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MEALTIME
MEALTIME 5 QUESTIONS
WHO ARE YOU?
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Mealtime, an Alt Electro pop songwriting collaborative based in Manchester but from the scabby ends of Durham, Merseyside, Stockport and North Manchester.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
Argue, mimic each others voices and mannerisms. Eat together more often than doing anything productive. Waste all of our collective income on unnecessary amounts of musical equipment we have no idea how to use. As well as spending £15 in service stations on coffees and wraps when we've only eaten an hour before, in the previous service station. We also release music.
WHY DO YOU DO IT?
We're doing what we're doing for two simple reasons: 1. It's quite literally the only thing we're good at. 2. If we saw six weirdos making semi-clever pop music, trying to dance around a load of synthesizers on a tiny stage, we'd probably go - "I'm glad this exists."
WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW?
This month we'll be releasing our debit EP called "Aperitif" it includes our recent releases and some hot new music we've been working on over the last few months. It brings together a genre bending introduction to what we are as a songwriting/production collective at this point in time. We're all also dealing with the new conditions of the world falling apart around us and not being able to see each other, which is something we're very much not used to. Usually we'd all be meeting up 3-4 times a week to write, record, rehearse, gig and generally annoy each other. But we're now all confined to 6 separate soggy bedrooms, writing songs and passing the virtual parcel for future releases after the current set of songs are released. A few of us are also Key Workers and are adjusting to the new conditions of commuting to a desolate Manchester City centre to carry out mundane tasks wearing face marks and disposable gloves. Fighting off angry customers reminiscent of
Gollum with hand sanitiser being a suitable metaphor for the one ring.
WHAT'S THE HOT TOPIC?
When will we gig again? When will anyone gig again? We were strongly hoping for a huge support tour with an artist along the lines of Daniel Beddingfield or Simon Webbe by the end of 2020. Now these goals seem all the further away. Maybe 2021 now. We used to think gigging was tedious, going backwards and forwards to London to play showcases and not getting home til 4am. The only saving grace being the best beard in the business James Kidd, our tour driver keeping the spirits up with Ozzy Osbourne trivia. But now we miss it after only a month or so without. We cant wait to get back on the road to perform a load of new music, or to be able to shoot videos and photoshoots and be together and hate each other once again. Because all of this separation is making us sickeningly sentimental.
