Getting to Know… Green Wire | Interview 🎤

For our 235^th Q&A on The Musical Hype, we chat it up with compelling Manchester indie rock/indie pop band, Green Wire.

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e’re like a throwback to the past but with a modern twist.” That’s awesome, 🎙 Green Wire! The Manchester, England indie rock/indie pop band are the esteemed interviewees in our 235^th interview on The Musical Hype.  Continuing their response to our first question, Green Wire asserts, “[We’re] Like hearing something you’ve heard a million times before for the first time ever.” Again, I say, awesome! Throughout this intriguing Q&A, the band provides us background (their genesis), discusses their goals, and throws some fun in with the serious as well! So, without further ado, why not let 🎙 Simon, 🎙 Charlie, 🎙 Jack, and 🎙 Ethan speak for themselves! Here is 🎤 Getting to Know… Green Wire: Interview no. 235!

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Starting things off, for those who may not be familiar with you, what would you say makes Green Wire distinct or unique? How do you rock the audience’s socks off?

🎤 We’re like a throwback to the past but with a modern twist. Like hearing something you’ve heard a million times before for the first time ever. If you want to dance the night away and just forget everything, coming to see Green Wire is probably your best bet. We don’t like bragging too much, but our music will more than definitely have you tapping your feet.

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Okay, let’s explore some juicy backstories. How did your Green Wire form and what were some of the goals or the visions you had early on?

🎤 Well, it started from Simon releasing music on his own during the first couple of UK lockdowns. As we started coming to the end of the final lockdown, the band formed and were still rehearsing under ‘Simon Stirzaker Music’, and then it was decided the band should rebrand to include everyone rather than it just being Simon’s name. It allowed for a lot more branding etc. and allowed us to sort of create more of an image for ourselves.

Early goals and visions were quite few and far between, to be honest. We knew we wanted to get out playing shows, recording music, and releasing but after the first show that we ever played sold out, we started taking things a lot more seriously. We started looking into time in recording studios, more single launches, and an EP.

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Let’s talk more about goals.  Have your goals or your perspectives changed since first starting out? What do your aspirations or goals look like now?

🎤 They’ve changed hugely! The whole band concept has gone from being a bit of fun to something we all want to keep pursuing and doing for a career. It’s all just been a bit of a whirlwind few months. Now we’re staring down the face of our second headline show in March after the first successful one. We have 2 more singles coming out before our debut EP, 💿 How’s Your Head This Morning?,  at the end of April.

We just want to keep building. We already have a few followers who love everything we do and are like hardcore support its just building on that now. People focus so much on streaming numbers nowadays and forget that the fans are the bit that really matters. So, for us, the goal is to just keep people coming back over and over again as they’ve started doing.

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Everybody is influenced by somebody else. Whom would you consider some of your biggest musical influences and how are they influential?

🎤 As a band, we have loads of different personal influences, but I think looking towards our music as a collective the best comparisons that have been drawn are: Circa Waves, The 1975, Arctic Monkeys and we’ve been compared to The Vaccines as well once or twice. They’re just bands that have helped shape our sounds really and they provide that classic indie sound. The sound that we use to change and make into our own more modern ideas.

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Ah, the fun stuff.  What’s your craziest tour story or the wackiest thing that’s happened during a performance?  Feel free to be creative.  

🎤 That is a rather tough question haha – we’ve had some funny stuff happen. So, there’s the time of the first gig where Simon had a few too many drinks after saying he wouldn’t and nearly fell over Charlie’s drumkit and then ended up smacking his and Jack’s guitars together. That’s probably the least funny one.

The funniest one for us as a band was our first headline show. So during the guitar solo in 🎵 “Away He Ran” (a track from our upcoming EP), one of the members of the audience shouted over literally every bit of noise in the room ‘Sh*g me Jack’ and honestly it was hilarious, the same person we invited up on stage during the encore with a couple of other people for a dance and they ended up kissing Simon’s face mid-song, and we all just had a mental time absolutely battered on stage somehow kissing random people.

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 Up until this point in your career, what would you describe as your favorite song you’ve recorded or performed live? What makes that song special?

I think collectively the best one we play, and our favorite has to be 🎵 “Cigarettes On The Dancefloor”. It’s just an absolute indie banger! The audience always try to sing it back to us even without fully knowing the words because it hasn’t been released yet, everybody always bounces around the room it just goes absolutely mental.

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Is there anything else awesome, cool, or left of center the world should know about you? Secret talents or surprising tidbits?

 Ermmmmm, I mean Simon can make this weird clicky sound with his finger and his cheek that literally freaks everyone out? And, surprisingly, our bassist Ethan is heavily inspired by metal (his favourite band are Trivium). How did we all end up in an indie band together? Hahahaha.

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Closing things out, what is Green Wire currently working on, promoting that you can share with us or want us to know about? We love secrets, but there’s no pressure. 

So, as I’ve mentioned we’ve got our EP and a couple of singles coming up. The soonest of which comes with the release of 🎵 “Mrs. Artois” on 28th January. We have our second headline coming up on March 11th at 33 Oldham Street in Manchester. It’s pretty much all done already it’s just in the stage now of promoting everything and constantly getting people to see our name!

Thank you so much for sharing taking the time to answer these questions, and best of luck moving forward. 

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🎤 Getting to Know… Green Wire: Interview no. 235 [📷: Green Wire, Brent Faulkner, The Musical Hype]

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