THE WYTCHES
Gianni, the drummer from ‘surf-doom’ Brighton band The Wytches, is on the train. His hair keeps muting our phone call. And that’s the price you pay for having lovely big dark goth hair. This band are great; truly jolly and horridly grim simultaneously, as befits a British band. Their debut album, Annabel Dream Reader, has been rapturously received by fans and critics alike, and they’ve just got back from a tour of the US of A. It’s time to bloody well rock out with The Wytches.
Can you give me the lowdown on how you met? Our singer Kris and I were in separate bands in Peterborough; we were never in the same band as we were both drummers. I heard some of his solo work, and we jammed some stuff together. Tree months later we moved down to Brighton, met Sam and that was that.
You’ve been out on the road for ages; do you manage to get back home much? I’ve been home for about three weeks this year! I’ve been nomadic for the whole three years I’ve been in this band. Kris has got a new place in Brighton so I’m hoping to move in there in January so we can start working on the new album.
26 / October 2014/
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What would you say your musical influences are? I can definitely hear some grunge, metal and surf rock in there. Kris likes a lot of the singer songwriters, like Leonard Cohen, whereas I’m more into thrash and more of the heavier and stranger side of music.
You’re signed to Heavenly at the moment; a label with a very strong reputation for good British acts. Do you feel they are a good fit for you at present? Yeah, they’re good guys. Tey managed to keep going as an independent record label through the recession, which says a lot.
As soon as your single Digsaw came out,
labels were all chasing after you. Did it surprise you that you got signed so quickly? It didn’t feel quick to us as we’d been around for about two and a bit years, on the road, before that song came out. Once that single came out though, we were bombarded with people offering us shit!
Where did the name Te Wytches come from? Kris and I were just making plans to move away, and I walked into the rehearsal room and he announced that he’d found the name for the band. It was fine by me. We had to change the letter for copyright reasons, which isn’t very rock n roll I’m afraid, but there are about nine other
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