we'll say. But we
initially had like a full horn section the way we
wanted to.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
Incorporate into it.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Really I did think it was Yeah, we did get
a trumpet in. Yeah, well, but I think we just
didn't think it was Bible. Really, it wasn't really the
sound we were going for for this one.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
Maybe later down the line, but for this.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Plus, like we realized probably like a year ago that
it was going to be like, well, I don't know
how you describe it, but it's like punk.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
I think Cozer and James that's sorry. Coz are our
bassis and James our drummer. Joining was a big influence
because we were originally going to go for more of
a jazzier route, but once we got them in the band,
James smashes the kit harder than anyone ever, is amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
He has these thundering basslines.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
So it just sort of pivoted more into sort of
a psychedelic hard rock thing without a lot of effort.
It just sort of came out naturally that way. Yeah,
and specific songwise, I mean, Rebecca used to be one
of our tracks. Rebecca used to be three separate songs
were all perfectly fine.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Yeah, and we just thought they're all right, we don't
have any of them.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
What if we just took the best bits of each
of them, slammed them into each other and it ended
up working right?
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Yeah, similarly as well, Teapot was very different.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, Teapot started very very different.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
That was originally just that riff over and over again.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
But yeah, I think we were having enough over and
over again and same.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
They can't be with us today because they're hugely influential
on the sound of the EP, but they were. They
were a big influence into an impact into why we
sort of went a bit.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Heavier than we intended originally.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Sure, sure, so I'm really curious, who about the live show?
What is the live show?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Like?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I mean, do you do you wear uh you know,
cardboard robot heads or like the show?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Okay, so a lot of the live stow So my
I love singing on stage and I love playing guitar
on stage and running about like a fool.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I hate talking on stage so very very much. I'm
no good it panic frees up.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
So the goal with our sets has always been to
transition from one song into the other as smoothly as possible,
which means for the live show we have quite a
lot of these sort of soundscaping sections. I mean both
they're really good to listen to, and they let us
use off our big fancy pedal boards and our micro
sequences and all that hologram stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
But it's not it's not.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
It is a lot of that.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
But who does put his like big boy pants on
sometimes and does talk to the audience?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Remember, But yeah, all these sound scapes, I mean they
they've worked really well changing.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
And we all we all kind of talk to each
other as well on there as well. But the yeah,
it's just like live shows, just high energy. Joe's running around,
I'm on the floor.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I like coming into the crowd to say who everyone. Yeah,
we like it to feel like everyone is just hanging
out with the band.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
So when we do eventually have to talk, rather than
doing these sort of little speeches, we just like to
have a chat amongst ourselves, have a little laugh, and
people have been responding really well to it.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
We're booking shows across the.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Country at the moment, with more on the way, so
keep an eye out if your fancy coming to watch us,
they will make.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Our way over to you.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Outstanding. I would love that. So you're kind of an
obvious question, but where does the name come from?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Bride's or see, Joe will tell you something. So at
the pub we go to is called the Bride. Well,
that's just the one that me and Joe have always
gone to. And then b I think it came from
the jam or something.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I like to say.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
We were going to be called Grooms, but that had
some some negative connotations.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Okay, so we pivoted the Bride. Yeah. No, we are
named after the pub of the Bride, which.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
We have been drinking in writing songs in since we
moved this city pretty much. Okay, okay, it's a fairly
it's a semi famous pub around Liverpool.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Artist called Frankie goes to Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Oh yes, yes, So the.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Pub originally used to be some rehearsal rooms and that
was the rehearsal rooms where Frankie Goes to Hollywood was formed.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
So there's a little bit of history to it.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
And yeah, it's got a plaque of Frankie up at
the moment, so I'm hoping one day there can be
a plaque a little old me and Alex watching over
all the patrons of the bar.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yeah, and a free point would be nice.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah, yeah, Oh that's cool.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
In America, Frankie Osa Hollywood is best known for the
song Relaxed. That was incredible. That was their huge hit
over here, and I feel like there might have been
one or two others, but that's like the big, big
one that Americans are most familiar with. Oh that's that's cool, I.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Think, yeah, I think that's what made the big over
here as well.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
I would like to say we've got a bit of
Frankie about us, not necessarily musically, but only in the
sense that my hipster be moving around quite a lot
on stage.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
And if I have a bit more confident, I might
whip out the gimp mask. But yes, that's a question.
We do wear.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
We do wear the robot heads anyone one step down from.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
The Okay, okay, maybe save the gip mask for you know,
if you do the show with all the Rebecca's or something.
