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bbrBackbench Rebellion recorded two new songs over two days in March at Falmouth University College to add to their already impressive repetoir of material. ‘Glass’ and ‘Never Growing Up’, are due for digital release in the late spring/early summer. I followed them as they recorded and got a look into how the up and coming band formed. You can dowload their debut EP 'Back to the Wall' at backbenchrebellion.bandcamp.com or buy the CD from them directly at gigs.
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the band[ on their time together ]
[ how they formed ][ influences ]
members[ who are backbench rebellion? ]
[ their individual input ][ their personal influences ]
gigs[ future dates]
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production[ where it all happens ]
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backbench rebellion.How did you form?EC: “It initially started when Joe and I started playing guitar together and thought it was really fun. We said to ourselves do we know anyone who can play drums? Joe said Duncan did and I owned a drum kit. So Duncan came to mine with Joe and the three of us had a jam and it turned out Duncan was actually really good, having had no previous experience. And so we almost had a band, but I was playing bass and wasn’t very good. Joe knew Rich from school though
and so he came along and we had a great practice together…which Rich told everyone about…including his current band members. They loved that.What were your asperations?EC: "We wanted to play music together, we love playing music together. We ended up being better than we expected to be and we’ve always been very limited in terms of our ability to commit to stuff. Well that’s what we like to imagine is the reason why we haven’t broken through in a big way. It has
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backbench rebellion.hindered us, but things have started to develop at several points and we would like to be able to take it further, but feasibility is an issue."What are your influences?EC:” Overall when we started we all had a sort of shared backbone of music that we do all like and then we all have our own influence coming in from all over the place. I think early on we heard a band like Bloc Party or Arctic Monkeys and we thought we could make a song like that. But now the influences are in the background. They just built up to
create what we see as Backbench. Which is slightly different but it is quite an important difference.”Has that been since you started writing your own songs?EC: “Well we’ve always done our own songs but I think in the last year or so.”RE: “It’s been more noticeable.”JP: “Yeah. We’ve found our own sound. Rather than like before when people were saying, ‘that really sounds like someone,’ now you listen to ‘Glass’ for example and you can say that’s sound like
Backbench.”EC: “That’s the plan. Hopefully in a years time once we’ve got some more music written.”Is there a band you’d liken yourself to now?RE: “Editors.”JP: “I think because of the guitar sound with their older stuff, and I know their guitarist has gone now and they’re releasing a new album, but after hearing his guitar I guess that really influenced me.
There was one time when I was listening to ‘An End Is A Start’ the album, a lot, that’s when my guitar sound really started to change. I really like the quick staccato guitar and 16th note picking. He does that really well. I guess that’s definitely had an influence on the overall sound of our songs.”RE: “I think that influence was shown in “Rich Kids’ mainly.”JP: “Yeah that’s where it all
started really.”How did you get the name?EC: “We’d had a couple of band practices and we thought we needed a name now.”RE: “My c**p input was The Desires, purely because Muse’s song ‘Undisclosed Desires’ had come out recently.”EC: “We scribbled down a couple of ideas but we didn’t like any of them.”RE: “What were some of the
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ideas?”JP: “There was one. ‘When 7, 8, 9.’"DP: “Oh yeah! That was amazing!”EC: “But then we were flicking through a dictionary for some inspiration and the word rebellion came up. I think I’d been looking at the newspaper a couple of days later and there had been a story about a backbench rebellion or something
ask me, ‘What? Do you play punk?’”RE: “One of my friend’s cousins does a political show up in Scotland and this holiday he’s coming down to see her. He wants one of our CD’s because of our name Backbench Rebellion. So it’s going to be the complete opposite to what he’s thinking probably. So we usually just say Backbench. Everyone says Backbench or BBR."
like that. And I thought, ‘Backbench Rebellion?’ Yeah! All of us liked it and it was the first good name that anyone came up with and came up with since. We did try and think over the next week or two of other potential names but nothing jumped out at us. This is the one that we always thought, ‘yeah that sounds like us.’ Although a lot of my friends think we’re some kind of weird political band. They
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“I started playing guitar when
I was about 11, when I started
secondary school. Dad played
guitar since he was about 11 and
he was always a classic guitarist.
I played classic guitar for 7 years
hence why I’m pretty useless
at using a pick and I’m actually
kind of good at finger picking, so
at any opportunity I finger pick
instead of playing with a pick.
