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INSIDE THE MUSIC SCENE featuring JULIETTE The Band
INSIDE THE MUSIC SCENE is back for Season 2!
On this episode of ITMS I was joined by Newbury based JULIETTE The Band. We speak about their upcoming album, showcase exclusive new material and find out which sauce they would be!! JULIETTE The Band's new album Little Bits of Everything We Like is out on 4th April 2025! Make sure to follow @juliettetheband on social media.
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Hello everybody and welcome to Inside the Music Scene with me, tara Dean. Now today I have a jam-packed show for you. I have got the amazing Juliet the Band on Zoom with me today and we're going to talk all about their music, their upcoming album, and I'm going to be asking them a few random questions along the way as well. But you know what I want you to find out about them straight away. We're going to go straight in with one of their newest tracks. It's actually the first track on their new album. This is Wildflowers and this is under the gun.
Speaker 2:A face in the crowd could be anyone. Am I the only one? I'm not the only one. Hundreds of eyes now looking at me, but if they could see, who would I be? Am I the only one? I'm not the only one. I don't know how the wildflowers grow, but I'm ready. I'm ready to work it out. I don't know how the wildflowers grow, but I'm ready. I'm ready to work it out. Spending too long with my head in the clouds, it's about time I work myself out. Dragging my heels won't help. Anyone Facing the crowd could be anyone. I'm not the only one. I'm not the only one. It could be you and me. It's always you and me. I don't know how the wildflowers grow, but I'm ready. I'm ready to work it out. I don't know how the wildflowers grow, but I'm ready. I'm ready to work it out. I'm not the only one. I'm not the only one.
Speaker 1:It could be you and me. It's always you and me. I don't know how the wildflowers grow, but I'm ready, I'm ready to work it out. I don't know how the wildflowers grow, but I'm ready, I'm ready to work it out, I'm ready to work it out. So, nick and Stephen, welcome to Inside the Music Scene. I haven't seen you for probably about a year now. So much has happened. I can't wait to catch up. But first of all, if somebody has never heard your music before, if an alien comes down and says you need to describe your music to me. An alien comes down and says you need to describe your music to me, how would you describe it to somebody?
Speaker 3:well, rock, just rock.
Speaker 4:Rock, alternative indie, dad rock indie rock, with some people that listen to too much country music. Um well, the album.
Speaker 3:The album is called little bits of everything we like. Yeah, because we we don't really have a defined no, there's some heavy stuff, some not heavy stuff we never actually intended this to be like a full-time thing, really did we? No, just want to play some and we just we wrote three songs and then it became like a thing and then we did the album.
Speaker 1:So yeah, and you started writing in lockdown. Is that correct? You kind of chose the lockdown as kind of like a writing retreat. Yeah, I did it in my conservatory actually, and how was that? Obviously, you're locked away from all the world, and you know yeah no, it was good.
Speaker 3:It was good A couple of. Well the thing is because Steve and I were playing lots of covers. Stephen and I were playing lots of covers shows just to play music. Really. I mean, I've been in, and Stephen's been in bands before, but we just were playing covers, basically like earning a bit of money playing in front of a few people. And then lockdown came along and of course we had a lot of time on our hands and I started listening to lots of music, I think. And then that made me write some lyrics and I had something to say again, because I suppose before I started writing for Juliet, I hadn't written songs, original songs, for probably 10 years, because I just ran out of things to say, not that I ever wanted to stop, but I didn't really have the right stuff to talk about really.
Speaker 1:and then, yeah, obviously lockdown gave us plenty of material so definitely, and are there any musicians that you found during lockdown that really inspired you? I?
Speaker 3:don't know. I just rediscovered a lot of old, older music. Um, really I want older music, but maybe bands I hadn't really listened to properly for a long time and what was one that really stood out for you 21 Pilots released quite a few good songs.
Speaker 1:They're probably the most memorable for me yeah and do you take a lot of inspiration for 21 Pilots in Juliet the band?