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
If we ever make it to the US, we'll tell
the Rebecca only show all in gimp mask and you'll
be the guest of honor.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
We assure you I would love that.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I think sounds great. That's a great idea. That's a
great idea. Are you guys playing a lot of shows?
It sounds like you are right you said you're starting
to book shows across the country there.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Yes, So we've got Liverpool headline on the thirteenth, Then
we've got a few more Liverpool shows this year, Manchester
show this.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Year, and then we're moving to London, Glasgow, Sheffield in
early next year. Excellent, and we might start walking to
boys the next EP. Don't tell anyone.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Oh okay, okay. By the way, So I'm always curious
about this what went into the decision to record an EP, because,
as you know, a lot of artists now, especially new artists,
they might just do singles, or they might do a
full album, or they might do an EP. Was there
anything that went into that? Was it just a number
of songs that you had ready or what went into
the decision to make an EP?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Well, I think we have got an album planned like
further down the line. Obviously, it takes a bit more
like for resources and time to fully commit to it.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
And we do have a theme, a proper theme that
we have said.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Yeah, yeah, obviously we do with the EPs, but I mean,
you could be a six song EP, so you I
mean you could get away recording an album, but it's
not like an album to us is it's like a
full journey start to furnish.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
We didn't want to do an album until we were
ready to fully get it, and we didn't want to
do singles only because as you, I mean, you've listened
to the EP, I hope you'd agree that there's it's
quite a varied sound.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
We didn't want to put out any one song that
pigeonholed us.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
We thought we'd put out a good selection that showed
a bit of our range. And also we just have
so many songs. We've got these where the next we'll hopefully.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Be producing another EP within I'm not going to say
how long. I'm getting the look, I can't say how long.
Before long that will include.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Another seven or eight songs which will be combined with
this EP.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
That will be the totality of.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Everything me and Alex wrote together before we hired James
and Cozer.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
So once we have that out the way, we've started
working on the.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
Album and which we were all doing together.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Yeah, Well, obviously they've all come up with their own parts,
but they're all like, we're just jamming the songs from
the start.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Yeah, we working through, working different instruments in. We've got
introduced in the keyboard and Alex has been getting really
good on the saxophone.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Avenue mate so good, so good. Yeah, yeah, neighbors too,
we got we've got mandolin.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah. Even at this show on the thirteenth, we're bringing
in the medoline slide. I'll be ripping a back zoo solo.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
We just want to keep these gigs high energy as
we can.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Yeah, especially for our fans who've been to a lot
of our shows, it's good to keep things fresh for them.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Yeah, definitely, because yeah, because we do a lot of
half of our shows as well, and with the EP
B and six songs, we try to get them all
on and then we might only get time for like
one or two that they haven't sinned. But with dicilms
like an hour and yeah, yeah, so we can fully
we Well it's great, it's a great set.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
But I say so myself, I think so yeah, we
didn't need to go off our range and get more
people interested in company us live where they can see
the rest of our songs.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yeah. Absolutely. Where should people go online? Where's the best
place for people to go to keep up with everything
that you guys are doing.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
The Instagram for sure, The TikTok.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yeah, the Instagram, the TikTok.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
We're on Twitter as well, but sparsely use it, and
we are at that band bride.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
On everything on YouTube, Twitter, TikTok. And speaking of YouTube.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
There is a music video for Creature Culture that will
be dropping at three pm tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Oh, three pm GMT. So got your time?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I do, of course, I know my time conversions off
my heart.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
You did say it with confidence. It sounds like, you know,
so that's good. Look forward to I look forward to
seeing that. That's very cool. Okay. So in a moment,
and I really appreciate you guys joining us today. We're
gonna play oh yeah, absolutely. We're actually gonna play two songs.
But so the first one is the one that you
asked us to play to end the segment, which is
(22:55):
We're out of Gravy. So the obvious question before we've
that one, I want to know, like, is this literally
about running out of gravy or what what is this about?
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Yeah? When I came up with the title.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
It was literally just me running out of gravy when
I was trying to put.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
It on some chicken.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
But then.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Then it kind of it went from there with the
you know, the whole gravy train metaphor and okay.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Just personal things in my in.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
My life, and I was reading I was also reading
the Clockwook Orange as well as what I just finished
reading it. Yeah, and yeah, I just thought I had
the you know that some components there I could put
together just to make make a little tune out of it.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
So yeah, but that brings on to a good point.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Most of our songs are just start tend to start
with the song title we think sounds quite amusing, and
then from there we'll try.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
And base it in some sort of reality.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Interesting, So you start with the title. A lot of
the time, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I helped people to theme, help people the theme. Yeah, yeah,
can help me try and get a more creative Yeah, no, that.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
That makes sense. So we're gonna play that in a moment.
