Debut
Single: A Long Process
Release Date: 7th August 2006
Labels:
Science Fiction Theatre /
Pop Will Prevail
Website:
www.myspace.com/dutchuncles
Contacts: Michael (SFT) -
michael@sftrecords.co.uk / Jed (PWP)
- popwillprevail@gmail.com
For high quality images please email michael@sftrecords.co.uk
Headlines
Headlines are (left to right) Duncan, Andy,
Pete, Rob and Sped
Brimming with youthful confidence, Headlines posses an energy that translates into a powerful, impassioned blend of indie-rock and pop, and in a relatively small amount of time they have managed to rise from the glut of indie mediocrity and reveal themselves as one of the most promising acts in the country.
An embryonic version of the band emerged, (minus singer Duncan) whilst still at high school in Marple, a small leafy village just outside Manchester. It was a shared love of The Cure, and a spare ticket for their gig that led to the formation of the current line-up. Although they hardly knew each other, but as both paid up members of the drummers union, Andy invited Duncan to go to the show. Andy recalls the rehearsal the day after the boozed up gig, "We were having a practice, just the four of us, then Duncan just turned up at the door. It was the night after the gig and I was like, did I invite Duncan to practice?" Duncan butts in "That was my audition man, and you couldnt even remember arranging it!" Forced into singing because "Andys a better drummer than me", the band gelled. "We were just jamming away and within 10 minutes I wrote the lyrics to our first song, Tension on the Front", recalls Duncan. Finding this immediate creativity with Duncan as the singer and as a natural front man see them live now, and just imagine having this guy stuck behind the kit? Headlines were born.
With every member of the band practically a master of their machines at the age of 18, the band thankfully didnt have to gig endlessly to refine their skills, and already display an explosive onslaught of razor sharp riffs and elaborate showmanship. Sharing bills with the likes of The Rumblestrips, Lady Fuzz and Dead Fly Buchowski, the band know they can more than hold their own with higher profile bands.
Yet they know that their live show is only as good as their songs and the band are only as good as their last gig. As main writer of the music, Rob enthuses about his use of technology in the songwriting process, "I arrange a load of ideas on the computer then play them to the band at rehearsals, we then play over the arrangements and the songs take shape really quickly. We draw the line at having a backing track on stage though, its all got to be live." Duncan however understands the pressure of being the sole lyricist, "The trouble is, finding inspiration. Especially living in Marple, you end up just writing about Marple being shit, but then you realise what writing a song is meant to be. Performance, poetry, frustration with irony but nobody gets it." Well, thats now not quite true.
Having played at the renowned Club Fandangos in London and Manchester they are earning a growing hoard of fans and the band are set to release their first single through Science Fiction Theatre records later this year, with major labels already eyeing-up the five-piece its only a matter of time before Headlines start making them.
Words: Ben Holden
Images: Mark Bristol
