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Hull band Breeze spoke to us this week. Branded by themselves as an alternative rock band, the yorkshire lads have already supported bands such as SKATERS , Drowners and Girls Names and are set to support Catfish and the Bottlemen next month. The future is looking bright for the 'ull boys, so we grabbed an interview with Aron from the band and here it is:

1) Who are BREEZE?

We're a four piece band from Hull, two guitars, one bass, one drum and three vocals. We don't really want to categorize ourselves as a certain type of band because that's for every body else to decide but we quite often get the words grunge and lo-fi slung about in there.

2) You're set to release a new single and EP soon, tell us a little about that?

Yeah we're releasing a 3 track single/e.p in August called Post Youth, it's quite exciting really to think about as it's the first time any of us will of ever had our music in a physical and digital form. In terms of sound it's sounding really heavy and dirty. The guy who produced it (Paddy Tobin from Mountain Sound Recording Studio in Hull) kept giving us these baritone guitars to record with to give it that extra bang. Sounds really cool though, we'll be releasing it after the first music video.

3) You are supporting Catfish and the Bottlemen at the Fruit in Hull in July, a gig RIFFED are going to be at, how excited are you for this?

Yeah we're quite excited to be fair, we've played Fruit a few times before and often with big bands like Skaters, Drowners and Girls Names so it's not really new to us but Catfish are a really exciting band so it'll be a good experience to share the stage with them. Plus our mates in NEED are playing and they're starting to sound mega. I've got to say that because I used to be in a band with two of them... But all jokes aside we're dead excited for it.

4) What's next for BREEZE?

Whats next for BREEZE is getting the single and the video out really and getting it around the country, we're hoping to book a series of out of town gigs and give the single a big push, but for the foreseeable future the main plan is just to gig gig and gig with us spending quite a bit of time in the studio this year. We've also got a few massive shows to announce as well in the next few weeks or so.

Big thanks to Aron of BREEZE for the interview.

You can check BREEZE out here: www.soundcloud.com/wearebreeze

And follow them on Twitter: www.twitter.com/wearebreeze

Or like them on Facebook: www.facebook.com/wearebreeze

Also you can follow BREEZE on Instagram: www.instagram.com/wearebreeze_

RIFFED x

The Palace Wolves, all the way from Atlanta chatted to us recently. The Americans are a very powerful alternative band, with plenty of vibrancy and we expect there to be a bright future awaiting them. This is what they had to say us:

1) Who are The Palace Wolves?

The Palace Wolves are a Shoegazey influenced, synth-rocksplosion! ...ehh but in real terms, we are Shannon Small (keys, vocals, lead guitar), Ryan Pace (lead vocals, guitars) Matt Katis (keys), Ryan Pincott (drums), and Daryl Weber (bass). I Shannon Small and Ryan Pace formed the Palace Wolves late in 2011, eventually adding the super talented people we're lucky to play with now.

2) Best gig you've played so far?

Best gig so far...I'd say a small bar at what is known in Atlanta as The East Atlanta Village. The spot is called 529. It was St. Patricks, and everybody was moving together. In the end, that's all we want to do, to reach the crowd, have everybody forget whatever bullshit they left at the front door, and move with us.

3) What can we expect from The Palace Wolves in the future?

Right now we are preparing to go into the studio and record our first full length record. It will be a more organic experience I think, but we've stayed pretty close to our electronic roots. We're super excited for everyone to hear this stuff, most of the tracks are brand new to our outside Atlanta audience. That said, old favs like "lights that fade" and "three am" are getting a facelift and going on the new record.

4) Where do you see yourselves in 5 years?

In 5 years....could be anywhere. We have a plan for the future but we live in the now. I'd hope we get the chance to go overseas and tour. We've got some bucket list items like playing in Japan and the UK. I don't know, 5 years is a pretty long time, anything will happen;)

5) Who's on your playlist?

There are five of us, but I've narrowed down our top ten playlist: 

Bombay Bicycle club

Local Natives

The Stone Roses

The Cure

Weezer

The National

Ride

My Bloody Vanentine

Oasis

Phantogram

Big thanks to Shannon from The Palace Wolves for the interview.