And the one I'm gonna sneak in after that too,
is the one that ends the ep hideous monsters and
the people that love them. I love the song. I
enjoyed the I enjoyed the entire EP, but this one
really really kind of speaks to me and anything we
should know about this one.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
This was written a time in my life when I
started getting back into the dating and.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I had had some it's had some issues about how I.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Looked like, and I just wanted to write a song
for myself that encouraged me to get out there and
see what the world has to.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Offer despite my own reservations.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I just remember I was at work and then Joe
he just sent me a text saying that he's made
a He's made a new one.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
And then I was like, ah, I think I was
a bit tired, and I came around and he got it.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
He'd like recording it on his laptop, just like a
little demo. Yeah, and then yeah, just it all just
started coming from there and I was just super impressed.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
It was.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I think we probably spent.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Maybe seven eight hours just sat in my room in
thirty heat with no windows try to finish that well
oh wow, and then getting Cokocer and James.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
On it as well.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
Just the baseline and the verses on that is it's brilliant.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
From Okay I'm glad you liked that song as well,
because speaking of music.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Videos, oh yes, we are. We are in the process
of recording the video for that one as well.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Oh wow, that's likely to be.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Yeah, my directorial debut will be We're all very proud
of you.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Oh very cool. That is awesome. Okay, okay, well that
is excellent to hear. So we're going to play those
tracks in a moment, so I'll let you, guys go.
Joe and Alex, thank you so much, both of you
for joining us today. This has been wonderful, absolutely absolutely, yes, yes,
and we will do this again in the future, especially
as you're releasing new music. So so we'll have you
(25:49):
back on But guys, thank you again so much, and
we'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Awesome, Thank you today, you got it.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Bye bye, all right, wonderful. So that was Joe and
Alex from the band Brides, and so let's listen to
these again. We're gonna play two of these, so we're
gonna finish well, we're gonna finish the segment with first
with We're Out of Gravy, another great track from the
ep Lecha if I'm saying that correctly, and then We're
also gonna play Hideous Monsters and the People that love them,
(26:15):
partly me just being selfish because I love that song
so much, so we're gonna give those both of these
a spin. And uh. And then if you are listening
live on Saturday, coming up in the third hour, Pulsifier,
a great band from Portland, is gonna be here with
us in studio. So we have a lot left to
go on today's show. But here's a couple of tracks
from Brides and we're gonna play this one next. This
(26:37):
is called We're Out of Gravy.
I love it, especially the ending. That's really cool. You
kind of don't expect that. The track is called Creature Culture.
The band is Brides, another great band from the UK,
and we are in our number two Newmarrow dose of
Matt Connorton Unleashed and let's see who we have here
via WhatsApp from the band Brides, Hello, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hello, thank you so much for having us on.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Absolutely absolutely okay, So who do we have with us?
Please identify yourselves. Tell us who you are and what
you do in the band.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
So my name is Joe. I do the singing and
play the rhythmsle Hi, Joe.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
My name is Alex, and I play the leads and
to some backing vocals as well.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Okay, and between the two of us we write all
the songs.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Oh, very good. Okay, so Joe and Alex yep, yeah okay,
Well guys, yeah, welcome. It's wonderful to talk with you.
I really like the I really like the EP. I
listened to the whole thing online. And now, how do
you how do you pronounce the title. What's the correct pronunciation?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
It's pronounced letche it's it's milk in Spanish.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Oh, okay, And we.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Started that because I had a roommate who he's got
an absolute phobia of people that drink milk. I'm a
man that likes a little glass of milk every now
and again.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Sure, yeah, I used to come into the room pronouncing that,
but that had a big old pine a leche and
it make his skin cruel. And from there we just
decided that was a good enough name for the album.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
That's funny. I yeah, I used to drink a lot
of milk when I was a kid, and now the
thought of drinking milk is kind of repulsive to me.
