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Holding Absence: “COVID underlines the fragility of everything” Holding Absence frontman Lucas Woodland reflects on his personal trauma ahead of the band’s K! Pit stream. Words: Phil Alexander COVID has affected us all in different ways. In the case of Lucas Woodland, the singer with melodic Welsh post-hardcore crew Holding Absence, he has felt its impact on both a professional and on a deeply personal level. “If I’m completely honest, the whole experience has been really bad,” he says candidly. “For me the fact that live music has stopped has been a really negative experience. Who I am day-to-day and who I am in Holding Absence are different people, or at least different sides of me, and having the Holding Absence side of me stripped away has felt weird and horrible. But you have to do what you have to do to get through this, and we have to wait for life to resume. At my age, that’s just hard to do because you want to be out there gr ....
Palm Reader: “2020 has made us more hopeful” Nottingham heavyweights Palm Reader embrace the future as they announce their K! Pit stream, in association with Nordic Spirit. Words: Phil Alexander Photos: Esmé Surfleet Necessity is the mother of invention. That has certainly been the case as far as most musicians are concerned during the course of 2020, when the global pandemic has challenged their very livelihoods. Nottingham heavyweights Palm Reader have met that challenge head-on, releasing their acclaimed fourth album Sleepless into an uncertain world. Unable to play shows, the five-piece also embraced livestreaming in an ambitious manner, hiring St Edmunds Church, Rochdale, for a special performance to launch the record in late November. ....
Svalbard: What lockdown has taught us Svalbard look back at the lessons of 2020 as they prepare to unleash fury in The K! Pit, in association with Nordic Spirit Words: Phil Alexander Photos: Esmé Surfleet “I’ve been writing solo black metal record. It’s nearly finished and it’s coming out next year,” says Svalbard’s Serena Cherry. Like most musicians facing down the pandemic, the guitarist/singer has been left to her own devices during much of this year, navigating periods of lockdown by finding new ways of expressing herself. “I didn’t know how to use recording software or how to programme drums, but I learnt how to do all that,” she says. “Not to sound mean, but writing all the stuff myself, means that I don’t have to compromise. With the band, we all write together and you have to learn that if someone doesn’t like your lead part then it won’t be part of the song. This has been different. It’s been really indulgent a ....