JS: How about introducing the band to everyone? How long have you all been together?
WAF: Hi! We’re We Are Fiction, a 5 piece post-hardcore / melodic screamo band from Peterborough, UK. We got together in Summer 2007 with this line up; 4 of us we’re in a band together for a few years before our front man left. We didn’t want to split up or stop playing music, so we were on a mission to find a new front guy, and saw Phil playing in another local band and basically decided to steal him; and here we are now!
JS: I see you have many influences in your music who within the group writes the music and lyrics? What inspires you the most?
WAF: We’re all into different music, which sometimes makes writing and keeping everyone happy pretty hard, but also makes things more interesting.
Andi or Adam (Guitarists) will normally turn up with some riffs or chord progressions and then we normally just jam with them until we find something we like, and keep doing that until we have enough stuff for a song; not the most scientific method but it works well for us at the minute. When it comes to song meanings, we tend to collaborate as a group to make sure everyone is happy to write about certain subjects, then just let Phil and Adam (vocalists) write the parts they’re going to be singing so they can have some meaning in their voice, not just singing empty words.
As for inspiration, it really depends on what we’ve been up to or what we’ve seen recently. Some of our songs are very personal lyrically, and others are about things we’ve seen on the news; it can come from anywhere really.
JS: You are about to release a new mini album. Can you give us more on this?
WAF: It’s something we’ve wanted to do since we got together, same with most bands I guess. We were signed to Rising Records for almost a year and had planned to release a full length with them, but when we parted ways we decided to self release a 6 track ep to show people what we have been up to and to just get some new tracks out there.
JS: I see from this album you have released the single ‘Bitch’. The music video is very powerful and the music just exudes so much energy whats the story behind this song and video?
WAF: The song first came to life when Andi had written the intro riff, we all liked the energy and wanted to develop it. We had the song completed musically for a few weeks and Phil was still just screaming into the microphone without much thought, to try get a solid rhythm/melody in his head. At the time he had been having some bad luck with women who had a problem with keeping their legs closed for other guys, so thought “you know what, you’re all a bunch of fucking bitches”! And that’s pretty much how it came about; the lyrics definitely brought a new angry energy to the song.
As for the video, we’re a band that prides ourselves on having a good time when we play live, and not taking ourselves too seriously. So we came up with the idea of just getting a group of friends and some fans from our hometown together to have a pretty fun party in a dingy little club and film it, and this is what happened! Our friends and fans in Peterborough are awesome and always support us amazingly.
JS: I also see you love to perform live. Have you any forth coming tours? What would be your ultimate goal in performing live?
WAF: We’ve got no tours booked for the end of this year, as we’ve been really busy getting the album sorted and ready for release, which has taken a lot of time and effort! But we’re definitely going to be touring as much as we can next year, or as much as our van can take!
Ultimate goal in performing live would have to be playing Leeds/Reading festival and having people singing back to us, can’t even begin to imagine how amazing that would feel!
JS: What are your ultimate aims as a group?
WAF: Our dream is to be able to survive off the band, and not have to work the 9-5 jobs which we do at the minute to survive and pay the bills.
But realistically, we’d just be happy to be able to gig every night, whether to 10 or 10,000 people, it’s the reason we’re in a band.
JS: The Internet is a wonderful place for promoting music. As an independent group what have you found useful?
WAF: Myspace is definitely the place any bands starting up need to build from, or it was when we were getting our first demos about. We wouldn’t have got 90% of our gigs or fans if it wasn’t for that website; but it does seem that things are changing, and the public are using Myspace a lot less so I reckon give it another year and there’ll be some new sites that become the bible for rising bands.
JS: What challenge posed by the internet would you select as the most important to solve for musicians?
WAF: Trying to separate yourselves from the millions of other bands that are on myspace. As much as it’s a useful and amazing tool for bands, especially unsigned/local bands; it’s also meant that anyone can create a profile whether they are serious about music or not and then try to add everyone, which of course means that when genuine bands are trying to branch out to new fans it’s a lot harder to get the attention of people that could like you as they have probably already been bombarded with ‘friend requests’ from thousands of other bands.
JS: What message would you like to send out to your fans?
WAF: Thanks for everything, and keep being as awesome as you are, and please buy some merch so we can afford petrol for our van and some food!
