Musik
Svenska Girl Scout i brittisk intervju
Det svenska bandet Girl Scout växer snabbare än de hinner släppa musik. De fyra vännerna spelade på de stora festivalerna (bland annat Way Out West) och samlade på sig tusentals fans innan de släppte sin första singel. Förra sommaren var de förband åt brittiska Holly Humberstone vilket har gjort dem till en riktig snackis i Storbritannien, där de befinner sig just nu.
Förra veckan spelade Girl Scout på Scala i London. Ticketmaster UK fick äran att hänga med sångaren och gitarristen Emma Jansson för en fin intervju. Emma berättar om hur allt startade, bandmedlemmarnas dubbelliv samt hur the Beatles inspirerade dem till titeln på debutsingeln som finns med på deras första EP Real Life Human Garbage. Nyligen släppte bandet även sin andra EP Granny Music.
Girl Scout består av Emma Jansson, Evelina Arvidsson Eklind, Per Lindberg och Viktor Spasov som träffades på Kungliga Musikhögskolan när de pluggade jazz tillsammans. Under pandemin träffades de en gång i veckan för att skriva och spela in låtar tillsammans vilket Emma Jansson berättar om i intervjun med Ticketmaster UK.
It feels from an outside perspective like it moved very quickly from that point. Did it feel that way for you guys?
Yeah, it definitely did. It was kind of strange. The first two or three months, we just recorded stuff and just put them up on a secret SoundCloud. We started thinking we should maybe send it out to other people and we sent it to a couple of way too big labels. They obviously didn’t respond. So I made an Instagram account and just started following people, kind of randomly, to just have some people see the page. It was funny because an acquaintance of mine had a band, and I just went into their following list and followed a bunch of random people, not thinking anything of it. And then, quite instantly, there was this management company in England who DMed us asking if we had any more songs. We sent the SoundCloud and he was like, “Do you want to have a meeting?” So we got a manager. By that time we’d been around for maybe four months. We’re still working with him too, by the way. He’s wonderful.
We didn’t have anything out at that point, so there was a lot of mystery to kind of lean into. We just had a secret SoundCloud link of demos. We put a lot of work into them, but nobody knew who we were because you couldn’t see or hear us anywhere. And then we got the Holly Humberstone shows…
– Emma Jansson
