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We spoke to Eoin of Sheffield duo Drenge this week. Drenge are a band continously on the rise, they were on Later... With Jools Holland last year, they then released their debut album which went down a storm and they have a busy summer of festivals ahead of them, will their rise up the music industry's ladder ever end? We certainly hope not. This is what Eoin had to say:

1 Who are Drenge?

We’re two brothers from a mildly popular tourist village in the Peak District. We started playing music when I took a year off of education and couldn’t find any work and got really down on life.

2 You released your debut album last year, tell us a little about that?

It’s a rock album of all our earliest songs, sequenced chronologically, in the order we recorded them. The sessions span around 18 months, so as the album goes on you can hear us progress musically.

3 You've just finished a tour, how did that go?

Yeah we had a 4 date ‘tour’ last week. I basically refuse to accept that anything under two weeks is a tour, but yeah, it was fun. It’s nice to play places that don’t have a lot of live music coming through, because there’s a strong music loving community in those towns. Everyone cakes to see the opening acts, which is really rare in the bigger towns.

4 You are from Sheffield, like the Arctic Monkeys, do you reckon you can top them?

No. They’re the biggest band on the planet right now. What would be the point?

5 Plans for the future?

Festivals, tour, album, tour, festivals, tour...

Big thanks to Eoin for the interview. 

Like Drenge on Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/drengeboys

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Follow them on Twitter : @drenge

Purchase their debut album 'Drenge' via iTunes here : https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/drenge/id662118125

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