May 2012
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Howler frontman ready for a fight
The suggestion was friendship but Howler frontman Jordan Gatesmith is intent on fisticuffs.
Talking to Gatesmith as he sits “chained to a little desk” in Rough Trade’s office in London, with a “phone super-glued” to his ear, the 20-year-old is shocked when I ask him if he’s heard of Bleeding Knees Club.
Though he’s heard of the band, he didn’t know...
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INTERVIEW: HOWLER, Purple Sneakers
PS: You’re heading down to Australia in July for Splendour and a couple of sideshows with Zulu Winter. Will this be your first trip here? JG: It will. We’re very excited! You know, for a long time, I didn’t think Australia really existed. I thought it was just like some made up islands, made up of bits, but you know…I’m kidding. No, we’re really excited.
PS: Anything in particular you’d like to...
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Review: Howler at The Fleece, Bristol
Jordan Gatesmith is late on stage. When he does walk through the crowd to join the rest of the band, it is to chants of “Justin”, a facetious throwback to when he’d been mistaken for the lead singer of The Vaccines by drunken fans on their support tour.
As he now takes to the stage on the last night of their UK headline tour, ‘ABORTION’ written across his knuckles and bottle clutched in hand, he...
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Review: Howler at Sub89
Big hype, big riffs, a cult record label… But on their third trip to the UK, can Howler deliver?
Willow Colios went to meet lead singer Jordan Gatesmith to find out.
I join Jordan Gatesmith - lead singer, guitarist and principal songwriter of Howler in the bowels of Reading’s Sub 89 (actually in 80’s club rewind) before a date on their second headline UK tour, following sold out dates...
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Face Time: Howler, Noisevox
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See Jordan getting interviewed by Jon Norris on... →
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