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Detroit Social Club

Newcastle's Detroit Social Club are releasing their first ever single today (October 27th), following quick sharp after In The City - the Manchester based industry shindig where they found themselves the first name on everyone's lips. We caught up with them for a quick chat.

Posted 27th October 2008, 3:36pm in Interviews
Detroit Social Club Newcastle's Detroit Social Club are releasing their first ever single today (October 27th), following quick sharp after In The City - the Manchester based industry shindig where they found themselves the first name on everyone's lips. With this new found tidal wave of positive press still ringing fresh in their ears (do tidal waves ring in ears? - Ed), we caught up with them for a quick chat.

Hello! You've just released your debut single, 'Rivers and Rainbows'. Tell us about it?
It's not a song really, it's a collection of musical ideas. Which is how we wanted it to sound. We wanted to throw away all the normal blueprint of how a song should be, so we kept 'Rivers' very linear, very straight, rather than apply the usual rules of dynamics that apply to your normal song. This single is the only time well get to do something without compromising anything. It's got soul, spirit, vibe and meaning, so we believe in it.

It's worth mentioning that it's a double A side, with 'Silver'.

Considering you've not released anything yet, you've had an awful lot of positive press - what's your secret?
Hmmm, not sure really, we haven't set out for this at all, we've just done our music, and people have related to it, and become attached. It's great that people like what were doing, but to imply there is a secret would suggest this has all been a result of strategy and formula, which it definitely hasn't. I think if more bands worried less about getting signed and "making it" and more on music they care about, music that would excite them every time they played it on stage, perhaps they could do more.

Of all the praise you've received, which has meant the most? Is there anything you're especially proud of?
To be honest, we've been praised by some cool people, Tom out of Kasabian, various Radio 1 DJs and so on, but I take it all in my stride. At the end of the day, it's just another person who likes the stuff. What gets me going is meeting ordinary folk, people who come up to you and tell you how much your music means to you. And were lucky to have had a few of those. Birmingham there was a bloke who had brain tumours when he was kid, so couldn't work, but he told us he was doing it anyway, working voluntarily at Banardos to help other kids who had the same problem. Proper inspiring stuff. He was totally fucked after 10 o clock, but he travelled on a train for 45 mins there and back to see us. amazing stuff. That's what music's about.

Have you been getting as good a reception at your live shows?
Yeah, to be honest, the live show seems to be getting more praise than the recorded stuff at the mo. 5 out of 5 in News of the World, 10 out of 10 on Teletext, stuff like that.

What do you think you'll be doing next year? Will you be working on an album?
Yeah definitely. Who it's with, and where we don't know yet though. That's the part I buzz off, recording. It's the creative part of all this int it?!

What would you most like to achieve as a band?
Have a record that we love. If others join the party then great, coz it'd be nice to become massive, purely so that more and more people get to listen to what we have to say. We're ambitious. But first and foremost, it's about recording some stuff we're proud about.
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