Speaker 3:no, you do. I don't in the band. Steve's like we. Yeah, we're like 21 pilots. They started like this they recorded the whole album and then, and then, they re-recorded it and they released the whole same album twice if you can't talk about that?
Speaker 4:yeah, no, we. Uh. They recorded their album and then it was good and then they got signed and then they recorded the same album but they do it yeah, drummer and drummer and guitar and vocals, so yeah, basically so you're basically 21 pilots.
Speaker 1:I think we look like we're all blood in a scary way not intentionally either, but we just do and it's just the two of you in the band, isn't it? It's literally just well.
Speaker 3:There's two of us in the band, but there is a bit of a family in the background.
Speaker 4:There's a nice little team, there's Giles.
Speaker 3:Stelfox, Tom Miller and Sam Winfield. The talent.
Speaker 1:The talent and do the talent come to gigs with you. Is it just yourselves that do the gigs or are they more studio based?
Speaker 3:Well, they're the production guys. Giles is a touring musician. He's like, he plays drums, guitar keys, bass, and so he's often in the studio. And so we literally go oh giles, do you want to play bass on this song? And he's like all right. And then he's so talented, he just picks up, listens to the song two or three times and just nails it so yeah, there's a wider family to do yeah, we, yeah we and all.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we have done a gig where all of us were on stage together. That was. Ready Pop, wasn't it in 2023?
Speaker 1:yeah, so that was crazy, and you were main stage for that as well, weren't you? Yeah?
Speaker 4:I bet that was incredible.
Speaker 1:So, stephen why did you get into music in the first place?
Speaker 4:I well, actually I was. It was probably like year five. I was trying to decide if I wanted a drum kit or a playstation 2 for christmas and I chose a drum kit and then just played drums forever then wow, could you imagine if you picked the playstation 2? Big gamer I could have been. I could have been on a podcast now like sim racing that's very true.
Speaker 1:That's very true. How about you, nick? Where did you get into music?
Speaker 3:um well, I, I was, yeah, probably the same as you really mate my dad. Well, do you know what my favorite?
Speaker 3:uh, my first memory is chesney hawks, one and only, oh nice and um he had a red strat caster and I really wanted a fender strat and I went to music show with my dad and, um, they had strat copies in their pvs and I wanted the red one but I was too scared to say so we bought me the black and white one, but it was fine and I still play that guitar. Now that guitar is every time we play a gig. I play that guitar. So, um, which is really cool, 95 PB Falcon, great guitar. But yeah, and then, um, I played, I did classical guitar lessons at primary school with my mate Ben, but, um, I just and I'm just gonna go on a tangent there the guitar teacher had these funny red shoes and me and him used to not concentrate on the guitar but just this guy's shoes.
Speaker 3:Yeah, do you remember kickers kicker shoes? Yeah, he had those kicker boot things and they were like red. Oh my god. So we look anyway. So that didn't work out. And then when I was in like last year of secondary school, um, there was a band that would like the school band and then me and a few outliers were like, oh, we want to do that. So we started a garage band on the back of me, having like probably 10 classical guitar lessons and I was like Dad, I need guitar lessons. So I met a guy called Martin, gave me guitar lessons and I literally play guitar like every day as soon as I got those lessons. Wow, and then I started playing in the mirror and pretending I was in Alkaline, trio and Feeder and, yeah, practicing my guitar face do you know?
Speaker 1:what I wish more people looked in the mirror when they're playing guitar, because some of those faces that they pull I don't think it's helped mine, but um definitely did. Used to stand there and look it's good to be aware of what you look like on stage, just so that when you look back at the photos, you're not completely shocked at like the faces that you're they do get some crackers sometimes, don't they crikey?
Speaker 1:the next song I want to play for the listeners is just fine. Now I think this is probably my favorite of the ones that you've sent across. They're all absolutely amazing, but I really like the country aspect to this because when I've seen you perform before, you've been a lot heavier it, which is very similar to the um song, and play right at the end. But just fine, was just something new that I hadn't heard from you before well, that's not even on the album tara.
