New Cassettes
FRESH from a tour up and down the country and back in county for their first show since the BBC Electric Proms five months ago, Northampton's New Cassettes headline the Soundhaus tonight.
Touring aside, the band has been busy recording songs which will eventually make up their debut album.
Singer Tom Stubbs sat down with The Guide ahead of last week's gig at the Leicester Sumo to explain what's been going on their world since they were last in town.
"We've been doing a lot of writing and recording," explains Tom. "We've got 11 songs down at the minute and we already had a few, so we've got about 16 finished.
"There're about five that no one's heard
"We're teasing people with a few new ones to see what they think and what we think.
"The new stuff is still pop, but we're pushing to write bigger songs and some of it has gone back to the really early stuff, which is really straight forward.
"If we're enjoying playing the songs I think they're more enjoyable to listen to."
Tom explains the band, which includes bassist Dan Battison, guitarists Owen Reed and Nik Gray and drummer Tommy Francis, want to piece together an album themselves, before approaching a record company they hope will release it.
Holed up in one of the Soundhaus' practice rooms and using a vintage '70s desk they
dragged to the venue, Tom says he hopes the band will wrap up recording in the next
few weeks.
"We've done all the drums, guitars and bass and are finishing the last bits at my flat.
"It's very DIY but we want to make it sound interesting.
"It'll be finished in the next few weeks and I'd like to have it out by the end of the summer."
Ahead of any album is the band's next single, Hearts Don't Beat Right, which is released at the end of this month.
It will be available as a download only, through sites including iTunes and 7 Digital, and feature the handy work of Tom Levigne.
"We persuaded Tom to do the video for us and we know we wanted something shot in
black and white," Tom explains. "Something original, lots of close-ups, almost an introduction to the band."
Away from writing and recording new songs, New Cassettes have headlined club NME at Coco in London in front of 2,000 people and played alongside Glasvegas.
Looking to the summer Tom admits last year, which saw the band play at Glastonbury, was "a bit odd".
"I really want to play some of the smaller festivals," he explains. "For a band in our
position it's really hard to get on the larger festivals now.
"Things like Glastonbury have become families with coolboxes in front of the
stage, it's taken away some of the excitement from them.
"The smaller ones are about people having a good time."
Supporting New Cassettes tonight is Millers Hag and The Neds.
Tickets cost 5 and doors open at 7.30pm.
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