With their first ever UK headline tour to start in Bristol on Friday, formidable girl supergroup Wild Flag have set another album track live on the internet!
Entitled ‘Boom’, the track is taken from their self-titled debut album, which was released late last year and placed in end of year lists the world over and be heard here:
Wild Flag live in the UK:
Fri 27 Jan Thekla Bristol www.alt-tickets.co.uk
Sat 28 Jan The Rescue Rooms Nottingham www.alt-tickets.co.uk
Sun 29 Jan The Cockpit Leeds www.lunatickets.co.uk
Mon 30 Jan Oran Mor Glasgow www.pclpresents.com
Tues 31 Jan Sound Control Manchester www.alt-tickets.co.uk
Wed 1 Feb Electric Ballroom London www.alt-tickets.co.uk
Wild Flag is a Portland, Oregon and Washington, DC-based quartet consisting of Carrie Brownstein (guitar/vocals), Mary Timony (guitar/vocals), Rebecca Cole (keys/vocals) and Janet Weiss (drums/vocals).
The quartet has known one another for well over a decade as tour mates and band mates of varying proportions. If you draw a venn diagram illustrating the intersection of the various groups, Brownstein, Cole, Timony, and Weiss would all be in the same tiny spheres. Playing together felt almost inevitable.
Brownstein and Weiss were in Sleater-Kinney and toured with Timony’s band Helium on numerous occasions. Brownstein and Timony collaborated in the late 1990’s, on their project The Spells. They released one EP, The Age of Backwards, on K Records in 1999, and played a single live show in Olympia. Rebecca Cole’s Portland-based band The Minders was a frequent opener for Sleater-Kinney. Weiss and Cole play together in the 1960’s garage-rock cover band The Shadow Mortons.
As Brownstein explains, “I think we all realised that we could be greater than the sum of our parts, not four disparate puzzle pieces trying to make sense of the other, but a cohesive and dynamic whole. It’s still about chemistry, it’s still about learning how to play together. You really should try to earn the things you get, and to feel like you have to prove something.”