Speaker 4:It's not on the album what we've recorded, that we've started recording the next. So there's three. There's three songs. I don't know whether we're going to release it as an ep or a second.
Speaker 3:I think they're all pretty strong, so I think they might just be like free, sort of like standalone singles. Maybe that might become another project, but I don't know. You've got rights for more songs really this is a proper exclusive, then.
Speaker 1:It's like not even on your next album, it's going to be on the next next album you, my dad, obviously, steve, my mum, steve's mum, and my and anyone that's not next to me in the traffic.
Speaker 3:Probably yeah that you're probably the only people that have heard. Yeah, this has been played a lot in my yeah, my house, but um, no, well, I'm honored that I can share this.
Speaker 1:Then, if only your family have heard this. What has inspired you to bring the country-esque in is it? Have you been listening to post?
Speaker 3:malone post, malone post, malone I played in a band with a guy for a while called Martin and he was a massive. When I was like a rocker back in the day we would travel to and from gigs and he'd put like Disney music on. He'd put country music on and we'd be like, what is this?
Speaker 3:But then it just got into you, didn't it Like country music is like that sort of thing in it. And then what was that song you played me a few years ago, the disney one life is a highway. Oh yeah, that's a tune I know. So now that's my favorite song. I think that came into my life. I was like, well, we got to do something about this some way.
Speaker 3:So and I thought, yeah, we just it's good music, isn't it? And it's just it's quite on brand, isn't it at the moment? So it's very relevant, easier to you hear it a lot, don't you so? But it was hard to write actually because I think the cadence of a country song it's quite specific in terms of like lyrical cadence and stuff you know like, especially the chorus. There's a lot of like.
Speaker 3:I suppose I wrote it in a way well, when we were sitting in your, we were like over there in the other room and the song was completely different. The verses were quite similar but the chorus was not, and then I think I had to sit there and go put on a country kind of thing.
Speaker 3:Get in the vibe of it Imitate country and I sent him the chorus, like just as a voice note, and I think I was literally going I'm over here, I'm overhanging everything, and I was like, like, because that was the only way.
Speaker 3:I could kind of make it just to get that sort of enunciation and then obviously you'll hear it. But it's not quite. I didn't quite hit it like that, but I sung lower as well, kind of more like channeling a bit of Elvis, Johnny Cashy type stuff when I hear it, I kind of go like blimey did I write that? And that was written on the back of an envelope. Like wow, that song was perfectly formed without any like yeah, I mean it was called back of the lope, wasn't it?
Speaker 3:when we were, what's this one called? I went I don't know, and then is it the one on the envelope.
Speaker 1:And then Sam was like back of the loop, back of the loop, yeah, so well, I think we've let people wait long enough to hear this track, so we've definitely picked it up and this is, honestly, absolutely fantastic. This is an Inside the Meat Scene exclusive and this is Just Fine. By Juliet the Band.
Speaker 2:I'll try to find a peace of mind where I can be myself. Only, it's a crowded place with not much space. But why the hell's it so lonely? Not much space, but why the hell's it so lonely? When your favorite feeling is low, how much deeper can you go? Put on a smile once in a while and hope that no one will notice. I'm overthinking everything that I'm saying and doing. Double checking everything is alright. No explanation for my mind's complications. But maybe this is me and I'm just fine.
Speaker 2:This space between the lines where I can say some things only. Is there hidden meanings in my songs, or am I just oversharing? I used to feel so self-assured, but I'm just not so sure anymore. Put on a smile once in a while at home and no one will notice. I'm overthinking everything that I'm saying and doing. Double checking everything is alright. No explanation for my mind's complications. But maybe this is me and I'm just fine. I'm overthinking everything that I'm saying and doing. Double checking everything is alright. No explanation for my mind's complications. But maybe this is me and I'm just overthinking everything that I'm saying and doing. Double checking everything is all right. No explanation for my mind's complications. But maybe this is me and I'm just fine.
