Tag: Portsmouth

Misgivings: Isolation, For Better Or For Worse [Interview]

Southsea gruff punks Misgivings discuss the inspirations for their new album ‘Hermitage’.

Interview by Sarah Williams.

Portsmouth’s Misgivings are one of the best gruff, melodic punk bands the UK currently has to offer. Think Iron Chic, Leatherface, Samiam, Osker and you’re on the right track.

We love Misgivings’ intricately melodic, emotive songs and their coarse vocals. Following a string of EPs, they’re due to release their debut album Hermitage via Lockjaw Records and Charlie’s Big Raygun Records in December.

We spoke to vocalist/guitarist Will Pearce to learn more.

Hi Will! I’m madly in love with your new single Call It Off. Do you think this marks a big milestone for the band?

Hi! Thank you and yes it surely does, it’s our first ever video and our first single for Lockjaw which is very special. We made the video in one day and wanted to capture what a typical Misgivings rehearsal looks like.

I’ve had a bit of a sneak preview your new album Hermitage and I’ve fallen in love with it. How long has the album been in the works? You must be excited to share it with the world?

We recorded the album at the end of 2017 with Tim Greaves at Southsea Sound and finished mixing at the beginning of this year. The songs were mostly written in the years since Rob (drums) joined the band, although Shameless dates back to 2013 around the time we first started! Continue reading “Misgivings: Isolation, For Better Or For Worse [Interview]”

Track-by-Track: Captain Trips – Stand By

Rich Mayor, frontman of Portsmouth skate-punks Captain Trips, gives a detailed insight into the their EP ‘Stand By’.

Captain Trips released their new EP Stand By via Umlaut Records on October 5 2018. We’re in love with it and we think you will be too, so we asked singer and guitarist Rich Mayor to give us a detailed breakdown of the inspiration for each song.

We started writing some of these songs months and years ago, a process not so unusual in Captain Trips. All of our songs come from jamming together, so it can take a while for us to come up with them sometimes. That’s not supposed to sound like an arduous process; it’s a very enjoyable experience and how we’ve come up with our, ahem, ‘sound’.

I remember our writing process for one of the tracks on the first EP. We decided it needed to go off into a different direction (I think it even went kind of ska at one point), but after about four weeks of adding sections, we chopped it all and kept the song as it was before all those tangents.

Anyway, we gone done a new record, called Stand By. It has songs on it to listen to with your ears. Here’s what they’re about.

Bottom Of The River

Right, Bottom of the River. The Stephen King keenos among you will know that Captain Trips is the name of the man-made virus in his book The Stand, and the Stephen King appreciation club keeps on rolling here. Bottom of the River is about his rite of passage novel/movie Stand By Me. It harks back to simpler times, something we reminisce about often, since we’re all in that weird generation of going from ‘completely f*ck all internet’ to ‘everything the world has ever known in your pocket’. You know, back when you couldn’t scam your way through the pub quiz for that sweet, sweet bottle of blue Aftershock.

The name of the movie is also quite blatantly the title of the new EP, save for a couple of letters. More about that later.

Continue reading “Track-by-Track: Captain Trips – Stand By”