Slaney Bay by Rory Dunn
After not too long ago including the ‘Why Does Love Imply Loss?’ EP to their rising record of spectacular early releases, our Artist Of The Week is Slaney Bay.
WHO?
Cait Whitley – Lead vocals and rhythm guitar
William Nicola-Thompson – Lead guitar
Joel Martin – Bass guitar
WHERE?
We’re a trio of childhood mates from South-West London. We’ve identified one another since round 4 years previous which is a wild realisation. We have been one another’s earliest mates, and nothing has modified (besides we’re barely taller).
WHEN?
Slaney Bay began within the COVID-19 lockdowns. We’d written music collectively earlier than, however I (Cait) was at Uni, and the boys have been working full time. When everybody needed to keep inside, we all of the sudden had time to be artistic. Zoom grew to become our fourth band member. We thought, if we don’t give it a correct go now, when will we?
WHY?
Music is a bundle of emotion. I’ll nonetheless hear a tune and be transported again to 7-years previous, staring out of a foggy automotive window and chanting alongside to 2000s indie rock on my MP3 participant. That childlike euphoria is one thing we all the time purpose to seize. Euphoric synth from The Bare and Well-known, hovering guitar riffs from The Klaxons and introspective knowledge from Radiohead. If somebody considers our music as lengthy automotive journey worthy, we’ll be joyful.
HOW?
Joey and I performed casually collectively in a band earlier than, and Will was really a bassist in one other band. Members shifted out and in as they do in teenage years, and we ended up with the trio of Will, Joey and I. And it actually clicked. We have been already such shut mates that writing collectively felt very pure.
PAST?
Joey and Will labored in audio-visual occasions and retail, respectively. I used to be at Uni of Leeds for Psychology. We didn’t have that inside fireplace for these jobs…Music was the discharge.
PRESENT?
Our sound is sort of a diary entry. The devices set a dramatic scene whereas the lyrics stumble by the battle for self-actualisation. Hovering guitars and punchy bass strains hit dwelling these revelations. I feel I really get the identical therapeutic profit from our songwriting as a diary offers… ‘Household Tree’ actually helped me work by the grief of my member of the family passing. I used to be made to really feel every little thing that I had been pushing down as a result of I needed to do the tune justice lyrically. Little bit of a life hack for you there.
FUTURE?
I’ve usually thought of what ambitions we maintain for the band. And as quickly as I fixate on one purpose, 5 others seem. And that’s what I like about this trade. You by no means know what’s coming subsequent. A particular purpose is to play our dream venue, Ally Pally in London. We’ve seen a few of our favorite acts ever carry out there, Wolf Alice and Tame Impala, to call just a few…So enjoying there’s a massive bucket record merchandise. And when it comes to wider ambitions, we simply need to meet as lots of our listeners (referred to as the Slaney Bay-bies) as doable. Creating that neighborhood has been essentially the most particular expertise for us.
DID YOU KNOW?
I notoriously have an terrible sense of route. Individuals will usually ask me to guess which approach we have to go, after which they’ll select the opposite choice. Once we performed The Lafayette in London with Bleach Lab, I used to be LOST. The inexperienced rooms are upstairs by a pair flooring, and the stage is thru some safety guarded doorways spherical the opposite aspect. I ended up misplaced within the kitchen 10 minutes earlier than our stage time. Fortunately, the boys are used to this unintended sport of cover and search and are very gifted at discovering me! Plus, I obtained a sneak peak of the dinner menu.
WHAT’S NEXT?
Our sophomore EP, ‘Why Does Love Imply Loss?’, has simply been launched and we’re past excited to start out touring it. We’ve been protecting these songs below lock and key for too lengthy. They’ll lastly be performed reside this Autumn, at Stay At Leeds In The Metropolis (October 14th), Sŵn Pageant in Cardiff (twenty second October) and our largest EVER headline gig at Colors, Hoxton (London) on third November.
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