indie interviews
Meet: Robbie McSkimming From Dancing On Tables
With the band set to release their debut album ‘Colour In The Grey’ next week, Backseat Mafia caught up with Robbie McSkimming from the band to find out a little bit about Scotland’s next big export. Give us a potted history of the band We all met when we were at school but didn’t start …
Meet: Who is Frankie Beetlestone, what makes him so good and why will you know who he is in the coming years?
By Joseph Douglas “I wanna be the biggest artist in the country”- Who is Frankie Beetlestone, what makes him so goodand why will you know who he is in the coming years? Spirited musician Frankie Beetlestone only released his debut EP in 2021. But after alreadytouring with Tom Grennan, he is already making his mark …
Meet: Billy Rowan, The Man Behind The Undercover Hippy
Drum n Bass MC turned singer-songwriter Billy Rowan aka The Undercover Hippy is on a mission tomake people think, laugh and dance simultaneously. We caught up with Rowan to find out where it all started and his new track ‘These Days‘. Give us a potted history of yourself I started out as an acoustic solo …
Meet: The Brilliant Trio That Is Dream Wife
With the band on tour after supporting their second album ‘So When You Gonna…’, which earned both #18 UK Album Chart debut and a #1 placing in the Official Record Store Chart of Independent Retailers. The record, which was the only album in the top 20 to be produced by an all womxn / non-male engineering team, as well as the only non-major label …
Rising: We speak to Berlin artist L’aupaire after recent single When I Fall
Once we heard ‘When I Fall’, the recent single from Berlin based Robert Laupert, a small signal of hope written in a difficult period in his life, and wrapped up in this country folk exterior, we knew we needed to take notice of what he had to say, and find a little more out about …
Rising: Meet La Bonte, and watch his new video for Don’t Let This Define Me
Ahead of the debut album under the moniker La Bonte, Don’t Let This Define Me, comes a single of the same name from the Southern Californian troubadour Garrett La Bonte, and it’s out today. For all of the sunshine of California, there’s something of the grey about the song, beautifully melancholy in a sort of …
Meet: Cathal Coughlan, ahead of his new solo album ‘Songs Of Co-Aklan’
Cathal Coughlan’s music permeates my record collection. I remember my first discovery – his early band Microdisney’s ‘Singers Hampstead Home’, (on glorious 12”) on one of those teenage record shop days where you literally couldn’t leave the building without spending every last penny of whatever part time job/pocket money paid for such things (in my …
Meet: We talk to Stuart A. Staples of Tindersticks on new album ‘Distractions’, lockdown and more
TINDERSTICKS are in danger of becoming a national treasure. After all they’ve (or more pertinently lead figure Stuart A Staples has) since 1991, largely making thought-provoking dark pop and emotive vignettes, always concerned with mood as well as just melody and structure. To that end, they have always turned ears and drew people towards them. …
Rising: We meet brilliant Sheffield quartet Sister Wives ahead of their new release
Those scamps at Delicious Clam always manage to grab our attention, and they’ve struck gold again, signing brilliant Sheffield band Sister Wives to their roster. We’ve already fauned over ‘I Fynwy Af/Rise’ one side of their new release, and with flip side Crags being about strange witch markings found at Creswell Crags in Worksop we’re …
Meet: We speak to Bradford ahead of their new album
Rather than the global recognition they so richly deserved, 90s indie band Bradford were relegated to corners of second hand record shops, names on old gig listings and, sadly, a footnote. But it didn’t end. They were always that little gem on a mix cassette, a ‘do you remember?’ Or ‘did you ever hear’ in …