Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: That is don't fool me twice by the band the Marches,
And of course you heard that the first time on
American radio here on WM and H on this very program.
And we've got let's see who we have here. I
believe Kate Morrow is with us via Microsoft teams. Kate,
can you hear me?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I can hear you.
Speaker 2: Hello, excellent, Welcome to the show. Is anyone else from
the band with you?
Speaker 1: Or are you?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 1: Are you flying solo?
Speaker 3: Unfortunately the Ghetos couldn't come with me, so I'm playing solo.
But I'm very happy to be here.
Speaker 1: That is quite all right. We're very happy to have you.
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: I love your sound particularly and you probably hear this
all the time, but I'm particularly taken with the vocals
and the harmonies. And do all four of you sing live?
Speaker 3: Yes? So that's something we've just started to incorporate into
our live sets. I was the last one to start
singing yes. Vocals.
Speaker 2: Well, you don't see a lot of singing drummers, and
you know, I think it's obvious why. I mean, you know,
drumming it's the most physical instrument, right, You're using all
four of your limbs, So it's probably challenging. I've always
assumed anyway, that's it's challenging for drummers to sing because
you're already using a lot of wind.
Speaker 1: You're already you're you're already.
Speaker 2: Doing so much. How has that been for you? You
said that you were the last of the four to
really start singing. I mean, how how has that been
for you? Has it been challenging or is it kind
of come naturally or what's happened?
Speaker 3: Like I bet both? You know, when I'm playing live,
I usually do tend to sing along with it a microphone,
although I don't seem very good. Now we're starting to
We're starting to incorporate into our set and I'm having
time to practice with the ghettos, get used to playing
west the drums at the same time, and it's going
really well. It sounds amazing when we have all four
of us, so I'm enjoying it.
Speaker 2: Is it important to you as a band to replicate
because I would imagine this is very difficult because again,
such a it seems to me, And again when whether
it's that song or November, it seems like it's such
a key part of your sound. Those those harmonies. Is
it important to be able to replicate that live? Or
do you not worry about it as much? Maybe live
it can be a little looser and a little raw,
or I mean, how do you approach that? Do you
do you really try to replicate what's what's what you've
recorded or or is it not that big of a deal.
Speaker 3: No, I think we definitely are trying to make sure
our life sound is quite similar to the tracks. Yeah,
and so we are. We haven't working on it.
Speaker 2: It is important, do you like, how do you in
terms of practicing, uh, kind of replicating that vocally? Do
you do you ever, like just sit like the four
of you and just try singing the parts and and
you know, you each find your octave or do you
just or do you just play the songs and practice,
you know, the singing obviously while you're playing.
Speaker 3: Do you know when we've tried to do it like
a capella, we usually just end up laughing. We do
it with all the instruments in the fields. Yeah, it
was we'll just sit and laugh at each other.
Speaker 2: No, that makes sense, That makes sense. Now, how long
has the band been around? You're relatively new, right the marches?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we are so and the four of us came
together in May twenty twenty four, so it's been in
nearly two years. Nearly two years.
Speaker 1: Next, okay, okay, so relatively relatively new. Now I'm curious
about So.
Speaker 2: I was reading this So the BBC it says here
and you can tell me if this is right, but
it says here the BBC kind of has introduced you
as calling you, uh, Glasgow's freshest girl band. And when
I see that, something occurs to me. Now, obviously, so
you're you're all females in the band, but I find
it odd that that someone would.
Speaker 1: Point that out.
Speaker 2: I'm only bringing it up because I'm curious how you
feel about when say, the BBC refers to you as
Glasgow's freshest girl band, Because to me, it's weird that.
You know, it's like, you don't call a bunch of
dudes in a rock band. You don't call them a
boy band, you know, unless you're referring to you know,
a specific genre.
Speaker 1: Right, But but how do you feel about that?
Speaker 2: Like, to me, it seems almost sexist when the BBC
goes out of their way to label you as that.
You know, you're a rock band you happen to be
for women, but why do you need this special label?
Speaker 1: I'm curious how you feel about that, do you know?
Speaker 3: I think you can take it in a number of ways.
