A Thrilling Look Inside The Magic Of Touring with Glove – Coog Radio

On October 15, 2022 synth-pop new wave band Glove opened the American Categorical stage at Austin City Limits Music Festival with a stellar efficiency.

The group reveals 80’s nostalgia with a twist of post-punk digital and consists of 4 members: Brie Denicourt, Rod Woolf, Michelle Primiani and Justin Burns. 

Beneath is the transcribed dialog held throughout Day Three of ACL Weekend 2 between Coog Radio and Glove, the place we briefly talk about what it’s like for the band to hit the highway, go over some suggestions for brand spanking new up-and-coming artists and general, get to know the band a bit higher.

Hello, everybody, I’m Michelle Garcia from Coog Radio. Thanks guys a lot for becoming a member of me at this time. Let’s go forward and begin with introducing yourselves and the primary instrument you play, now I do say “most important” as a result of I do know you guys are properly rounded and infrequently swap between songs.

BRIE: “Hello, I’m Brie. I play drums and sing.”

ROD: “I’m Rod, I play guitar.”

MICHELLE: “I’m Michelle, I play the keyboards.”

JUSTIN: “I’m Justin, I play bass and sing a bit of bit.”

Nice, let’s get straight into it. So that you guys simply acquired off the American Categorical stage not too way back and performed a few of your newest scorching singles like “Glass” and “Household Journey” amongst different songs, how was the expertise for you guys?

ROD: “It was nice. Felt good at this time, sounded good up there. It wasn’t as scorching on stage so, it was nice.”

BRIE: “It was booming up there, felt good. We may dance round.”

I do know, it’s tremendous scorching out right here! I’m certain you guys are already conversant in that, having performed each SXSW and Lollapalooza previously, to this point, do you guys desire the massive stage or smaller venues?

MICHELLE: “It’s positively a distinct expertise, you recognize we positively get pleasure from, like our late night time night-time exhibits, like small venues; actually crowded. However then, that is positively a distinct expertise that’s additionally actually enjoyable.”

JUSTIN: “Yeah.”

BRIE: “Individuals can really see us within the daylight on the festivals proper now so.”

ROD: “Normally our exhibits are fairly darkish and strobe lights and fog.”

MICHELLE: “Lot’s of fog.”

ROD: “However that is cool, we prefer it. Large stage sound crew and we get pleasure from it.”

MICHELLE: “Yeah, we surprise if it interprets the identical through the day however I feel we get a fairly good response.”

I’m glad, that’s superior. Now, from my understanding, you guys performed a few dates with musician, Jack White. How was that have for you guys?

BRIE: “Wonderful!”

JUSTIN: “It’s superior. I really feel prefer it’s a really surreal expertise for all of us.”

ROD: “Sure, I feel he was an affect on all of us rising up, you recognize. So it was enjoyable to satisfy him and hang around a bit of bit and the exhibits have been nice so yeah, we had a good time. It was positively a spotlight.”

BRIE: “Seven Nation Military was the primary track I ever realized on drums, so, it was type of like a full circle expertise.”

MICHELLE: “I feel every of us have, like, a definitive Jack White story from after we have been youthful so it’s cool to only type of come collectively after which get to play with him. It’s surreal.”

That’s actually cool, do you guys have any enjoyable or attention-grabbing tales from being on tour throughout these dates with Jack White? 

ROD: “What would you say, Justin? [laughs]”

BRIE: “Rod’s guitar pedal melted for a present throughout our sound verify, in order that was very enjoyable to cope with! [laughs]”

ROD: “Haha, it was actually scorching, yeah.”

JUSTIN: “[laughs]”

MICHELLE: “[laughs] and so did Brie!”

BRIE: “I acquired a rash from the solar, yeah, lot’s of excellent issues! [laughs]”

ROD: “It was enjoyable, we have been sound checking actually earlier within the day and it was scorching. It was most likely, like, one of many type of loopy, like, havoc issues to occur however different than that—”

BRIE: “After that, it was all nice.”

ROD: “Yeah.”

MICHELLE: “Yeah, he [Jack White], like, walked into our inexperienced room unannounced and  surprising and all of us simply, like…I felt like…”

JUSTIN: “All of us simply stayed frozen.”

MICHELLE: “Yeah, we simply froze and we’re like ‘Hey! Hey!’ [laughs] like, I forgot how one can speak! However then we, like, warmed up after that.”

BRIE: “He’s a really cool, humble man. Tremendous good.”

How good to listen to and such nice tales. So, now that you just guys have been touring with Spoon and shutting out a tour with Foals, there’s way more touring expertise below your belt, are there any suggestions or methods you guys have for any up-and-coming artists who would possibly need to hit the highway?

BRIE: “I’d say—”

ROD: “Sure! Get within the van! Do it! ”

JUSTIN: “Yeah, get within the van and do it.”

MICHELLE: “Yeah.”

BRIE: “Simply get on the market, like even when it’s important to DIY it. You by no means know who’s going to be at a present you can meet that, you recognize, like, one other tour can come from it or simply actually getting on the market, and that’s what we did.”

JUSTIN: “Yeah.”

ROD: “I feel the perfect piece of recommendation is that you just, one dialog would possibly result in a lot of issues for a band, you recognize.”

