The Hubbards - Just Touch

1.    Who are The Hubbards?

The Hubbards are an English indie rock band from Hull, England. They started making noise in 2012 and have one E.P. and a handful of singles to their name. Just Touch (March’17)  is a stand alone single. 

2. What's Just Touch like? 

Just Touch mixes a darker, northern indie rock sound with ethereal vocals and light touches from the backing vocals.

3. Who do The Hubbards sound like? 

D.I.D. (Dog Is Dead), The Courteeners and Placebo. 

4. What have the press said about Just Touch?

“Infectious, fizzing, indie” – Indie Buddie.

“Dark and hazy take on indie rock” – Frequency 21.

“A frenzy of musical goodness” – Indie Blog Fest.

5. Which bands inspired The Hubbards? 

Their main influences are The Strokes, Jeff Buckley and Radiohead. They have also mentioned some love for The Libertines. 

6. Why should I listen to Just Touch? 

Because of the amazing vocals. 

7. What are The Hubbards' best songs? 

Just Touch and Cold Cut. 

8. Any more words? 

Bird.

“I don’t like your boyfriend”

Fred Nicolaus is Golden Suits an indie folk/pop/Americana musician. Golden Suits have been compared to The National, Elliot Smith and Arcade Fire. He is influenced by Tom Petty, Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen. Is It Wrong was the lead single for Golden Suits' second album, Kubla Khan (2016), and a song that Stereogum called “absolutely sublime” and “anthemic.” Is It Wrong is an impassioned, leap don't look, heart on your sleeve, indie-folk song.

“I don’t know how to tell you how strange it is to be getting older,

Kiss by kiss”

The Hubbards - Cold Cut



 

 

 

1.    Who are these loose gooses?

They would be The Hubbards, an English guitar pop indie band from Hull, England. Cold Cut (Feb’16)  is from the E.P. of the same name Cold Cut (March’16). The Hubbards cranked up the melody in 2012 and have a handfull of singles in their catalogue.


2. What kind of tune is Cold Cuts?

A beautiful slice of English indie guitar rock with sweet vocals married to meandering guitars and a tight rhythm section.


3. Who do The Hubbards sound like?

The Hubbards were compared to Placebo by Leeds Music Scene.


4. What have the press to say about Cold Cuts?

“Lurches and sways along to tight rhythms and intertwining melodies” – Indie Is Not A Genre.
 
“Well-rounded bubbling masterpiece” – SOS Music.

“I just love the melodies that coalesce” – Abduction Radiation.

5. Who put the sparkle in The Hubbards?

No knowledge. The Hubbards mentioned loving Rage Against The Machine and The Libertines in concert to BBC News.


6. Why should I give Cold Cuts a whip past the ear holes?

Cold Cuts is proof of The Hubbards arrriving as a band. Mellow guitar pop on the outside but a noisy little concoction as you chew through the layers.


7. Do The Hubbards have any more pearlers?

Stick with Cold Cuts.

 
8. Any more words?

The Hubbards are the biggest band in Hull now, a city that brought us bands like The Beautiful South, The Housemartins, Fat Boy Slim, Fine Young Cannibals and The Paddingtons.

The Hubbards have been fluffers for The 1975, Foals, Dog Is Dead and Little Comets.

The Hubbards are heading out on a headline tour of the UK in March and April.

“I’m a sucker for you”

 

 

 

 

In between singing in The Housemartins and going out on his tod as Fat Boy Slim, Norman Cook formed the short lived (1989-1991) indie electronic band Beats International. Their debut album Let Them Eat Bingo (1990) had the UK number one hit Dub Be Good To Me a re-working of The SOS Band’s Just Be Good To Me with the bass line from The Clash’s Guns Of Brixton.

 

“Tank fly boss walk jam nitty-gritty
You're listening to the boy from the big bad city”