And you know, we are all females. We are all
female bands, so that's simplely understandable. And the presenters who
said that they were females themselves, okay, and the Glasgow
sine there aren't many for or aren't many all female bands. Yeah,
I can understand why they have said that. You know,
it's not something that we're deliberately, you know, not trying
to mark ourselves as obviously we are get band that
is us. However, you know, like you said, you could
see a rock band, you could say whatever. However we
just took it as we just took it as our
compliment from the BBC and all the lessen do so
many bands every day that if they're calling those the
freshiesh ghetto bands in Glasgow, then I think we are
quite happy to take that as a compliment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's good. That's a great way to look
at it. Yeah, it just struck me as strange. But
as you mentioned too, it was it was women who
are saying it so that changes the context a bit too,
so so that that's good. That's good, But I mean,
but you are you are a rock band. And and
for for anyone who you know, for anyone who is
joining us late who didn't hear the track, don't fool
me twice. I mean, you're I'm curious to know more
about your sound and your influences because I I hear
some different things in there, But like, who are some
of your influences?
Speaker 3: Well, some of our influences definitely have to be Fleet
with Mac. For example, the Angles when we're starting out,
those were the kind of bands that we're saying very
much our sound. Now we have changed direction, you know,
don't for me twice as the start of our more
rockier sound.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so we are.
Speaker 3: Just came to finding their feet there. You could say,
like alanis motor Set for example, definitely an influence there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I like the Fleewood Mac. I can definitely
hear that. I'm a big Fleewood Mac fan, and I
know what you mean. Yeah, that's that's definitely And and
again it kind of goes to that vocal approach, right,
you know, it reminds me of a very very evocative
of Fleewood Mac.
Speaker 1: And then oh.
Speaker 3: Absolutely we do call our singer Stevie Nix because she
does so just like her rethink it's amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's fantastic. That's fantastic.
Speaker 2: So Don't Fool Me Twice as the newest single, and
then you've got November, which we also did play on
the show. Really like that, and then you've got You've
got a couple others before that. What's what's kind of
the do you have plans to do an EP or
a full album or I mean, there's so many different
ways to release music these days, but are you going
to do more singles? Do you know kind of what
your forward trajectory is as far.
Speaker 3: As that, Yes, absolutely, so I think our next plan
is to release an EP okay, which is very exciting,
going along the lines of Don't Form Me Twice and
that more rockier sound. Yeah, November and Don't Form Twice
was released on like our double asage release, it was
put on vinyl, and November was the end of our
first chapter together kind of like our old sound, and
then Don't for Me Twice is the beginning of our
new sound. So the beginning then of our EP and
what's the Cup in twenty twenty six?
Speaker 1: Oh, very cool.
Speaker 2: Now in terms of because you talk about that kind
of your old sound and your new sound, that that transition,
is that something that you decided as a band in
other words, was it Is it intentional or is it
more just sort of organic, like that's kind of the
direction you're you're going and you're just going with it.
I'm curious about that. Is that something you where you
sat down and you said, you know, the four of
you said we need to go, we want to change direction,
or or is it just kind of something that's happening.
Speaker 3: So it just kind of happened in the room. The
four of us set and we write our songs together.
Whilst writing Don't for Me twice and a couple of
our others which are unreleased, we realized, wow, we love
playing this sound. It comes so easy to us, like
it's definitely the direction we wanted to head, and so
we decided to make that kind of move and say, okay,
it is quite a big change up going down the
more rockier route, but definitely yeah, that's when we decided
this is where we want to go.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, yeah, So it sounds like kind of a
kind of a combination of both. Right, it's you know,
you kind of naturally started doing that, but but then
once you realize it's working, you know, and don't exactly Yeah,
and it makes sense. I mean, you don't Fool Me
Twice is a great track. I definitely want to hear
more of that. So that's that's that's really good. And
you've done some festivals, right, yes, we have.
Speaker 3: We did our first set of festivals this year. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was looking at this, so let's see, uh, come
back around. Oh yeah, oh there's a bunch of them.
Speaker 1: Listen here.
Speaker 2: How many of you done? It looks like you've done
quite a few, right, Yeah, so yeah.
Speaker 3: We've done quite a few. Most noticeable we played Scotland's
biggest outdoor festival, Beldrum up in Inverness. Okay, we managed
to do two stages there. We did a live electric
set and then we also did an acoustic set as
well on a slightly smaller stage, which was really fun.
And we've done some festivals local to where we live
in the west of Scotland as well. Yeah, that's been
a nice mix of the smaller ones and then obviously
Scotland's biggest, so it'd been really fun.
Speaker 2: That's great because the thing about festivals is, you know,
and I always say, and obviously you know this because
you're experiencing it, but I always say, especially for young
new bands, festivals, not only do they get you in
front of these very large crowds, so they expose you
to you know, a potentially whole new fan base and
can help you to build a fan base very quickly,
but also the networking opportunities that come with playing festivals
it's unparalleled. You know, you meet you meet all these
other artists that you're playing with, but also you know
all kinds of industry people at these festivals and that
helps you build so you know, so you build an audience,
but you also build a network and a reputation within
the industry that is so critical. So festivals are if
you can play. And we've got a lot of guests.
