Bounce Magazine September 2018
This month featuring an exclusive interview with artist Gabrielle on her new album 'Under My Skin' - we also speak to front woman Izzy P Phillips of Black Honey. Our reviews take place at Go Ape, Thetford, Suffolk Escape Room and Happy Days RV.
This month featuring an exclusive interview with artist Gabrielle on her new album 'Under My Skin' - we also speak to front woman Izzy P Phillips of Black Honey. Our reviews take place at Go Ape, Thetford, Suffolk Escape Room and Happy Days RV.
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FEATURE<br />
SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER <strong>2018</strong> | <strong>2018</strong> ISSUE | ISSUE #71 | #71 BLACK HONEY<br />
BLACK HONEY<br />
Bursting out of the ether in 2014 with their squalling guitars, vivid colours and<br />
cinematic vignettes, there’s no other British band out there quite like Black Honey.<br />
Having spent the last four years perfecting<br />
the indie game, everything you think you<br />
know about them and their unique surrealist<br />
world is about to be wonderfully shaken<br />
up as they prepare to release their hugely<br />
anticipated debut album.<br />
With contradiction at every turn, it’s an<br />
album that celebrates being<br />
human, in all its different<br />
forms and by doing so,<br />
will touch the hearts of<br />
everyone that hears it.<br />
We’ve already heard ‘Bad<br />
Friends’ earlier this year, but<br />
with the exception of 2016’s<br />
‘Hello, Today’ (the track<br />
that saw the band become<br />
a household name at Radio 1), and the 2017<br />
closer ‘Dig’, the album is made up of entirely<br />
new music with 9 brand new songs on offer.<br />
band – Tom Dewhurst (drums), Tom Taylor<br />
(bass) and Chris Ostler (guitar) – to channel<br />
everything that comes from her obsessive<br />
and dizzyingly creative head and bottle it into<br />
music.<br />
The album as a result is ultimately a collage<br />
of chaos, shot straight at the heart – honest,<br />
inspiring and deeply infectious.<br />
Rachel Ducker caught up with<br />
Izzy B Phillips, songwriter,<br />
front woman, and all-round<br />
creative force behind guitarpop<br />
band Black Honey,<br />
R: Hey Izzy…<br />
Hello right I’m ready for you.<br />
R: Could you tell me about how you initially<br />
got involved with music?<br />
Across the entirety of the record, you can<br />
always feel the bare bones of front lady Izzy<br />
B Phillips diary scribbles are just around the<br />
corner as the varying tracks switch between<br />
chart-headed bangers and scuzzy, industrial<br />
David Lynch inspired strangeness.<br />
I did the whole theatre school, singing thing<br />
when I was a kid, and really hated it! [laughs]<br />
I was in all of the musicals, I quite liked the<br />
songs but I didn’t really like the way that<br />
people would sing them.<br />
It’s the weird and wonderful mind of Phillips<br />
- her lovable but villainous, Milky-Bar-kidmeets-Debbie<br />
Harry persona – that you find<br />
very much at the heart of ‘Black Honey’. An<br />
open sufferer of both dyslexia and ADHD,<br />
she’s a huge advocate for self-expression<br />
without limit and has relied hugely on her<br />
When I was young, my dad said to me, “you’ve<br />
got a musical ear”, and I was like “what’s a<br />
musical ear”? So he said “its an inner ear”.<br />
So I remember going around the school<br />
playground going “I’ve got a musical inner ear,<br />
it’s an ear inside my head that hears music<br />
better than everyone else”. [laughs]<br />
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