‘We’ll just keep on trucking...’

ROB FIDDAMAN TALKS TO A THREE-PIECE BAND, WHO, AFTER TRYING NUMEROUS STYLES, JUST WENT FOR

THE Howlers established themselves in early 2019 and with a first single released in June of that same year, the band was just getting going before the pandemic hit.

The three-piece indie rock band played the Sugarmill and pulled in a staggering

54 shows including some supports for

The Rifles in their first year as a band. Frontman Adam Young explained to me that the guys got into massive debt by playing every city they could, but it was worth it for the experience, knowledge and contacts they picked up along the way.

He said: “Everything we’ve done is all word of mouth and we hold the record for the most tunes to debut on Radio

One in the shortest time period.”

The Howlers have done everything independently including management. Adam added: “We’re quite fortunate to have a lot of major players in the industry who want to work with us. Everything goes through one of us. We’ll just keep on trucking for the moment and hopefully, things will change for the better for us.

“We always wanted to start a band, but it had to be natural, it couldn’t be forced. Unfortunately, we did for a little bit, we tried to be something that we weren’t. We tried to do something that was popular, but it just wasn’t right for us. Then the pandemic came about, and we sort of just held a mirror up to the band and said ‘well, we weren’t actually that great’ so we just ripped everything up and started again.”

The Howlers effectively kept the same name and went to town writing lots of new songs.

“We are a multicultural band, and we want to represent being that. Popular movements in music at the moment are post punk and we’ve never been that. It’s not my thing at all. We were sort of trying to plough so much energy into every song using our experiences, meeting people through a lot of A&R sessions and having friends in very high-profile bands, things like that. Then we sort of came to the realisation that what we actually enjoy out of music is Northern Soul, lo-fi garage stuff and Seventies so we were like, ‘why don’t we just do what we love? Because the thing is, that’s how we all just naturally play anyway.”