But but he had a he had a total phobia
of it. That's funny. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So
I'm really curious to know more about about these songs
and and kind of what your inspirations are. And I'm
glad that I'm talking to the two members who who
write everything because it is so interesting. We're gonna play
(01:54):
after our conversation. We're gonna play. You also asked us
to play We're Out of Gravy, and I also doesn't
but I'm actually going to play two songs at the
end because I'm gonna play that. But I'm also going
to play because you picked it. But there's another song
from the EP that I'm also going to play selfishly
at the end because I love it so much. But
I'll wait till at the end of our conversation ask
you about that song.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
But very excited.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, yeah, no, I love the whole thing. It's so
cool and it's different, you know, It's it's not something
that you tend to hear on the radio. You've You've
got a style and a sound that I think is unique.
But I am curious about I'm curious about influences sonically
because I was reading online I saw I saw both
(02:37):
Weezer and The Wiggles mentioned in the same sentence. I
don't know if that's accurate or not, but I'm very curious.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I mean, with regards to the guitars and the bass,
I think we get a lot of inspiration from bands
like Weezer, my Bloody Valentine.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
The best band of all time that is radio, so.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
A lot of driven guitars from that.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
But lyrically, I mean, we have we don't consider ourselves
a comedy.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Bando I say, but we like we like, we like
funny bit.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
We have fun as well.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
And I think that's what we like about the Wiggles,
the fact that they can turn these just really simple
concepts like a fruit salad into a.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Banger that everyone is screaming.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Yeah, so with Wiggles, with the Dicky's energy.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, yeah, we like we like to think of ourselves
as the Wiggles.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
But for gamers, oh that's great, that's great. And I
so I get a sense too that these songs are
kind of about celebrating individuality and and and uh different
and some of some of that I might be getting
from the song that I haven't mentioned the name of
yet that I love so much that I'm gonna play later.
But and I also kind of get that from the
(03:42):
cover art too. Uh well, let's start actually, let's start there.
So tell me about the cover art for the EP.
Who drew that and what does it mean.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
The cover art was designed by a very very good
friend of mine, Richie Over at the Institute of Free Design,
and the coverer came about because when we were on holiday,
maybe about four years ago, we got these old beer
boxes and for whatever reason, we.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Played a silly game we turn them into robot heads.
We did it. We were going to throw them away
and I just thought they.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Were there, you know, one day. One day, this piece
of you know, rubbish is going to come.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
In great use. And then we were we were debating
what to do for the album cover. We knew it
was going to be good lecture and I had to
have something milk related. We liked the idea of all
of us.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Riding on the back of a cow, but beyond that
we needed to sort of capture they.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
We had to get like little propters.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
So you know, on the on the cow, we're all
sat on the cow, and then I'm at the front
as well. We all like to do our silly little
poses and to ride a cow.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Yeah, we have a stunt cow to be able to
ride for the reference images, so it's all of us
balancing precariously on an amph We then sent to the
artists and said, can you just do this but pretend
we're on a cow instead, and then yeah. So we
just wanted to get this sense because the album was
quite distorted and quite spacious, so we wanted to get
this sort of grandiose sense to it. And I think
(05:03):
the easiest way we saw that, combined with the robot head,
is what if there was a huge robot assessing the
cow for whatever the farious reason.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
And I think on perhaps a future release, we might
get a sequel image to that, showing what might happen
next between the robot and the cow.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Okay, okay, I like that idea. Yeah, so I encourage
people who haven't seen it go online and uh and
and check out this cover and yeah, the robot, the
guy with the robot head is holding the cow. I
actually didn't realize it was a cow when I first
looked at it. I had to kind of study it
to even even figure that out. I was like, oh, yeah,
I think that is a cow that they're sitting on. Yeah,
(05:45):
so that's that's very cool. Do you have You must
have got a lot of questions about the cover, right,
I assume people ask you all the time.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, that was a lot of a lot of people
seem to really be liking it, which is obviously great,
But then the comments to be bad about the cover is.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Yeah, we thought people were just looking at it and think, oh,
that's pretty cool, but people have really wanted to know
the rationale behind it.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I think we're lucky enough.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
To be able to work with a talented.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Artists who did this for us.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
And I mean, we we've got a gig on the
thirteenth September, our next headline show, and for that, the
same person who designed Richie, the same person designed to Cover,
has designed some tarot cards that will be giving out
to the audience members with some of our faces on
them and some artwork relating to the songs. Oh wow,
and we've we've made little milk cartons as well to
(06:33):
give out and the box yeah yeah, it's got a
little robot head key chain in it and the couple
of sweeties. So yeah, we've we've leaned very hard into
this whole milk and robot thing.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Just look at so many people that come back so
interested in it. Will make the most situation.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I think that's the first time anyone's ever used a
sentence like that on the show. We've leaned very hard
into the milk and robot thing.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I'm honored to be able to bring that to Deer
for you.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
No, I love it that. It is so cool if
you can do something that you know, that that makes
you stand out but also creates this kind of you know,
over time. Because I assume you're a relatively new band.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Right Yeah, yeah, we had our first concert in January
this year.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Ready, Oh yeah, okay, so you're very new. So over time,
you know, as long as you continue to to do
this type of thing with the cover and the you
know and and you know, these concepts, it you know,
a mythology will kind of build around the band, if
that makes sense. And I yeah, yeah, And I think
that's a great thing to have because you know, it
creates interest and it it uh, you know, if if
(07:40):
you can even pull you know, you might pull some
people in who are just kind of interested in the
image and what does it all mean, and then they
they listen to the music and then they're they're you know,
then they become permanent fans because of the music. But
but yeah, having having something that kind of pulls people in,
I think is a great strategy. And it's and it's underused.