I didn’t actually start singing
at all until I started playing
guitar and that was because
I got bored of just strumming
chords. I wanted to be able to
sing along to the songs and the
guitar+vocals
edcrawford
more I sang the better I got. I
ended up joining my school choir
when I was about 15, and kind
of just developed from there.
When I got to university that’s
when I really started doing
lots of singing. I managed to
wangle my way into one of the
a cappella groups there. They’re
quite difficult to get into, so I
was really lucky because what it
meant was I was surrounded by
about 14 or 15 very talented, very
well trained singers who were
all a lot better than me and they
kind of taught me everything I
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needed to know. Personally my
background is classic guitar, it
comes from folky stuff. When
Mumford & Sons first turned up
they were like a godsend for me.
I loved them. I’ve kind of gone
off them a bit now but I loved
that back then. A lot of indie
stuff as well, The Strokes and
Arctic Monkeys, and Kings Of
Leon have always been a huge
love of mine. I’ve only ever gone
off them once that was after
that s***ty album, ‘Only By The
Night.’ So personally it’s a more
indie folk kind of direction.”
bass
“I started playing bass when I
was 12 and I was going through
a sort of emo phase. So I was
listening to a lot more music
than before and I just wanted
to play an instrument. An older
friend was in a local band at
the time and I think he sort of
inspired me to start playing bass.
I think it really just came from
that. I enjoyed music lessons at
school and I wanted to play an
instrument. I played acoustic/
classical guitar and it just didn’t
really work for me. But now I’m
very glad that I started playing
bass. I played 8 years self-taught
and I think that’s really helped
me develop my own method
of playing. Being in this band
has definitely had a massive
influence on me. If it wasn’t for
joining this band I don’t know
if I would still be playing bass.
I’ve got to thank Backbench
for that. I started out listening
to the chart c**p as everyone
does. And I started listening
to a lot of metal. As I grew up
I sort of went down the indie
line so I started listening to The
Libertines, The Strokes, Arctic
Monkeys, and of course Kings
Of Leon. But more recently I
think I’ve been going down the
more melodic metal/funky indie
sound of Two Door Cinema Club.
I wouldn’t class myself as a
tricky bassist. I think aspects of
what I do fit that description but
it’s not overpowering. You can
tell there’s more of a prominent
richearle
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baseline in ‘Never Growing Up.’
I listened to quite a lot of 80’s
music; both electronic bands
like Kraftwerk and The Human
League and I listened to a lot of
bands like Roxy Music as well
which I think opened my eyes to
the possibilities of what I could
do. I think the bass sound in
general is quite 80’s. It’s very
clean and very natural. It’s quite
trebly. The bass sound in Love
is a Drug by Roxy Music; I can
really relate my sound to that.
And also more recently Foals.
Not so much their minimalist
album, but ‘Total Life Forever’
and ‘Holy Fire.’ Both have
just really made me think so
differently. That’s been a very big
influence on me recently.”
guitar
joepym“I started out playing clarinet
at primary school. Then I got to
secondary school and started
playing electric guitar. I picked
that up and picked it up quite
quickly actually. Obviously I had
lessons and went through the
grades and everything and then
eventually found Backbench and
I’ve been playing guitar with
them and dismissed clarinet a
bit, although I did play in the jazz
band. But I got my grade 7 and
8 on guitar and then university
came along and I’m now in two
bands in university. One is a Ska
cover band. We put alternative
slants on famous songs. We
get some swing in there, we
get some reggae, jazz, etc, you
name it. Then I’ve got another
band called Gravity Chain who
are kind of like math rock in a
way, more kind of dreamy. We
released a load of music but it’s
not really what we’d describe
as our sound because it’s all
university projects. But it’s
different and cool. And obviously
there’s still Backbench going
which I always have a massive
place in my heart for. I don’t have
to say that, I want to say it. I
was brought up with my parents
music which was a massive
array of different genres. But I
was really interested in metal.
It was Metallica that were my
biggest influence to start with.
