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THE GOOD NATURED


Loud! spoke to lead singer Sarah during the bands UK tour.


How is your current tour going? It’s been really good, we’ve been playing across the country from London to Glasgow. We are doing bigger shows as the support act to Imagine Dragons as well as our own smaller club gigs. So it’s a good contrast between large shows and more intimate ones.


You have covered Blue Monday by New Order. Who are your main inspirations?


I think our main inspirations have come from our parents record collections. Stuff like Blondie and Siouxsie and the Banshees. The eighties are a big inspiration for us which is why we covered Blue Monday.


DON BROCO By Student Writer Nariece Sanderson G


uitarist Simon Delaney gives Loud Magazine an insight into the life and


times of British rock band Don Broco ahead of their sold-out Priorities tour.


How is 2013 Treating Don Broco So Far?


Really, really well. The first thing we’re doing this year is our big headline tour, which is really exciting and that kicks off in a couple of weeks now. We’re all really excited to be getting on the road. We’re releasing our first single of the year Fancy Dress –


which comes out next week; we’re really pumped to get that out. It’s had quite a lot of Radio 1 support already. This year has kicked off with a bang!


Are You Playing Any Festivals This Year? We’re headling this year a festival called Hit the


e headling this year a festival called Hit the Deck which is in Nottingham and Bristol. This is the first time they’re doing Bristol as well, usually it’s in Nottingham, but we played it last year and it was absolutely incredible. It’s such a good indoor festival – loads of amazing bands play – so to be going back to that this year as a headliner is going to be amazing. It’s quite daunting as we’ve never headlined anything like that before so we’re stepping up to that etty excited about that


challenge. We’re all pretty excited about that one. That’s the first festival this year and the


one. That’s the first festival this year and the


What do you think of the current state of the music industry?


Obviously everything has become very digital! Especially with HMV closing down as well. Your online status is important and you have to make sure you are constantly updating your status on Twitter and Facebook.


CD and press shots and the videos. By getting with the management company they took us to a place where we had to sign with the label. It was a combination of hard work, touring and trying to send out as much music as you can to the right people and hoping one of them takes notice.


And how about the music that gets into the charts now. How does it compare


What Made You Decide Being in a Band Would be Your Career Path? Before we went to university, me, Rob and Matt had always been in bands at school, and we always loved music – we were all really passionate about it. But we all wanted to go to university as well, because university is a really incredible experience and one that I would recommend to anybody. But when we came out of university we had all got really different degrees and did what interested us, but we were also very passionate about music and about being in a band. So we thought “let’s give it a go, you’re only young once. Let’s go into it, let’s write the songs we want to play.” We started playing in front of people which is what we most wanted to do at the time. Luckily for us it’s working out alright. I mean, it doesn’t always work out alright but in our position fortunately everything has fallen into place and allowed us to keep doing that.


So being in a band is a difficult and unpredictable career?


only one we’ve announced yet…


How Did You Break into the Music Industry? It’s a difficult one… we started out when we e started the band Don


finished university. We started the band Don Broco and just started touring everywher


oco and just started touring everywhere we could, at every end of the country trying tocould, at every end of the country trying to get the name around. That’s 3 years of touring and solidly writing material before we started getting in people’s faces and people started


getting in people’s faces and people started to take notice of what we were doing. We did it really old school – we sent out demos and


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eally old school – we sent out demos and press packs to a load of different management companies. Luckily that’s how our management company picked us up because they had heard our name before because we had been touring so hard and had press packs that included our


Yeah, it’s a massively difficult career. You’ve got to put an awful lot of faith in yourself. Often you’re going to get knocked back all the time. It’s very difficult to know where it’s going to lead because even if you have a massive album or huge single, the pressure is now on to write the next incredible single ornow on to write the next incr the next incredible album. You never know day e going to be at in the next


to day where you’re going to be at in the next year. But for us, that’s the lifestyle we really eally fast-paced, exciting and keeps


enjoy. It’s really fast-paced, exciting and keeps e on us to constantly deliver the


the pressure on us to constantly deliver the material. It’s quite an intense career path -not one for the faint hearted.


How did you maintain the band relationship in university? Three of us knew each other in school and went to different universities. But we used to meet up and practice occasionally but not very intensively. We’d write songs whilst we were at university but weren’t doing any kind of touring. We kept the momentum going so when we left university we had songs written that we could go out on the road with. But it was very occasional – once every term or two, we used to get together in the holidays to keep things going.


How Do You Feel About the Threat of Closure to High Street Music Shops? I love HMV- I love going in there and looking at music. I think it’s a shame. People’s music consumption is so heavily orientated to the online world – with Spotify and Itunes I don’t think it will make a massive difference. It’s just a loss of convenience and being able to pop in to a shop on the high street.