It's it's not something a lot of artists really do.
(08:02):
If anything, a lot of artists try to kind of
fit in with whatever is going on at the time.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
I think there's a big trend towards at the moment,
especially with the big push for marketability on social media
and everything.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
A lot of people put an image.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Of themselves as the cover image because I helped boost
engagement and everything.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Sure, but I don't know, you know, being.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Admirers of the Beatles and Pixies and radiohead bands with
really iconic.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Front images, we just them.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Yeah, we just we just wanted something that lived up
to the scope at least what we thought of the record.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
And I'm really really happy to just come out that well.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah, absolutely so. In terms of the songs themselves, I mean,
are you are you? I mean I kind of might
have been reading into it a little bit. I don't
know what are the songs supposed to be about. I mean,
is there a cohesive theme or is it? Is it
just it seems like you're there's almost these different like
each song almost to me is kind of like its
(08:55):
own character in some sort of story that I don't
quite understand. Again, I don't know if I'm reading too
much into it. Tell me if I am.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
But I really yeah, well definitely they all kind of
they're all like so how we do it is me
and Joe, We like we come up with the songs
like on our own, and then we come together, then
we put them together.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
I give any input or he gives any input back
to me and then.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
But they're all very like individual to us personally, Like
with lyrics, there's a lot of a lot of things
going on.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I think one I think.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
We like to take like quite personal subject matters and
give them a bit of a larger than life persona,
which is which we've done through sort of characterizing each
one of these songs. I mean, one of our tracks,
Common Inferno, is all about two clones who fall in
love with each other and face the consequences for that.
Rebecca's about an angel that likes to have a bit
of a drink. And they're all based on people we
(09:48):
know really in real life who have had big influences
on us.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Yeah, and we've.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Dressed them up enough.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
So that those people don't necessarily know we're singing about them.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Well, now I'm curious, has anyone ever come to you
and said or ask you is that song about me?
Or did I have anything to do with inspiring that song?
Is that happened?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Unfortunately, we will be shot by a couple of people,
but I will say every person we have ever met
called Rebecca and the people at Home another one of
about tracts called Rebecca, everybody we've ever met named Rebecca
has reached out and said, oh my god, I can't
believe you wrote this song about me. I started off
denying it, saying, oh no, it's unrelated, but in the
end they just thought, oh, well, they're going to listen
to it.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah, of course it's about you. We're honored that you
let us write this about you.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
We aim for a sold out gig just with people
named Rebecca there.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
That would be great. That would be great. So the
album sounds really good. Where do you guys record?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
We recorded in two different studios. We did the drums
in a place called Arc which we've had a lot
of experience with recording there.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
But then for the rest of the track of the
guitars and bass and vocals and all the fun little
sounds you're in the background, we recorded at Brier Street
Studios in Liverpoo newer studio, but it was absolutely fantastic,
had a really really good atmosphere and energy. The owner
was super, super nice, and we were lucky enough to
work with just the best producer in the world, Rory Balz.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
And he taught me how to make coffee there as well.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
He did he thought you had to make a proper coffee.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Yeah, had a scream properly into the mic without clipping it.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
We were We've been really really lucky.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
To work with the people we have, especially like there's
a distortion layer on Common Inferno as well, like just
working that for ages as well, just just being able
to just blast that and.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Just yeah, get it perfect.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
If you're listen carefully, you'll find a lot of the
distortion layers are just Alex screaming into his guitar pickups feedback.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Really yeah, yeah, yeah, so I'd like tune it so
it's so it's in key and then just like scream
into it, run around the room, smash it on the
wall or something, and then.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Just try and get as much as many mangled sounds
as were good.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
That's interesting. That's interesting.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Took some perfecting to get right, but we got there
in the end.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
And then a lot of the little background sounds on Monsters,
this was again we were lucky to work with Rory,
who's been game for anything.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
He if you listen in the right headphone, nice.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
And quiet, he delivers a speech about an evil monster
destroying reality that took a lot of time to get
right because we were all just you know, wetting ourselves
laughing through it.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
But that's when we were kind of like we were
linking in that robot theme.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, yeah, again, trying to bring it all back together.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
So I mean to go back to an earlier question,
I think the common theme of the release is just
sort of desperation, not in the negative sense, not in
a sad sense, but I feel.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Especially when you're younger, you're just in such a.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Hurry to get everything done because you feel at the
