their debut album Tidings<\/a> to critical acclaim.<\/p>\nI recently caught up with Bella from the band to talk about the new record, how the group approaches songwriting, life on the road and how they’ve been keeping busy during lockdown.<\/p>\n
How would you describe your music?<\/strong><\/p>\nI think we would describe it as transatlantic. It’s got Celtic influences and also Americana and bluegrass influences. And also to be fair we have some more Eastern sounds in there as well. So eclectic, maybe.<\/p>\n
You’ve just released your debut album Tidings – can you tell us more about that?<\/strong><\/p>\nYeah, so Tidings is a collective noun for a group of magpies – that’s why we called it that. And the idea is that we wanted to make something that had a broad range of material on it and that showcased all of us in the band and the different influences that we’re interested in. So it just came together from working together for the past couple of years and took it from there. We ran a Kickstarter campaign to make that happen and had some funding from the Arts Council as well. So really pleased to have finally got it out there [laughs].<\/p>\n
Why did you decide to do a Kickstarter campaign for the album?<\/strong><\/p>\nWell, I suppose making an album is very expensive, and to be honest we couldn’t afford to do it any other way. It’s difficult when you’re right at the start because if you don’t have any albums to sell you don’t have money to make new albums. So it just seemed like a good idea, because we’d all been playing music in different outfits for a while before so we knew that there’d be some people who would be kind enough to support us and they did. It was a huge help.<\/p>\n