7 questions with HIND𝓼
Table 7 | 29.01.24
Carlotta: As a band, this year is gonna be our 10th anniversary. We’re fucking veterans! Wow, that is so crazy to say. We’re just about to release the album number four.
How long have you been performing together?
Where does this album place itself amongst your catalogue?
Carlotta: To be honest this one has a little bit of this feeling of - the core energy of the debut album, I don’t know exactly why. It feels like starting all over again, not having the craving to be on the radio, so we as a band feel very free about it.
It must be nice not having to chase being in the charts and just focus on the music!
Carlotta: Yes 100%. The whole pandemic has crushed so many dreams and jobs all over the world. For us as a band we were really down and sad for a very long time, two years of us thinking oh my god, oh my god what are we going to do. Should we continue? In the end it’s been so refreshing this rebirth and resurrection of Hinds Band.
So you and Anna were around 19 or 20 when you first started making music together, how was it making music that young?
Carlotta: We were 19 and 21 I think, I’m older than Anna so I was 20 or 21 and she was 19, yep. It’s a long way to the top my friend. If you wanna rock and roll.
This week you’re all over the UK doing independent shows, how are you finding it?
Carlotta: When you suddenly do a small show in these kinds of venue’s - to me it’s just the best place to play rock music, it’s the best way to see a band live, being very tight and close to the audience. Obviously I love growing bigger as a band and would enjoy having a room full of thousand’s of people, but I’m really proud of doing this week of little shows. In the end I think about it as like, dude, three hundred people in places that I can’t even pronounce properly, is not that small.
We’re really happy!
How are you feeling about all the upcoming shows?
Ana: I have to admit I got nervous today, because we haven’t done a headline show in a while and I was like, oh fuck, now we need to do a good job.
Has it been an organic and natural process writing music together over the last decade?
Ana: Organic yes, but natural no. I feel like we’ve been in a constant fight against the world to be able to make it happen, which is so challenging.
Carlotta: The writing was organic. Super organic.
Ana: But making it happen was tricky. It took a lot of faith.
Carlotta: We’re not hunting for success, we feel successful already. I think we’ve taken advantage of every single element we had, imagine there’s nine elements to the album, we use them all.
