Satellite Tour, a brand new live music experience
showcasing the best up-and-coming artists, is coming in February 2014. Next up in our preview of the artists is Sons and Lovers. We caught the four-piece last summer at Y NOT Festival and loved what we saw
Click below to read what they had to say to
us about getting out on the road, putting out music for free and trying to stick to new year's resolutions...
Last year you
played with the likes of Ellie Goulding, The Naked and Famous as well as huge
festival slots; did you enjoy these big shows?
They were an amazing experience! Was a
pretty crazy year to be honest.
And are you
looking forward to getting out on The Satellite Tour which will be more
intimate venues?
As soon as we heard about the tour we
couldn't we jumped at the opportunity. There can be a really special atmosphere
at intimate shows that big ones sometimes lack so we can't wait!
Is it nice to
be selected as a band to look out alongside the other acts on the tour?
Definitely, we feel really lucky to be
asked to play on the tour. We're big fans of Eliza & the Bear and Fred
Page so it will be great to see them play every night and crush them both
at Fifa every day.
What’s your
favourite venue that you’ve played? And are you looking forward to going to
venues you haven’t played?
We love The Cavern in Exeter. Josh
grew up in Exeter and it's where we met. Every town and city should have a
venue that is as committed and passionate about grass roots live music as they
are. Apart from the Cavern we are especially excited about playing The Basement
Coffee House in Ayr, it got voted best small venue in Scotland by NME so they
must be doing something right!
How would you
describe your sound to people who haven’t heard of Sons and Lovers?
We try to write anthemic, emotive pop
songs. Sing along choruses, big guitars, big strings - that kind of thing...
It's always pretty hard to describe your own sound though.
You’ve been
releasing tracks for free online and had a club NME residency at KOKO; have
they been great at getting your music and name out there?
Definitely, we wanted our music to be
heard by as many people as possible and putting ‘Golden’ and ‘Ghosts’ up for
free download definitely helped us with that. The Koko residency was such a
good month as well! It's one of our favourite venues and the crowd is so up for
it, so it made for a very good month.
We’re well
into January now- how are those new year’s resolutions going?
POORLY. The much needed curbs on booze
and food didn't really even get started... I'm sure we'll have a quiet chilled
out February though... Oh.
Honestly, our resolutions were to make every effort to play as many shows as possible in 2014 so The Satellite Tour has definitely sorted us out.
Honestly, our resolutions were to make every effort to play as many shows as possible in 2014 so The Satellite Tour has definitely sorted us out.
What else
have you guys got coming up in 2014?
We're releasing our first ever
physical single which is really exciting! We've got a few things we've been
working very hard on behind the scenes which are going live very soon as well,
looking like it's going to be a really exciting few months.
Click HERE to read a preview interview with Fred Page
Tickets cost
£4 and are on sale now.
