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| Playing this year's Two Thousand Trees Festival |
I’ve
always been a sucker for a good harmony and the Cadbury Sisters have the most
wonderful harmonies I’ve heard in a long time. I first saw them when we were both appearing at the Wychwood Festival last year. They sounded sublime, enthusiastic
and alive. There was such energy and verve in their performance. I decided
there and then that these women were going places.
Jess,
Mary and Lucy really are sisters. You can tell that they have sung together for
a long time when you hear the ease with which their voices combine into those glorious
harmonies. And the quality of the song writing! That alone would make them
worth listening to.
I
have followed their career through their ep releases. Barefoot, the latest is
excellent. I have watched their progress up the bills of festivals and was lucky
enough to be on at Lechlade festival with them.
I have been trying to link to a lovely video but cannot due to some technical reason beyond my limited abilities-here's a link. It's worth a look/listen.
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| Jess |
I am
delighted that they agreed to an interview.
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| Lucy |
Your harmonies are beautiful. Have you always sang
together?
Thank you. Yes we have always sang
together since we could talk! We were those children who had to be told to stop
singing round the dinner table!
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| Mary |
Last year when I saw you at Wychwood you mentioned
your Laura Marling moment-that relisation that you could write songs. Can
you tell us about that?
I don't know if you've heard Marling's
song New Romantic, but that song was the one that just made her so relatable
to us as young women. She was fresh and her songs were so simple in a way but also
very deep and intelligent. We started covering her songs for fun basically, and
then that inspired us to start writing our own lyrics and songs.
Who influenced you when you were starting out?
Artist wise - obviously Laura Marling
and some other artists such as Ryan Adams, Bright Eyes, Simon and Garfunkel are
amazing too. But we were also really encouraged and supported by the Cheltenham
music scene at the start. We played open mic nights and got to know the people
who ran them and they were so lovely and really cared about us.
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| Barefoot: the latest ep |
Tell us about your writing process? Where do the songs
come from? How autobiographical are the songs?
Our writing process has evolved a lot
over the last few years. Nowadays we tend to form ideas and lyrics on our own
and then bring those ideas to the other two where we then finish the song with
all it's harmonies and instrumentation. Sometimes we will just be having a jam
and a song will come out of it, we love it when that happens!
It feels like there is a steadily building momentum
around the group, I have noted that you have climbed higher up the listings
over the year-have you got a grand strategy? Do you know where you want to be
and by when?
At the moment we are just trying to
write the best songs we can, and then we will record them for a release…
possibly a full length album. We have had a great summer of festivals which has
really made us fall more in love with performing than before - so really we just
want to continue writing better songs, playing great shows and meeting more
people along the way!
If you were me what question would you ask you?
What’s a band you listen to that we
wouldn’t expect?
Jess – Eels
Mary – Of Montreal
Lucy – Bo Ningen
What's in the pipeline?
A new release and playing more gigs all
over the UK.
If you were a song what would it be and why?
We would be Young Hearts Run Free by
Candi Staton. It’s such a great song with a really bold message. To listen to
it you would think it was a happy-clappy love song but it’s actually an
anti-love song. It’s great. We use it as a wake up song on long journeys to and
from gigs!
Interesting
choice-it’s a great song. Thank you.
You
can catch the Cadbury Sisters at:
Nozstock:
26.7.13
Feildview:
1.8.13
Lakefest:
8.8.13
Mosley
Folk Festival: 30.8.13
You
can also follow them on Twitter.
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