We got to talk Exclusively to the members of The Playmakers outside their prestigious gig at The Cavern Club, where they told us all about their chance meeting, what its like playing on stage and what we can expect from them in the near future.
The Playmakers are a three piece band from Cirencester, Gloucestershire made up of Charlie Cooper (Vocals/Guitar), Will Jones (Bass/Backing Vocals) & Joe Arthur (Drums) who together have made a lasting impression on audiences with a series of breathtaking yet back to basic gigs in the South West and London, and a showcase gig at the prestigious Cavern Club In Liverpool.
We got fter playing their breathtaking set at The Cavern Club - one of the most iconic places in music history - The Playmakers seemed just as relaxed as at their first ever meeting...in a pub. Charlie and Will spent their younger years together in school played in the same local football team, and shared the same love for music so it was only a matter of time before they began to write songs. Basing their sound on the work of Bob Dylan, and running into problems with the lack of a deep American Voice & the two man set up, they wanted a drummer, Joe Drummer.
After meeting them on a music forum, skipping college and meeting up in their local pub Joe Arthur (Later Re-named Joe Drummer by his bandmates), then brought something unique to the band. His Cozy Powell influenced drumming. This teamed with Charlies driven chord based guitar, and Will’s unique Bass that makes The Playmakers sound so unique in todays musical environment.
But that’s not all of the band influences, the boys told us “There’s not really a lot of modern bands that we like, or listen to for that matter, so we’re always looking back to the 60’s and 70’s stuff, like The Jam, The Clash, Joy Division, and The Stone Roses too were a big part of our lives too” with musical influences like this, there’s no wonder the band are creating a hype wherever they go.
There inspirations don’t just end there though, the band told us what it was that inspired them to get into music in the first place, and it wasn’t just the shows, the bands, and the lack of effective modern music, Charlie told us exactly what it was: “uhm the dole probably, unemployment I think that’s the biggest thing when we met we (Charlie & Will) were both on the dole so we needed something to fill our days up with really, we are sort of angry young men going through different experiences so it was something to take our frustrations out on, and that gave us something to write about”
After writing some of their back to basics songs, such as ‘Shes a Mystery’ which is currently being used on a BBC Pilot show that is still in production, the band also love to do some covers at their live gigs, we wanted to get an idea of the types of ways that certain bands influence their music onto The Playmakers, and by listening to their covers you can hear the links. The members all have a different cover they love to perform, and their own reasoning’s aswell: “Will: well we practice in the garage so when we play Garage Land by The Clash it just feels right, we sometimes we play it live aswell” but for Joe, its a different story: Trouble You is my favourite one, it’s just mental drumming.
Playing gigs is something that the band are doing a lot of at the moment, with gigs set up across the south in the next few weeks, we will be seeing a lot more of them, but we wanted to know about how they feel when they are onstage, what it is that they enjoy, and what goes through their heads when they are onstage.
The band are now continuing a string of 50 gigs mostly in the South West, but are willing to travel anywhere to please their fans, for today’s meeting outside The Cavern Club the band have travelled for 3 hours, and this is just the start. Using Ed Sheeran’s determination as an example, Charlie says: “were at the stage now where i think we have good songs so its just about getting tiogehter, its just getting the gigging experience, i mean with each gig you do you get more experience than in 100 practices, we’ll see what were like after 50 gigs, do some recordings and were sorted, its just being able to get the money and getting it all organised- but theres nothing you can learn more from than playing gig”
The Boys Brand new single “The Boys From Up The Hill”and all the rest of The Playmakers Tracks are now available to download off their website:
http://theplaymakers.get-ctrl.com/#/
Dont foget, watch out for the band touring somwhere near you!
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