Then when we started jamming
together I was looking to go
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in a different direction and my
musical taste was changing. It
was going more mainstream, but
mainstream rock/alternative really
and I think you can hear that in
our earlier songs. My parts were
always really para-chord based
and melodic. And from then on
our whole sound has gradually
developed. My guitar playing
style has gone more melodic. I
started listening to more indie
bands and that’s the music I love
now. This whole spacey guitar
with a lot of reverb and delay has
come through bands like Bombay
Bicycle Club and Two Door
Cinema Club and Foals as well,
particularly Foals so that’s where
my influences really lie.”
percussion
duncanpym“For me drums were the
instrument I had wanted to
play since I was literally about
3 years old. I think it probably
went on every Christmas list
since I was about that age but
alas I could never get a drum
kit. Finally at the age of 9 or
10 I started to learn the guitar,
which went really well. That was
when I really sort of found my
musical feet. But I always had
this interest in percussion and
would do anything I could to live
the drumming dream. When Joe
and Ed were jamming and asked
me if I wanted to drum that was
the beginning of my drumming
career, as it is so far. I obviously
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jumped at the opportunity
because I was able to play the
drums at last and I developed my
drumming through Backbench
Rebellion. That’s the only chance
I ever had to play. The only time I
could ever practice playing drums
was when we were actually
practicing songs for Backbench
or playing a gig for Backbench.
That was the only time that I
ever really played the drums
properly in my life. That’s been
the only real way I learnt really,
playing with these guys. I think
for me the most inspirational
music throughout most of my life
has generally been Rock bands.
I think for me playing the drums
that really came through in the
powerhouse elements. Just
kind of thrashing it out, simple
kind of beats but quite powerful
stuff. But at the same time, as
my music taste has evolved I
got more into indie music and
listening to bands like Arctic
Monkeys and Bloc Party. That
really influenced my drumming
massively having those really
quick but simple rhythms. Foo
Fighters is definitely an influence,
just Dave Grohl basically. So
it was kind of a mix of those
elements together that made
the sort of stuff I’m doing in
Backbench.”
the recordings for never growingup & glass.
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EC: “I guess although it was written quite a while
ago I’d say ‘Rich Kids’ is the kind of bridging song
between our older sound and our newer sound.
You can definitely hear both of our styles in that
song. It’s grungier but it’s still got that old sound in
there.”
How would you describe your sound?EC: “No-one likes to call themselves indie because
indie as a concept now means something different
but we are very indie.”
RE: “Alternative indie really because I can’t really
say we’re pure indie.”
JP: “Yeah I think its fair to say that we are heavier
in a way at times. Quite progressive.
EC: “The Pym early influence is definitely coming
in, in places.”
JP: “I just love a massive ending to a song.”
DP: “Of the two songs we’ve recorded here both
have powerhouse endings.”
EC: “Huge minute and a half instrumentals.”
RE: “We put a lot of effort into that one [‘Glass’].
Mainly the ending. That’s the bit of the song when
we all look at each other and we all start smiling
because we know what’s about to happen.”
DP: “Weirdly actually that section of that song
is probably the bit that had the least discussion.
It more just sort of happened. We didn’t really
discuss that. We were just thrashing it out and it
sounded really good.”
RE: “Joe got a new pedal which you can hear very
prominently. It holds the note and it’s got this very
atmospheric, ambient sort of sound. That really
boosted our sound and made us think, ‘what can
we do here?’”
EC: “My singing voice is very rooted in a sort of
lighter indie sound though. It contrasts with the
much more progressive guitar that we have coming
through the newer songs.”
JP: “I think that Ed’s voice is really different and I
think its really helped us define our sound. I really
like that Ed’s voice really comes through.”
EC: “I hate when singers put on that fake American
accent. I am a relatively posh English guy so I
sing with a relatively posh English accent. It’s my
singing voice, I don’t affect anything. I do try and
enunciate. “Rich Kids’ is kind of ironic actually
because I’m sort of b**ching about this rich kid and
I sing it in a really posh voice.”
How do you think you’ve changed overall?JP: “Well we’ve matured, our sound has matured.
I think with this song we’re recording, ‘Glass’, you
can tell that we’ve gone away and come back.”
EC: “Each member of the band has developed their
sound a lot. Joe in particular has changed his style
in the last 6-8 months.
RE: “Yeah, Joe’s new sound is just insane.”
JP: “Yeah and Ed’s voice has improved massively
with singing with the Oxford Alternotives.”
EC: “Yeah I do a lot of singing at university. I get a
lot of practice, which means over the last year and
a half my voice has got a lot more controlled.”
JP: “And you were in another band weren’t you
Rich?
