Cabbage discuss debut album inspiration after Reading/Leeds booking


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Cabbage @ Bristol Thekla. Feb 2017. (Jessica Bartolini for Live4ever)




Cabbage have told NME they are taking inspiration from Alan Bennett whilst recording their debut album.

A series of quick-fire, highly charged EPs have laid the ground for the band’s first record, and Joe Martin has revealed they are currently soaking up inspiration from many different directions. “We’ve got a song about Alan Bennett ‘cos I went to the West Yorkshire Playhouse to see Alan Bennett in conversation,” he said.

“His new book’s called ‘Keep On Keeping On’ and he’s just fucking a huge inspiration. We have a lot of black and white politically-messaged strong songs already, but we’re also hugely inspired by finding the humour of life and things that are really melancholy. Northern kitchen sink, that’s what really floats our boat.”

“And that’s what Alan Bennett does, is make the ordinary extraordinary. He just asks very intelligent questions and he’s a real genuine voice for kind of lost, eccentric types.”


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