Worlds away from the venue they had played the previous evening with fellow Manchester band, The Charlatans, I got to spend some time chatting with a rapidly emerging band Blossoms in the small back room of York venue, Fibbers, where the band would play later that evening.
It is not to be assumed that these are just another repackaged 80s Manchester band that have been picked up and spat out of their home town of Stockport. Blossoms have a truly unique sound; their almost dreamy vocals combined with good old guitar pop and the strong backbone of the drums help them live up to the name they have got themselves as the best young band on the Manchester music scene.
As a young and fairly new act, having only formed in 2013 through coming together from different bands, I wanted to know what the secret was behind their almost “instant” success. Myles (Keyboard) tells me “As cheesy as this sound, it’s all about setting targets to meet; we all have our own goals of what we want to do in this band and then we work towards them”. Tom (Vocals/ Guitar) also adds that because previous bands they had been in had all reached dead ends, they knew what and what not to do in Blossoms, which has given them a push in the right direction.
It also became obvious that this band are very hard-working and played over 100 gigs last year alone. Clearly taking a very switched on and well planned approach to what this band does, I wanted to know if there are any plans for a debut album soon. They tell me how they will be releasing at least 2 more EPs and plan on doing a tour later this year to help build their audience up, before a possible debut album release early next year.
The band take their influences from all over, from old artists to current ones, from Abba to The Doors even with some “cheesy 80s Madonna” mixed in, Tom adds. They also listen to a lot of new artists such as The Vryll Society, Mac Demarco and The Horrors, another band which rank highly on all of their lists are Peace who they say they are all looking forward to supporting in Tokyo next month.
It’s around 9:35pm and Blossoms are getting ready to take to the stage, the band receive a warm welcome from the York crowd and power through favourites such as Blow and The Urge, then slow things down slightly with Toms favourite to play live called ‘My Favourite Room’. The band end on one of their most popular songs called ‘Cut Me And I’ll Bleed’.
Words by Hannah Woollaston