The Splendour try to be different

2 months ago 26th Aug 14:20

With ‘The Best Way To Make Money lining music shop shelves, The Splendour took a few minutes’ break from their hectic tour schedule to tell FemaleFirst how they plan to make it in the competitive British music scene and how they are different from the rest.

For all those people who are still to hear about you, how would you describe your sound to them?

‘searing slice of honed to perfection stripped to the core edgy psychosis.’ Someone said reviewed us like that and I think that’s about it.

How did you come up with the name ‘The Splendour‘? Does it have any particular significance?

Well we’re not an anthemic ballad rock over produced wash of sound like you might expect from the name. but there’s a fair bit of crazy high backing vocals on it over this pretty stripped down sound - we called it the splendour with irony like calling an album ‘the best way to make money’ (it isn’t) you don’t get what you expect but I like that.

What makes you different from all of the generic bands who are trying to break onto the scene at the moment?

They’re all different, it just sometimes takes a while to get over the influences when you’re listening. A lot of people think you have to have a totally new sound for people to take notice which is bollocks – it’s all like a continuous strand. It splits off but you’ll always be similar in some ways to other bands. If you listen to one song of ours you’ll know it’s us on the second.

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