Next month is going to be pretty exciting for you because you’re releasing a second EP. Tat’s some quite prolific songwriting; you’ve been banging them out, Lauren - [Laughs] Oh well, you’ve gotta keep plugging away! You can’t rest on your laurels! No, I’m looking forward to the EP coming out. It’s gonna have the standout track that we put out first on the internet, the one that got us all the interest in the first place, ‘Hustle’. People have been asking for it, so it’ll be good to get that out. I’m just hoping it’s gonna bring out different colours than the first one brought out.
schism between the reality of getting your bath done [Lauren has incidentally just let the repair man in to fix her bath in a glimpse of extreme normality] and then this as an outlet for the darkness.
You talk about the darkness, and I read a great quote from you that said, “I want the darkness inside of me to produce something that is rooted in feeling – soul music.” I’m a real soul baby, but I always find it’s hard to quantify, the notion of soul. Well I know, because sometimes you want to quantify music too much and it really shouldn’t be about that. All good music is soul music, whether it be guitars
People come up after the gig and are like, “oh, you seem so scary!” Or they think I’m miserable, or a proper bitch, or whatever!
Yeah, I’m excited to hear it. I saw on your Facebook post that you said, “it’s not gonna sound how it looks.” It’s because it’s got that smiley, smiley face on the front! Te weird thing is that most people who know me seem to think – like most people, you have this darkness inside you, but actually you’re an alright person! People come up after the gig and are like, “oh, you seem so scary!” Or they think I’m miserable, or a proper bitch, or whatever! Tat’s performance though; that’s what you have to do, to play a different character, or an embellished character, whereas in real life when you talk to me, I’m not too bad! [Laughs] Tat’s what we want the album to be like; that
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or whatever. Sometimes people think soul music is just black people! It’s like when they release the MOBOs – Music of Black Origin – all music really stems from the blues, apart from like, metal or folk music or classical, do you know what I mean? Sometimes it feels silly to classify it all, so I feel that all good music, if it has some feeling in it, if it has the yearning to do something, then it’s soul, isn’t it?
You’ve only really still played a handful of shows, and have one EP released – you could be described as an overnight success, or do you see those things, like the covers band, doing the musical rounds as all part of the process of getting to LAW now?
Yeah I do, I do; I see it all as working up towards. You’ve got to put the groundwork in, the same way the boys have. Tey’ve been working at it for years. I know they had more industry attention at the beginning stages, but they’ve just been chipping away at it. I feel like even though it was a different kind of thing that I was doing before, it’s still chipping away at the vocal, ‘cause it’s the vocal that’s leading. As well as the production, the vocal is like the standout thing that people seem to notice, and that’s what I’ve been working on. Even though LAW happened very fast, I feel my strength is in those musical things that I did, contributing to what I’m doing now.
So we’ve got seven songs on the first EP, and six songs on the second. Tat’s quite weighty! Tere must be an album waiting in the wings, with the ease you seem to knock these things out in! Oh aye yeah, I’m just being lazy! It’s these bloody jobs I’ve got to do. As soon as I don’t have to do silly jobs, I’ll have more time to do the music. But you know what, it’s all good; it keeps the hunger burning.
Te decision to put out a second EP, is it just that you feel you have more to do before you approach your debut album? Is there more groundwork to be done? I need to do some more songwriting, you know, even though everything’s changed and developed and ‘Hustle’ was only written about a year ago, there’s still so much more I feel I could do, especially in terms of instrumentation. I’m learning
to play guitar, so I think there’s some more I could do with the guitar, and more I could do in the house, on my 4-track and stuff. Tere’s songs in the bag, you know; there’s plenty of songs, it’s just re-approaching them, looking at them again and saying, “are these what I want?” Does each have a purpose in the set? Are they what I want to do, you know? It’s fair enough, you can have a good song, but if it doesn’t fit in with the project, or the set you’re doing, where you want to take it, it’s like, “well, just leave it then.” It has to be on there for a reason.
Lauren, we spoke a little bit about it actually, but it’s a question I often ask a band – we know you’re gonna bring us an amazing show, but what, as an audience, can we bring for you? You don’t need to bring anything hon’! I don’t worship diamonds or pearls, or anything like that [laughs]. You did amazing last time; it was just so great to see people listening, who were interested in the music, and it was great to talk to people afterwards. Bring yourselves and come and chat to me, ‘cause I like it when loads of people come and talk to me. Te performing lifestyle, as much as it’s quite awesome, it can be quite lonely as well. Everybody’s looking at you, then you come off and you’re like, ‘oh, I’m just standing at the bar on my own’ [laughs]! I look well stupid – Billy no mates!
Emma R. Garwood More Information
Law plays as part of the next PONY UP night at Norwich Arts Centre on Saturday 7th June. For tickets, go to
www.norwichartscentre.co.uk.
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