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Rift: there are so many up and coming bands that come and go, its hard to find one good enough that can rise above the best and make it through the first part of a bands life, many don’t make it but there are a small number that do break through the ‘mediocre’ level and amaze us with there first album, band such as Primera Angostura a three man band from Leicester who have become more than just a cover and have just released there first album ‘You can go a lot further with a smile on your face and a gun in your hand’ which also has there single ‘In spite of it all’ on. I thought that the bands over all sound was great, the vocals mashed really well together with the guitar line and the bass always came in at the right time and picked the whole mood of the album up, the drums were consistently impressive and never boring or out of place.

A taster of the Band

Rift: So who plays what in the band and why?

Sebastian Faulkner: Well I play lead guitar and vocals mainly because I was the only one who was bothered to pick up a difficult instrument, and then to make that worse they made me song.

Jimmy Goodwin: well you say that but you were the only that could really sing so face it your lead singer, anyway I’m the bassist.

Karl Embrey: ell I guess that makes me the drummer then, you could say I’m the drummer because I’m the only one who can keep a rhythm.

Rift: sounds like you guys get a long quite well, where did you all meet up?

SF: well Karl and me were already trying to start a band in high school but it’s not exactly easy when you have only two members.

KE: Yeh we weren’t exactly finding it easy to find a bassist but just when we started to think about giving up we saw this kid taking out a bass and me and Seb were both like grab him he’s ours.

Rift: sounds a bit violent, Jimmy did you have any intention of joining a band or was it peer pressure?

JG: hah yeh you could say that, no I really wanted to be in a band to and a good job to because these two weirdo’s approached me and asked if I wanted to start a band project with them, and I immediately thought yeh, I so do.

Rift: So you guys have been friends for ages then?

KE: Yeh pretty much after that day we were as you say as thick as thieves.

Rift: How did start off playing, did you a particular direction you wanted to go in?

SF: well to start off with we all had a slightly different taste off music, I was more Foo fighters and Red hot chilli peppers where as Jimmy was more into classic rock like ACDC and Karl was really into old metal like Sabbath, so We kind of combined all of our music tastes and ended p with this kind off twisted rock sound.

JG: yeh we all thought about different ideas of how to start but we found it hard when we were all playing different genres to each other.

Rift: Sounds like a bit of a ruff start?

KE: You could say that yeh, but we finally pulled ourselves together and started covering some other bands songs to start off with, to test the water If you will, and that seemed to be going fine so we thought why can’t we make some songs up ourselves, so that’s the first thing we got onto.

Rift: what was the product of your first idea?

SF: well we kinda came up with a track that had the guitar line similar to all Along The Watch Tower and the drums from in The Air Tonight, with a crazy bass line, it didn’t really work because we were all trying to take the limelight for ourselves, so we had to work out the main parts for different songs, like say this song would be based around the drums or this song will follow the singing.

JG: Yeh they were pretty messed up times with trying to find our ‘sound’ and everything while still trying to do school work.

Rift where were you really discovered by a record company?

KE: well we had finally got a slot at Glastonbudget and we played our first set, which was a cover of The Best Of you by Foo Fighters and two of our own songs, and then after we had played them this guy approached us and asked us if we were interested in a contract with a record company, of course we were all ecstatic but we weren’t quite there yet, he said we had to get him a recording of every song we had done and get it to him on disk, this was fine, so we did and a week later we were sent a letter by The Brass Knuckles record company that asked us If we could come in to the studio and record a single, so the company could release it into the world of music and see if it got any feedback.

Rift: well did it?

JG: well yeh or we wouldn’t be here right now would we?

Rift; True true but what was the next step after that?

Rift: Wow impressive stuff, one final question where did you get the idea for your band name Primera angostura?

JG: wow this age old question, it seems wrong if no one asks you this, we were a bit stuck with names to start with as every band seems to be, and we wanted a name that meant something to all of us, because we didn’t want to end up like The Who, so we thought of something that had struck all of our lives, and they first thing we could think of was our friend James Dixon, he was on holiday in Spain and he went cliff diving and he dove where the water was to shallow and unfortunately cracked his head open and died, we didn’t want to forget him so we named the band after the place he went cliff diving The straight of Magellan, the old Spanish name for this was Primera Angostura, and we all agreed that this would be the name for the band, for James.

Rift: Thanks for sharing that with us, Primera Angostura, a promising start for a upcoming band, let’s hope they make it big.