Introducing :: Holy Thursday

Holy Monday. Holy moly. Holy mackerel. Don't we just all really secretly love the mystery when a new band assails our ears and yet we can find nowt on that bastion of all knowledge, the blessed Internet, about them and need to go on hunt-to-blog missions to uncover their musical souls.

Hello, Holy Thursday. A band who seemingly have arrived in the last couple of months from the Wirral with one uploaded track and audio video, already been picked up for airplay by Dave Monks on his BBC Radio Merseyside Introducing show - yet with nothing online about them to glean more from, despite a social media presence.

Intrepid investigative bloggers that we are, however, we know who Holy Thursday are, or at least who one of them is and the bands he was formerly with; though our early hours of the morning conversation rather bore resemblance to Jeremy Paxman trying to inveigle an answer from a stubborn politician who is doing their level best to avoid it at all costs.

For now, although we know a little, we are not going to blow their cover. What we can tell you is that they are a four-piece who are seemingly interchangeable musically. "There isn't actually any set menu when it comes to instrumentation with us," says bass-playing Mr X (as we shall call him for the purposes of this piece, though he may also answer to the name of Liam). "I'm also a guitar player, our guitar player is a drummer, our keyboard player plays bass and guitar and so on. It's a free for all - the way we like it - and keeps the music interesting."

And is that why they are keeping low profile at this stage, to create 'interest'? "We're not intentionally trying to be cryptic about who we are or anything, just testing the water a bit! We're a group of musicians with a core four members operating totally self-sufficiently from our studio where we do all of our late night jamming and production."

'Hurricane', the first track from their musical labours, was uploaded two weeks ago, and from what Mr X tells us, it's set to be the first of a few: "Our future plans will include releasing new music, and we've got quite a bit in the pipeline. But for now our focus is just on trying to let the new track speak for us as much as possible. We'll reveal a little more in the next month or two."

And what might 'Hurricane' be saying? Doubtlessly that this is a band who like their guitars, dabbling with some floaty psych vibes that lean both backwards to the 60s, yet pull forward to deliver a sound not too distant from that of today's Temples, or the Mancunian outfit Purple Heart Parade. Which might be the cosmic-like vibe one might expect from a band whose name we are informed, "is a nod to William Blake - and a bandleader from the 60s we all happen to be keen on."

We'll leave you to commune with your consciousness on what that is about. Meanwhile, check out the acid-tripping hues of the video below or stream 'Hurricane' via their Soundcloud by clicking here

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