Speaker 1:Just fine, just fine, just fine. So, nick and Stephen, it's about time that we play the quick fire. Questions in front of me. I have got a little. I'm just doing a bit of asmr here. There we go for the listeners. Um, I've got a little box full of really rounder questions. I haven't looked in this box for a long time, so these are going to surprise me as well. But I know I remember a couple of them and I hope you get some weird ones.
Speaker 4:So, steven, favorite album oh my goodness, it's probably gonna be 1975, but the original I would love to answer that for you, and then would you tell me what it is what do you think it?
Speaker 3:is I was gonna say the 1975 like one of the original ones yeah, I can't tell you what the album's called lifestyles of the rich and famous by good charlotte or is that just a good story?
Speaker 4:that was my first album I ever got.
Speaker 3:Here's a good one. That's a good one. We met Benji Madden, didn't we at Reading Festival?
Speaker 4:We did, Did you, I didn't know, you didn't know this is so funny.
Speaker 3:Steve told me this story about two or three months before he was like, oh, I don't know Was that song on, or when. I bought that album in Borders in New York when I was like 11 or something.
Speaker 4:No, it was LA LA when it was the first, do you?
Speaker 3:remember Borders. What a great shot. Shame it went. But and then we're at Relin Festival and we were quite lucky that day One of our friends got us backstage passes. Oh, wow. Very good friend to have Very good friend, he's a very good boy and we so anyway. But we were in the normal bit of like because we went around the back and we couldn't hear anything because Sam was terrible. So we went around the front and we just walked down to like sort of it was in the Radio 110.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And this guy was just stood there with his hands in his pockets and I was like my God, Steve, look, who's that. Benji Madden from Good Charlotte dude, and he was like oh, and then we just stood there and didn't say anything.
Speaker 1:So we were both like oh, oh, that's so funny, but he was some guys that we knew proper nice guys. I'm going to go to Nick, who was your favorite unsigned artist. Goodness.
Speaker 3:I'm going to go to Nick. Who is your favourite unsigned artist? Goodness me, joe Hicks.
Speaker 1:Nice, and what kind of music does Joe do?
Speaker 3:He is like Joe is folk kind of, I think John Mayer that kind of stuff, oh nice.
Speaker 2:Singer songwriter. I'm going to have to check him out. I'll check him out immediately after.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I will do he's doing really well for himself. So, but he is unsigned and who ate all the crayons who were supporting on the 5th of april? But they're great they're so good.
Speaker 1:You know what I?
Speaker 3:like about the crayons, is they, are they just? I love seeing like younger guys like that just loving it and really giving it a good crack, and I think they'll do really well because they're so of this moment and they've got a lot of stuff from somewhere else as well. You know what I mean like they just got everything and they really and they look great okay, steven, who would play you in a movie about your life?
Speaker 1:seth rogan no, I see it so quick, I see it nick, what is your favourite board game?
Speaker 3:oh, my goodness, oh, what's that one? When you click the middle and the, is it called frustration, frustration?
Speaker 2:your favourite one that you don't know what it is.
Speaker 3:I used to have it when I was a kid. Oh no, I'll tell you what I'll lie mousetrap that takes so long to set up but it's so good when is it mousetrap oh my gosh, it's so stressful is it.
Speaker 1:Sorry, you're coming around right, we have a mousetrap night. That's it, oh my god, yeah, mousetrap is so good mate so this is actually the perfect one for steven, because I heard that you are a very keen cook. What, what is your favourite kitchen gadget?
Speaker 3:Oh, my God, you've asked the right guy.
Speaker 4:I think my favourite kitchen gadget is my fat separator.
Speaker 1:Your fat separator.
