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wanted to head with things coming up and what light and shade thing. But that didn’t really hap- n ‘Soldiers’ Will sings ‘I lived a lie and I
our message was going to be again. So that pe- pen. And then afterwards I think Sean and Ben Idreamed a life’. So what sort of life do the
riod of self-reflection, we were like, ‘Yes, let’s do were playing in practice, they were coming up band dream of? Will replies first. “Being able to
something fun,’ not only for us, but for the fans with this really beautiful, ambient version of do this every day. That’s it really, I s’pose. The
to engage and have a dance.” ‘Shattered Suns’. I was just, ‘Oh man, that’s re- fortunate few bands that make it nowadays,
When Witterquick announced the single, ally, really nice’. I’m a piano player at heart so that’s the dream, that’s the goal, to be able to do
they told fans to ‘Turn the world off, put your playing the ‘I Need A Friend Tonight’ version on it for a living. Having work and the band, it’s like
headphones on, and be YOU for 3 minutes’. So, the piano was something I really wanted to do having two full-time jobs, and having to cram it
have the guys ever had moments where they and really wanted to use a bit more piano in into eight hours. So being able to focus on just
felt like they couldn’t be themselves? From a what we were doing.” music and doing it as a job, that’s the life we
musical standpoint, Will says no. Ollie adds, “We’re quite an eclectic group, dream of having. Well, I do. That and loads of
“Witterquick’s ethos from the start, three music tastes anyway. We love doing what Wit- dogs.”
years ago… We were all in bands before… Cer- terquick is, but it’s fun for us to explore that other “Squash endorsement, that’d be good,”
tainly, from my point of view, I was in a band that side and do the acoustic and piano and synth pipes up Dan, before Will, who Dan’s suddenly
was trying to be something. It was always like, things and just experiment a bit. It’s another inspired, adds, “I’d like to have a unicorn or a
‘Let’s do that, let’s get this record deal and be- facet that we can explore.” dragon.”
come…’ and it’s like, that, for me, wasn’t fun. So On the subject of ‘I Need A Friend Tonight’, Sean says he has a dream to “tour the
when we started Witterquick, all the guys here they say it’s important to be friends in the band. world”, while he and Ollie would both love to be
were ‘Let’s do something that we want to do and “That’s fueled some of our favourite songs able to tour playing videogames. “A bed big
we enjoy’. The whole thing has been about ‘Only in the band, I think,” says Ollie, “when it’s been enough for all five of us to share as well,” adds
you can do you. Love yourself and be confident less positive in the past, before this current line- Will. “Sometimes there’s a single bed and the
in yourself,’ and that’s what Witterquick’s about, up. You hear about it fueling other bands. Fleet- five of us in there, we have to stack.”
really.” wood Mac, they never got on. It’s good “Vertical stacking is a pain,” reveals Ollie. “If
creatively sometimes, but now we’re in an in- we had a bed of our own that would be the
fter releasing their ‘Fire & Ice’ EP in credible place and I wouldn’t change anything.” dream.”
A2017, earlier this year Witterquick put They’ve become friends with fans too. Will We now have a vision of the five Witterquick
out an alternative ‘Ice & Fire’ EP featuring the says, “We speak to a lot of them more than our guys vertically stacked in one single bed. So on
same songs played acoustically. families because of Twitter and stuff, it’s con- that note, check them out - buy their music and
“When we were approaching the writing side stant messaging every day, some of them. It’s a go and see them live and hopefully one day they
of ‘Fire & Ice’ I’d always envisioned doing this real nice community of fans that we have,” with WILL get their own big tour bed to themselves.
‘Fire’ side and then an ‘Ice’ side,” says Will. “So Sean adding, What’s really lovely, our commu- They definitely deserve it.
you have some really cool, riffy, meaty tracks nity, they meet up. They all know each other al- Visit www.witterquickband.com for more
and then you’ve got some acousticy ones; a real ready, they’re friends and they’re hanging out.” info.
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