We've had a lot of guests from the UK who've
been you know, we've done a festival or two, but
no one who's done as many as you have. And
it seems like you really, I mean, you're really just
approaching that head on, which is fantastic. I tell everybody
play every festival you can because it is so it
is so critical. I mean you can make big leaps
and bounds as playing festivals. So that's that's fantastic.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, yep. You don't know who's going to be there
watching you, so as it's just a great way to
reach new people, nu audances, different places, make connections, as
you said, for your network. So absolutely, And.
Speaker 2: What is this by the way, the uh it says
you sold out the SWG three Poetry Club show.
Speaker 1: What's that?
Speaker 3: Yes? So s WG three is a venue in Glasgow.
The Poetry Club is the name of the venue. So
that was where we did our headline show for our
single Feel at All and we managed to completely sell
out that show.
Speaker 2: Oh excellent, excellent, Okay, very good. Yeah, so you're off
to a great start. Now are you playing? Are you
playing consistently? Are you touring? Are you are you doing
a lot of like like what's the live situation?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: I can tell you here in the United States, a
lot of a lot of bands kind of high at
least in this part of the country. A lot of
bands kind of hibernate a little bit in the winter.
They you know, they're active recording and writing, but they
don't play out as much. But what's what's the situation
where you are as far as live shows.
Speaker 3: So we did our last live show of the year
on the sixth of December. That was our headline show
for the release of Don't Film Me Twice in November,
so that as well, that was in Glasgow. That was
really cool. We are taking a little bit of a
break over new year, starting to write some new songs
and then in February and March time we're actually going
on a tour.
Speaker 1: Oh outstanding. Are you now?
Speaker 2: Are you going on your own tour or are you
opening for for somebody or what's what are you doing
for the tour?
Speaker 3: So far, it's I believe it as a headline tour.
I believe it might be a joint headline in one
of the locations. It's oh to be one hundred percent
confirmed as yet, however, yet it does look as if
will be the headline. So it's very exciting.
Speaker 2: Oh, very good. That is outstanding. Outstanding And can you
talk a little bit too about the themes of of
your songs because I saw something about you know this
is more than you know you kind of think of
it as it's not just a band but a movement,
and it's it seems like there's there's certain themes that
come up, you know, like empowerment and and uh you
know and and uh taking control and and so forth.
I mean, can can you talk a little bit about that?
And I'm curious how important that is to you as
a band to kind of like, you know, do you
have a certain message that you're trying to put forth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would definitely say impowerment is a really good one.
Definitely one of the themes. Yeah, I guess like our
message is just I suppose it is empowerments. Really, we
just write music. We love what we do, and we
want to just put out music that we love to play,
we love to listen to, and so yeah, that's that's
definitely what I would say for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, outstanding. Well Will in a moment, I'm gonna play
this track November, which is the I think the first
song of your band that we've played on the show.
But uh, you know, we're always happy to kind of
be the you know, the entry point into American radio
for for some of these great bands that are that
are coming out of your your area. There's so much
so much incredible talent there. But so we're gonna play
that track in a moment and we'll let you go.
But Kate, thank you so much for joining us. And
where where's the best place to go online or the
best places to go for people to keep up with
everything that The Marches is doing, because you've got a
lot going on, So we want to make sure our
listeners know how they can follow you online.
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely so the best place you can beaches is
probably our Instagram. We are The Marches Music on Instagram.
We've got a blue tech so you'll be able to
find those and you can get our music all on
Apple Music, in Spotify and all the use of stream.
Speaker 2: Insights outstanding, outstanding.
Speaker 1: All right, Kate Morrow, thank you so much. We'll let
you go.
Speaker 2: We're going to hit that track, but we will definitely
do this again in the future. Like I said, we're
big fans. I love the vocals, it's it just sounds
so good. And I'm glad Fleewood Matt came up because
now that totally makes sense to me.
Speaker 3: But but yes, absolutely.
Speaker 1: Absolutely so, we will do this again in the future.
Keep up the great work. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 3: Thanks Kate, thank you so much for having me. Thank
you you got it.
Speaker 1: Bye bye bye. All right, I didn't mean to start
the track yet.
Speaker 2: That is Kate Morrow from the band The Marches, and
I really this is another great song. You heard it
here first on American radio here on WM and H.
This is another great track. This is called November and
the band is The Marches.