"While my guitar gently beeps" is a stinging attack on the music industry establishment's laziness, inability to take risks on new music for fear of upsetting the shareholders, and constant re-issues and repackaging of the same music. SpünDay, who are from Tonypandy, have released one album, Shock Wave Gang Bang. The band formed after watching a Melt Banana gig in Cardiff. They played at the annual Cardiff Psych and Noise Fest in 2022. Their main influences are Melt Banana and a vivid imagination.
By Kamil Bobin
Discovered via Musosoup
Kamil) Hey SpünDay, super nice to have the chance to chat with you. What first got you into music?
We had one record player at home when I was a teenager which was situated in my older sister's bedroom. This was allowed on condition that one of the speakers was in my bedroom. Which meant that whatever she played, I had no choice but to listen to it. A kind of forerunner to piped music. Fortunately she has excellent taste in music.
Do you have any hobbies or interests outside of music?
Music is the gift that keeps on giving. A force that can recognise your emotions or trample all over them, make you laugh, make you cry, make you flail about with wild abandon or stop you dead in your tracks. There's no need to go outside.
Your latest song is 'While my guitar gently beeps'. Can you tell us more about the making of it and if there were any unusual things happening during the process?
The bass and drums were recorded separately at One Louder studios in Newport and then completed and mixed at The Loft Studios in Tonypandy. It's produced by the Set Phasers to Scunge team who are OCD weirdo fruitcakes.
Can you reveal the recipe for a musical hit?
As far as the charts are concerned it appears to be banal lyrics autotuned to within an inch of it's life over an unimaginative recycled hip hop beat and compressed until the paucity of ideas it might've had have left the building. For me, coruscating guitar riffs, drums played by a panel beater with ADHD and intelligent lyrics that stimulate and provoke debate.
What are you doing to ensure you continue to grow and develop as an artist?
Speed for breakfast, Speed for lunch and a good solid meal in the evening.
What inspires you as an artist? Could it be the sea, the weather or something else?
This is such an exciting and enthralling time to be alive. The breakneck pace of technological advancement, environmental disasters and global pandemics, the constancy of wars and the uncertainty of who or what to believe. If you keep your artistic antenna primed and alert, inspiration becomes second nature. It's all around you. Recognise it and you will be creative forever.
What is one message you would give to your fans?
'I riff, therefore I am.'
Do you have a mentor or coach?
Mark E. Smith. The definition of how to conduct yourself as an artist.
Do you think it's easy to become established in the music world, or is it difficult?
In the future, everyone will be famous to fifteen people. So yeah, pretty easy.
What accomplishments do you see yourself achieving in the next five to 10 years?
When I'm practising the Theremin at my loft studio, birds gather at the windows. I'm wondering if I can establish communication with our feathered, prehistoric friends. After all, they were Techno when dinosaurs ruled the earth. I'd love to explore that.