Marvins Revolt, a three piece hailing from Denmark are currently on tour in Japan with their new album Patrolling the Heights. They were lovely enough to talk to me at their Cork launch about the evolution of their sound since their last album Killec, and their involvement in Ireland’s DIY music scene. Patrolling the Heights is available now from The Richter Webstore and features artwork from Cork based artist Dominique Barry.
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You played The Richter Collective's Christmas Bash in Dublin last night how was it?
Martin: Amazing!
Soren: Amazing!
Klaus: Amazing!
M: Lots of good bands, good people, good crowd.
K: It was a proper celebration of the label.
M: And of the holiday!
S: We had some gigs cancelled in the UK so we decided to come to Ireland and spend some time with our friends and we got to play that gig, it was amazing!
How did you get involved in The Richter Collective?
K: It's a long story but way back when we started recording the songs for Killec our last album I think we finished a raw mix of one of the first songs. I knew, well we knew a guy from Copenhagen called Adam McCormack who used to play in an Irish band called Sylvan a few years back. He moved to Copenhagen and we hung out with him a few times. He said you should definitely send this to Mick, who at the time had this other small indie label called Popular Records. So I sent him that song and he said oh yeah sure I'm gona put that out. These two guys were kind of skeptical thinking he's just going to screw us over because nobody's going to pick up our band on the basis of one song, but then we realized that Mick is trustworthy. We kept the communication going and we found out that he's a totally cool dude and we were actually the first thing he released on Popular Records. Then later on Popular Records got together with Barry from Armed Ambitions and made The Richter Collective. So that's kind of the story.
So this tour is launching your new album Patrolling The Heights how do you think your music has progressed since the last album?
M: I think we have become more aware of how strong we are as a three piece because when we did Killec we had just kicked out the old guitarist and we wrote Killec as a three piece. Then when we played live we thought we needed a fourth guy. This time, I think we've come a long way and found out that we can do more than we expected as a three piece.
S: When we finished the Killec tour we kind of turned a new direction in terms of making songs. We really wanted to record as close to how we play live.
Speaking of playing live you're about to go on tour in Japan with LITE.
K: This is our second time in Japan we were there in February for the first time. We also played with LITE for four shows on that tour, so this is the second time in Japan and it's a longer tour. So it's really exciting!
Definitely, I was on Parabolica's website, the label organizing your tour in Japan and you seem to be the focus of their time at the moment.
K: Yeah, well Parobolica is a proper label. They are well organized, a very serious kind of DIY label. They are very solid and have a financial background that is really strong so they are able to do stuff that most indie labels that we work with are otherwise unable to do. So yeah, it's kind of serious business over there.
I see you will be touring with Adebisi Shank in Copenhagen and around Ireland over the next few weeks?
M: It's always fun to tour with those guys. It's never boring! We've become friends we talk to them on phones just call them up, and on the Internet. So yeah, we are really good friends it's always fun to hangout with those guys.
I want to wrap up by asking you, and you probably get asked this loads but do you have any advice for Irish bands that are just starting out?
S: It's hard work, I think.
K: Get on to Mick!
S: First off they're in the right place because Ireland has a strong DIY scene. There are lots of really cool people putting on shows!
K: And that's the thing we really don't have in Denmark and that's why we're so happy to come here. Even in smaller towns like Cork there is a really good crowd most nights, I don't know about tonight we might have bad luck, but that's a really strong basis for doing stuff.
K: Just focus on the music before anything else!
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