F
or a band who are yet to release their first album, Swim Deep have
been making all kinds of waves (sorry). In the last year they’ve coined their very own phrase for the scene they are a part of (‘Te West Madlands’), and welcomed a bass player who couldn’t technically play bass. We managed to catch up with them fresh from their tour of Europe and ask some burning questions about Warpaint’s Jenny Lee Lindberg, and to try and get to the bottom of what they’re putting in the water in the Midlands at the moment…
So you guys were all over Europe the last couple of weeks, weren’t you? Yeah, yeah, it was pretty mental actually. We played a lot of shows, but it was our first time going to a lot of these places; we’d been to, like, Germany before to play little festivals so we kind of know what to expect there, but like, the crowds in Switzerland – and we went to Rome and all these small places that we’d never heard of before – and there were so many people there to watch us, like really enjoying the music. It was pretty mental; we didn’t expect it.
You came back and played familiar ground – you were at the Great Escape just last weekend… Tat was amazing as well.
Te Great Escape last year provided a bit of inspiration for you last year, didn’t it?
16 / June 2013/
outlineonline.co.uk Yeah, definitely.
Wasn’t that the place that was the inspiration for writing ‘Te Sea’? No, I don’t think it was; that was written a while after that. I think Ozzy wrote that when he was pretty bored at home, I think, but Te Great Escape was like the start… the start of everything for Swim Deep. As soon as we came back off that, everything started to go pretty crazy. We played our first ever, like, sold out show at Te Great Escape last year and this was at like 7 o’clock in the evening as well, so it was pretty crazy.
I THINK IT’S MORE ABOUT WANTING TO BE IN A BETTER PLACE THAN YOU CURRENTLY ARE.
We’ve had you play in Norwich a couple of times now, and you’ve without doubt been a heavy touring band – how are you at the tour prep? Are you pretty organised? Erm, we’re really unorganised actually [sic]; I think if we didn’t have people with us, we wouldn’t end up
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