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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]

[ past experiences ]

production[ where it all happens ]

[ who is in charge ][ the technical side ]

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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

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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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