Sporadic time shifts and technical jangly riffs can often make the listener feel awkward, but Colour find the right mixture of adding pop melodies that has the audience singing along.
From South London, Colour are amazingly still unsigned even though they seem to be everyone’s favourite band. Someone hurry up and add them to your rooster!
I caught up with Bass player Lewis for a quick convo!
Over the moon
Speaking personally, playing live is probably my favourite part of being in a band.Anyone who's seen me play with Colour, or previously with Meet Me In St Louis, will probably attest to the fact that I 'rock out' pretty hard on stage.
I just love performing and believe that, where possible, bands should put on as much of a visceral, visual performance as a sonic or aural one. I also love writing music, especially music that challenges people in some way, usually in terms of interesting time signatures, time changes and poly-rhythms.
I think Colour manages to do this and also stays relatively accessible with the melodic side of things, especially where the vocals are concerned.
That aside, there's nothing more satisfying than completing a new song and then getting to play it live. I guess that last sentence answers the question!
Chutes
Being in an unsigned band again doesn't feel any different really, to be honest St Louis almost felt more like being in an unsigned band as we kept everything DIY in terms of booking and management, whereas Colour has a booking agent and manager.
I think both ways of working have their merits, keeping it all DIY is cool because you have complete control over everything that happens with your band and you get to be much more connected to the whole community side of things.
Having people working to do that stuff for you obviously takes alot of pressure off so you can focus on just being a band and they can use their contacts to achieve things you might otherwise struggle to.
I don't particularly have any advice on how to get recognised, just work hard doing what you love, don't compromise and if you're good at it and put the time in, eventually good things should happen for you!
Shamu
For me i would just like to release some records that we are all proud of, play some amazing shows, meet some awesome people and have a good time doing it.
Obviously it would be fantastic to get to a level where the band was paying my rent, but i came to terms with the fact quite a while ago that playing music will probably always be a hobby and not a career for me, as the music i love to play isn't necessarily enough peoples 'cup of tea'. Playing a show to 100 people that really love what you're doing, where people in the front row are ducking out of the way of me swinging my guitar is so amazing, i would be totally happy doing that every night for a few months of every year.
I love being a part of a close-knit scene which, generally, has a very DIY punk-rock ethic.
That said, it would probably be amazing to play shows to a thousand-odd people every night, not have to work a day job and have a massive rider that involves everything from fresh fruit to class-A drugs! I hope this hasn't made me come off as too much of a cynical bastard.
Conversations
I love talking to people after shows, obviously not if they're telling you how shit you were but it's so nice when people come up to tell you that they enjoyed your set, it makes it all worth while!
It's kind of weird when people say really specific things about your performance or 'talent' but if it's a compliment I always try to take it that way and try to be as humble as possible. I'm just thankful people want to talk to me at all!
To sign off I guess I shall just say, thanks for reading, hope I didn't bore you too much.
Always try to keep the dream alive, if you love to do something, keep doing it! You're doing it for yourself and nobody else, so if it makes you happy and you enjoy it, that's all that matters.
Live on rainbows and dreams People!
-Lewis (Colour)
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