RE: “Yeah. Doing something more like Paramore.
It was more metal, but we had 3 songs and they
just didn’t want to adapt it and they thought, ‘Yeah
we’re going to get a load of gigs now!’ I said, ‘It’s
not going to happen without a drummer.’ I’ve been
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playing a lot by myself.”
Do you think being apart for quite a long time over the years has helped?JP: “Developing our sound, yes.”
EC: “It doesn’t help that we’re
away from each other for so long
at our respective universities.
But most of us have our own
projects going on elsewhere
and that allowed us to develop
our own sounds. Like Joe. His
development has come a lot
from his side project, Gravity
Chain, but it does hinder us
because it really restricts our
ability to write music. We’ve
hardly written any songs over the
past two years because we don’t
have the time.”
JP: “Exactly, we get back from
the break and we have band
practices for gigs but we don’t
really have time. We have to go
over everything we’ve written
and the covers, rather than write
new stuff. I kind of think the two
aren’t really going hand in hand
at the moment just because of
time.”
EC: “We’re slowly getting there.
We had ‘Glass’ written a couple
of months back and we’ve got
this new track that we wrote a
good chunk of just yesterday.
Hopefully we’ll have a couple
more soon. I think the aim is to
get at least two or three new
racks written for the Christmas
period.”
DP: “I think it is kind of the new
age of Backbench in terms of
sound. Like talking of ‘Desire’
earlier. It used to be that our
theme was - keep it very simple.
Just keep it so simple and catchy
that people will like it. That’s
where ‘Desire’ came from. Now
it’s - keep it simple but actually
let’s be really creative with all our
parts, be original with it.”
"Ok Joe,I'm going to
ask you to hit something
in a second."
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JP: “I think that catchy and
simple ideology we’re going for
really helped us grow a fan base
because everyone said ‘oh yeah,
it’s so catchy’ and everyone likes
to dance to it.”
RE: “Because I haven’t got any
projects at home, I get uptight
and I think these guys know
about it.”
EC: “Rich is the manager. Rich
runs the show.”
RE: “I’m really glad that we’re
still going. Any other guys would
say ‘Oh p**s off Rich. You’re
being uptight, call it a day.’ But
it’s shown that we do really
enjoy it.”
Do you feel you can write more songs similar to ‘Glass’, more creative songs?JP+RE: “Oh definitely, yes.”
JP: “We were jamming the other
day at band practice and this
song came out and it was really,
really different again but really
cool.”
Do you have in mind recording down here again at Christmas?EC: “We’d like to. With Duncan
doing the mixing, it’s in our
hands. We’re not at the mercy
of a sound engineer and with
Joe booking the studio through
Falmouth [University] it means
that we can have two whole days
in the studio. We don’t have to
rush anything, we can take as
much time as we want to get the
tracks absolutely perfect which
means that, fingers crossed, the
two tracks we’re recording over
these two days and other tracks
we record in the future here will
just be exactly how we want
them to be, and not a rushed
project.”
RE: “Like the sound gallery.”
DP: “It’s the complete opposite
to that.”
EC: “They were good recordings
and we were really glad that we
did them because they’ve been
the core of our catalogue.”
JP: “Yeah and we’ve earned a
fair bit of money from it, selling
CD’s.”
RE: “It’s getting us out there.
We made 100 and we’ve got like
7 left.”
EC: “As opposed to just
recording songs for the sake
of having a CD, these are
going to be actually impressive
productions.”
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"With Duncan doing the mixing, it’s in our hands. We’re not at the mercy
of a sound engineer and with Joe booking the
studio through Falmouth [University] it means that we can have two whole days in the studio. We don’t have to rush anything, we can take as much time as we want
to get the tracks absolutely perfect which means that, fingers crossed, the two tracks we’re recording
over these two days and other tracks we record in
the future here will just be exactly how we want them."
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“We put a lot of effort into that one [‘Glass’].
Mainly the ending. That’s the bit of the song when we all look at each other and we all start smiling
because we know what’s about to happen.”
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"I think with ‘Glass’ the cool thing about it is as it's so
different to our other stuff, there is scope for us to widen
our fan base and to really attract a new kind of group of
people who are into that kind of style of music."
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"YEEEEES!!!”“Do you think that was it?”“That was it, that was great.”
