The first we heard of Towns was at Record Store Day in Bristol Rise. We went there to listen to a couple of bands before heading to see another later that night. Everyone we spoke to that day mentioned Towns. Unfortunately we had to leave before they came on.
As soon as I got home I searched this band and regretted leaving Rise. This band reminds me of all the greats of the 90's like The Stone Roses, The Charlatans and Primal Scream but with something different maybe a modern edge. This band I am expecting to hear more and more about in the next 12 months. So we thought we would grab a word with JP (Guitarist) and find out a bit more about them.
Hi, I play guitar in the band. James Maclucas sings, Adam Hastings play bass and Miles Hastings plays drums.
How would you describe your music?
We like drum grooves and cool bass lines in music and we try to mix elements of that with distorted and dreamy guitars, noise, feedback and pop songs.
You must have a huge 90's influence as listening to some of your tunes make me think of the likes of The Stone Roses and The Charlatans, what kind of music did you listen to growing up?
Macca and I first met at school over a shared love of The Cooper Temple Clause... He leant me Kick Up The Flames and the rest, as they say, is history. But what really inspires us to be Towns is our love of bands like My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, Ride, Chapterhouse, Slowdive, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Stone Roses…We’re all really big fans of music that the list is never ending and always changing. But we don’t only listen to 90s music, we’re also fans of stuff from the 60s, 70s and 80s.
We just missed seeing you guys at Rise Record Store Day (RSD) how did it go? How would you describe one of your live shows?
The Rise show went really well. We had just supported TOY the week before so we decided to totally change the set and used Record Store Day as a chance to play some songs we’ve never played live before. It went down better than expected so we’ve added a few of those songs into our main set.
It’s hard to describe your own live show because we can never see ourselves play. But we like to play loud. It’s essential for all the feedback we like to make.
What can we expect from you guys this year? More Singles/ E.P's/ Album?
It’s hard to tell as we don’t know what opportunities are around the corner. But we have our new single coming out at the end of this month. I can see us releasing more singles later this year. I guess we’ll have to wait and see…
Where can people catch you live? Have you got many festivals planned?
We’re really looking forward to our festival slots this year. We recently played Great Escape, and are playing Liverpool Sound City this week. In fact Artrocker named us in their ten great new bands to play at Great Escape Festival this year. We were named alongside some of our favourites such as, Novella, Eagulls, Toy and The Black Belles.
Later on in the year we’re also playing Boardmaster’s and Southsea festivals while we will be playing our first show outside of the UK for a festival in Germany.
We’re really looking forward to going on tour again later this month. Here’s a list of all the live dates we’re doing:
19 May: Line Of Best Fit Stage @ Liverpool Sound City w/ The History of Apple Pie + Bleached
28 May: Barfly, London w/ Sulk
31 May: Horns, St Albans w/ Sulk
02 June: Dot to Dot festival, Bristol
04 June: Seven, Coventry
06 June: Fruit, Hull w/ Sulk
07 June: The Castle, Manchester w/ Sulk
08 June: Escobar, Leeds w/ Sulk
09 June: Stealth, Nottingham w/ Sulk
14 June: Independent, Sunderland
15 June: Seen, Darlington w/ Sulk
16 June: Flapper, Birmingham w/ Sulk
20 June: Start The Bus, Bristol FREE ENTRY
13 July: European Summer Lounge, Germany
10 Aug: Boardmasters Festival
24 Aug: Kings Hall, Herne Bay w/ The Delays
Thanks for the time lads and we will be keeping a close eye out on you by your Facebook and Twitter:
We also will be posting up info on them and so many other bands with interviews, reviews and a new track everyday.
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