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Stacking T he Odds

riginally forming in 2014, Witterquick have been quick to show off their talents with a couple
Oof top-notch EPs and various single releases – the latest being ‘Bubblegum’. Unlike bubblegum,
you won’t want to spit these guys out once you’ve had a taste of them. Hugely impressive, this five-
piece from Exeter has the ability to take on the world, and come out winning.
eleased on July 2nd, new single ‘Bub- to what we’d done previously as well, so it was poppier, dancier end of that rock spectrum was
Rblegum’ sees Witterquick – Will Alford quite fun to experiment with that. We’re in a re- something that was completely foreign to us to
on vocals, Ollie Chanter on bass, Sean Davey ally fun place where we can basically do what begin with. And we were kind of unsure and then
and Ben Chanter on guitars and Daniel Van we want… We don’t have a label breathing we were, ‘Nah, actually, it works.’ As soon as the
Delft on drums – capturing a ray of positivity. It down our neck saying, ‘No, you need to write other guys heard the track and they started writ-
was the follow-up to their ‘Fire & Ice’ EP. Front- like this.’ We can kind of do what we want to do, ing the guitars and everything else, because it
man Will tells Black Velvet, “The last EP was a and we wanted to do something that was really, was all written on piano originally, it took that
phase of getting over a lot of crap that happened really fun, really positive and really summery.” Witterquick shape and we were like, ‘Yes, that’s
to us that year, and that EP encapsulates all of ‘Bubblegum’ is superbly catchy and defi- the one, that’s the one!’”
that kind of frustration and angst that we had. So nitely a favourite with Black Velvet. The band’s “We get the positivity from it, as well as the
coming out of that phase, we all, myself in par- fans have been loving it too, with some saying fans, I think,” says Ben, before Will explains in
ticular, were saying ‘there’s so much negativity it’s helped and inspired them. greater detail. “I think we were really wearing all
in the world’. You look on Facebook or whatever “It’s been a summer anthem for them. And of that on our sleeves when we put that EP out,
social media you look at, it’s always quite nega- to hear that is so humbling, for us, as a band. To and you can hear all the frustration and the
tive, the news is negative. There wasn’t enough hear that it works, something we set out to do, angst in songs like ‘Hiding Place’. So yeah, we
positivity around at the time, I didn’t think, so I something we were really unsure of at the start wanted to do something that was really positive
wanted to write something that was really fun. as well, because we’ve kind of been the rock for us. We took a long time off after the last EP
It’s certainly something that was really different guys and doing something that was more on the and the last tour to kind of evaluate where we

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