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Quirks Behind the Music - PLAZA





For those readers who aren't familiar with you and your music, tell us a little about yourselves and your sound? 
 We’re four boys from Hartlepool, North East United Kingdom. I believe that our sound is of quite a wide range, having a large amount of various influences that are completely different to one another. We normally get compared to early Foals..

Which artists have influenced both your music and your personal tastes?
There is so many influences! We all share a similar taste in music obviously, but we do take influences from so many different kinds of music and arts. Growing up we were into the math rock scene, but as we got older we started to appreciate all types of music, which don’t have a direct influence on the sound, but to us influence how we write, if you get me. 
A few artists off the top of my head are bands like; Queen, The Smiths, Colour, Foals, Joy Division, The Strokes, Moby … But then again, you will listen to our music and think that none of these bands sound anything remotely like us.


Which of your songs is your favourite to play live?
Favourite songs to play live, personally are; 'Origami', 'Vancouver' and 'New Stuff'.

If you could support anyone live, who would it be and why?
Outkast, so I could sit and smoke with Andre 3000

What's your favourite part of being in the band? Have there been any difficult parts or regrets?
Favourite part of being in a band is just being with mates and travelling. I mean we’d like to do this if you weren’t being in a band, so playing the shows just make it 10x better.



Which three albums should everyone listen to before they die? Try to make them from three different artists and no 'Greatest Hits'!
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures 
Moby - Play
The Streets - Original Pirate Material 


Imagine: You've got missed calls from all three of those artists and they all want to work with you. But you can only ring one back, text one back, and the other you have to ignore. Who would you ring, text and ignore and why?
Ring - Ian Curtis (Joy Division) - just to know what the hell goes through is head
Text - Moby - Educate me on drum machines
Ignore - Mike Skinner (The Streets) - I had no option. 

Which local bands have caught your eye lately? 
Too many. I don’t think recently caught my eye, but these are certainly some of our faves.
 The Pale White, A Festival a Parade, Seeing Hands, James Leonard Hewiston, Mouses, Coquin Migale, Future Horizons.
Too many to name.

How have you grown as a band? Has your sound changed, did you think you'd sound the way you do when you first started out?
We have definitely grown as a band, musically and just as friends really. Our sound has definitely changed as a progression from just messing around recording daft demos and writing. i think the only way to progress is to make the mistakes and learn from them, you’re always gonna write bad songs and then build upon better ideas. We have so many ideas and songs, no band can just write 8 albums worth of complete bangers, surely?



So you're headlining the Famous Last Words gig at The Empire in Middlesbrough on September 3rd. Tell us a little about it? Have you got anything exciting or special lined up for it?
It's gonna be really fun, we’re on late, gonna have a laugh, see old/new friends. real excited for it. We’ve got new songs to play.
Any final words? What's on the horizon for PLAZA?
We’ve been recording a lot recently so, just have to wait and see!

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