Interview Palma Louca

Let me start by asking about the name Palma Louca. Where did this come from When we first started rehearsing as a band, our rehearsals rooms was Little Buildings in Ouseburn so we'd usually go to Tyne Bar after for a drink. Since most of us are students, we would opt for Tyne Bars cheapest 'Top shelf' bottles for £1.60. After drinking and chatting for a while, struggling to come up with a name we could agree on, one of us suggested 'Palma Louca', which was a bottle of fairly crap beer we were drinking at the time.

Who would you say the bands biggest influences are? We always struggle with this question. On a broader scale our interest in music and overall influences are giants like Radiohead and Pink Floyd. But from a song writing perspective they're lots of influences, some of the biggest ones at the moment are: Holy Holy, Inhaler, VANT and The Night Cafe. This changes often though, as we are always trying to develop and experiment with our song writing.

You recently released your latest single “Stationary Life” what can you tell us about the song and how you feel the response has been for it? The response has been great! It's always encouraging to receive such positive feedback on something you've worked so hard on. We have recently started working with Pillar Artists which has helped massively with exposure compared to our previous releases.

Stationary Life is one of the more upbeat tracks we've wrote, it's been gutting that we've only been able to play it live a couple of times, and that was before it was released. The track has been in existence for about 2 years, but we have slowly developed it overtime, the original progression was actually planned to be a slower, downbeat track.

Its been a fun one to work on over lockdown and we have a lot more lined up!

During the recent lockdowns how have you kept yourselves busy creatively? We are quite fortunate in that we record, produce and mix our songs from home, so apart from gigging, lockdown hasn't really hindered us much creatively, if anything it has given us more time to be creative. We have managed to get a handful of tracks recorded over lockdown and have wrote a load more! Do you have many plans going forward for shows and future releases? It's difficult to make plans at the moment with the uncertainty of the situation. We do have a few gigs confirmed over summer, which hopefully don't have to be rescheduled. We have a plans for our next few releases, with our next single coming out in April, but we don't want to give too much away at the minute.

How would you describe your lives show for people who have yet to see you live? We're not the sort of band to be jumping about on stage for the sake of it. We like to focus on the music, and hopefully help everyone hear something new. Our live set often includes a wide range of songs, with no two songs sounding really similar. We never like going to a gig were the songs start to blur into one because the sound of the band or artist is too focused. If you could recommend five new acts who would you pick? They've been around for a few years now but The Howl and the Hum are still criminally underrated, they're one of the best bands in the UK. We have had the chance to support them twice and they're even better live than recorded.

A few others would be Junodream, Inhaler, Chartreuse and The Pale White.

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