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Recently we caught up with Brum band Last Light. The quartet offer a powerful and alternative plectrum-spamming sound that sounds something like Twin Atlantic and You Me At Six's love child and for this reason we thought we'd grab an interview with themselves. 

1. Who are Last Light?

We're an Alternative band from Birmingham. We've been mates for ages, we all went to school together in Birmingham but now we've decided to start a band and make music together.

2. Who are your biggest inspirations musically?

Musically i think we're most inspired by Alternative bands like Brand New, Manchester Orchestra and Deftones. I think vocally we draw influences from Alexisonfire and people like The Weeknd.

3. Which track out of the two you've released, those being 'Waves' and 'Shelter', do you feel as though best describes you as a band?

I think out of the two, Shelter probably sums us up. It's quiet and loud and we try and make it as heavy as possible live. Shelter is quite a dark song musically and lyrically and that is definitely the direction that defines us as a band.

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

That's a hard question, we don't even know where we'll be in 5 months time! Hopefully we'll have a few festivals and tours under our belt with an album to play to people. I think if you start setting yourself unrealistic long term aims as a band you become disillusioned when you don't reach what you've got in mind. It should be about having fun with your mates and meeting new people and playing gigs rather than having this intricate long term plan of what you're going to do. We're just going to play gigs, write music and have fun with it and see where it takes us.

5. What's next for Last Light?

We're trying to sort out the release of the EP and hopefully next year a small UK tour, maybe a weekender somewhere. We've been lucky to support some great bands so far, so if we can keep doing that and learning from them, we should be in a good place.

Big thanks to Last Light for the interview. 

Listen to Last Light via Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/lastlightuk ;

Follow Last Light on Twitter: @lastlightband / http://www.twitter.com/lastlightband

Like Last Light on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lastlightuk

Written by Charlie Ireland. 

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