Introducing: The Hoosiers
The London-based three piece make cheerful sounding music with a dark heart – don’t be fooled by debut single ‘Worried about Ray’’s chirpiness, there are slower numbers and melancholy in there too.
‘Pop is amazing, very immediate music that has a great energy to it, and we like dressing our songs up with that. But we also like having quite adult themes, things like loving something but surrendering yourself to the knowledge that on a long enough timeline, anything you love is going to cause you pain,’ says singer Irwin, in between tales of his failed career as a football student in the US and how pleased he was that a little old lady gave him back 50p he dropped in the street. They are, etc. suspects, a curious bunch. We’re promised that their gigs will be startling combinations of their love of theatrics and bands like the Flaming Lips – dancing amplifiers, animal costumes and animations showing onstage are mentioned. ‘We’re playing for people for the first time, so we really want the songs to make as much sense as possible, so you’ll see the characters in the songs, especially through the animations.’ Which, he claims, the ‘Swedish Art Mafia’ helped them with. ‘Concept is a dirty word,’ he says, ‘but all of these songs have a cartoon-like story behind them, like a dark fairy tale.’
He stops here and apologises for talking too much about himself. ‘I feel I don’t know anything about you!’ It’s fine, etc. says, you’re the rock star. ‘That’s good, I’d have hated us to meet in the pub and for things to be awkward.’ Never fear. So what’s the best thing about their increasing success? ‘We’re starting to get attention from girls,’ he says, ‘which is completely unwarranted because we’re bloody ugly!’
More? www.myspace.com/thehoosiers
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