Moon & Back Music

Cambridge -based band Violet Bones are releasing their single ‘I feel the need’ on the 15^th Feb. I caught up with them to see what the new year holds for Violet Bones.

CC What’s been happening with Violet Bones of late?
VB Well, we’ve been very busy promoting our debut single ‘I Feel The Need’ trying to get ourselves out there, also spending a lot of time working on new material which is going well….

CC Obviously there’s been a change of name, because you used to be called 9fold Punch, does Violet Bones symbolize a change in the band?
VB Yeah definitely, when we started playing together we were all quite young and the music we wrote was very different to what we write now. We achieved a lot and we’re very proud of what we had done, but wanted to take things to the next level and felt drawing a line under 9FoldPunch and starting with something fresh, Violet Bones, was an exciting thing to do.

CC Your first album was called ‘Suddenly out of nowhere’ how do you feel you’ve progressed since then ?
VB Wow, now we’re talking 4/5 years ago! That album we recorded in 2 days and mixed ourselves. It was a good thing for us to do at the time, we had lots of songs that Si had written as a very young teenager that we had now got out of our system. It was very early days for us when we recorded that!

CC What do you see for VB In the future?
VB Well, we’ve got a couple of tours lined up for later this year and we’ll have a follow up single to ‘I Feel The Need’ coming in the next few months too. We’ve all started writing songs again since having a break over Christmas and feel really good about what’s coming out. So we’ll get in the studio to record later in the summer too! We’re also going to start putting on regular nights but running them more like a party than just your normal gig.

CC Who/What are Violet Bones’ main influences
VB We draw influence from all different genres really. We all love the original rock n roll from Led Zeppelin to The Beatles. More recent influences stem from the likes of Phantom Planet and The Libertines who write great indie pop songs! We recently support New York Dolls, who have been an influence over the years too

CC How long have you guys been together and how did you start?
VB We’ve been playing in a band together for the last four years! We all grew up together. Going to different secondary schools; Si met Oz and they started playing together. I learnt to play guitar and joined them on Saturdays. Stu then started at my school and said he could play bass (even though he’d never actually picked one up before our first practise!). And that was that!

CC And finally How would you describe your music?
VB Our music is a mix of different things we started out playing pop punk songs, as that’s what we listened to when we first started writing songs all those years ago and so our sound has developed as our taste in music has broadened, so we write and play songs that make you want to get up and have a dance and a good time, but at the same time still hopefully people can relate to what we sing about!

By Chloe Cooper