Sophie and the Giants. I love working with different people because you’re learning every time and can always take inspiration from each other with your different ways of writing and experiences. Itâs about coming out fighting. ACM in Conversation With: Music Business Tutor Dave Cronen – Featured in Microsoft’s “Creativity in the Digital Age” Video. Vocals & guitar / Sophie Scott 7 Tracks.
And at the heart of it all is pop’s most captivating new frontperson, whose teenage life is chronicled with unflinching honesty on Sophie and the Giants’ debut EP Adolescence. DigiFreshers 2020: Interview with Industry Link’s Jamie Hayes, ACM Announcement: Scholarship Winners 2020. “They weren't, and as I got older I realised I’d been creating monsters in my own head.
“But in the back of your mind, you know that in a couple of months' time you won't give a shit. It went on for years. Yonaka. DigiFreshers Songwriting Challenge: Win Two Incredible Prizes Courtesy of Shure! Welcome to the world of Sophie and the Giants, practitioners of forward-looking, left-leaning emotional pop: a fresh, raw fusion of the band’s collective influences — which range from Siouxsie and Debbie Harry to Radiohead and Jamie T. The band formed at music college in the spring of 2017 Sophie (vocals and guitar), Chris Hill (drums), Antonia Pooles (bass) and Toby Holmes (guitar), moving to their adopted hometown of Sheffield shortly afterwards; more recently they’ve been taking their intense, life-affirming and rapidly expanding set of songs on tour with the likes of Tom Grennan, Yonaka and Reverend and The Makers. The future is pulling you forward. Waste My Air is about how I felt once I was out of that relationship.” The theme of growing up and finding yourself is strong throughout Adolescence, an EP brimming with courage and confidence. While Sophie continues to toy with justifying her band’s name by putting Antonia, Chris and Toby in heels, the empowering nature of her lyrics means that the ‘giants’ concept has taken on a new meaning: this is music that’s all about standing tall. It’s about coming out fighting. Jump over to our Apply Now page and fill in our online form. Chris’ bedroom, which was actually the lounge, didn’t have a door, unless you counted the front door; the back door, which became the front door, had a broken handle. ACM at Home August Roundup – Songwriting Challenge Winner, Metropolis VIP Experience and More! The four band members all met during their time at ACM and have gone from strength-to-strength, recently signing to Universal Music Germany.
Sophie and the Giants are making waves in the music industry. Need help? ACM at Home September Roundup – Songwriting Challenge Winner, DigiFreshers and More! It’s about owning who you are, Sophie suggests. Chris and Bailey joined the band first and then when we needed a new guitarist, Toby was a close friend of ours already and admired the music so he was perfect for it.”, Bailey: “I met Sophie because I ended up moving in with her and once she found out how cool I was she practically begged me to be in her band! You need to enable JavaScript to use SoundCloud, Sophie and the Giants are practitioners of innovative, left-leaning pop: a raw fusion of collective influences, which range from the likes of Siouxsie Sioux to Blondie and Jamie T. The band was formed by Sophie (vocals), Chris Hill (drums), Bailey Stapledon (bass) and Toby Holmes (guitar) while all four of them were still at college. the Amazons. When I did a vocal diploma the year before that, that’s when I first met Chris and if I hadn’t have moved in with Bailey our paths probably wouldn’t have really crossed as he was the year bellow doing a drum course.
It’s always good to play some old and new songs from artists you love to get a varied influence and inspiration before writing. Driven out of a turbulent time at school and a desire for belonging, when Sophie finally found her like-minded ‘Giants’ (a metaphor for how tall they feel when they’re together) she never looked back. None of the band’s single or EP releases are disconnected. Slightly awful, then, but perfect at the same time. “Now we’re just average height,” admits Chris. Annabel Allum. She describes herself as having been an anxious child, with confidence issues not helped by persistent bullying she received at school for the crime of having red hair. Fans Also Track. “I knew I needed to stop people walking over me and making me feel like shit. Cabbage. Toby, who’d only been in the band two months, hadn’t even visited Sheffield before he dumped his bags down in the house the band would share together. “I had an epiphany, packed my stuff and was out the same day,” Sophie recalls.
“Sophie wasn’t in them — and I saw that give her strength. Leeroy. Soo good! The four band members all met during their time at ACM and have gone from strength-to-strength, recently signing to Universal Music Germany. “We want people to come together because of our music,” Chris adds. Such a pleasure meeting the band after. Is your network connection unstable or browser outdated. I’m also originally a drummer but learnt bass to be in the band.”, Chris: “I am the drummer of the band, I left ACM early but I did the technical drum degree.”, Sophie: “We’ve been working really hard behind the scenes on our next couple of releases, the first of which will be coming out at the beginning of September. About Sophie and The Giants. 4.4K likes. “When I was younger I felt like everyone and everything was against me,” Sophie adds today. But the Adolescence EP is not about wallowing, or resting on laurels, and it’s certainly not about admitting defeat. It's about looking at people on stage and deciding, ‘I'm going to do that.’”. “I was blinded by love for a long time, and put up with shit for a long time, and I realised I’d wasted a lot of my own time,” she explains — and to make matters more complicated her boyfriend at the time had also been her guitarist, as well as Sophie’s flatmate. Never go into anything half hearted and always have an open mind for music cos you’re always learning, all the time.”, Chris: “Never just stick to one specific genre, expand your musical vocabulary and understand other genres, you never know you might start to enjoy playing. They’re all chapters of the same story. ⨠Sophie and the Giants. Sophie joined a choir after school — a move that led to the unusual mid-teens experience of performing at Wembley Arena — which fulfilled its intended purpose and provided a confidence boost.
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