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Cruel Hearts Club began with Edie and Gita moving from Down Under to London and forming the punk pop band with drummer, Gabi. On their website you’ll find ‘Blending everything from cheerleader chants to gnarly guitar work’…..it being the best possible description about them and their 3 extremely fun and empowering singles.
Alongside some rad singles, they have supported some legendary names already around Europe, just another sign of how they are nailing it! It was great be being able to ask them about some of their songs, style, thoughts on the industry and supporting Mr Iggy Pop!
You girls have such a great pop, punk and grunge sound, how did you decide on your sound?
Our sound is evolving all the time. I love that we don’t have to be boxed in to one genre and we can just make music that we love.
You cite The Runaways as a big influence, what was it like hearing songs ‘Cherry Bomb’ for the first time?
I don’t remember the first time I heard it… but every time I hear it It’s just so huge and powerful that it never ever gets old.
How does the songwriting work in the band? Is it very collaborative or more individually?
Edie and I tend to bounce melody and lyric ideas back and fourth – in our voice memos you can often hear windscreen wipers going of kids in the background going ‘I’m trying to watch my program!!’ Anyway, we’ll end up at one of our houses and bash it out on guitars. We’ll get in the studio with Gabi and make sense of it structure wise.
Your first single ‘Hey Compadre’ was such an epic and loud first experience of what you girls are you and stand for, was it the obvious choice as the debut track?
Yeah! It was the song that everyone would come and tell us that they loved backstage after our gigs. It’s always my favourite song to play as it’s usually our last one which means We can use all the energy We have left.
‘Suck It Up’ opens with such a great guitar sound, how did that sound come about?
We don’t usually start songs with a bass line but I just loved the guitar line and layered it up at home for a demo to make it sound BIG. The whole song started with that line and the rest kind of fell into place from there.
You supported people like Iggy Pop!! How amazing was that???!
Literally, a career high, it doesn’t get better than Iggy. We had a total ball out in Budapest, we had a bunch of friends and our fellas out with us and we went large!
How do you feel you as a band are seen and treated, being in an industry that has unequal festival line ups and dominated by white mate acts?
We’ve had a few moments where it’s been a bit rocky and we felt like we were been penalised for our gender, but on a hole I think things are looking up in the music industry. Women have a lot more power right now than they used to and I’d like to think people will speak up if anything unjust goes down. I know we will.
The new single ‘Blame Me Too’ again has such a cool riff, how did that song come about? The chorus is so awesome!
Thanks! It actually had a completely different chorus at the beginning and a whole different meaning but it didn’t feel strong enough.
Once we did a rough demo of the new version, everyone seemed to really buzz off it. We didn’t even change much from the demo as we really loved the raw sound of it and didn’t want to spoil it with too many added sounds. Sometimes the simple songs are the best.
It must be very frustrating with what’s happening with the virus but I hope you are all safe and well! What’s hopefully planned after lockdown?
We want to do a uk tour as we seemed to have quite a few new fans so would be amazing to go and play for them for the first time.
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