Kinch talk about playing festivals this summer

No interviews for ages, and then two in one day! Whilst as the Leeds Festival press launch we got the chance to speak to Kinch!

Let me get this established because I made a mistake regarding stages in a previous interview, you guys are playing the BBC Introducing stage this year?

Kinch: Yeah, that's the one.

Is this the first time you’ve played a major festival?

Rich (bass): Well yeah, more or less, a big one like Leeds, definitely.

Is it an overwhelming thing?

All laugh

Rich: Yeah, for sure. It's extremely exciting; one of those things where I don’t think it's fully sunk in.

And how did you get this opportunity?

Rich (who became a kind of unofficial spokesperson): It was a competition at the cockpit, Futuresound, where thirty bands are nominated; I think it was three gigs, ten bands each. We were one of the lucky ones!

Something you're looking forward to, then?

Rich: Oh yeah, massively.

Being your first major festival do you think you've already got a fairly large group of fans who will come down on the day?

Rich: To get to this point you’d have to I guess but we’re looking at it more of an opportunity to play to a wider audience. We’re always looking to branch out.

So have you been doing the Myspace demos thing or have you had a record deal at any point?

Rich: We had one, just one or two tracks for a small London label. We've just been in to the studio to do a few tracks.

So here's hoping you get something out of this festival then.

Rich: Yeah, absolutely.

And how about influences and sound, how would you describe yourselves?

Pete (drums): We're fans of The Kooks.

Rich: Indie, you know.

Ah right, doing the whole indie thing. Well thanks for talking to us!

Kinch can be found on myspace at www.myspace.com/kinchuk

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