Single By Sunday heed advice from someone Special
EAST Kilbride’s Single By Sunday have taken on some Specials advice.
The four-piece pop/punk rock band are managed by Kendell Smith, who recorded and toured with The Specials in the mid-90s, and have benefitted from the experience of both Smith and his ex-bandmate Neville Staple.
"He told us we should keep our energy level full throttle," frontman Josh Ladds said.
"We take our influence from early Specials shows we’ve watched online. We just want to write songs that we can jump around to, and hopefully everyone else will want to jump around to as well."
"Kendell always says ‘gig like your life depended on it,,,but have fun’. We met Paolo Nutini at the Nordoff Robbins Scottish Music Awards and he said he liked our energy and hunger. He said that it was OK for us to make mistakes, so long as we learnt from them. He was such a nice man to meet. We were slightly in awe of him."
Ladds joined forces with bandmates Jonny Eakins (guitar and vocals) Jack Black (vocals and bass) and George Wilson (drums and piano) to create the band in July 2015 and they already command an enviable social media following, with 59,000 Twitter followers and rising, 21,130 Facebook likes and 4000 YouTube subscribers.
The band list a wide range of influences such as The 1975, 5SOS, Paramore, Green Day and the list goes on. Comparisons are already being drawn between SBS and the likes of McBusted and The Vamps, while their fans call them the "Glaswegian 5 Seconds of Summer."
"We don’t mind that at all," Ladds added.
"They’re all great bands doing what we want to be doing; touring, recording and entertaining their fans."
The band, who have released two EPs to date – Get Up Get Out and Atom Bomb – and further details on their next EP will be released in the coming weeks.
They will be headlining The Tunnels in Aberdeen on Friday December 2 and will be at Inverness’s Ironworks on Saturday January 28 supporting Mumbai Science.