“You f***ing nailed that!”“Yeah, I don’t think I made many
mistakes in that.”“No I didn’t spot any.”
“As soon as you went into the heavy bit after the drum roll we all shouted
‘Yes!’ We were celebrating.”"As soon as I did that bit I thought,
aah, I’m home and dry.”
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the control
room.
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control room.
kind of really get each other musically. Obviously I
think it’s very different because obviously we can
sort of snap at each other as brothers do whereas
you probably wouldn’t do that with your general
band mates.”
JP: “Where we might hold back with someone
else, I just think ‘screw it, I’m going to have a jab at
you’ because I can.”
RE: “It’s happened when me and Ed have been
present. We just let them get on with it.”
JP: “But there’s no competitive nature at all really
between us, were not jealous of each other. It’s all
completely friendly.”
Are you two in charge of the producing?JP: “Yeah I think its mainly because, obviously
Duncan’s getting very experienced. And I know
how to use the university facilities. I’ve been
producing myself for Gravity Chain and we’ve
recorded 4 songs now in the studio so I’m getting
to grips with it. So I guess that’s why it’s being led
by us two really.”
RE: “Me and Ed sort of try and help as much as we
can, but there’s only a certain amount we can do
really before we get in the way. We must be such
a pain.”
What is it like, Joe and Duncan, as brothers in the same band?DP: “I would say on the whole really good! I think
actually we both have very similar influences and
How did you learn to use the software?DP: “In my lectures. I’ve had lectures on Protools specifically so I
learnt very quickly. I was so happy when I learnt how to use Protools."Did your lecturer show you how to use it step by step?
DP: “Pretty much, he just shows us exactly how to do everything”JP: “That’s really good. Didn’t you go to a lecture once and he said by
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"Quote from Rich about what he thinks of the band/ and
experience/ the recordings."
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the following week he expected you all to have Protools 10?”DP: “Yeah and that was on our first lecture. He said, ‘so by next
week I guess just make sure you all have Protools, which I did and I thought ‘thank f**k for that,’ but everyone else was thinking, ‘oh s**t,’ now I’ve got to spend £400 to £500 on a piece of software.’"
RE: “Depending on what the gig is, we enjoy playing covers but it’s not the sort of thing we want to prioritize. All the gigs we do are like parties, but there’s a gig coming up at The Cavern in Exeter, supporting a band called The Darlingtons, which I’m really excited about not just because I like the Darlingtons a lot but also because we get to play a whole set of our own music.”How many gigs have you done so far?DP: “A lot. More than we realize probably.”EC: “There were a lot of gigs that I’d completely forgotten we’d done. We had a brief period where we started to get quite a lot of gigs thick and fast, fairly recently actually. We had a really cool gig down in Plymouth at The Vaccines after party. Rich in particular had a big push to get us the gigs. We had a lot over the Christmas period. And about a year and a half prior to that we had a gig at the cavern, which was really cool. But a lot of gigs are local.”How did the Vaccines after party come about? RE: “Well I asked the organizers and apparently they looked at our Reverbnation and they looked
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liveWhen they started out Backbench Rebellion played a lot of parties, small venues and pubs. But the fact that they have since been recognised by two very established bands The Vaccines and The Darlingtons is evidence that they moving away from their humble beginnings.
What songs were you playing in the beginning?DP: “Lots of Arctic Monkeys and Kings of Leon.”EC: “And an ambitious attempt at ‘Knights of Cydonia’ [by Muse].DP: “Which if you think about it is completely different to every other bit of music we play. It’s quite a random one.”EC: “A couple of songs are still in the set. We play ‘Molly’s Chambers’ [Kings of Leon] and ‘I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor’ [Arctic Monkeys]. JP: “In the time [we’ve been apart] we’ve been covering a lot of songs. We started playing The Smiths.”EC: “We’ve been looking back quite a lot. We’ve been doing more oldies, but not oldies that are going to be crowd pleasers, ones that we like to play.”
at our Facebook and the bands in the surrounding area. But Ed said it was to do with Okehampton Battle Of The Bands.” EC: “A lot of the bands that were on there were involved with The Vaccines [gig].”RE: “That was a very exciting yet stressful process.”JP: “Because basically we had to sell 50 of our own tickets in order for us to make a £100 profit and we had to sell 40 at least to break even. So it was very stressful.”EC: “It was a big opportunity. Usually we get gig requests to play at a pub or a local venue or it’s something in the middle of a university term so we can’t really do it. So we thought this is a really good opportunity, we’ve got to take it. But it meant most of us had to take the train down not just for the gig but to practice our material.”RE: “But it was such a good night though.”JP: “We met them afterwards.”RE: “Yeah we met some
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“One of my favourite moments in Backbench has got to be
when we played at The Vaccines after party and Rich dropped his bass and just launched himself
off the stage into the crowd!I will never forget that.”
