{"id":69716,"date":"2018-09-25T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=69716"},"modified":"2018-09-22T16:56:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T15:56:08","slug":"fizzy-blood-full-of-magic-and-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/fizzy-blood-full-of-magic-and-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Fizzy Blood &#8211; Full of Magic and Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_68682\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68682\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-68682\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Fizzy-Blood-Steven-Haddock-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Fizzy Blood\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Steven Haddock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Relative up-and-comers <strong>Fizzy Blood<\/strong> from Leeds have just released their brand new EP <em>\u2018Pink Magic\u2019<\/em>, a collection of four songs, which is expected to be their third and final EP before moving on to thinking about a debut full-length.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I think it\u2019s something that we all really wanna do,\u201d<\/em> bass guitarist Ciaran Scanlan told us when we caught up with the band before their recent set at <strong>Reading Festival<\/strong>. <em>\u201cBut, as everybody knows, it\u2019s a very expensive process, not even just recording it but the campaign for an album and everything behind it costs a lot of money so I think, particularly now you\u2019ve got to be in a position where you\u2019re really ready for an album.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Pink Magic\u2019<\/em> itself has been a long time in the making, with the songs themselves recorded towards the end of 2017. <em>\u201cWe\u2019ve been sat on it now for quite a while,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0explains guitarist and keyboardist Tim Malkin. <em>\u201cEven the singles we\u2019ve released so far,\u00a0we\u2019re like \u2018oh god, it\u2019s been so long since we recorded them\u2019.\u201d<\/em> It\u2019s safe to say they\u2019re all pretty excited about finally getting to drop the tracks they\u2019ve worked so hard on, but the Leeds-based band have definitely been growing and learning with regards to their creative process since last year&#8217;s\u00a0<em>\u2018Summer Of Luv\u2019<\/em> EP.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Fizzy Blood - Pink Magic\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ShqSy7TE_ms?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou have to get all the bad stuff out first before you get to the good,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0says Ciaran. <em>\u201cBefore we released \u2018Summer Of Luv\u2019,\u00a0we went away to Tim\u2019s parents house. He lives in Glossop which is like, the countryside of Greater Manchester, and we kind of sat in a barn and wrote about fifteen songs. And none of those songs were released on the EP. The lyrics were some of the worst we\u2019d ever written! Recently, we were doing lyrics first and then writing around the lyrics but it\u2019s normally someone will come up with an idea, bring it to the band and then we\u2019ll jam it out.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt turns out you can\u2019t really write lyrics together,\u201d<\/em> added Tim with a laugh.<\/p>\n<p>And for those wondering what kind of songs to expect from this quirky upbeat psych-rock quartet, Ciaran remarked that their records have, <em>\u201calways had some kind of theme, and the theme changes after every EP.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Keen for audiences to listen and find their own meanings and messages in the music, the band, for the most part, leave\u00a0<em>&#8216;Pink Magic&#8217;<\/em> open to interpretation. Although Tim explained one of the newer themes and ideas was the fact that <em>\u201cyou can perceive your life to be however you want it to be, perfect or whatever, through social media, when [in reality] it\u2019s not really quite that\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mysterious and interesting, not unlike the band\u2019s plans for 2019, which they remained fairly tight-lipped on but only because <em>\u201cwe don\u2019t want to say we\u2019re going to do something and then it not happen.\u201d<\/em> We can, however, expect them to do be doing some touring following the release of the EP and then<em> \u201cjust meander through what\u2019s going on\u201d<\/em> as Tim told us with a chuckle.<em> \u201cI can imagine doing a lot of writing in 2019,\u201d<\/em> Ciaran added. In the not so distant future, however, the band will be returning in style to their hometown of Leeds to perform a headline show at the Brudenell Club, which they admitted was their <em>\u201cspiritual home.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe always seem to just gravitate to that venue even if there\u2019s not a gig on,\u201d<\/em> said Tim, with Ciaran agreeing, <em>\u201cit just attracts really good artists. I wasn\u2019t around in the 70s so I can\u2019t say for sure but I feel like it\u2019s what music venues used to be like, there\u2019s no kind of animosity or I\u2019m better than you sort of thing there We\u2019re well excited to play there.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Playing there will undoubtedly be an important rite of passage for the band and a milestone in their career, as was their appearance at <strong>Reading &amp; Leeds<\/strong>. As fans of the festival, they\u2019d been attending Leeds for many years, so to be offered the chance to play for the first time in 2017 was a big buzz. <em>\u201cI\u2019ve always gone to Leeds,\u201d<\/em> said Ciaran, <em>\u201cSince I was 16 I think and then last year we played it, so it was an important thing for us. Loads of my friends were in the crowd as well, my dad was there, my girlfriend was there. It was amazing but really surreal.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No virgins to the <strong>R&amp;L<\/strong> experience, <strong>Fizzy Blood<\/strong> returned again this year to play the BBC Introducing stage, and with their thoughts turning from<em> &#8216;Pink Magic&#8217;<\/em> to their inevitable, but mysterious debut album, don&#8217;t be surprised if <strong>Fizzy Blood<\/strong> will be having many more surreal experiences in the future.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Pink Magic\u2019<\/em>\u00a0EP by\u00a0<strong>Fizzy Blood<\/strong>\u00a0is out now on\u00a0<strong>Killing Moon<\/strong>\/<strong>Alya Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fizzy Blood<\/strong> links:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fizzyblood.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FIZZYBLOODMUSIC\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIZZYBLOODMUSIC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fizzybloodband\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by Becton Simpson (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/swallowmyeyes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@swallowmyeyes<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As their third EP, &#8216;Pink Magic&#8217; sees the light of day, Fizzy Blood discuss its creation, returning to Leeds Festival and plans for their debut album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[1080,582,1079,15889,15733],"class_list":["post-69716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","tag-alya-records","tag-fizzy-blood","tag-killing-moon","tag-pink-magic-ep","tag-reading-festival-2018"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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