time slipping away from you and whether that relates to you,
you know, getting into a relationship that might not be
the best just because it's the most comfortable thing, or
going a bit crazy on the old on the old.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Beverroonies for a week or two.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Yeah, is that sort of annic behind it, And I
think we've tried to capture that, and as I say,
take the Wiggles inspiration as well and make it a
bit fun.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
I'm curious, when you write these songs, do they do
they end up? Do any of these, for example, on
this EP, did any of them come out differently in
a significant way than than what you had in mind
or expected when you went in.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Yeah, so definitely, because me and Job that we've been
writing them for like two two and a half years
to two and a half years, we'll say. But we
initially had like a full horn section the way we
wanted to.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
Incorporate into it.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Really I did think it was Yeah, we did get
a trumpet in. Yeah, well, but I think we just
didn't think it was Bible. Really, it wasn't really the
sound we were going for for this one.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
Maybe later down the line, but for this.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Plus, like we realized probably like a year ago that
it was going to be like, well, I don't know
how you describe it, but it's like punk.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
I think Cozer and James that's sorry. Coz are our
bassis and James our drummer. Joining was a big influence
because we were originally going to go for more of
a jazzier route, but once we got them in the band,
James smashes the kit harder than anyone ever, is amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
He has these thundering basslines.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
So it just sort of pivoted more into sort of
a psychedelic hard rock thing without a lot of effort.
It just sort of came out naturally that way. Yeah,
and specific songwise, I mean, Rebecca used to be one
of our tracks. Rebecca used to be three separate songs
were all perfectly fine.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Yeah, and we just thought they're all right, we don't
have any of them.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
What if we just took the best bits of each
of them, slammed them into each other and it ended
up working right?
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Yeah, similarly as well, Teapot was very different.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, Teapot started very very different.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
That was originally just that riff over and over again.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
But yeah, I think we were having enough over and
over again and same.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
They can't be with us today because they're hugely influential
on the sound of the EP, but they were. They
were a big influence into an impact into why we
sort of went a bit.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Heavier than we intended originally.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Sure, sure, so I'm really curious, who about the live show?
What is the live show?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Like?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I mean, do you do you wear uh you know,
cardboard robot heads or like the show?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Okay, so a lot of the live stow So my
I love singing on stage and I love playing guitar
on stage and running about like a fool.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I hate talking on stage so very very much. I'm
no good it panic frees up.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
So the goal with our sets has always been to
transition from one song into the other as smoothly as possible,
which means for the live show we have quite a
lot of these sort of soundscaping sections. I mean both
they're really good to listen to, and they let us
use off our big fancy pedal boards and our micro
sequences and all that hologram stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
But it's not it's not.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
It is a lot of that.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
But who does put his like big boy pants on
sometimes and does talk to the audience?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Remember, But yeah, all these sound scapes, I mean they
they've worked really well changing.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
And we all we all kind of talk to each
other as well on there as well. But the yeah,
it's just like live shows, just high energy. Joe's running around,
I'm on the floor.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I like coming into the crowd to say who everyone. Yeah,
we like it to feel like everyone is just hanging
out with the band.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
So when we do eventually have to talk, rather than
doing these sort of little speeches, we just like to
have a chat amongst ourselves, have a little laugh, and
people have been responding really well to it.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
We're booking shows across the.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Country at the moment, with more on the way, so
keep an eye out if your fancy coming to watch us,
they will make.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Our way over to you.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Outstanding. I would love that. So you're kind of an
obvious question, but where does the name come from?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Bride's or see, Joe will tell you something. So at
the pub we go to is called the Bride. Well,
that's just the one that me and Joe have always
gone to. And then b I think it came from
the jam or something.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I like to say.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
We were going to be called Grooms, but that had
some some negative connotations.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Okay, so we pivoted the Bride. Yeah. No, we are
named after the pub of the Bride, which.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
We have been drinking in writing songs in since we
moved this city pretty much. Okay, okay, it's a fairly
it's a semi famous pub around Liverpool.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Artist called Frankie goes to Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Oh yes, yes, So the.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Pub originally used to be some rehearsal rooms and that
was the rehearsal rooms where Frankie Goes to Hollywood was formed.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
So there's a little bit of history to it.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
And yeah, it's got a plaque of Frankie up at
the moment, so I'm hoping one day there can be
