The Snuts
are right at the forefront of exciting young indie bands currently on the music
scene. Signed to Parlophone and currently on a headline tour of the UK and
Ireland before they join Lewis Capaldi for his UK tour dates The Snuts spoke to
It’s All Indie ahead of their sold-out Southampton show at The Joiners.
The Snuts. Jack, Joe, Callum & Jordan
You
played Birmingham last night, how was that?
It was
really good. With the last run of gigs
we did it wasn’t as evident that people were coming to see us but on this run
nearly every room’s been full, sold-out every single gig, even tonight has sold
out.
How does
that feel?
It’s quite
surreal especially in England. We always try for that in Scotland and it’s
kinda taken a while to travel down South but now it’s just like it’s genuinely
felt like we’ve been in a room in Scotland every night this tour, it’s quite
refreshing.
I first saw
you on the BBC Introducing Stage at Reading Fest 18.
Oh no! That
was the worst show ever for us! We had so many technical issues, our mixes went
to the wrong people none us could hear what we were playing, it was a bit of a
car crash.
It’s gained
momentum all year, we’ve done a lot of festivals over the summer and gained
fans and it’s got us to this moment and a headline tour where everything is
settling in. It’s shown us that hard
work has laid the foundations over the last year or two and it’s really started
to pay off. That’s always been the plan. The next thing that we do has got to
be building on what we’ve done previously. Everything’s got to be a
progression. We don’t like to be treading water for too long we want to make
sure we’re challenging ourselves and make sure that us, last year, would have
been impressed this time round.
Do you
have a plan?
There’s
always a plan it’s just that we don’t always know what it is!
I saw the
footage at TRNSMT and that looked amazing.
Yeah it was.
16,000 people and it was the first time we’d played in Scotland this year so it
was like a big homecoming gig for us. It really meant a lot to give so much of
ourselves on stage to people who were giving us so much back. Even coming down
to England we’ve had people coming along who saw us at TRNSMT so it’s obviously
a widespread festival and doing the ground work there has really paid off.
This is
your first time here in Southampton at The Joiners. It’s an iconic venue and
most bands that make it big have come through Joiners at some time in their
careers.
And now
they’ve got The Snuts!
The new
single ‘Maybe California’ came out a few days ago how’s it gone down at the
live shows?
It’s gone
down really well, it’s different to the tunes we’ve done before and that’s what
we want to do to show every side of the coin and show what we can do. It’s
kinda feel good and happy and we’ve never really done that before so it’s good
and refreshing. It’s really great fun to play live as well, people seem to be
really digging it.
So which
song is your favourite to play?
‘All Your
Friends’ cos it’s bass heavy and we also love ‘Summertime’ because it’s like
the most epic song we’ve ever written.
And which
song gets the crowd going at the moment?
They love
everything, we’ve started putting in acoustic songs just to slow it down
because we can’t keep up with them. They just smash cans off their heads and
throw each other about but everybody’s different. We get people shouting for an
acoustic demo from 7 years ago. None of us can even know how to play it, how do
they even know that song!
‘All Your
Friends’ is a crowd favourite, ‘Matador’ is a good one. The thing about the
songs that we play live is that they’re all tailor made for live gigs. We’ve got a catalogue of songs that we’d
never think to play in front of people because they’re so much of a different
direction to what people are used to hearing from us. I think that’s probably
going to be a good thing for the album as well and that’s kinda why we’re
trying to take the releases in a different direction so it’s not such a drastic
change when it’s not all hundred miles an hour indie bangers.
Do you
have a date for the album?
No official
date yet but next year, hopefully. We’ve got a few more singles out yet. We’ll
be releasing music regardless of any album date.
Do you
have a favourite venue?
To play or
attend? To attend would be Glasgow’s Barrowlands, it’s the best live music
venue in the world.
You’re
supporting the Lewis Capaldi shows later in the year. He’s from the same area
as you of course.
We’ve known
him for years. We played with him first at Tuts, but most of our gigs were
played in Bathgate, there are only 5 venues to play and we bumped into him all
the time. It’s good to share a stage with him. He’s obviously the best at what
he does and we’re the best at what we do.
And you
get to play these massive stages as well. Do you change your show at all for
different stage sizes?
Festivals we
do sometimes depending on what we’ve just released but this tour it’s the same
set every time. We’re really conscious
that every time someone comes to see us the show’s got to be the same in
quality and venues like this, where you can get intimate, you can get a few
more emotional songs that you couldn’t get away with at a festival or first
thing in the afternoon. We want to make sure that every time someone comes to
see us they come away with the same opinion. 100 cap venue or the biggest place
we’ve ever played. Venues like this are really in your face, like people can
grab the mic. It’s really good. It can be hard to be further away from the
crowd because you feel disconnected and other times you’re glad you’re not so
close.
Thanks to the lads for taking the time to chat
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| The Snuts. Callum |
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| The Snuts. Joe |
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| The Snuts. Jordan |
The Snuts
are: Jack Cochrane (vocals/guitar), Joe McGillveray (guitar), Callum Wilson
(bass), Jordan McKay (drums)
From:
Whitburn, West Lothian
Words and
photographs by Rhona Murphy