Like The Palace Wolves on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Palace-Wolves/413761098685991

Or follow them on Twitter: @ThePalaceWolves

Visit The Palace Wolves' webpage: www.thepalacewolves.com

Listen to The Palace Wolves:

Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/the-palace-wolves

Bandcamp - http://thepalacewolves.bandcamp.com/

RIFFED x

We caught up with Bolton band Cuban Hexe, they've recently released their new EP 'Missile Crisis' that we advise you give a listen. Here's how our interview went down:

1) Who are Cuban Hexe?

Cuban Hexe are Alex, Lewis, Rob & Joey. Four teenagers from Bolton intent on creating art in the form of loud music.

2) You've recently released your debut EP 'Missile Crisis', tell us a little about that?

Missile Crisis is the culmination of our work over the first few months of the band. It’s essentially the four of us doing what we want and it just so happens to sound quite nice. It's gritty, it's loud and rumour has it it can cure the common cold. Check it out. Please?

3) Favourite gig of which you've played?

We’re yet to play live, but expect to see us on a stage near you in the near future. We’re going to be doing whatever we can over summer.

4) Biggest inspirations for Cuban Hexe?

We're a band predominantly influenced by blues and garage rock. Our guitar riffs hopefully reflect the likes of Zeppelin and Jack White. But ultimately our influences stretch past any single genre, from Gnarls Barkley to Turbowolf, Elvis Presley to Radkey.

5) Where do you see yourselves in 5 years?

Realistically we see ourselves leading a new world order. Five years is more than enough time to inspire a generation.

6) What can we expect from Cuban Hexe next?

Aside from world domination, we have plenty of new song ideas brewing so expect some new songs sometime this summer. We obviously intend to make our live debut as soon as possible so we’re looking forward to that.

Cheers Cuban Hexe for the interview.

Like Cuban Hexe on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cubanhexe

Or follow them on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CubanHexe

Listen to Cuban Hexe and their new EP 'Missile Crisis' here :

Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/cubanhexe

Band Camp - http://cubanhexe.bandcamp.com

Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUu50Ww_bjExiCEQAXe4dmA

RIFFED x

We chatted with Cameron of Bolton band Sittin Pretty this week. This is what he had to say to us:

1) Who are Sittin Pretty?

We're a 5 piece from Bolton. We being Conor, Lewis, Cameron, George, and Jack (Soon to be Sayon, Jacks leaving).

2) Favourite gig of which you've played?

Personally, my favourite gig was the last gig we did at Blind Tiger in Bolton, not our biggest gig but our last with Jack on drums. Everyone killed it, the crowd were amazing and its was a real good send off for Jack. We've done a few other cool gigs in Manchester, Castle Hotel was a great gig we did for promo for a live video series we were involved in with the guys at GASst. The bands that night were unreal.

3) Where do you see yourselves in 5 years time?

In five years time? Hopefully still gigging and recording music, just with a bit of luck it'll be to a few more people.

4) Who are your biggest inspirations?

As a band we get a lot of inspiration from old blues bands, bands like Hendrix, Clapton, Peter Green and newer acts like Jack White and some of the older Black Keys stuff. How much influence that has musically for us I'm not too sure.

5) What can we expect from Sittin Pretty in the future?

For the summer we're pretty quiet, just writing as much new music as possible and we'll be back to gigging at the end of August. Over the next year we'll hopefully have a new EP and be doing as many gigs as we can convince people to give us.

Huge thanks to Cameron for the interview. We are huge fans of the Bolton lads and we strongly advise you check them out.

Follow Sittin Pretty on Twitter : @SittinPretty6

Like Sittin Pretty on Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/SittinPrettyMusic?ref=ts&fref=ts

Listen to Sittin Pretty via Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/sittinprettymusic

RIFFED x

We spoke to Devon band Brookyln this week. The lads recently released new single 'Ashleigh',  which possesses a similar sound and style to that of The 1975 and this band have certainly got a bright future ahead of them. Due to this we caught up with Brooklyn and grabbed an interview:

1) Who are Brooklyn?

Jack on drums, Alex on bass and Josh plays guitar and sings

2) You recently released new single 'Ashleigh', tell us a little about that?

Yeah so I mean the whole song came about listening to Prince's 'I Would Die 4 U' and we really got inspired on that whole album. Around late 2013, Josh was writing a lot of very personal lyrics, scribbles and drafts, that he never really thought to use, but always kept titled under highlighted events and so this was a pretty perfect fit to use its types of lyrics for the song, Josh fell in love with the idea of a happy pop song with the twist of quiet sad story behind it. thats what we tried to in vision in our music video, It's your basic love triangle, but it's however you interpret it, we don't want to take that away from anybody, it's yours.

