{"id":6770,"date":"2012-09-27T18:36:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T17:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=6770"},"modified":"2012-09-27T22:50:47","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T21:50:47","slug":"we-show-up-on-radar-interview-artist-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/we-show-up-on-radar-interview-artist-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"WE SHOW UP ON RADAR Interview – Artist of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As part of our Artist of the Month<\/a><\/strong> celebrations, we always try to deliver an interview. The ever enthralling WE SHOW UP ON RADAR<\/a><\/strong> is our September Artist of the Month<\/a><\/strong>, so back when it was still sunny (remember those days? No, me neither), I managed to grab the delightful Andy Wright for an orange juice and a chat.
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\nMaddie: How did WE SHOW UP ON RADAR<\/a><\/strong> get started?<\/em>
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\nAndy Wright: Hmm that\u2019s tricky…I think I started it myself. I just wrote a song and went \u2018ta daa\u2019, it\u2019s WE SHOW UP ON RADAR<\/a><\/strong>.
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\nM: And you liked it so carried on<\/em>?
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\nAW: Well I\u2019m not sure I liked it. It was necessary, a good thing to do. I guess I\u2019ve been doing it quite a while. I\u2019ve been writing songs for about 15 years. I mean, the first ten years, they were all appalling songs! Just terrible. But then I finally got to a level which was virtually acceptable.
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\nM: Your music\u2019s been described as \u2018grown up nursery rhymes\u2019. Is this a deliberate thing you go for?<\/em>
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\nAW: I\u2019m not sure if they\u2019re nursery rhymes or not, they\u2019re just little things that I find significance in. Like having a little wander up to the castle could become a little fairy tale-ish I suppose. I don\u2019t do anything exciting see. I have to make it seem a bit more fascinating than it really is.
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\nM: Is there any particular writing process you go through?<\/em>
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\nAW: It normally starts with a nice little lyric. The melodies are easy, not easy for me to create \u2013I\u2019m no Mozart or summit- but they\u2019re quite simple. As long as it\u2019s got a nice lyrical flow to it…like hip-hop. Whimsical fairy tale Hip Hop. That\u2019ll be my next album and it\u2019ll be lovely. But yeah, it normally starts with a lyric, and that\u2019s often inspired by someone else. This album\u2019s got stuff from by Charles Bukowski and lots of poetry and stuff I\u2019ve read in the past. I\u2019ll take a lyric, play around with it and go off on one.
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\nM: Your debut came out on September Tenth. What can we expect from ‘Sadness Defeated’?<\/em>
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\nAW: Oooh…more of that general fairy tale whimsy stuff! Maybe a death metal track at the end to throw people off. Actually, there is a track that goes a bit heavy at the end. I got my friend Joe in with his electric guitar and we decided to play really loud at the end of the song. Takes you from fairy tale whimsy right through to death metal.
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\nM: You\u2019re often described as multi-instrumentalist. Did you play most of the instruments on your new album?<\/em>
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\nAW: For this album it was a weird process. I started with something I thought was finished basically. I played everything, ukulele, guitars, keyboards-anything I could get my hands on \u2013 and recorded it. I programmed the string parts and stuff like that though. Then Jason Boshoff, a really amazing producer who\u2019s worked with bands like Elbow, Groove Armada<\/strong> and other great people, approached me and was like \u2018It\u2019ll be great when it\u2019s finished\u2019. I thought it was finished! So we got back into the studio to do all the real-live instruments. Miles and Rob from CAPTAIN DANGEROUS<\/a><\/strong> and MANIERE DES BOHEMIENS<\/a><\/strong> arranged the strings properly for me so many people have been involved in making the album. And it\u2019s all local too. Except for Jason. I think he\u2019s from South Africa.
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\nM: The Notts Scene is really kicking off at the moment. What are your thoughts on the scene? <\/em>
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\nAW: Totally amazing. I\u2019m not sure if the quality of music being made has changed, it\u2019s just getting nationally noticed more, especially with DOG IS DEAD<\/a><\/strong> and JAKE BUGG<\/a><\/strong>. So much great stuff out there, GEORGIE ROSE<\/a><\/strong> is really making a name for herself too. It\u2019s nice that it\u2019s finally getting some recognition.
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\nM: Couldn’t agree more! If you could collaborate with any Nottinghamshire artist, who would it be?<\/em>
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\nAW: SLEAFORD MODS<\/a><\/strong>. Definitely. I\u2019m pretty sure he\u2019s the voice of my inner monologue anyway. He\u2019s an angry fellow, but that would be perfect for me. He makes me laugh and go \u2018yeah, I completely see where he\u2019s coming from\u2019. I\u2019m not sure if that\u2019s a good thing or not…
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\nM: You seem to be well known for live sets that are comical. Is that something that you deliberately go for?<\/em>
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\nAW: I think it\u2019s probably more of a defence thing. If I bare my soul on stage, then they might just be like \u2018err..it\u2019s alright\u2019, whereas I know I can make people laugh, or chuckle a little bit. They go home with a little smile on their face whether they liked the songs or not. That\u2019s the important bit.
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\nM: A while back you did a small tour of local libraries. How was that in comparison to the \u2018normal\u2019 gigging scene?<\/em>
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\nAW: Well I can say I hate libraries now. County Council Libraries at least. I thought it would be nice, a nice place to perform music. But they\u2019re not really music venues. That\u2019s what I found. Also, there are as many drunk people at libraries as there are at somewhere like Rescue Rooms<\/a><\/strong>. A bit strange.
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\nM: Sounds it. Gigging highlights? Since I’m guessing it wasn’t the library circuit…<\/em>
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\nAW: Supporting Bright Eyes<\/strong> at Rock City<\/strong> was amazing. I toured with The Boy Least Likely To<\/strong> which was lovely, supported The National<\/strong> too which was great. I always support people, except for Bright Eyes<\/strong>, when they\u2019re not famous either so you\u2019re all in the same boat. But then they seem to go off on the famous boat and i\u2019m still on the non-famous boat! I\u2019m local \u2018till I die, keeping it real.
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\nM: How about disasters? Any absolute nightmares?<\/em>
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\nAW: Festivals tend not to go so well for me. There\u2019s a guy who just follows me round to gigs and shouts \u2018GAY\u2019. It\u2019s happened about four times now, I\u2019m just there on stage like \u2018I\u2019m not\u2019. I think it\u2019s my Mum. It\u2019s not nice when people talk through shows either. I used to really hate it when people talked through the shows, and tell old people to shut the fuck up. I was just a bit rude. I\u2019ve come to understand that people want to have a little chat now, it\u2019s not a problem. More people actually seem to want to hear my music now which is nice.
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\nShall we go for an ice cream?
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\nM: Yes. <\/em>
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\nWE SHOW UP ON RADAR<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s album \u2018Sadness Defeated<\/em>\u2019 is available HERE<\/a><\/strong>. And for anyone that\u2019s really curious, Andy had mint chocolate chip ice cream whilst I opted for white chocolate with strawberries.
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\nYours in Love of New Music,
\nMaddie Hammond X
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As part of our Artist of the Month celebrations, we always try to deliver an interview. The ever enthralling WE SHOW UP ON RADAR is our September Artist of the Month, so back when it was still sunny (remember those days? No, me neither), I managed to grab the delightful Andy Wright for an orange…<\/p>\n

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