Nū Publication by Elissa Flynn

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Front Cover: Luke Matthews shot by Elissa Flynn in Brighton, Novemeber 2016

Editor: Elissa Flynn

With thanks to: Demelza Corbett Leeches Luke Matthews

CONTENTS

Art//Demelza Corbett

In Coversation//Leec hes

Aesthetic//Life in Lines

Art//Demelza Corbett I n h e r f i n a l ye a r a t Tr i n i t y L a b a n s t u d y i n g d a n c e , D e m e l z a spoke to us of her ardour to combine bot h her love of ar t and dance for her final piece.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Okay, so I am looking at how you can document movement in a still. That still could be a photo, painting, or mark. Marks can be made in sand, water or by painting the body and using it as a brush. I want to look at how traces of movement are perceived by the unknowing eye. And what the documentation of movement can be interpreted as.â&#x20AC;?

t r a c e s , imprints, memories of movement

In Conversation//Leeches

We c a u g h t u p w i t h J a c k a n d B e n f r o m D o r s e t b a n d L e e c h e s t o t a l k music, angst and pencil skirts.

How long ago did you star t writing those tracks?

So how did you meet? Ben: We went to school together, Corfe Hills, so we met there and were like “lets start a band together when we’re older” and that’s what we did.

J: It was the middle of the summer, we met up did that, wrote those, we got recording then just carried on writing more B: We were just recording on our phones, listening to it back and thinking “yeah that sounds cool lets do more” then we organised a recording session and it became an EP. Now it’s all just so real. It’s weird because we’re already on the next EP; we’ve moved on but we know no one else has heard any of this EP. It’s only four tracks but we knew we’d need 7 or 8 songs for gigs so we got all the songs ready, must have like 20 songs now or something, it’s a nice place to be and nice to be gigging J: Yeah we’ve written a whole new load, it does put the pressure on a bit though

We r e y o u a l w a y s m u s i c a l g r o w i n g up? Ben: No not overly, I was playing in school, but only because I wasn’t that good at football, when that dream died, I had to move on. You were Jack, when did you start playing? Jack: Not really just teenage angst, sad children at Corfe Hill. I didn’t have music, I just dyed my hair purple, it was shit. It was so bad, like a mini afro, I looked like a chive. I started when I first got to uni.

Any

gigs

coming

locally?

J: Nope that’s it we’ve finished as a band. B: There could be a thing in Dorset…one surprise thing, very secret, very Christmassy.

Describe your musical style? J: Gay, it’s just really gay and heavy. Heavy pychy pop. B: Maybe not psychy, maybe just pop. Heavy guitar music pop J: It’s pop B: It’s heavy

Ve r y e x c i t i n g , s o a r e t h e o t h e r s o n g s along the same lines/vibes as Inside Vo i c e s ? B: No J: They’ve all got a handle on the same thing. There’s definitely some elements, the same people in the band, same instruments..

Inside voices is glorious how did that come about? B: We were in a little room at the end of Jacks garden J: A little shed with my little brother. We just stopped playing with our first drummer, Ben said he wanted to drum, we literally just met up and I think that was the first thing we properly started playing. For the vocals we just sat in the garden with all the gear, drinking a few beers. It was a really nice way of doing it; it came about with lots of really badly written lyrics. B: Yeah! That was a good night, got absolutely trashed and wrote all the vocals, no pressure. Its all there now, all done, along with the rest of the 4 track EP which will be coming out on leisure records, Bristol based, with our new single out in two weeks.

If you could per form where would it be?

anywhere,

B: End of The Road for me J: Yeah I’d be pretty happy, or Bournemouth Opera House in Boscombe. It’s now the O2, formerly Bournemouth Opera House. B: Even Mac Demarco said in one of his interviews End of The Road was the best gig he’d played all year, and it’s literally down the road for us, and we go. We go heavily. So that’s mine, and yours was Boscombe Jack? J: Boscombe. Out on the street at Boscombe, you could call it busking.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;the bags o u t s i d e charity shops, you have a rummage through them and find nice little pencil skirts and baby grows.â&#x20AC;?

Any where else in t he world? Literally anywhere.

J: Yeah he did a similar thing, think he was more into his stoner stuff ha, he liked a lot of the old more psychy stuff, Cream.

B: probably, yeah actually that makes us sound “I just want to play at home”. New Zealand sounds cool, there’s so much good music in New Zealand. There you go! Dunno, Taj Mahal? That would do well for us, proper reverb. J: Mekkah. There’s The Blurst Of Times in Australia

Who has most influenced your music today?

Favourite

childhood

B: Just a time and a place man, everything got rad, and we just joined the party. No erm, it’s not one sole thing, me and Jack really love disco. That’s the kind of music we’re into outside of what we do and I guess that must come through, teenage angst, we’re very angsty. J: Coosbay, no Kasabian hahah. Disco, funk that kind of thing. It’s probably an amalgamation of what me and ben both listen to, we didn’t meet and be like “here’s what we should do, we should write music like this” it’s just stuff we’ve both learnt over the years, we didn’t go “I like this guy, I like this guy” and we didn’t approach it along the lines of somebody else B: Not really the question though, what influences us? J: Picasso and sandwiches and long walks on the beach and fighting. B: I think the way we treat ourselves influences it, and we don’t treat ourselves very good so the songs come out sort of.. you know, we’re just freaking out J: Inside Voices

band?

B: Stone Roses for me, they were the only thing my dad played from the age of 0 to 5 I reckon J: Limp Bizkit. The Vines, Crazy Town, straight up whole back catalogue. No, I think Sabbath, early Sabbath.