a plaque a little old me and Alex watching over
all the patrons of the bar.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yeah, and a free point would be nice.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah, yeah, Oh that's cool.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
In America, Frankie Osa Hollywood is best known for the
song Relaxed. That was incredible. That was their huge hit
over here, and I feel like there might have been
one or two others, but that's like the big, big
one that Americans are most familiar with. Oh that's that's cool, I.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Think, yeah, I think that's what made the big over
here as well.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
I would like to say we've got a bit of
Frankie about us, not necessarily musically, but only in the
sense that my hipster be moving around quite a lot
on stage.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
And if I have a bit more confident, I might
whip out the gimp mask. But yes, that's a question.
We do wear.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
We do wear the robot heads anyone one step down from.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
The Okay, okay, maybe save the gip mask for you know,
if you do the show with all the Rebecca's or something.
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
If we ever make it to the US, we'll tell
the Rebecca only show all in gimp mask and you'll
be the guest of honor.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
We assure you I would love that.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I think sounds great. That's a great idea. That's a
great idea. Are you guys playing a lot of shows?
It sounds like you are right you said you're starting
to book shows across the country there.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Yes, So we've got Liverpool headline on the thirteenth, Then
we've got a few more Liverpool shows this year, Manchester
show this.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Year, and then we're moving to London, Glasgow, Sheffield in
early next year. Excellent, and we might start walking to
boys the next EP. Don't tell anyone.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Oh okay, okay. By the way, So I'm always curious
about this what went into the decision to record an EP, because,
as you know, a lot of artists now, especially new artists,
they might just do singles, or they might do a
full album, or they might do an EP. Was there
anything that went into that? Was it just a number
of songs that you had ready or what went into
the decision to make an EP?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Well, I think we have got an album planned like
further down the line. Obviously, it takes a bit more
like for resources and time to fully commit to it.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
And we do have a theme, a proper theme that
we have said.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Yeah, yeah, obviously we do with the EPs, but I mean,
you could be a six song EP, so you I
mean you could get away recording an album, but it's
not like an album to us is it's like a
full journey start to furnish.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
We didn't want to do an album until we were
ready to fully get it, and we didn't want to
do singles only because as you, I mean, you've listened
to the EP, I hope you'd agree that there's it's
quite a varied sound.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
We didn't want to put out any one song that
pigeonholed us.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
We thought we'd put out a good selection that showed
a bit of our range. And also we just have
so many songs. We've got these where the next we'll hopefully.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Be producing another EP within I'm not going to say
how long. I'm getting the look, I can't say how long.
Before long that will include.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Another seven or eight songs which will be combined with
this EP.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
That will be the totality of.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Everything me and Alex wrote together before we hired James
and Cozer.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
So once we have that out the way, we've started
working on the.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
Album and which we were all doing together.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Yeah, Well, obviously they've all come up with their own parts,
but they're all like, we're just jamming the songs from
the start.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Yeah, we working through, working different instruments in. We've got
introduced in the keyboard and Alex has been getting really
good on the saxophone.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Avenue mate so good, so good. Yeah, yeah, neighbors too,
we got we've got mandolin.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah. Even at this show on the thirteenth, we're bringing
in the medoline slide. I'll be ripping a back zoo solo.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
We just want to keep these gigs high energy as
we can.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Yeah, especially for our fans who've been to a lot
of our shows, it's good to keep things fresh for them.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Yeah, definitely, because yeah, because we do a lot of
half of our shows as well, and with the EP
B and six songs, we try to get them all
on and then we might only get time for like
one or two that they haven't sinned. But with dicilms
like an hour and yeah, yeah, so we can fully
we Well it's great, it's a great set.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
But I say so myself, I think so yeah, we
didn't need to go off our range and get more
people interested in company us live where they can see
the rest of our songs.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yeah. Absolutely. Where should people go online? Where's the best
place for people to go to keep up with everything
that you guys are doing.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
The Instagram for sure, The TikTok.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yeah, the Instagram, the TikTok.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
We're on Twitter as well, but sparsely use it, and
we are at that band bride.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
On everything on YouTube, Twitter, TikTok. And speaking of YouTube.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
There is a music video for Creature Culture that will
be dropping at three pm tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Oh, three pm GMT. So got your time?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I do, of course, I know my time conversions off
my heart.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
You did say it with confidence. It sounds like, you know,
so that's good. Look forward to I look forward to
seeing that. That's very cool. Okay. So in a moment,
and I really appreciate you guys joining us today. We're
gonna play oh yeah, absolutely. We're actually gonna play two songs.