Who Are Your Influences at the Moment? As a band, collectively we all really love Biffy Clyro, Brand New, Incubus, and Reuben. I and Rob really love Every Time I Die. At the moment we are listening to the new Everything Everything album quite a lot – it’s really different and interesting pop I guess.


How Do You Feel About the Current Rock Climate?


I think it’s brilliant because at the moment there are so many amazing bands from the underground that we have toured with that are breaking through in a massive way – like Deaf Havana… they are doing absolutely massive things at the moment for the UK rock And then you have


scene… like Young Guns. And then you have bands like Mallory Knox who we’re taking on tour who are getting a load of Radio 1 support at the moment, which is awesome to see. Rock


e getting a load of Radio 1 support PEACE P


eace are an indie-rock quartet from Birmingham, made up of brothers Harrison and Samuel Koisser, Douglas Castle and Dominic Boyce. Signed to


Columbia Records, they have just come off the back of the NME tour and their new album is out on March 25th 2013. Audra O’Brien from Loud Magazine sat down and had a chat with Harry about the rollercoaster the last few months have been.


Nice to meet you. Can you tell me a bit about how Peace came together? How did you guys make the leap from wanted to start a band to actually doing it? Well, we always knew we wanted to give the band a go, but it started out with us doing a few gigs and then messing about with our own songs. We initially released a song online just to test the waters, but then almost overnight it got something like 2,000 listens. We weren’t expecting that reaction but at the same time it compounded our belief in ourselves and our ability as a band.


So you think social media helped you get noticed? Absolutely, yeah. Starting out in 2010 we were doing odd gigs, and building a fan base but our main connection to our fans and to the industry itself was through social media. We are four guys from Birmingham who had absolutely no connection, no contacts whatsoever to the industry. Even based in


Birmingham, we had no connection to London, we didn’t really know anyone down there. So for us, social media was so effective to get ourselves out there. After we released our demo in 2011, all of a sudden we had scouts coming to our gigs, A&R people showing up, it was fantastic.


And almost immediately you had a positive response from the industry, the like of the Guardian and NME talking you guys up It is such a great feeling, having the support like that. I mean, we would still do what we do but it is amazing to see all the hard work and graft that we have put into the band pay off.


You have just finished up on the NME tour with Miles Kane and Palma Violets. What was the tour like? So cool. So so cool. It had an amazing vibe. It was actually really cool playing the larger venues too. Like I said, it was great to reap the rewards of all our hard work and this tour was even better as we had a lot of support staff around us. We had a sound tech guy, a stage manager, A&R, catering. Normally it’s just us rocking up to a venue and doing all the set up ourselves so it was fun to have someone else do it for a change!


Any crazy stories you can share with me? I actually tried to boobie trap the Palma Violets with a fire extinguisher as they came back into the dressing room as one of the shows in Scotland. It didn’t work and the whole thing backfired on me. I left the dressing room and when I came back in, Doug (our guitarist) had managed to get the extinguisher to work and absolutely annihilated me. I mean, I had no chance. I was soaked right through! Security and a few other people came charging in and wanted to know what was going on, and started accusing us and blaming me. I was the victim! How was I to blame (laughs).


So a bit of pranking going on… A bit, not that much. I’ll have to work on it.


Your new Album is out on March 25th, What can your fans expect to hear? It is just a very honest album. The songs are very real and emotional, and have a lot of value and are just very genuine. We didn’t hide behind the production of it, we took our time and made sure we were happy with each song


at the moment, which is awesome to see. Rock really does feel like it’s coming back. Radio 1 play a huge part in influencing people’s music taste and now they are latching on to guitar bands again… it’s phenomenal. I think rock music is stronger than it has been in years and years.


and the sound. It’ very organic too, we a lot of time in the studio messing abo different methods and instruments an let that come through on the record. It natural as possible and as real as poss


So to go right back to your begin how was school for you? Did you enjoy it? For me personally, no I didn’t really until I got to study Music & Drama i few years. Until then I just wasn’t su wanted to do and was a little in lim I found the careers advise a bit bew


…Funny, Careers advisers neve to become a rockstar… Exactly! But they never really men or the music industry either


So you did have access to mus resources in school? Yeah, I had access to music and st loved it, that was when I was at m school.


For someone who is relativel starting out in the music ind have any advice for some w to follow suit? Have you lea valuable lessons? Be confident in what you do, an Don’t stress out about stuff or b over the top about yourself eith time, don’t rush, have patience but always be confident in you


What have you got planne of the year? We are off to the US next wee at SXSW in Austin. And a few too. Album is out in March so promoting that, we’ve got so dates coming up and genera lot of fun.


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