Preview Spring King, The Wytches and more take on London’s Flying Vinyl Festival

Dream Wife, Trudy & The Romance and Anteros also appear at the all-dayer.

Words: Lisa Wright
7th April 2017

Modern technology might have changed the way we consume our cultural nuggets, but book shelves look pretty forlorn with a lone Kindle propped against the corner and you can’t pass down a host of Soundcloud links to your kids.

London-based project Flying Vinyl understand this and that’s why they’ve spent the last two years carefully curating an oh-so-pretty monthly vinyl series, featuring the likes of Black Honey, The Magic Gang and more, all on good ol’ plastic.

Last year they brought a host of FV alumni together for the first annual Flying Vinyl Festival, and now they’re back for round two. Taking place at London’s Oval Space on Saturday 8th April, the all-dayer will feature sets from a host of ace acts including Dream Wife, Traams, Trudy and the Romance and Yassassin alongside co-headliners The Wytches and Spring King.

Q&A

Tarek Musa, Spring King

You’re headlining Flying Vinyl Festival 2017! Why should everyone get involved with what they’re doing?
It looks incredible, all the packaging and all this music together in one box. Who wouldn’t want that?! They’re all pretty laid back guys and that’s always the best way to do it or your soul dies early. You’ve got to do these things in a natural community way.

Are you a big vinyl nerd?
Oh yes. I think I own over 35 different Beach Boys records; I’ve got a few rarities, some Mexican pressings and things. I’m really big into jazz and bossanova so I collect a lot of that too, and then I’ve got some classics like Neil Young and my dad’s first pressings of The Rolling Stones, which is pretty incredible. Whenever we go on tour I always try and trick my tired bandmates into going past the record shop.

Who else are you looking forward to seeing on the day?
I’d literally recommend all of the bands. I’ve produced Trudy and the Romance’s first single and they’re really cool. Oliver [Taylor, vocals] is a great guitarist and his technique’s a bit like Courtney Barnett, but very unique. Dream Wife I’ve caught once and it was pretty intense; I really like their show. It’s gonna be a fun day out for us.

And what have you lot got planned?
There are a couple of album tracks that we don’t normally have the time to put in there but we wanna play as much as we can. Play the whole album. I really wanna do a Clash cover, I’d love to do ‘I Fought The Law’ or ‘White Riot’, but I don’t know if Clash fans would appreciate it. I don’t wanna crap out The Clash because they’re amazing, I don’t wanna fuck it up!

Find out all the essential info over at flyingvinyl.co.uk/festival - and grab yourself some last-minute tickets here.

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