Interview
Meet: Uncle Dave’s Biscuit Barrel Where Heavy Metal Meets Hilarious Lyrics
Uncle Dave’s Biscuit Barrel was initially formed in the early 90s by a bunch of friends that had played together in a variety of local rock and metal bands. They take a love of metal and wrap it around hilarious lyrics. They are set to release their debut E.P ‘Uncle Dave’s Biscuit Barrel Goes Apeshit …
Meet: Fuzzy Indie Band Paraffin
Paraffin are one of the south coast’s hottest up and coming bands. Driving inspiration from an eclectic mix of The 1975, Arctic Monkeys and Muse. Backseat Mafia caught up with the band to find out a little bit about them before they take the world by storm with their amalgamation of fuzzy ear-worms and euphoric …
Meet: Grunge Tinged Metal Band Of Concrete Gods
The Luton grunge metallers have returned to the studio after a mix of covid and band illness forced them to withdraw for a year or so. With a new E.P. ‘HurtPeopleHurtPeople’ due out this summer, we caught up with the band to reintroduce them to the world and find out a little bit about them. …
Meet: experimental folk explorer ‘Me Lost Me’ ahead of her new album ‘RPG’.
You might call it folktronica, ‘nu’, dark or weird folk, whatever, Jayne Dent (aka ME LOST ME) makes music of singular quality and significant distinction that simply crosses any divide. Intriguingly experimental and enticingly non-traditional, ME LOST ME music occupies those same rubbly furrows as Caroline or Shovel Dance Collective, following a course set by …
Meet: Manchester death metal band Ingested
Death metal band Ingested opened for Lorna Shore at The Academy in Dublin on the 14.06.2023 and before the show Abigael Paquet got to sit down and have a chat with lead singer Jason Evans. Words and photos Abigael Paquet: Abby: Would you be able to give us a quick introduction for those who don’t know …
Meet: New Geordie On The Block Ernie
Joe Ernest Allan is the man behind Ernie and has just released his debut single ‘Pink Headaches‘ via Gravity Records after spending the last two years in the studio working on a dense collection of songs. Backseat Mafia caught up with Allan after emerging from the studio and supporting Sam Fender in Geordie land, amongst …
Meet: British Rock Band The Alchemy
The Alchemy are a thrilling new British rock band, crafting catchy and anthemic songs from a subconscious blend of the Rock, Indie and Electronic musical landscape they grew up in. Give us a potted history of the band We’re The Alchemy, a band formed in late 2015. We kicked everything off with the release of our …
Meet: Norway’s leading Avant-garde/Progressive Metal act Vulture Industries
VULTURE INDUSTRIES return with their brand new album Ghosts from the past’ which will see the light of day on June 16, 2023 via Dark Essence Record. So Abigael Paquet got to sit down and have a chat with Bjørnar Erevik Nilsen ( Vocals, additional guitars, keys, and percussion) Words Abigael Paquet / photos Jarle Hovda Moe: Abby: Could you …
Meet: Sam Mellors of Deadset
With their debut single ‘The Art Of Pointscoring‘ out now, Hull’s Deadset look to have a bright future ahead of them. We caught up with vocalist Sam Mellors to find out a little more about the band. Give us a potted history of Deadset So, Deadset started at the beginning of 2022 as mine and …
Meet: The Original Outlaw Pete Briley As He Goes Solo
With the release of his second solo single ‘Right Place, Wrong Time’, Backseat Mafia thought it was time to find out a little more about Pete Briley. Give us a potted history of yourself I’ve been a musician my whole life, working with all kinds of artists. If anyone has heard my name before, it …