Shadowparty interview 28.7.18
Newly signed to Mute, ShadowParty , release their debut album today via Mute Records which captures the band on a sonic sojourn to the stratosphere and back, with guest appearances on the album from Denise Johnson (Primal Scream / A Certain Ratio, Nick McCabe (The Verve). Also crashing the party is LA-based DJ Whitney Fierce, who appears on backing vocals, and Joe Duddell, the Manchester-based arranger who has lent his orchestral finesse to the likes of Elbow, Blossoms, and New Order; for whom he created and scored a 12-piece synth orchestra for a run of Manchester International Festival shows. Matt Mead catches up with Josh Hager from the band. LTW: Can you please let me know your first memory as a child, what age would you have been? John: My earliest childhood memory is of two men in black 40s looking suits with fedoras visiting me as a baby in the hospital. Not sure if it was a later dream or a real memory. What is your first musical memory? One of my earliest mem...