UP-INCOMING ARTIST
BRAND NEW FRIEND CASTLEROCK, UK
What sort of themes do you like to explore in your music? Is there one that you are particularly most passionate about and find is written about most often? Love and reasons why i’m terrible at it comes up a lot. It’s all true to my life, growing up, finding out that the world is actually quite terrible, but holding on to the beautiful bits in between. When it comes to images and symbols what do you think best represents the idea of Brand New Friend? Great question, I think we sound like a polaroid. Maybe like a warm summer’s evening. Maybe you’re with your mates playing football in the park just as the sun is beginning to go down. Or you’re on a beach and playing rounders with your family & decide to just jump in the water before it get’s too dark. Then there’s the long walk back to your car knowing something is over forever. It’s the whole spectrum of being alive!
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How do you feel that your hometown has lended to you pursuing music and creating this art? My sister Lauren and I come from a tiny fishing village called Castlerock on the North Coast of Northern Ireland and without it our band might be very different. It’s a place that will forever hold beautiful memories for us, we’d write songs on the beach and our first gig was in the pub at the end of our road. Those people made us who we are, they constantly inspire us to try and make them proud. How do you feel writing music differs with Lauren being a classically trained musician? Do things usually remain on instinct or is there always that element of technical proficiency in the back of your minds? It’s all actually all 100% instinct. We’re not perfectionists, if it feels right, it stays in. If it feels anything other than class, we bin it. Lauren’s genius helps, but thankfully she never holds it over the rest of us!
