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Hope and Ruin is a hotspot- that’s our favourite. We play that the most- it’s a go to.

What bands are you most excited for this year?

See this is our downfall because apart from Nina Simone I don’t listen a lot. We don’t listen to much modern music or follow the scene which plays into what we’ve said already. I’m really not interested in following new things. It’s not a conscious thing because there’s so many bands about to enjoy. However, we do like Trip Western, Car Machines and Tekashi’s Cashew. I do believe Dream Wave is the next big thing.

How would you describe your music to someone who hasn’t heard it?

If the godfathers and godmothers of rock, soul and blues lost their children in a McDonald’s ball pit, we are the greasy little chip oil children who crawled out twenty years later. Just released the single ‘I Don’t See You Dancing’ and the music video for it. Got a whole six song EP to be released over the summer so buy the end of summer that will be out. Just keep an eye on our Instagram and Spotify.

What’s your recording and creative process like?

The writing starts with Ryan, he’ll bring us bear bones of a song and then me (Luke) and Charlie (guitarist) we’ll work out a way to flesh it out.

Charlie will be very critical and say that it’s shit or bad and then we’ll argue and it’s up to Luke to say who’s wrong and who’s right. And then when we record it’s all live. We just record the whole thing live and then if we need to overdub it we will. But we’ve often recorded things and then just binned it afterwards.

Best Song: I don’t see you dancing Instagram: @theslaughterhousebanduk

Words by Charley Murfitt