Speaker 4:I've never heard of one of them. So a fat separator is like, imagine, like a Pyrex, but I tell you what it's more like a watering can where the funnel bit comes from the bottom.
Speaker 4:So when you like finish cooking a chicken or whatever, you pour all the juices in and then, obviously, when they settle out, the fat floats to the top but, when you pour it, the spout pours from the bottom, so all the juice comes out and then the fat goes down, and then, as the fat reaches the spout, you stop pouring and then you can make your gravy without having all the fat.
Speaker 3:Can you pour the fat?
Speaker 4:You can pour the fat if you want, but it's like an upside-down jug.
Speaker 1:Stephen, if you won the lottery, what would be the first thing that you buy? And this is for yourself. Don't worry about world peace or anything. This is for you.
Speaker 4:I don't want one. Buy Ed Sheeran to support us. You'd buy Ed Sheeran as in, just for one night.
Speaker 3:I'd pay, just pay the best I'd pay yeah, some like old school rock bands to just do a gig and we'd just support them. That'd be it done. That'd be great.
Speaker 1:Stephen, I've just got another foodie one, so I'm going to actually just throw it straight to you. If you could be a sauce, what? What sauce would you be and why? I ask all the hard hitting questions on inside the music.
Speaker 4:What were you doing when I walked in. Well, I was making a jus. I should have been setting up. I should have been setting up the webcam there was a barbecue sauce. Well, that was because there was reduced chicken legs at the petrol station, so I was like I'm going to roast those all off and make a barbecue sauce so what did you put in the barbecue? Sauce. Uh, a can of knockoff pepsi max.
Speaker 4:Yeah have a whole can whole can in and then just reduced it down to a nice thick. It's funny when you reduce fizzy drinks because they like this is so funny.
Speaker 3:You've asked that because I walked into his house and I opened the fridge and I said, oh, this is like an episode of cribs when they go in the fridge. And I went but all there is in here is sauces my fridge is like three, which one would you? Be. Is that come on?
Speaker 4:I like a. I like a mint yogurt from the kebab van.
Speaker 1:But you want to.
Speaker 3:Your favorite sauce is mint yeah, steve doesn't have normal kebab because lamb, I'll get lamb shish mint yogurt. If they don't have mint yogurt, I'll get mint sauce none of that dead man's, let me know, because lamb and a bit of chilli, because you get the chilli sauce, then you get the mint yogurt to tone the chilli sauce down. I had a halloumi and mint yogurt thing once on your recommendation it was great, delicious outside outside um one of the best um independent music venues in the area the acoustic couch oh nice, yep no well great kebab band.
Speaker 3:Star kebabs nick makes the best burgers oh really, what from scratch, yeah nice. Yeah, we did a good burger night, didn't we did?
Speaker 1:you hung some lights for me and I made it sounds like a really good working relationship you've got.
Speaker 4:We never, play music together.
Speaker 1:Well, actually talking about music, as this is a music podcast, Is this a food podcast? I feel like you need to start a food podcast. But you know what Inside the Music Scene is about. Inside the music, you know we've got to get to know you as the band. But do you know what I'm going to play out with? With a song? We've come to the end of the interview today because I could literally talk to you for ages, but we're gonna play um break next. Where was the inspiration for this?
Speaker 3:this is so different to just fine yeah, um well, it sums us up really, doesn't it? It's like I think I sent you these three songs. I think it's like the best way to sort of in a nutshell, sum us up, really. All sorts of different kind of I don't know genres, really.
Speaker 4:I think I requested this song when we were in the writing process.
Speaker 3:We need a heavy one.
Speaker 4:We need a heavy one. I said I want something like People by by the 1975 I was really embarrassed about singing this one, though, oh really why, sort of way.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't know, lyrically, like I kind of it was quite like this one's, like I would say, my look at the world we live in today, sort of thing it's very topical yeah, it's quite topical sort of in the, in the lyrics, and I don't know whether like again it that this is my view.
