As we reported last night, Island four piece, The Majortones, triumphed last night at the Isle of Wight Festival Battle of the Bands competition.
The results, which were announced by Chloe Halstead, the mastermind behind the competition, placed the Majortones on the main stage of the Isle of Wight Festival next month.
Jasper, lead singer of The Majortones told VB
“We were incredibly nervous about the whole competition and even more so when the results were being read out.
“We hoped that we would win but weren’t expecting it. My initial reaction was ‘Oh my goodness!’
“We’d like to thank our fans for coming along and being such an excellent crowd and also Goodbye Stereo for showing their support during their set.”
An Introduction To The Majortones
Ever heard of dual-synth-driven indie pop? No, then Meet The Majortones, “surely the only band playing live with two synths”.
Jasper, Scott, Lee and Charlie are the guys behind the music and shockingly they have only been together about twelve months.
“Tom Farren from the Guy Page Trio saw us at last year’s Wight Noize competition and asked us to play alongside them at a gig the following week” recalled Charlie, drummer of the band. “We didn’t have a vocalist and this was our first proper gig so during the performance we announced that we were looking for a singer. Jasper plucked up the courage to come over for a chat and joined us for a practice session the following week. It all kind of went from there.”
The Majortones (whose name played on their particularly minor early songs,) reeled off a huge list of their influences ranging from reggae right through to dance and hardcore metal. This explained why their music has such variety about it; so now seemed like a good opportunity to ask about the synthesizer part(s) of the show:
“Lee went to Japan to visit his uncle who gave him a Japanese synth. We plugged it in to the UK mains not realising that Japan uses half the UK voltage… unsurprisingly the power adaptor went bang instantly! We had to send that off to be repaired and in the meantime Scott bought another one to replace it. Eventually the busted one was returned and we decided to make use of both!”
The Majors have already released an EP titled “A serious EP” which was recorded with Guy Page and Claydon Conner at Studio 5a. The band was given their first gig by the GPT boys and so it was fitting that they were recorded by them. Recently more material has been recorded at Platform One which Charlie and Scott both attend- Look out for a different version of “The house of Robots” which is said to sample mobile phone interference and has gone well overboard on synths!
Live Wired Finalists
The lads recently got through to the final stage of this year’s Live Wired competition to play the IOW Festival bandstand. Head along to the final on May 20th to give them a listen and show your support.
