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HOME COUNTIES WHO ARE YOU? I’m Will from the rock group Home Counties. WHAT DO YOU DO? I play guitar and sing (questionably). Collectively we make wonky pop songs about 60’s buildings and village greens.
band practice. At the end of the day, it’s a great activity to keep decade long friendships ticking over.
WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW? We’ve just moved from Bristol to East London (traitors), so we are all trying to get used to the hustle and bustle of the big smoke. We are frequenting WHY DO YOU DO IT? a lot of pubs and cafés to try After watching School of Rock and ground ourselves. We in our youth there was no have also just finished our new looking back on the path of EP 'In a Middle English Town', band life. We’ve moved on a which is due for release in little from Sweet Child O’ Mine February with a new single covers since then, but still coming out imminently. When end up playing the same songs that comes out we’re going on we did 10 years ago at every our first headline tour, which Words by Will / Home Counties
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we are very excited about. WHAT'S THE HOT TOPIC? The hot topic at the moment in music is Wet Leg. We love their music and we met them in the Green Man car park in summer (before realising who Wet Leg were). They seem very down to earth and what they have released so far is a step above a lot of what is coming out at the moment. Our new EP comes out in February followed by our first headline tour of the UK, culminating in a big show at The Lexington on 24th February. Photography by Tatiana Pozuelo