INTERVIEW
In the past several months Gladboy have created a strong presence in the local scene. Noted for their extremely charismatic, charming and energetic live sets. They've also supported LA- based band Starcrawler and created a very healthy fanbase.
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What bands are you listening to at the moment? George: In terms of new stuff, I’ve really liked Snapped Ankles. I’ve been listening to them a lot. When we were recording the EP I was listening to a lot of Flamingods as well. I’d say live we go quite fast and quite funky, and that’s probably an influence from them. We are all listening to Nilsson a lot too, Harry Nilsson. We’ve also been listening to a lot of Death Grips. We’ve been listening to Nude Party as well, ….they’re really rock ‘n’ roll. Like Black Lips, garage rock-y. In terms of new bands though, Snapped Ankles are the one. Do you have a process? When you’re writing the music? George: I don’t really know what my process is, I really struggle with writing stuff purposefully so oſten I get too interested in what other people are saying. Egopushin' (our new EP) kind of came about when we changed instruments one practice. I came up with this really 60s sounding drum beat, and
Sonny did this cool middle- eastern sort of style riff over the top. Sonny: We’ve also recently got a synth/percussionist and a vocalist/percussionist in form of Alex Calder and Janani Arudselvanathan. George: The bigger lineup has really helped with imagining the whole beach boys thing of a bigger sound. What’s been your favourite performance you’ve done so far? George: How can we forget about Starcrawler? That gig was amazing. It was so surreal, all these people around us. It felt like we were representing Norwich with this massive band that let us use all their stuff. I’ve never been so nervous and so confident. Sonny: Yeah it was a shocker. Do you have a favourite maverick, or someone who likes being different? Sonny: I would say Brian Eno. He’s always sought creativity and new things, an amazing speaker, individual, musician and technician. George: Todd Rundgren – he did this album called A
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Wizard/ A True Star. Now everyone home records, at the time it was on tape to produce it yourself back then took a lot of work. Do you ever find yourself chasing a particular sound? George: We’re like OK yeah, we’ll get the drums from The Who, the vocals from The Beach Boys and the synths of Animal Collective! We wanna sound like other people, but all we really wanna do it sound like ourselves – I don’t know if that sounds really pretentious? The Norwich music scene, would you describe it being in a healthy state? George: People are generally really supportive. Birds of Hell are fantastic. There’s good stuff, but nothing is really coming in and changing everything. We’ve got people like Richard Shashamane though, who goes to like every gig in Norwich. I sort of wish we had a bit of music further from the mainstream to offer in exchange for that. Sonny: I find it’s oſten between singer-songwriter or revivalism Do you have any favourite
pieces of music that would surprise the people who would listen to you? Sonny: Autobahn by Kraſtwerk. I can feel the wind blowing through my hair. George: Sonny has really got me into that electronic music thing, like Boards of Canada. When people see us, they think we’re really 50s, but we’re still listening to Aphex Twin. What are we expecting from Gladboy soon? George: We’ve got our EP coming out (Egopushin’), we wanted it to kind of capture the energy of the live performance. We’ve used a piano on one song that gave it this sort of Bowie-esque sound. Some of the EP is a bit more relaxing. Then we’ve got the Waterfront Show. There’s also some talk about a mini-tour. Although, we don’t wanna run before we can walk.
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