We caught up with post hardcore rock band Cold Summer last week. The quartet from Wakefield chatted to us about there then forthcoming release of their new single, 'Car Crash (In Progress)', as well as a little about themselves.
1. Who are Cold Summer?
Justin: Well we're 4 guys from Wakefield and surrounding areas who play in i guess a rock band, we kind of do our own thing and we try to achieve this feat by mixing diverse influences from what we're all on into and not hopefully being one dimensional / predictable with our approach to song writing. We've been together now about 3 years, we've progressed quite a lot in that time and we've put out a few releases. Dan Feast sings, Chris Harrison plays guitar, Chris Hepworth plays Bass and I (Justin Eastwood) play drums.
2. You're set to release your new single, 'Car Crash (In Progress)', on September 22nd, tell us a little about the track?
Dan: Well about the subject matter the song touches upon, it's just how is messed up I feel the world is and with the lyrics I felt I need to tackle everything I feel that makes it that way from my perspective and I'm sure other people as well certainly feel the way I do. We experience the same things in day to day life and people can relate to their voice not getting heard and be that in a relationship / politics with one another. Greed and corruption are like subjects I touched upon a lot as we see it on our TV screens everyday in some shape or form, the chorus is about the injustice people face who try and do the right thing / make a positive difference in life and the 'powers above' sweep this under the carpet as it were.
3. 'Car Crash (In Progress)' is supposedly a part of a project for 2015, can you enlighten us on what you have in store?
Chris Harrison: We're pretty much set on releasing a 6 track EP to follow up from our album release last year, we've recorded quite a bit of it up to now (3 completed songs) but we're heading into the studio in about 8 weeks time to finish it off with Mike Bennett, we're actually still writing at the moment, there's a determination to really get a few songs penned down and then we can pick the best 3 that fit in with what we've already laid down, it'll hopefully mean we have a few more new songs to play live as well, even if they don't get recorded at this point.
4. Where do you see yourselves in 5 years time?
Chris Hepworth: Well the way things are moving forward we'd see ourselves playing more festivals and just hopefully touring the world with hopefully a few great recordings to show for it.
5. What's next for Cold Summer?
Justin: Well we have a few tours, tours and rumours of tours flying about at the moment, so we have plans in action for that but we can't confirm at the moment but hopefully at least one before the year is out! We also have a couple of shows before the end of the year too, so even though we're pretty focused at this moment in time on writing, we're still out there playing shows. So yeah we've got the EP release to look forward to early next year so again it's a busy period for us till then.
Big thanks to Cold Summer for the interview.
Listen to Cold Summer's new single, 'Car Crash (In Progress), via their official Bandcamp page: http://coldsummer.bandcamp.com/
Follow Cold Summer on Twitter: @coldsummeruk / https://twitter.com/coldsummeruk
Like Cold Summer on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ColdSummeruk
Posted by Charlie Ireland.
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