Speaking about the new single, they say, “Cut Off Point is an extended metaphor for cutting the imaginary umbilical cord between mother and child when you reach adulthood.<\/p>\n
“It’s about grieving childhood and reckoning with a dependency that never really gets cut off, especially when all you\u2019ve known is your parents’ support regardless.<\/p>\n
“As a band, in recent years, we\u2019ve all had to leave home for new cities and leaving our parents behind in the process brought this question to light.”<\/p>\n
Tell us three things about yourself . . .<\/p>\n
My favourite song ever is probably Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell, and I don’t think there’s a better example of timeless songwriting than that song, to be honest.<\/p>\n
I’m originally from Hull. I grew up there and went to all the best music hotspots like Polar Bear, The Adelphi, Spiders Nightclub, Welly on a Saturday night, went to college and school there, etc., and then moved to Leeds around five years ago. Ben, our drummer, is also from Hull and moved around the same time as me, and we’ve both stayed here ever since.<\/p>\n
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We have a doctor in the band, Rafa, which is really cool, but all of us also went to university, which is where we met. Although a lot of people assume I went to the conservatoire in Leeds and studied music, I didn’t; I just spent a lot of time there because Ben and Charlie were there, and I wrote my final dissertation on Jarvis Cocker’s accent and phonetically transcribed the whole of Different Class. I can’t really listen to the album in the same way again…<\/p>\n
How would you describe your music?<\/p>\n
Wonky alternative rock, with hints of jazz, grunge, and psychedelia. It’s for the existentialists, those who think a bit deeper about everyday existence, probably not for their own good either (ha!) It’s also quite surrealist, which makes it a little less serious than it first appears, with hints of fun in there too.<\/p>\n
Who are your musical inspirations?<\/p>\n
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I’ve had quite a lot of musical inspirations over the years that I’ve been writing music, but I would say that collectively, we’re inspired by the sounds of Radiohead (what band isn’t influenced by them?), Blur, Nil\u00fcfer Yanya, Dry Cleaning, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Hayley Williams, Jeff Buckley, Chartreuse, and Honeyglaze, but the list goes on as we’re always swapping music with each other and getting inspired by different artists all the time.<\/p>\n
What was the first gig you ever went to?<\/p>\n
I cringe as I write this, but the first gig I went to was a Jessie J concert at Sherwood Forest, and I think I was around 12 at the time, so I hadn’t developed an extensive taste in music yet. Like most concerts I went to as a teenager, I went with my Dad, and I remember it being the last day of the school summer term too. I do think Jessie’s an underrated vocalist and performer, though, and it would be wrong not to credit her for inspiring the way I’ve trained and developed my voice over the years.<\/p>\n
What was the first record you ever bought?<\/p>\n
The first physical record I ever bought, as in a vinyl, was George Michael’s A Different Corner on 7″ single. I loved that song so much as a teenager and experienced my first proper heartbreak over it with a boy I fancied at high school, who showed me the song when I was 15. George Michael and Wham! have been in my life since I was a little kid, through my Mum playing them to my siblings and me so much, so despite the teenage heartbreak I went through with this song, I’m still a huge fan of both.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s your favourite song right now?<\/p>\n
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Big fan of Do Nothing’s new single The Nail from their upcoming album Friend World. I’ve played a couple of gigs with the lads from the band in one of my previous projects, and I think the frontman, Chris Bailey, is one of the best lyricists ever – they’re also a massive inspiration to us lyrically and musically. I love how Chris scrutinises life and people in such a deadpan way, and I’m really excited to hear the rest of the album after hearing some of the songs live a few years ago.<\/p>\n
Favourite lyric of all time?<\/p>\n
One of my favourite lyrics of all time, because it’s quite hard to pick one, especially as a lyricist who often takes note of lyrics before anything else in a song, is from The War On Drugs song I Don’t Live Here Anymore and it’s “Is life just dying in slow motion?”, which is really dark and profound, but I remember it stopping me in my tracks the first time I heard it because it’s true. I’m also a huge fan of most of Thom Yorke’s lyrics, but I couldn’t possibly pick one from the Radiohead discography.<\/p>\n
If you could only listen to one song for the rest of your life, what would it be?<\/p>\n
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Easy: Nude by Radiohead. That song makes me feel things that I can’t explain.<\/p>\n
Where can people find your music\/more information?<\/p>\n
Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok.<\/p>\n
Alan Corr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK based four-piece Part-Time Model have released their debut single, Cut Off Point. We asked front woman Lucy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-652237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}