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good new bands as well. Very
good bands.”
JP: “A band called The Aztecs
who we might end up playing
with in the future, in Bristol.”
What’s been the most enjoyable part of playing in the band?DP: “I would say a big one is
probably winning the heat for
Battle Of The Bands because
I think that as a gig, being on
stage felt incredible in terms of
the sound we got back from the
crowd, but then also actually
going on to win.”
EC: “If you looked at the judges
scores we literally scored
about 40 or 50 more points
than anyone else, we thrashed
them. The comments we got
back were often from friends
or relatives saying, ‘you sound great,’ and that’s nice but this
was the first point when playing
for Backbench that a complete
stranger, who knows a lot about
music, told us we sounded great.
That was a really nice feeling.
JP: “That gig, I remember our
mind set was just - we’re getting
through, we are literally going
to make ourselves get through.
On stage we were all jumping
around and we were all playing
really well.”
EC: “We didn’t think too much
about the performance we just
got on there. Beforehand we
were saying make sure we
do this, this and this and then
when we got on the stage I
personally just forgot everything
we planned and just played and it
went well. In the final, although
our performance wasn’t quite
as good, the vibe of having over
1000 people in front of us was
great. A good chunk of them
were our mates really enjoying
themselves and going a bit
mental.”
RE: “I think that’s a really strong
thing with Backbench, our fan
base.”
EC: ” Yeah they’re frighteningly
loyal. Some of my mates would
never turn up to number of gigs
some of these guys do and
they’re really good. They really
help us and enjoy our playing.”
JP: “One of my favourite
moments in Backbench has got
to be when we played at the
Absent Kelly Vaccines after party
and Rich dropped his bass and
just launched himself off the
stage into the crowd! I will never
forget that.”
EC: “My favourite moment ever,
playing with Backbench was
probably playing “Let’s Drive,’
I think it was a gig after we
released the EP, and singing the
chorus and seeing a good 30 or
40 people singing my words and
my melody. I’ve never ever felt
like before and I just thought
‘yes!”
JP: “I had a similar experience
at The Vaccines after show party
when my riff was being chanted
by a load of drunken men. I
thought ‘hang on, that’s not me
making that noise.’
RE: “You know you’ve done
something right when people do
that.”
EC: “Well let’s hope it’s the
same reaction for these two
songs.”
How did you get the gig?RE: “I e-mailed. I just e-mailed
them [The Cavern] saying I was
going to ask The Darlingtons
and ten minutes later they said
‘Yeah, that’s cool.’ So if they like
us we’ll get in the loop with The
Cavern.”
That would be good.
RE: “Yeah if we really get into
it. Because we’ve got a lot of
people coming as well, they want
us to go mental.”
EC: “The Cavern is a tiny place.
The stage is so small. It’s tiny
and it’s so sweaty in there! It’s a
really cool venue though.”
RE: “It’s not as sweaty as
Cheriton Football Club though!”
EC: “That was sweaty! The walls
were wet after that gig.”
Any upcoming gigs?EC: “The Darlingtons one is the
big one.”
RE: “That’s on 2nd May.”
EC: “We’re also looking into an
acoustic gig at the Phoenix, but
that might be too much work.”
RE: “We’re playing at one
festival already, that’s in
Thorverton.”
EC: “Thorfest!”
RE: “That’s the first time we’ve
been asked to play at that one,
which should be fun. Currently
we’ve been going through the
process of applying to play at
Truck Festival, which is up in
Oxford. I’ve been approached by
one of my friends and he knows
about 3 or 4 festivals so we’re
going to look into them a bit
more, hopefully we’ll be around
for that.”
EC: “We’ve got a bit more
time this summer to play some
festivals. Last summer we
were, me in particular, so busy,
I literally had about 4 days at
home the entire summer so we
couldn’t really do much gigging.
But this summer we’ve got at
least a month.”
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