Fuzzy Sun at Cotton Clouds Festival
Fuzzy Sun
Fuzzy Sun are an up and coming band from Manchester. Their set at Cotton Clouds Festival on the 18th August got many people talking about them, so we interviewed lead singer Kyle to get to know them better.
Interview by Amelia Shaw:
Hi, could you just introduce yourself and tell me a bit about the background of the group? How you got together and such?
I’m Kyle from Fuzzy Sun, the singer and guitarist. The band kinda got together through me and Daisy, the keyboardist – we were playing together just as a duo – and then I started writing these tunes that sort of weren’t that kind of vibe, so I asked her if she’d be up for starting a band, and she said ‘yeah, why not’. I was working in a pub at the time with Mitch who I knew had played drums for bands before so I asked him if he wanted to just have a jam one time.
Then we thought, well, we’re going to need to fill the band out completely so we jumped online, started looking for guitarists, and bass players, we found Lewis online because he put an ad out – literally the most vague ad ever that had 5 or 6 bands that he really liked and ‘I am a bass player’ so we thought cool. The tunes he’s into seem to fit the vibe of the band so we asked him to come down. Funnily enough he lived in Middlesborough at the time and he was moving down to Manchester on the very day I’d messaged him and asked him to come down for a practice. Raffi, he joined just through a friend of a friend. I thought it would be easy to find a guitarist , but it really wasn’t – it was the hardest one!
How did you find playing at Cotton Clouds?
It was class. Lovely little festival. I’d not been before, but it was really nice. I thought the way that they ran the whole day, tried to let every stage have their own breathing time so that everyone there could see each band on each stage – either the main or two smaller stages – and we got a great response from it. It was class, really cool.
Did you get to see anyone else perform?
Yeah. We saw Afghan Sand Gang who were really good, we played with them in Scunthorpe a couple of weeks before. We saw Sister Sledge, obviously, they were great – really, really good. I was a bit drunk at that point but they were really good. Toploader – we caught a bit of their set, I think we caught most people on the Tim Peak’s Stage, like Average Sex, The Mysterines, Deja Vega, The Orielles, I think we pretty much caught everyone.
Which song do you like performing the most?
My favourite is probably ‘Come Take A Bite’, just because I like the way it builds from nothing into something. But then again everyone seems to have a bit more of a boogey to ‘Want Love’ and I enjoy the fans and people watching us having a good time.
You mentioned a new EP on stage at the festival, what can we expect from that EP?
I think, hopefully, good things! I think it’s a little bit more, possibly guitar orientated this time around. The first one had a lot of synths, and I think with having Raffi in the band, he’s offered a lot more to that side which I think has helped us grow, because we’ve got a bit more of a range now. But, I’d still like to think that you get that similar poppy, good feel, summery vibes – I think you’ll still get that from it.
You’re now signed to the Blossoms’ record label, Very Clever Records. How did that happen?
I’ve known Tom, and most of the lads, for quite a while. Since school sort of thing. And then when I got these new songs together I was in the pub with Joe, the drummer from Blossoms, and he was asking me what kind of music we had going on at the moment, and I was like ‘well funnily enough I’ve just been writing these new tunes’. He was like cool let’s have a listen, and then once I’d showed him he said he should show Tom – I showed Tom and he said ‘I really like these lad’ and he said he thought we could push these into something. So, from there, once the band got together he said it would be really cool to record the first EP, and get us to produce it. So it just came through that really, just a friendship, and a mutual love for the music.
Your lyrics are brilliant! Who’s responsible for the song writing and where do you get your inspiration from?
Erm, song writing is mainly me and Lewis – we sort of come to the band with the bare bones and structures. Or, a lot of the time me or Lewis will bounce ideas off each other and then work on something, bring it to the band and then fill the gaps out, really hone in the Fuzzy Sun sound onto the tunes. But yeah, mainly me and Lewis, and then the rest of the band put their little imprint on it and it becomes what it is.
Who are your musical inspirations?
As a band I think it’s hard. As a band we all have such an eclectic range of music we listen to. Sometimes they’re nothing like each other. It’s that mad. There are some band that Mitch likes that I hate, and dome bands that I like and that Mitch will hate, or Lewis will hate. I think me and Raffi for one are both really into Steely Dan. Fleetwood Mac is one we could all probably agree on, Tame Impala, Connan Mockasin – those kind of vibes. Personally, I’m into a lot of different stuff, like, from folk music to metal music, that’s literally the extent that my choices go from.
For anyone that didn’t get to hear you, how would you describe your sound and your music?
I’m not sure! They are just melodic, pop tunes, but I think with more flare and depth to them, I’d like to think. If no one has heard it, it’d be nice to just jump on Spotify or online and have a listen – make your own mind up, because I always say that there will be things in there that you might hear that I won’t hear, or I’m not aware of. I always think it’s nice that someone else can have an input into what you do to our songs. You might hear something and say ‘oh that sounds like Britney Spears’, and I’ll go that’s mint, I didn’t even notice that.
Author: Jude Gidney - Editor
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