New album as Bristol-based folk trio Tarren head to St Leonards

Bristol-based folk trio Tarren head to St Leonards on the back of their second album Outside Time.

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00:00Good morning, my name is Phil Hewitt, Grief Arts Editor at Six Newspapers. Lovely this

00:06morning to speak to Sid Goldsmith from the Bristol-based band Terran, who are heading

00:11shortly to St Leonard's, September the 20th. Now, before we talk about that date and the

00:16current album, you were saying so interestingly that the band is effectively a lockdown project

00:21that came together as a band afterwards. How did that happen then?

00:25Yeah, absolutely. We knew each other before the lockdown. But really, during the pandemic,

00:30there were very few demands on us to be creative, as uninvolved musicians, all of a sudden.

00:39So we, as a way of doing that and keeping that part of ourselves alive, we started sending

00:44each other little voice notes of tunes that we were writing, just to have a bit of accountability

00:49and someone to share things with. And then when we were finally able to meet up, which

00:55was in Victoria Park, so that we were out in the open air, we had all of this shared

01:00repertoire that we'd written between us, and each of us had learned. And it just felt very

01:05easy to then arrange that. And then it just happened organically from there.

01:10So it's never become a band, it just happened.

01:13Yeah, we may as well share this. And we've continued sharing it. We've now made a second

01:18album.

01:19Absolutely. And you're saying the first album was just kind of throwing together everything

01:23you had. The second album, which is coming out in September, in time for the London's

01:28gig, is more refined then?

01:32I would say so, yeah. The first album was just, what have we got? Let's throw it in

01:36the pot and see what sounds we make, which was joyous. It was a really fun process. But

01:42now, I think we know who we are as a band because of that process. So the second album

01:47is a bit more considered where we're furthering the explorations and the things that we thought

01:52worked really well with the old material. We're kind of into those more and trying to

01:58further those avenues.

01:59Absolutely. And is there an anniversary one off for you, or are you actually on the road

02:04for sure?

02:05No, we'll be on the road. We start sort of in earnest on the 17th of September, and then

02:11we'll be going right the way through to the end of September. And then there's an outlying

02:16Bristol homecoming gig at the end of October. So yeah, we've got a good few dates in.

02:21And for you, the live performance is what it's all about, isn't it really?

02:25It really is. Yeah, yeah. About those moments of connection in the room where you get, you

02:31know, you see, we like to do the whole range of kind of what we can sonically as a band,

02:38going from the highs where you can see people sort of dancing in their seats or in the aisles,

02:43right down to the very gentle, tender, slow things where people might even nod off if

02:49we go on too long. But it's a nice nodding off. We're all together in it. So yes, finding

02:54those moments.

02:55Nodding off is always nice.

02:56You know, we all need a little snooze. That's okay. It's acceptable behaviour at a gig,

03:02I say.

03:03I've never heard that said before, but fantastic. Really good to speak to you. Thank you.

03:09Thanks.