Riffed

We chatted to Garden this week. The 'super-group' have recently released their debut track 'Blind Vipers' and were on hand to tell us a little about it. This is how it went down:

1 Who are Garden?

Garden are a rock super-group made from members of Heavy Waves, Bad Moon and (the gone but never forgotten) Wide Eyed. I'd had this idea for ages and finally found a line up that I thought could give it the colour it needed. So we got together some jams and now we're recording.

2 You've recently released your debut track 'Blind Viper', tell us a little about that?

It came from a riff idea Paddy wrote when we had bombarded him with this Flats song. We just imagined a kind of bleakly heavy repetitive bit of doom that just lazily drips in to more spacious tangents. I'd call it a sleazy piece. It's weird that it's our first release because as much as we enjoyed writing it and enjoy playing it, its oddly absent of certain things that reflect our future song ideas.

3 Who are Garden's biggest inspirations?

Firstly, Black Sabbath. I always imagined this band as a much simpler thing, like I basically wanted to write some hardcore punk that was driven by psychedelia and doom. Vocally I'd say I take influence from bands like Purple Mercy, Pissed Jeans and maybe some more Jim Morrison type shit. But what makes this band so interesting to play in is that the others come from totally different angles, Aaron likes loads of math rock and gets hard from anything with a dodgy time signature. Luke has an admiration for like grunge and surf music (see his band Heavy Waves). Thom and I have played music together for years, he listens exclusively to Bill Withers. Paddy just loves class hip hop like The Pharcyde and A Tribe Called Quest. So as you can tell when your dealing with a mad collage of what people dig its a lot less about who influences us but what. Writing is becoming challenging in the most interesting way yet for me personally. Over all though we all just love God Damn, I think they were my proof that something so obscene might just work.

4 Where do you see yourselves in 5 years time?

Dead.

5 What's next for Garden?

We have a show on the 19th with a band called Milk Teeth in Birmingham that we're excited about and have a couple of other shows to announce soon. Its our first show since our debut at the actress and bishop so it will be cool to play again. Other than that we are finishing off a set off three songs that were putting out in September.

Huge thanks to Garden for the interview. 

Listen to Garden's debut track 'Blind Vipers' via Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9uk8aTK6J8&feature=youtu.be

Follow Garden on Twitter: @gardenzeband

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Visit Garden's webpage on Tumblr: gardenband.tumblr.com

RIFFED x