JS: How about introducing the band to everyone? How long have you all been together?WAF: Hi! We’re We Are Fiction, a 5 piece post-hardcore / melodic screamo band from Peterborough, UK. We got together in Summer 2007 with this line up; 4 of us we’re in a band together for a few years before our front man left. We didn’t want to split up or stop playing music, so we were on a mission to find a new front guy, and saw Phil playing in another local band and basically decided to steal him; and here we are now!
JS: I see you have many influences in your music who within the group writes the music and lyrics? What inspires you the most?
WAF: We’re all into different music, which sometimes makes writing and keeping everyone happy pretty hard, but also makes things more interesting. Andi or Adam (Guitarists) will normally turn up with some riffs or chord progressions and then we normally just jam with them until we find something we like, and keep doing that until we have enough stuff for a song; not the most scientific method but it works well for us at the minute. When it comes to song meanings, we tend to collaborate as a group to make sure everyone is happy to write about certain subjects, then just let Phil and Adam (vocalists) write the parts they’re going to be singing so they can have some meaning in their voice, not just singing empty words. As for inspiration, it really depends on what we’ve been up to or what we’ve seen recently. Some of our songs are very personal lyrically, and others are about things we’ve seen on the news; it can come from anywhere really.
JS: You are about to release a new mini album. Can you give us more on this?
WAF: It’s something we’ve wanted to do since we got together, same with most bands I guess. We were signed to Rising Records for almost a year and had planned to release a full length with them, but when we parted ways we decided to self release a 6 track ep to show people what we have been up to and to just get some new tracks out there.
JS: I see from this album you have released the single ‘Bitch’. The music video is very powerful and the music just exudes so much energy whats the story behind this song and video?
WAF: The song first came to life when Andi had written the intro riff, we all liked the energy and wanted to develop it. We had the song completed musically for a few weeks and Phil was still just screaming into the microphone without much thought, to try get a solid rhythm/melody in his head. At the time he had been having some bad luck with women who had a problem with keeping their legs closed for other guys, so thought “you know what, you’re all a bunch of fucking bitches”! And that’s pretty much how it came about; the lyrics definitely brought a new angry energy to the song.
As for the video, we’re a band that prides ourselves on having a good time when we play live, and not taking ourselves too seriously. So we came up with the idea of just getting a group of friends and some fans from our hometown together to have a pretty fun party in a dingy little club and film it, and this is what happened! Our friends and fans in Peterborough are awesome and always support us amazingly.
JS: I also see you love to perform live. Have you any forth coming tours? What would be your ultimate goal in performing live?
WAF: We’ve got no tours booked for the end of this year, as we’ve been really busy getting the album sorted and ready for release, which has taken a lot of time and effort! But we’re definitely going to be touring as much as we can next year, or as much as our van can take! Ultimate goal in performing live would have to be playing Leeds/Reading festival and having people singing back to us, can’t even begin to imagine how amazing that would feel!
JS: What are your ultimate aims as a group?
WAF: Our dream is to be able to survive off the band, and not have to work the 9-5 jobs which we do at the minute to survive and pay the bills. But realistically, we’d just be happy to be able to gig every night, whether to 10 or 10,000 people, it’s the reason we’re in a band.
JS: The Internet is a wonderful place for promoting music. As an independent group what have you found useful?
WAF: Myspace is definitely the place any bands starting up need to build from, or it was when we were getting our first demos about. We wouldn’t have got 90% of our gigs or fans if it wasn’t for that website; but it does seem that things are changing, and the public are using Myspace a lot less so I reckon give it another year and there’ll be some new sites that become the bible for rising bands.
JS: What challenge posed by the internet would you select as the most important to solve for musicians?
WAF: Trying to separate yourselves from the millions of other bands that are on myspace. As much as it’s a useful and amazing tool for bands, especially unsigned/local bands; it’s also meant that anyone can create a profile whether they are serious about music or not and then try to add everyone, which of course means that when genuine bands are trying to branch out to new fans it’s a lot harder to get the attention of people that could like you as they have probably already been bombarded with ‘friend requests’ from thousands of other bands.
JS: What message would you like to send out to your fans?
WAF: Thanks for everything, and keep being as awesome as you are, and please buy some merch so we can afford petrol for our van and some food!
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