Indie duo bid to make their mark after teaming up during lockdown

AGLASGOW duo have opened up about their experience forming during lockdown. The Pretty Preachers Club is an indie- pop duo made up of pals Martha Mackay, 19, and Hannah Berry, 22, who began their music- making foray after meeting at college.

Martha, from Milngavie, said:

“We formed during lockdown and in a way I think that made us more creative.

“We are good pals and we really hit it off with each other when we found out that we liked the same music.

“Being stuck inside the house with not a lot to do a lot of the time, it just made sense for us to start recording together.”

The girls spent lockdown recording their pieces separately before bringing them together to create songs such as ‘ Nothing Like You’, their first single.

Hannah, from Bearsden, said: “It is very much a collaborative approach that we take, and we work really well together. We have different strengths and I think that you can hear that in the songs.

“We take a lot of influences from the bands we listen too like The 1975, Pale Waves and Sports Team, who we are both big fans of.

“A few of our favourite bands even released albums during lockdown and really, really, helped me to get through.”

The Pretty Preachers Club will release their debut EP ‘ Going Nowhere Fast’ on November 27, featuring three songs created using the technology that they had to hand at home.

Hannah said: “We had to kind of adapt to another way of working with technology to make this EP. I was getting people to record lines into their earphone microphone to overlap vocals, it sounds so weird but it worked really, really well!”

Martha said: “It’s kind of crazy when you think about it because