Do you t hink t his was based on what you knew you liked, or what your parents listened to? B: Definitely my dad, he was really young, he must’ve been in his late twenties whilst I was growing up. He had wonderful tunes, 90s through and through, your dads a similar age though Jack

“we’re going to do a nude photoshoot and it’s going to come out on flesh coloured vinyl, and if you let it get to that weird over and over bit at the end, it will just be me and Ben breathing really heavy.”

What are you listening to now?

What’s

B: Beach House Blossoms J: Beach House yeah, and on the way here Soft Hair, Connan Moccasins new stuff with LA Priest. Also Jane by Jefferson Starship. B: Ahh Soft Hair! That album is incredible. Wand, there’s loads, hundreds!

J: Another beer B: Well we’ve got a song coming out in a couple of weeks, got a gig on the 5th of December at the Louisiana supporting Party Baby, so it’s going to be a lovely little Bristol home coming. We’re recording the next EP this weekend, so we’re pretty swamped, constant gigging.

How would you describe your band aesthetics?

Do you have publication?

J: Whatever’s relatively clean B: We don’t look clean! J: Hahah we’re talking relatively B: Aesthetically? Warm. Or charity shops, I get loads from charity shops, hand me downs, and trading, we’re in a place where we trade a lot of clothes with each other. I think just because if one of us wants something we’ll just be like “do you mind if I wear that?” and then we just swap. And the bags outside charity shops, you have a rummage through them and find nice little pencil skirts and baby grows. J: Well its not only that, its going away for a few days to Bristol and coming back and finding someone else’s shirt in your bag and you go “that’s a very nice shirt” and then you meet each other again and your wearing each others clothes.

for

favourite

you?

music

J: I loved The Fly, it was great when it was coming out, just because it was tiny, it was free and it was full of really good shit. And Pond Blog, but it’s online so ignore that. B: This Year In Music, he’s a great writer, he has such a way with words, I love the way he writes, and what he’s into is generally what I’m into.

Any music videos coming up? B: Yes, I’m a milkman is all you need to know. J: Yeah probably two, a lot of milk B: We’re not allowed to say too much, I’m a milkman. No we haven’t got any videos coming up haha, yeah we have a shoot planned J: We genuinely do, we’ve got people behind it as well, got some guys written us some cheques.. B: Bloody hell jack you’re putting pressure on this

Do you guys owe t he world anyt hing? J: Money, loads of money. I stole a MilkyWay quite a while ago and I’m still…I owe the world a MilkyWay. B: “I need to give that back to the world” yeah money. A bit of cleaning, I definitely owe the world a bit of cleaning.

Will you be bringing out your EPs on vinyl? J: Hopefully, we have to basically. B: Yes, deffo, whilst Leeches is around. Full on four track vinyl. No haha, we’re going for the big album on vinyl, there is no way I will end this without bringing out a vinyl. J: Definitely, twenty track vinyl, we can’t not have an album on fucking vinyl. It’s gonna be Hi-fi coated in Lo-fi I recon, or is it gonna be Lo-fi coated in Hi-fi? If it were me, it would be Lo-fi as fuck. Visually it will be Gatefold, we’re going to do a nude photoshoot and it’s going to come out on flesh coloured vinyl, and if you let it get to that weird over and over bit at the end, it will just be me and Ben breathing really heavy. B: That’s the possibility J: That’s the reality, Ben.

What was t he last good deed you did? J: I gave a homeless guy money yesterday B: But you always give them money, you love the homeless. I helped an old lady across the road yesterday in Wimborne, but she did ask for help, she was like “excuse me young man, is it okay to help guide me across the road?” “ I was like “yeah, yeah baby”. No I didn’t, but yeah helped her over went back to her place and had a good time. Over to you jack, your last good deed..? J: I was sharing a bed with him, thought I might as well. I made myself a sandwich and I did drive myself here. Actually I picked up a mate, I drove past him and he was waiting for a bus, so I took him to work, that’s a good deed.

Big t hank you to Leec hes! Their EP will be a v a i l a b l e o n 18 t h D e c e m b e r. In the meantime find out what we’re listening to and follow us on Spotify at : nūmagazine

“ . . . I o w e t h e w o r l d a M i l k y Wa y. ”

Quick Fire: Favour ite clothing?

item

J: Trousers, black jeans B: Shirt, 70’s collar shirts

Most hated thing in life? B: Jack Pearce J: Ben Lowe

Favour ite

f estival?

B: End of The Road J: End of the Road

Favour ite old band? J: Pentagram, it’s like Sabbath but more drugs. B: I don’t know what that is, why didn’t you just say Sabbath? You love Sabbath. I’d choose the Death of Pop or Dusty Springfield what a band they were.

Favour ite 80’s song? B: At the moment Together in Electric Dreams by Human League. The 80’s has given too much, Gary Numan Cars, there’s too many. J: They have supplied us with everything. Everybody Wants To Rule The World by Tears For Fears, Cutting Crew - Died in Your Arms, what a fucking banger.

Favour ite 90’s song? B: At the moment, Pulp - Do You Remember J: Don’t go chasing waterfalls TLC B: Fucking these are great, I would play all these songs! Sounds like we shouldn’t be doing an interview we should be playing songs J: They are fucking tunes

Best vinyl from your collection? J: Fuzz live in San Francisco B: Highway 61 by Bob Dylan. There we go that describes this band, heavy shit.

“Picasso and sandwiches and long walks on the beach and f ighting.”

“Shirt, 70’s collar shirts”

Aesthetic//Life In Lines Simplifying daily life into minimal illustrations to ac knowledge shape and the finer details. It all began on the streets of Brighton with singer/songwriter Luke Matthews.

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