Fighting Fiction
to their first release ‘Fun Club’ at their Bandcamp page, and get ready for their new release coming out on Tangled Talk Records hopefully sooner rather than later. Muncie Girls, Exeter based three piece, husky voiced female fronted hooky bittersweet, punk rock for people with a love of excellent use of simile and metaphor, ‘sometimes I feel a body lying next to me, like an amputee feels a phantom limb’ just, brilliant! one EP on their Bandcamp and available on cassette at gigs, another to come! hopefully soon.
What advice could you give to any aspiring band? Treat everyone you meet with respect, you never know where a chance encounter may lead or who in 5 years time may be one of your closest friends. How long does it take to record an ep? Depends on how fussy and rehearsed you are, recording doesn't usually take too long for us its the pernickety mixing and mastering after-bits that take the longest.
What equipment do you use? Reecording or playing? we like to use both analogue and digital recording equipment to achieve the best of both worlds, in terms of capture and manipulation, live we love cranked valve amplifiers and weighty sounding snares. We don't actively endorse any musical instrument brands really. Do you look at the band like a business or a passion? It’s a Passion, a labour of love for all of us, funded by our day jobs and taking up all of our time, that's not supposed to sound
like a compliant by the way, we love it, that's why we commit so hard. In the long term we hope to be able to make a living from our band, but there are plenty of ways to make money and I expect we'd do that faster and easier in a different industry or focusing on our day jobs as a career. How do you create your promotional material? Matt (guitar backing vox) does most of it, he's a photoshop wizard, a fantastic chap called Daniel Mackie does all our art work for releases. the album
cover is his creation it influenced us into making the record into a self titled. What do you think about crowdfunding websites to get your music paid for? I think its a good idea, but it doesn't eliminate the fact you have to get heard by those people who care enough to donate in the first place. What would be your dream gig? The best gigs for us are usually the ones we get to play with our
friends, if I could line up all the bands we've toured with and keep in touch with whenever we come to each others cities that'd be amazing. Any other advice? When touring, bring plenty of socks.