2. “WE’RE JUST THREE KIDS
WHO PLAY MUSIC. I DONT
GET WHAT ALL THE FUSS IS
ABOUT.” Lucy Culshaw
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW:
SH TG N RO A E
O U M NC his is London. For all the bizarre nightlife week (12 March 2011). The girls were ecstatic when we Oxfordsh
sights it may endure it’s not particularly known revealed to them that their record was the longest W as
hen
as as a place you’d see grown men dancing like Number One in the past decade, having stayed at the Lotte Do
idi idiots to music that’s not totally danceable. Nor top for the past nine weeks. And, after a lot of nagging, it’s cool
is is it the environment in which they’ll normally we managed to score our very own exclusive interview us... Don
drape their arms around each other and sway. behind the scenes at the current hottest band’s latest Because
Y that’s precisely what’s happening as Shotgun
et gig in London to find out what these Oxford born girls far... Be
Romance take to the stage. are really about... Culshaw
It’s quite inspiring to see an all girl band turn an “W had to move out of Lotte’s because the neighbours
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audience filled with otherwise stoic men into squealing kept complaining” Shotgun’s drummer, Alice Jackson play mu
teens. And they do it without effort. There’s no fancy says dejectedly of the production of the Oxford born about. W
decorations, no glitter on the walls or expensive trio’s latest album, which mostly took place in the home differen
lighting, the music these girls make, creates an entirely of Lotte Dobeni’s folks. She’s apparently unaware how so speci
unique atmosphere, that’s purely their own. Ginger and Keith Moon inspired drum solos blasting
Shotgun Romance’s This is the Modern Waste has held from the small, three bedroom cottage isn’t going to go
onto it’s Number O status in the W charts again this
ne ho down well in the small family village of Ardington,

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obeni, the guitarist’s, turn to speak. “W yeah,
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l and everything but we try not to let it bother
n’t want it to affect the music, you know?
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cause of the music, she expresses before Lucy
w puts her mark on the conversation.
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usic. If I’m honest, I don’t get what all the fuss is
W not perfect– far from it! How are we
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