But so the first one is the one that you
asked us to play to end the segment, which is
(22:55):
We're out of Gravy. So the obvious question before we've
that one, I want to know, like, is this literally
about running out of gravy or what what is this about?
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Yeah? When I came up with the title.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
It was literally just me running out of gravy when
I was trying to put.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
It on some chicken.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
But then.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Then it kind of it went from there with the
you know, the whole gravy train metaphor and okay.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Just personal things in my in.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
My life, and I was reading I was also reading
the Clockwook Orange as well as what I just finished
reading it. Yeah, and yeah, I just thought I had
the you know that some components there I could put
together just to make make a little tune out of it.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
So yeah, but that brings on to a good point.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Most of our songs are just start tend to start
with the song title we think sounds quite amusing, and
then from there we'll try.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
And base it in some sort of reality.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Interesting, So you start with the title. A lot of
the time, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I helped people to theme, help people the theme. Yeah, yeah,
can help me try and get a more creative Yeah, no, that.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
That makes sense. So we're gonna play that in a moment.
And the one I'm gonna sneak in after that too,
is the one that ends the ep hideous monsters and
the people that love them. I love the song. I
enjoyed the I enjoyed the entire EP, but this one
really really kind of speaks to me and anything we
should know about this one.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
This was written a time in my life when I
started getting back into the dating and.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I had had some it's had some issues about how I.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Looked like, and I just wanted to write a song
for myself that encouraged me to get out there and
see what the world has to.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Offer despite my own reservations.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I just remember I was at work and then Joe
he just sent me a text saying that he's made
a He's made a new one.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
And then I was like, ah, I think I was
a bit tired, and I came around and he got it.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
He'd like recording it on his laptop, just like a
little demo. Yeah, and then yeah, just it all just
started coming from there and I was just super impressed.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
It was.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I think we probably spent.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Maybe seven eight hours just sat in my room in
thirty heat with no windows try to finish that well
oh wow, and then getting Cokocer and James.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
On it as well.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
Just the baseline and the verses on that is it's brilliant.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
From Okay I'm glad you liked that song as well,
because speaking of music.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Videos, oh yes, we are. We are in the process
of recording the video for that one as well.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Oh wow, that's likely to be.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Yeah, my directorial debut will be We're all very proud
of you.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Oh very cool. That is awesome. Okay, okay, well that
is excellent to hear. So we're going to play those
tracks in a moment, so I'll let you, guys go.
Joe and Alex, thank you so much, both of you
for joining us today. This has been wonderful, absolutely absolutely, yes, yes,
and we will do this again in the future, especially
as you're releasing new music. So so we'll have you
(25:49):
back on But guys, thank you again so much, and
we'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Awesome, Thank you today, you got it.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Bye bye, all right, wonderful. So that was Joe and
Alex from the band Brides, and so let's listen to
these again. We're gonna play two of these, so we're
gonna finish well, we're gonna finish the segment with first
with We're Out of Gravy, another great track from the
ep Lecha if I'm saying that correctly, and then We're
also gonna play Hideous Monsters and the People that love them,
(26:15):
partly me just being selfish because I love that song
so much, so we're gonna give those both of these
a spin. And uh. And then if you are listening
live on Saturday, coming up in the third hour, Pulsifier,
a great band from Portland, is gonna be here with
us in studio. So we have a lot left to
go on today's show. But here's a couple of tracks
from Brides and we're gonna play this one next. This
(26:37):
is called We're Out of Gravy.
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