It's 8.34am, Sunday morning, a studio apartment down a London backstreet, just off Covent Garden’s. The glistening Christmas sky lights of the city markets and fancy boutiques down below stream through the badly put up ASDA living curtains and nock off double glazed windows, gradually awakening Volume Magazine's new editions to the music scene. An odd body part on show here and there underneath duvets and one another’s belongings, as our passed out newbies are experiencing what any British would call a ‘the morning after hangover’. A bombsight of pizza boxes, deflated balloons, empty cans and party streamers certainly indicates it was a good night last night. 'We are just student's, trying to make our dreams more of a reality.' – Lauren, lead vocals, 21- a certain aspiration many of this age whom aspire to make it big, all start off with a dream. Although does this dream seem possible enough to one day walk in the footsteps of American sensations such as Blink 182 or Paramore? You’d think not, until you’ve managed to dis-regard the chaotic, jumbled and disorganised mess of a progressing rock band’s city apartment and delve right into the heart and soul of what this bands about. ‘It’s always been about progressing the music we’ve composed. Although composed seems so classical, but we’ve managed to make it entirely ourselves’ and it’s true. Just down the hallway, behind some IKEA flat packed book shelves and decrepit doorways, a incredibly untypical mimic of a major record company recording studio. With the high spirits but ramshackle student starts to WCTP’s inspirations (All Time Low), their own recording studio within the same living amenities seems nothing more than a luxury. If only they had the newbies archetypal advantage; ‘parents garage for band practise only’, they would undoubtedly be living up to the expectations of any emerging rock band. ‘That’s so American, in the UK, we aim for the best. And that’s exactly what we’re aiming for’.
Following the success of their fully sold out acoustic bar shows, the band are surely something of becoming a hit within some of the UK’s more intimate venues. ‘We really want to start getting into bigger venues, like O2 Academy’s at least’ drummer Dan told Volume, after finally emerging from his un-easy night sleep. Considering the band’s exclusive and diverse style, they are surely heading for success, with the abilities to record and produce their own music, it’s only a matter of time before these guy are recognised by a popular independent label.
We managed to hurry the guys into taking us out to see some of the more local sites around London, in which they enjoy socialising together, which they call ‘making music in our heads’.
‘We often come here, with a mission. To think up those songs’. It’s a derelict castle keep, like one of those you’d seen in an olden day movie, just along the alley from their apartment. You could begin to understand why this place seems so special, the hushed and reserved location for the newest quiet and secretive band on the block. ‘That’s just it. We are a bit like a secret to the music scene, as nobody in the real world, out there, knows who we are what we are doing yet. Except those ones we know. We’ve just got real big plans, and such bad thoughts’.
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