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Strange Names – ricochet Minneapolis duo, Strange Names have a unique and funky sound. This is highly evident in their latest track ‘ricochet’ which is the first single off their up coming debut LP, available to buy in spring 2015. It’s the perfect combination of 80’s post punk and 90’s pop, finished off with a sprinkle of some 70’s disco to give the track a funky, chilled sound. \

Slumber girls – a bigger splashHertfordshire’s 3 piece indie band slumber girls have recently released their second EP ‘and everything goes still’ after their debut EP ‘ALL YOU NEED’, which was released earlier this year. The opening track ‘a bigger splash’ demonstrates creative song writ-ing and is fueled with energetic vibes and dynamic guitar riffs.\

Trash – brochures Chesterfield’s 4 piece indie-pop band are due to drop their first EP ‘Pretty swish’ next week, featuring their new track ‘Brochures’. The track has a surf-y, summery vibe and the vocals are somewhat unique, calming, and chilled.

RECOMENDED LISTENING.LLIISSTLLII

Vance Joy Riptide

The Magic Numbers Love Me Like You

Bombay Bicycle Club Shuffle

The Jam A Town called Malice

The Drums Forever and Ever Amen

The Strokes Last Nite

MGMT Electric Feel

The Courteeners Summer

Camera Obscura If Looks Could Kill

The Smiths This Charming Man

delightful austrailian summer pop, a lemon drizzle cake for your ears Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo

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Weller’s finest hour...well one of them

Back from the dead with a date @ Gorilla in Novemeber

Noo Yark kool

Dreamy disco froth

Natural heirs to the vacant Noel crown back with a summer killer

Perfect pop from Scotlands best kept secret

A jumped up pantry boy...

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How did the Twisted Wheel split come about?Well as you know TW has had a number of line-ups; I am obviously not the easiest person to work with, and things can kick off at any point in time. Over the past few years I haven't been too well, mainly due to self inflicted issues and whilst I have been pretty out of it I must have stressed out some of the other band members, but at the same time we found out who was man and who was not. The thing is I totally sorted myself out only after we had a fall out. Its tough, and you have to work hard in the Wheel - only the men will survive. At the moment the only survivor is me haha. Now I just argue with myself so it’s sorted.

What was it like working with a constantly changing band line up?A ball ache? It was really interesting but hard work as each time we recruited new members I had to run through the complete backlog of material to get them up to speed, only to do it again and again. Maybe that's why second album was called Do It Again!!!

Were there any preferred line-ups?We, like many others, say the first choice is the best, although a mix of all three/ four line-ups would be good or maybe even all together. Thing is loads of bands change line-ups. People change jobs or careers, and no one blinks an eye but when bands change people really seem to get wound up and stressed. Change is always for the good.

Have you got anything that you're working on now?Yeah. I am working on a new solo album and planning a solo tour. Also two others and me are almost finished on an electro/hip hop album. I can't say too much about that but keep a look out. I wrote the first album as a solo act and then formed the band so basically I’m going back to my roots. My music is often described as observational and it lends itself best to an acoustic set. After the recent acoustic shows people have commented saying that the wheel is actu-ally just myself anyway. I suppose they are right in a way.

What are your best memories from being in Twisted Wheel? Playing with The View, The Happy Mondays, Oasis, Paul Weller - we had a SPLENDID time, and some great gigs with Kasabian too. To me though nothing beats some of our own gigs, which have been closer to some thing you would have seen in 1977. I will always cherish the day Paul Weller invited me on stage at Silverstone Race Track to play That’s Entertainment with him and his band. That is golden by anyone’s stan-dards. The year Wheel did 290 gigs was also one of my favorite times in the band. We actually got voted the hardest working new band of the year. We had a mega ball.

We catch up with the Twisted Wheel’s mainman

JONNYBROWN.After the recent Twisted Wheel split, we put some questions to Jonny Brown frontman (from the begining). He tells us what lies ahead as he takes the ‘wheel’ for-ward, solo.

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We started by asking Clint how the process of construct-ing an album is different this time round. “It’s a completely different world” was his immediate reaction. Given the band haven’t released an LP for 20 years now, it’s bound to be.