MICHELLE: “Undoubtedly.”

ROD: “Assembly somebody for 5 minutes and possibly exchanging numbers, you grow to be pleasant and abruptly, they know a band or—”

BRIE: “And it may very well be at a nasty present too, you by no means know. If there’s like a present you play and there’s no one there, it may very well be just like the one individual, you recognize, that you just join with and results in many friendships and different issues, you recognize.”

MICHELLE: “Yeah, simply meet as many individuals as you possibly can, positively.”

Good to know! And I’ve additionally heard that your debut album Increase Nights has an attention-grabbing story behind the picture that was chosen for the album cowl?

BRIE: “Yeah, so my grandmother took that picture in 1976, she used to placed on drag nights. And so, that was considered one of her drag nights. It was, like, Hollywood themed so it was a drag queen dressed as Liza Minnelli. And, you recognize, we picked that cowl like 5 years in the past, earlier than we even had the album. We have been going by previous pictures, like, with my mother and, like, Rod noticed that picture and was like ‘Oh my god, that is an album cowl’.  Like, it seemed iconic, you recognize, after recording the album, like, we simply caught with that. We didn’t change our minds after years, you recognize, we have been like ‘that’s the one’. After which, Rod got here up with the title ‘Increase Nights’ and it labored so properly collectively, it felt proper, so.”

ROD: “Yeah.”

BRIE: “Yeah, we had sat with that picture for a very long time.”

ROD: “For some time, properly the album was imagined to be prepared proper earlier than the pandemic hit, you recognize, after which that delayed a bit of bit with these years and stuff. However yeah, we’ve had it for some time and I feel we’re fairly sturdy about it. I feel all of us appreciated it.”

BRIE: “We knew it was the one.”

It’s a strong alternative, I used to be so glad to see the picture on the drum on stage. So, Increase Nights got here out earlier this 12 months and clearly has some 80’s influences that performs very properly into the synth pop and darkwave sound, is there anybody you guys are listening to proper now that’s comparable or far faraway from this sound that you just suggest followers to take a look at? 

JUSTIN: “Nation Of Language, they’re actually good pals of ours they usually simply make superb music. So, that’s positively one all of us like.”

ROD: “Yeah, they performed right here [ACL] as properly final Friday. They’re positively ones that I, yeah, Nation Of Language individuals ought to verify that out. What else?”

MICHELLE: “Working Males’s Membership is fairly cool. They’re from the UK, doing a little cool stuff.”

JUSTIN: “Yeah, they’re fairly tight.”

ROD: “Working Males’s Membership is a cool band. Yeah, I don’t know, I imply we hearken to all the things, you recognize. So, it’s type of onerous to consider in the meanwhile.”

JUSTIN: “These are positively, like, newer bands that we actually get pleasure from.”

Nice, I’ll make sure you verify them out. And I imagine that in your first tour, you guys solely traveled with two songs below your belt, how was that?

ROD: “It was simply getting within the van! [laughs] Actually, you recognize.”

MICHELLE: “Yeah, getting by with, like, a variety of assist from individuals who simply trusted the imaginative and prescient and yeah, simply getting within the van.”

ROD: “Yeah, we had a variety of pals that simply gave us alternatives to, you recognize, play exhibits with them and go on the highway early on, um, with out realizing. I imply, they type of knew what we have been doing and stuff, you recognize, stuff wasn’t out but however they have been gracious sufficient to take us.”

BRIE: “They trusted us.”

ROD: “Yeah, it simply saved rising and actually, a variety of the songs we have been doing and the time, I feel, we wrote a variety of stuff after.”

MICHELLE: “Yeah, I imply a few of the first songs we have been touring with are like not being performed or going to be recorded, however you recognize, we have been writing and figuring it out alongside the way in which and ultimately it turned what it’s.”

Wonderful, thanks for sharing, I’ve one final tidbit for you guys. If you happen to guys may decide any band or artist to dedicate or embody in a canopy album idea, who would you select?

ROD: “Ooh! [laughs]”

BRIE: “Oh! Only one?”

JUSTIN: “Mm I need to decide one thing that’s not, like, too on the nostril.”

ROD: “Yeah!”

JUSTIN: “Hmm, fuck. [laughs]”

MICHELLE: “I’d say, like, Devo or —”

ROD: “Devo, The Remedy, I imply we actually like—”

BRIE: “I’m going to say Daft Punk’s Homework [laughs].”

JUSTIN: “Yeah, that’d be cool.”

MICHELLE: “Yeah, that’d be cool.”

ROD: “Daft Punk, that’d be sick! Yeah, [laughs] mashup all of these!”

I’m certain you guys would kill it, you all did so nice on stage and I simply need to thanks guys as soon as once more for taking the time to take a seat down and speak. Coog Radio loves your music and we will’t wait to listen to extra from you.

Attending to know the members of recent wave group Glove was as pleasant of an expertise because it was to look at them carry out reside and positively matches the electrical burst of vitality you may get from listening to their music. If you happen to haven’t already finished so, I extremely suggest to take a look at Glove’s debut album Boom Nights or catch considered one of their upcoming exhibits supporting Foals. Go to the Glove official website for extra data on how one can seize tickets.

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