The Soundcarriers are Nottingham’s new space jazz folk band, sometimes compared to the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, or Stereolab. Their album will be out at the beginning of next year.

DD: How do you create your sound?
Adam Cann: Pish is the rhythmic section of the band, so it tends to start from there. We get ideas from it.
P: Hmm, Sometimes together and sometimes separately.
DC: Sometimes one of you will bring something done on four track and then we’ll jam around it and play with it and we change it around again and it finally comes together.
AC: Yeah, we stretch out songs and play songs differently each time.

DD: Would you say you belong to a Nottingham scene?
AC: There are more hardcore bands in Nottingham but we are quite our own.
LW: There is always a new scene every year; there’s indie bands, hardcore bands…
AC: It is quite a fragmented scene. It’s not a big enough city for a particular scene. Everyone seems to be doing their own thing.
LW: There aren’t that many big bands from Nottingham that have been able to break through.
DC: You feel left out a bit, like on your own. Yes, you miss hanging out with musicians that have something in common with you.
P: But it is also good because then we can develop our own unique sound. People do appreciate it in Manchester and London, the sound, you know?
LW: Yes, particularly Manchester. I live there and commute to Nottingham to practice and there is at the moment a big folk and 60’s sound comeback.
AC: Yeah Manchester is probably the best place we’ve played at. We like playing in small venues - the atmosphere, definitely.

DD: You’ve played a few festivals; how was the experience?
AC: We played Glastonbury last year. The big difference is the mud!
LW: Oh yeah, I was watching them, the band, as a fan at the time and, literally, to get to the tent where there were playing, the mud was like a foot thick and you could see the rain dripping down.
AC: Yeah, it is more uncomfortable in that sense.
DC: Not having the acoustic coming back cos’ it’s outdoors is also a bit of a problem. But in terms of audience it is great.

DD: What would you want people to walk away with after seeing you live?
AC: We like to experiment with our sound – go in different directions - and that’s what we’re trying to show live and in our album.
P: Maybe that they’ve seen something a little bit special, something outside the box. Hopefully they will appreciate our musicianship.