“Last time we made a record, you couldn’t email tracks to each other, you couldn’t do any of that stuff. There was no such thing as sound cloud and Wii transfer, so all that’s new to us. But the other thing that we’ve never experienced before, which has happened this time, is people pirating music, so the album has already been pirated on the internet, and that is something that we didn’t want to happen, and I think some people allow it to get leaked, for press reasons, but we don’t want that and we’ve had to get the record label to try and get them to pull it down.”

The self-titled album is due to be released this September, after the release of their newest single ‘Spitfire’ – this month. But it seems it’s not just the online aspects of the music industry that has changed for Clint.“The other thing that’s different now is that, we when first did it, 89/90, when we were at our peak, record labels threw a lot of money at bands, so you know you could get an advance of 200/300 grand, and that’s all gone, you know there aren’t a lot of bands who are getting that sort of money any more, even a new band that are dead exciting like Royal Blood, or like the Arctic Monkeys were at the beginning, you have to really wor¬k hard before anyone starts investing in it. Where as back in the day, there was a band called Menswear, who were part of the Britpop thing, an’ I mean they might have had one single that did alright, but they got on the NME front cover before they’d even done a gig, they got money thrown at them, that’s how it used to be, but those days are gone. So there’s not as much money changing hands in the industry, which I don’t mind cause it means that the bands have got to be more self sufficient, and industrious, in order to survive really.”

And it seems the changes Clint describes suit the Inspiral Carpets.“We’re doing great because we do a lot of gigging, you know we do good gigs, we’re making money, people want to see us internationally, we were in Barcelona last week, Italy the week before, did Isle of White and T in the park, we have a tour coming up, so there’s demand for us, and we’re able to do it and we’re making money out of that, and hopefully people will buy the record an’ that should make a bit of money as well.”

We went on to ask Clint whether the relaxed feel within the band and the developments in the technology works well for the sound they’re producing.“I think we’re playing better than we’ve ever played, because we are rehearsing quite a lot and doing a lot of gigs, so not much has changed in that world really that’s all still the same as we are used to. There’s a lot of new technology about an’ that’s something that I’ve embraced a lot, to make gigs a bit easier and make travelling easier, I’ve got a Mac Book in the set up now, which I never would have dreamed of all them years ago but, it all works. There’s aspects of it that have changed for the better and as I’ve said there are a couple of things that we’re still getting to grips with, like the whole pirating thing.”

So since reforming, and recording a new studio album, is the music that influences the band’s sound now the same music which shaped their sound in the 80’s/90’s?“On the new record you can still hear classic Inspirals’ influences from bands like The Seeds, 34 Elevators, from the 1960’s, there’s still a lot of that in there and The Doors and The Stranglers and Joy Division and Buzzcocks, but to me, partly because I do this job, I get to hear a lot of brand new music and it does inspire me, you know like Kasabian’s new music, is amazing, and I love Temples, so I’m inspired by modern music – the Vaccines as well have been a great benchmark to me of how garage music can still be contempary, ‘cause they are, they’re like a 60’s garage band and people are buying it. So, I take a lot of inspiration from stuff that we’re still playing, like I can see MGMT, Franz Ferdinand, and they’re all bands that I like, I think I’m inspired by it, I still love Elvis Presley as well and a lot of the old stuff. But I listen to quite diverse music I don’t mind a bit of country music and reggae music, a lot of stuff that we wouldn’t play on XFM. Last year my favourite albums were Chase n Status, Disclosure, Rudimental, Sub Focus, they were my favourite four albums of last year and we wouldn’t touch them on XFM.”

Turning back the clocks we delved into the deep history of the Manchester music scene. With Clint describing exactly what ‘Madchester’ was like. “It was definitely the highlight of my life really being part of that, n’ also the fact that it happened – we didn’t realise it was about to happen, we accidentally made it happen. My band, sort of contributed a big part of what was Madchester, but we didn’t see it coming, we were just this little psychedelic band from Oldham, you know doing quirky organ music, The Stone Roses were into Simon and Garfunkel and other psychedelic music from the 60’s. And then the Mondays were over near Salford doing this funky stuff, you know like trying to emulate

20 years on from their last studio album, The Inspiral Carpet’s are set to release their 5th album this September, followed by a UK tour. Starting with their original line-up for the first time since 1990. We spoke to XFM DJ and member of The Inspiral Carpets, Clint Boon about making music, how tthattthat has changed, plus all things ‘Madchester’.