3) Favourite gig of which you've played?

None as of yet but thats about to change.

4) Where do you see yourselves in 5 years time?

I think playing Glasto, or is that pushing it, ha.

5) What's next for Brooklyn?

We're releasing another song for free named 'Car' on Monday 16th, we hope this song won't make people blueprint who they think we are, and late summer releasing our EP but can't give anything away as of yet.

Big thanks to Brooklyn for the interview.

Like Brooklyn on Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/bklynuk

Or follow them on Twitter : @Bklynuk

Listen to Brooklyn via Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/officialbklyn

RIFFED x

This week we chatted to Halifax artist Oliver Pinder, the singer/songwriter is aiming to become Yorkshire's very own Jake Bugg. He's certainly going the right way about it. This is how it went down:

1) Who is Oliver Pinder?

Oliver Pinder is a singer/songwriter based in Halifax (where the bank originates from) near Leeds. I play what some may describe as upbeat acoustic music with a little bit of piano thrown in there. I’m gigging up and down the UK and loving life.

2) Favourite gig of which you've played?

My favourite gig would have to be a gig I played for a competition at Belgrave Music Hall in Leeds, it was flipping awesome and I can not wait to return this Friday supporting the fantastic King No-One.

3) Where do you see yourself in 5 years time?

I would say that seen as though five years is a long time away I could probably see myself touring either supporting or headlining and still hopefully gigging my music.

4) What can we expect in the future from you?

I am planning on releasing an EP and gigging it soon so that and lots of gigs.

 5) Who are your biggest inspirations?

The musicians that started me off would have to be Orla Gartland (mainly), Ed Sheeran and Passenger, to this day I still listen to them three acts where as I now also listen to a lot of unsigned acts like Jasmine Kennedy, Jacobean Ruff, King No-One, Luke Sital-Singh, Bipolar Sunshine and others.

Cheers to Oliver for the interview.

Like Oliver on Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/OliverPinderOff

Or follow him on Twitter : @oliverpinder

Visit Oliver's webpage : http://www.oliverpinder.co.uk/

Listen to Oliver via Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/oliverpinderoff

RIFFED x

King No-One are the newest indie rock band on the market, born and bred in York, the quartet are already sending shock-waves across the industry. Due to their recent rise in popularity, they've been confirmed to play this years Humber Street Sesh in Hull once again after playing in last years event, the band have also already headlined gigs in Hull, such as the Fruit in September of last year and now know what to expect from the Hull crowd at this years Humber Street Sesh, and we expect them to go home a very happy bunch once seeing the rockers from York. Due to their recent rise of popularity we grabbed an interview with them:

1) Who are King No-One?

King No-One are a four piece Indie Rock band from York, all members being 19.

2) Are you looking forward to playing this years Humber Street Sesh?

Yes, we played last year and it was great fun. We love a good Hull crowd!

3) What can we expect from King No-One in the future?

Well, we're already on the fringes... We toured the UK with Embrace this May, got played on Sunday Brunch, headlined and sold out two dates in Leeds and York and played Leeds and Reading fest last August. We've also got a great festival circuit this year. So expect us to make our way into being a household name, a band people have heard of up and down the country, that's only near future...

4) Hull is home to some great gig venues such as the Früit, which you've already headlined in Septemberof last year, do you think you could be headlining gigs there again anytime soon?

We headlined the Fruit in September, it's a great venue. We will come back and do it again on a much bigger scale soon.

5) Where do you see yourselves in 5 years time?

In 5 Years time we'll be 24, no doubt we'll still be in this band. So in less than two years, we've got to where we are, add another 5... We see ourselves being very busy.

Big thanks to King No-One for the interview. If you've purchased a wristband for this years Humber Street Sesh we strongly advise you go see these lads. Hull are in for a treat...

Like King No-One on Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/kingno.oneband

Or follow them on Twitter : @KingNoOne2

RIFFED x

We spoke to The Walking Method this week. The band have recently released their new single 'Ghosts', a soft indie/rock song that we can see being a hit with many people. Due to this, we grabbed ourselves an interview with the London lads:

1) Who are The Walking Method?

We are an Indie Rock band from London consisting of three members; William Dorey (Lead Singer and Guitarist), Jacob Henry (Drummer) and Matthew March (Bass Guitarist).

