Hey all,
Look at me posting two interviews in one day! Go me! Here's an interview with the band Church & Ivory. A two-piece acoustic band with plenty of potential. Here's the online interview that I conducted with Matthew Church where he talks about how the band first met, how they came up with their band name and where you can find them on social media. You can also find a video down below where they play the song 'Protest Song'. Here are the questions and the answers that Matthew kindly emailed to me:
How did you guys meet one another?
We first met at school almost ten years ago, we were probably only nine or ten years old and didn’t properly become friends till a few years later. If I remember correctly we impressed each other by being the only two people who could play parts of the Sweet Child of Mine solo… We started a band shortly after and have been making music together for the last six or seven years.
How was the band name created?
We have had some serious issues with band names in the past, it’s always been something that we’ve always terrible at. We could never stick to one name. Our previous bands name evolved though the years by us just adding words to it only to then abbreviate it and start to get known as “TANI”. We changed our name again shortly after mistakenly getting introduced on stage as “Tina” at a show in Southampton… So this time we tried not to think about it too hard, Church & Ivory is just our surnames. We had been listening to quite a bit of Simon & Garfunkel at the time and their name inspired us.
How would you describe the music that your band creates?
At the moment we are just two guys with guitars so it’s quite easy to fit the folk aesthetic but I’d like to think our songwriting and ethos has a bit of punk in their too, not necessarily in a musical sense though, our music is very much lyrically driven. We’re heavily influenced by artists like Bruce Springsteen, Frank Turner and The Milk Cartoon Kids.
What are some of the themes and messages that come across in your songs?
There is a running theme in our debut EP which is that most of the song are about our homes, what makes a home and the friends and family around us. We have a song which is directly written about and for the friends I left when I moved away from my hometown. There is another song the the EP which is about coming back to your hometown for the first time after being away for a while and finding that while things have moved on without you, it’s still the same place you grew up in and hasn’t changed much at all. We are hoping that people can relate to these songs, especially those of a similar age to us who study or live away from their hometowns.
What are your plans for 2015?
The biggest plan we have this year so far is to head into the studio and record the best EP we possibly can. We’ve approached some really talented musicians to come and play on it with us and we’re not going to stop until we are really happy with the final outcome. Then, once we have some material down and released we plan to head out and play as many shows as we can sharing our songs to who ever cares to listen!
Where can people find you on social media?
If there was an album that you could listen to for the rest of your life which one would you choose and why?
Matt: This answer could change on a daily basis for me but today I’ll go with The Times They Are A-Changing by Bob Dylan. Every song on that album is a work of art, Boots Of Spanish Leather is one of the best songs ever written, in fact every song on that album is one of the best songs ever written!
James: For me there is not one album I could listen to for the rest of my life, it changes too frequently. However at the moment I cannot stop listening to Trasatlanticism by Death Cab For Cutie, every song is flawless.
Hope you enjoyed the blogpost. Thank you again to Matthew Church for answering the questions. If any band wants to be featured in the blog please contact me on rachelcolley@msn.com and I'll send you the questions.
Hope to hear from you guys soon,
Rachel.
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