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As Clint describes the warmth and positivity of the Madchester scene, we wondered whether the ethos of the music industry is similar today.“I think you will always get individuals who will want pick up a guitar and learn how to play it, or how to use a record deck to make music, scratching, sampling, you’re always going to have that ethos of I want to sell what I feel here, with whatever machines I’ve got whether that’s a guitar or a sampler so that’s not changed and there’s still great music out there. People say “Ahh it’s not like it used to be music’s shit now,” – and I hate it when people say that, it’s just a sign that you’re dying I think, you’ve given up on culture if you think that because there is a lot of music out there and you don’t really need to dig that deeply for it, so there will always be that mass of people who want to make music, but what changes is the mediums to sell it and access it and buy it, and I think at the moment we’ve got an amazing digital age. That we can do all that with just a touch of a few buttons, and it’s a phenomenal thing to be part of, I think the digital age is an amazing thing for music.”

Music in the 21stCentury is discussed by many and people often discredit it, saying how it’s not how it used to be – as Clint pointed out – but maybe that has something to do with the technology of today, and how easy it is for people to set up bands and get their music out there that almost anyone can. You will often hear people saying how they want to recreate the scene of Manchester in the 80’s. So does Clint think that anyone want to replicate the digital age?“Aspects of it yes, I think, it’s hard to say, I can’t predict that far ahead but I think people will look back on this era and see some good bands, like the Arctic Monkeys and Jake Bugg, and all these amazing artists will always be respected. I think people will look back on this era as the X-Factor generation, so yeah I think that’s one of the negatives of this age, I’m not against the X Factor thing, I think the main benefit from it, is that it gets kids into music, so kids 5, 6, 7, 8 year old will be inspired enough to start wanting to buy a record or download a track, I think it’s got positives to it in terms of it inspiring younger people, but there are other aspects of it that I could be very cynical about but I’m not goanna go into that, so yeah I think people will look back at this era they’ll remember all the great music we’re making [which we are)

Social media obviously has overwhelming advantages when it comes to the music industry, we wanted to know if Clint was setting up a band in todays environment, would he use social media too?“Oh definitely yeah, that’s what we’re doing really you know I’ve been on Twitter for 5 years now so as a band we’ve totally embraced it [social media]. It’s funny ‘cause I can remember when we first started in the mid 80’s the main tools we had access to were cassette tapes, before CD’s were invented – literally, and also fanzines, people still do fanzines but they’re not as big as they used to be, that was the main way of young people around the country networking and talking about the new music they were into, but yeah the network of fanzine’s round the country was just like an early internet for us. But going back to your question whatever tools you’ve got around you, you should just embrace it and use it, because if you kick against the mediums that you’ve got then you aren’t going anywhere really are you? You’re goanna play to ten people in your local pub, so you’ve got to embrace it I say.”

Although social media does hold a lot of opportunities for young people, like everything it has some disadvantages. Due to the endless possibilities that the Internet holds, it’s getting easier and easier to get lost within it, and we wondered if this threatened band’s chances of getting big. “I think you’ve got to be really good to break through it, or you’ve got to have something really unique, so you’ve got to stand out like that; have a bit of unique-ness. Or you’ve just got to be really good – Jake Bugg, He’s not unique, he didn’t invent that genre, he’s taken what Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan do and he’s taken it to another level, he’s amazing you know he’s a 19 year old kid from Nottingham, so you’ve got to be really good, or have a unique selling point to breakthrough, ‘cause a lot of people are doing it now, I mean anyone with a mac book or a computer can be making music in their bedroom, but you’ve got to be better than all the other people to get through. And you’ve got to be industrious as well, you’ve still got to get out and tell the world about it. Even when we were starting out, I knew people who were just amazing musicians but they never got anywhere because they just sat at home smoking a spliff, waiting for the record labels to stumble upon them, so you’ve got to get out and do stuff, industriousness.”

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