RedFaces
RedFaces are a British indie pop band from Sheffield. The band consists of three members; Harry Lyon, Isaac White and Charlie Yapp.
In 2014, after gaining an early fan in Dean Jackson, the band was invited to play at the YNOT festival on the Allotment stage. The year after, they uploaded “Katie Come Home” to BBC Music Introducing, and they brought in interest from UK record labels. It also received radio airplay on BBC Radio 1 and Radio X.
Again, they were invited to play at the YNOT festival on the large stage, The Quarry. Although it was an early time slot, the tent was filled to its capacity of 2000. In July 2015, the band played at T in the Park, as well as performing at Live at Leeds.
RedFaces' first single “Kerosene” was released in December 2016 under RCA. Their follow-up single, “Wise Up”, was released in May 2017, and throughout the summer, the group performed at many festivals:
- Truck Festival in Staffordshire
- Dot to Dot Festival in Manchester, Bristol and Nottingham
- Kendal Calling in the Lake District
- Isle of Wight Festival in the Isle of Wight
- Community Festival in London
- TRNSMT in Glasgow
In an interview with Bodega Nottingham, the band said:
We started in school, where we all met, and playing gigs to our mates at school and slowly getting longer and better gigs elsewhere prompted us to write more songs. I think writing “Katie Come Home” was the ‘turning point’ if you can call it that, when we released it we did a gig in Sheffield to celebrate and it transpired that loads of record labels were there. And RCA seemed the most positive so we went with them! […] We’re still writing songs all the time so I guess we’ll see [if the debut album is energetic]! I think the next single maybe takes a slightly different turn, with influences of Neo-psychedelic music and it’s got this Michael Jackson-esque stomping groove to it. It’s still got the energy, but musically it’s got more of a groove and lyrically is perhaps more poignant. I think the album will be a mix of themes and feel – but will still have that energy and sound we’re about. We’ll make sure to make it interesting for listeners and not just a lot of similar sounding songs—but as I said we’re still writing songs at the moment so we’ll probably start thinking about the album a bit later. […] We love Jake Bugg, we’ve seen him live quite a few times and have all his albums. In terms of big inspirations, we were brought up on a mix of British ‘60s pop like The Beatles, The Kinks and The Beach Boys and bits of the Britpop scene. As we’ve grown up we’ve also been expanding our musical tastes including listening to Surf music, Rap and Hip-Hop, Psychedelic and experimental rock. I think it’s important to try and take influence from as wide a variety of music as possible as it makes for more original and interesting music. One of my (Isaac) first musical influences was Michael Jackson, as I loved his approach to writing his tracks and his focus on pumping rhythms married with gorgeous melodies. […] Ryan often gets home and plays “Football Manager” which I believe he’s rather good at. Harry’s the sort of person that’s always doing odd jobs – he’s always out and about doing things, whether they be musical or non-musical. Charlie’s always demoing and improving his skill with studio work, he has this little home studio we’ve done a few demos there and he’s getting really skilled at editing and recording. I’ll likely get home and read stuff. I’m hugely into science and all that stuff so I’m always reading stuff from quantum physics to cancer treatments to weird dystopian novels. I guess I’m kind of a geek. As I said before though we’ll probably end up writing more songs too, we all tend to gravitate back towards songwriting whenever we have time off.