​GAFFA TAPE SANDY
I recently had the chance to talk with Gaffa Tape Sandy at the Smokehouse which they headlined Saturday the 22nd April. They are fast growing in popularity after the release of their EP 'Spring Killing' with many memorable punk and rock tracks .
This landed them a gig at one of the UK's well known and highly popular festival Glastonbury.
They have played alongside the likes of; IDLES, Bloody Knees and Indoor Pets.
What makes music so important to you?
Kim: A lot of it is the community, it's the people you meet along the way,it's the different groups and the scenes that you get into it's really sort of inspiring. Getting to know other musicians, getting to know promoters and everyone in the world's music. It's a huge part of it for me is the world which you're introduced to.
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Whats been your favorite musical experience?
Robin: I'd say probably Glastonbury, we played the BBC introducing stage last year. That's the funnest show we've done so far. it's difficult to chose. We have a lot coming up, so things keep topping other things. So far yeah Glastonbury has been great.
Catherine: It's always torn between the bigger things and the more intimate things, things like hometown shows are kind of also my favorite.
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How does music make you feel/ Has it ever been a therapy to you as a band?
Kim:Yeah! yeah, definatly theres loads of songs that you write about certain parts of your life that can be really expresive they can be a way to kind of channel your emotions into something and the real output of expression and emotions. Like'Meathead' is a song I wrote recently and I won't go into detail but its a song that means a lot to me and probably a lot to , a lot of people i know.
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How did you get discovered by BBC introducing?
Catherine :We uploaded our stuff to the BBC uploader, so they just hhave this thing on their website, where once you've recorded stuff, you just upload it to their website and they listen to everything. It can take a while, but they listen to everything, and if they like they'll play it and then they'll put you forward for things. That's how we got Glastonbury and that's where it all began.
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What was your first experience of playing Glastonbury like?
Robin: Daunting. For me at least. These two were fine, I had a projectile vomit incident, that's as much as i'll say but other than that it was great. It was daunting sticking your head round the tent to see everyone. You think there's gonna be about 30 people there because everyones gonna be watching bigger bands and it ends up being about 300 and you're thinking, FUCK!