2) Favourite song of which you've produced?

Rusty Hook.

3) Where do you see yourselves in 5 years?

Hopefully playing more shows across the country and maybe even further afield.

4) Biggest inspirations?

Kasabian, Noel Gallagher & Arctic Monkeys

5) Who's on your usual playlist?

Arctic Monkeys, The 1975, Fall Out Boy, Swim Deep, Wolf Alice, Two Door Cinema Club, The Wombats, The Vaccines, The Beatles, Foals, Catfish and the Bottlemen.

Big thanks to The Walking Method for the interview.

Listen to The Walking Method via Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/user/WalkingMethod

Follow The Walking Method on Twitter : https://twitter.com/WalkingMethod

Or 'like' them on Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/TheWalkingMethod?fref=ts

Listen to The Walking Method via Soundcloud also : Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/thewalkingmethod

RIFFED x

We spoke to Dollhouse. They're currently working on a new single, so we got ourselves an interview with the dolls.

1) Who are Dollhouse?

We are a band originating from Stroud comprising of Will, Alf, Zak, Sam and Tom.

2) Favourite gig of which you've played?

Our favourite gig was a festival in Stroud called Site Festival, we supported Sheena (https://soundcloud.com/sheena-uk), Courtly Love, and Filthy Boy (Stranger Records). The sound was incredible, it was in a huge goods shed, and the gig was followed by a thrilling drag night; in which Dollhouse all participated.

3) What can we expect in the future from Dollhouse?

We are doing lots of gigs this summer, a few festivals are on the cards like Bristol Harbourside Festival on the 20th of July, as well as a gig at The Fleece in Bristol on the 28th of June. As well as this we are playing at Stroud Fringe Festival at the end of August.

4) Who are your biggest inspirations?

We are all huge fans of the Fat White Family, Dollhouse, TOY, July, Groove Armada, The Happy Mondays, Joy Division and David Lynch.

5) Who's on your usual playlist?

At the moment we are enjoying "Who Shot Lee Oswald?" by the Fat White Family, "Mine And Yours" by The Horrors, and the album "Mezzanine" by Massive Attack because it is simply sublime.

Cheers to Dollhouse for the interview.

Listen to Dollhouse via Soundcloud : www.soundcloud.com/bewildereduk

'Like' Dollhouse on Facebook : www.facebook.com/thedollhouseband

Unfortunately Dollhouse aren't yet on Twitter. Don't follow the girl pop band. We promise you, that isn't them.

RIFFED x

We met Mancs The Shimmering Suns and grabbed an interview with the band who are aiming to become the next indie sensation. This is what they had to say:

1) Who are The Shimmering Suns?

We're a four piece shoegaze band from Manchester, who try to add a bit more bite to the genre. We're Alex, Mike, Marty and Scott.

2) Favourite gig of which you've played?

We're actually going on tour in august for the first time. I can't tell you all the dates just yet but we're playing a really small Manchester venue with a really cool band called The Rusbies which should be a lot of fun, and doing an EP launch show at Sound Control

3) What can we expect from The Shimmering Suns in the future?

We have an EP out in August, which will be followed by as many dates as fragile bank accounts will allow. An album next year would be nice. Generally speaking though, real good vibes ~~

4) Where do you see yourselves in 5 years time?

Broke. Touring. Happy

5) Who's on your usual playlist?

The Horrors are my favourite band of all time, at least a few songs from each of their records. I love The Velvet Underground, Bowie, Slowdive, Bob Dylan, Sonic Youth and Warpaint a lot too. We took our name from a TOY song, so I better mention them too. Oh and Younghusband are really cool. There's so many, I'm discovering new music daily at the moment - it's great!

6) Biggest inspirations for The Shimmering Suns?

We all have really different influences which I find really cool. Personally I'd say The Horrors, Warpaint, TOY, Slowdive, July, that kinda thing. Scott and Alex are more into their grunge and rock n roll, whereas Mike is a fan of blues and Oasis. I think having different influences stops us sounding generic, I'm really grateful for it to be honest.

Cheers The Shimmering Suns for the interview.

Follow The Shimmering Suns on Twitter : https://twitter.com/shimmeringsuns_

Or 'like' them on Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/TheDiamondSeasMusic

Listen to The Shimmering Suns on Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CKle4l61ZA

RIFFED x