Interview
Meet: Barnaby Weir from The Black Seeds chats about hope, building grooves and finding meaning with their long awaited album “Love and Fire” and nationwide tour.
Aotearoa’s Barnaby Weir has earnt his place as the humble, iconic and supremely talented national treasure and “chef” to such epic musical projects as The Black Seeds and Fly my Pretties. “Love & Fire” is a long awaited and much welcomed gift created over a collectively challenging time. The release of the album and nationwide …
Meet: Singer Songwriter LuxJury
Lux Jury is a vocalist and guitarist who’s set to bring her angular, queer-positive musical take on life to the masses. We caught up with her before she gets far too famous and in demand to bother answering our questions. Give us a potted history of yourself Hey Craig and Backseat mafia I’m a vocalist …
Meet: The Man Behind The Dream Gazing Project – Night Movies
Night Movies is the project of London artist and musician Frederick Fuller. With three singles released and an album on its way later this year, we caught up with Fuller to find out all about his project. Give us a potted history of the band Night movies started around the back end of 2015. Kind …
Meet: Sheffield Rockers Doomsday Outlaw And Listen To New Single ‘One More Sip’
Sheffield’s blues rockers Doomsday Outlaw are all about writing catchy rock n roll songs and have cemented their place with the release of their last album Hard Times. With a handful of singles so far including the recent release ‘One More Sip’, we caught up with the band to find out a little more about …
Meet: Italian Alt Rock Duo Peaks!
Peaks! are an Alt Rock duo from Italy who started creating music back in 2020 releasing their jaw-dropping debut track ‚’Blackout‘. Backseat Mafia managed to put some questions to the duo to find out about them and what the future holds. Give us a potted history of the band We (Lorenzo and Luca) started playing …
Meet: Will Miles Of London Hard Rock Band Silverkord
London band Silverkord released their debut album ‘Liquid Air’ in early 2020 to much acclaim. The band have returned with a new single that carries on their hard-hitting melodic sound. Backseat Mafia caught up with the band to find out a little bit about them. Give us a potted history of the band It’s quite …
Meet: Bea Burridge; Making Loud Music For Angry Girls
Give us a potted history of yourself I’ve been writing music since I was at university. I started off writing poetry and it just seemed like a natural progression. I’ve been actually recording music and my own songs for around six years with my amazing producer Sean Kennedy playing every single instrument on my tracks. …
Meet: Supersonic festival director Lisa Meyer ahead of July’s must-catch happening.
Festivals are back and that’s important. Every festival, from gargantuan to the esoteric, has a community around it, they have become part of our folklore, part of our cultural clock, a marker in the year, a celebration of a certain thing that happens over and over. Relationships build between a festival and its people, the …
Meet: Your New Favourite Band – Excuses Excuses
Excuses Excuses are a rock band from Ontario, Canada, who are bringing back the punkier side of rock in a big way with a set of brilliant singles, setting them out as a band to watch. Their debut album is due out later this year, so Backseat Mafia caught up with them to find out …
Meet: Punk Rock Factory at Slam Dunk Festival North
BM: My name is Erin. I’m from Backseat Mafia. Could you just introduce yourself and then what you do in the band? PRF: I’m Peej. I’m the singer and rhythm guitarist and I’m Kob and I play drums. BM: Lovely. I just watched your set, we don’t talk about technical difficulties because by the end …