Speaker 3:But then I think when I was sort of doing it, I was kind of like maybe this isn't everyone else's view or something and I was like I'm not embarrassed, but then I had to deliver it and talk about delivery as well, like of trying out. This was like some of the sort of hooks and stuff like I had to literally go and all that kind of don't forget to pay, yeah don't forget to pay.
Speaker 3:And I had to like, do it like. So, yeah, he had a certain way of singing and I remember thinking I'm going to sort of channel a bit of that, because it was quite a like take this and you'll be fine.
Speaker 4:It's really. It's funny because that really just sort of sums up the album where, yes, we hear things, we go, we like that.
Speaker 3:We're just going to do a bit of that because you told me it's like a harry styles thing, wasn't it? I could. There was a lyric somewhere where I couldn't get it all in, and then you said, like in watermelon sugar or something, or one of those songs, you were trying to say something completely different. What the line is?
Speaker 4:where I remember you were doing the track in the vocals, there's's one line he couldn't get and I said to him don't. He was trying to say these like three words. I said don't try and say them, just say this word like a different word.
Speaker 3:I know what it was, it was I've never have chosen to get lost in the ocean. But then you said you've got to say I'd never have chosen to get to get, and then I would never have chosen to get last in the year, and then it was so much easier today because you said, oh, harry Styles, to burn his you take your inspiration from everywhere, from performing to lyrics, to everything.
Speaker 2:Harry Styles is great well, yeah, we love Harry Styles, don't we?
Speaker 1:you love Harry, harry Styles bank.
Speaker 4:I'm over here and Whitney Houston and Hanson busted busted love busted link right to charis parker yeah, nick and steven.
Speaker 1:When is juliet the band's new album gonna be coming out? It'll be out on the 4th of april, which is a friday, and it comes out at midnight yeah on all the streaming platforms, every platform in the whole world, including youtube so your new album is going to be coming out on the 4th of april at midnight, so as soon as, as soon as you wake up on friday, you can get straight over to juliet the band's instagram there will be pre-saved links coming out and stuff.
Speaker 3:So pre-saved links maybe we can tag some pre-saved links or something over to you at some point amazing.
Speaker 1:I will share all the pre-saving links and we're going to get that out there for you for sure. I can't wait for it to be released little bits of everything we like as well little bits of everything we like, which, as you explained, is basically summed up in all the different genres that you've taken inspiration from throughout the album, and you have a gig straight after your release, on the 5th yes, the day after yeah and where's that?
Speaker 3:gate crushing. Who ate all the crayons? Headline show at the Newbury, as you should yeah. We'll be playing the album in full, plus maybe one of the new ones that you've played as well.
Speaker 4:Yeah, there'll be tracks that aren't on the album.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Amazing. So if people just head over to your Instagram, then they can find the tickets and links for everything. Is that right?
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, yeah Well. Thank you so much, guys for being on and let's play out with your track. Nick, would you like to introduce your track for me?
Speaker 2:Yeah, this song is called Break it's by worship and celebrity, but what the hell is going on behind the scenes. It doesn't matter what you do. This is your life and you're all part of it too. Be good and stand in line. Take this and you'll be fine, cause I need a break. I need a reset.
Speaker 2:Who's coming with me? I hope I'm old before I die, but I can't just read it like I lost my mind. You better not say what you think. I have a bone before I die. Made our kids a treaty. Let them lose their fight. We better not say what you think. Just watch your tongue. I'll control it with your feet in the street. Use your laptop and a green screen. I'm not sure what's behind everything. The fat cats you keep are so gay. Just make sure you don't forget to pay. I don't agree. I need a break. I need a reset. Who's coming with me? I need a break. I need a reset. Who's coming with me? Who's coming with me? Who's coming? Who's coming with me? Who's coming? Who's coming? Who's coming with me? Who's coming? Who's coming with me? Who's coming? Who's coming with me? Who's coming? Who's coming with me? Who's coming? Who's coming with me? We'll see you next time.