of songs we’ve got, they flow into each other much nicer. They’re also more fun to play, and it feels more right to play them. Someone from BBC Introducing asked you about breaking through. Do you ever have that in mind, do you ever think it’d be good to break through? I think we’ve got a few shows that haven’t been announced yet but are outside of Norwich. It’ll be nice to play in some new places. If you mean by breaking through it being your main income, then yeah that’s the dream- but it’s so rare for most bands. Even some of my favourite bands aren’t doing it full- time. It’s disheartening.
...think what I’d want more than that is to just have a song I’m proud of, which forty years down the line I can say I did that and I’m still proud of it. I think it’s a bit more than this song would be great on the radio, lets write songs! What bands are you listening to at the moment? A lot of Saintsenaca recently to be fair. I’ve been listening to Tigers Jaw, Vince Staples a lot. Vulfpeck are such a good band going around right now, also Real Estate. In terms of UK bands, there’s a really good shoegaze band from London called Nightswimming,
...Super Lemon Days are doing really good stuff. Muskets are killing it as well, I remember I supported their first ever gig in Norwich, and now they’re signed to a proper record label. You said you supported Muskets, and that feeling of supporting a band who then go on to a big stage must feel really nice and a bit scary. Do you have any bands that you think that
supporting them would be a dream? Probably American Football, ...Or someone like Alex G or Sunny Day Real Estate. Those are the ones who are ‘in’ the genre. Outside of the genre, Justin Timberlake would be pretty cool. Or Beyonce. Justin Timberlake? That surprises me, have you got any surprising favourites? Vein, Code Orange, recently I’ve been listening to the 1975 a lot, which probably does not surprise... also a really good hip-hop trio as well called Injury Reserve. How did you guys meet? Davey and I went to the same college and I knew he played guitar. …Owen plays drums and in the first practice I just felt really good and it really clicked. Eventually Tom, the drummer from my old band was like ‘Oh I’ll play bass, I can do it’. Owen moved to Scotland for Uni and we were like we could probably make this work. There was a ten month period where we weren’t really doing anything and we were thinking of calling it a day. Then a month later me and Davey decided to try and make it work one more time. We talked to Owen, and he was fine with calling it a day. We then asked James to join, who was the drummer in Veir and it clicked really well, like it did in the first practice. Meanwhile me Davey and Lydia were starting a little electronic project, which never saw the light of day but it sounded really good. I really hope it comes out one day, it might even come out as a Marigolds thing, I don’t know. So then we were like, yeah lets get Lydia in. She plays piano, she’s never played a keyboard with us live because we don’t
have one, I have this really bad midi, though. Lydia has also got an incredible voice, like insane. I really like the interaction between your two voices, I really like the texture of it. Yeah, I think has created a nice- yeah I think our voices compliment each other well and has enhanced our sound. It also gives us a chance to experiment with more, I don’t have the best range whereas Lydia can hit them high notes. I think we can do a lot more with our new line-up, like I didn’t know James can play trumpet until the other day, I also found a saxophone in my attic the other day, so I kinda wanna get some sexy sax in too. Are you happy with how things are going with Marigolds? It feels really fresh, like when you just start a band and are getting something really exciting, it feels like that all of the time. Davey does medicine so it’s difficult. If we were all humanities students, it wouldn’t be that bad. But yeah, we work around it. What have you got lined up? We’re playing London on the 22nd of December- at the Monarch, in Camden. We’re playing with Death Pony who are really good, you should check out their new song. Then we are playing Cambridge in February, and we’re playing at the Blue Moon- which should be really cool. We’re playing that with History and Law, which are a good band. Recently met Declan and he’s a nice guy. We are going back into the studio around January time. Also, we’ve got a music video coming out.
Words: Callum
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