We caught up with Henry Lewis from Manchester based quartet Sauce about their single release. The band released There's a Fool today, a day before their headline This Feeling show at Jimmy's, with support from Gathering Of Strangers and The Wired it's set to be a good night.
Give us a little background on Sauce, how did it all start
up?
We’ve been knocking about for a few years now in one form or
another. Our singer Dean joined at the start of 2017 and since then we’ve been
adapting to his frequent head loss and fucking mad vocals, but the tunes have
definitely improved since he came onboard.
Tell us about your new track! When did you write it?
It’s been our set opener for a while now, collectively one
of our favourite tunes. On a personal level, it’s about grafting your bollocks
off (which all musicians do) in the hope someone will dig what it is you’ve put
your heart and soul into. Wider than that though it’s all about the bullshit we
all face in our day to day lives but how we handle it by letting go at the
weekend. This one, like a lot of our tunes, was a collaborative effort with Deano
writing the verses and Henry writing the chorus. It’s an absolute beaut.
Where did you draw your inspiration from lyrically?
Answered above sorry ha!
How would you describe your sound? When I saw you live a few
months ago I got 70s rock and roll vibes, is this intentional?
Yeah man, I guess it’s partly intentional and partly
natural. When you’ve got a singer like Dean, there’s no other way to go than
massive guitar parts and drums otherwise the tunes would sound daft. George’s
drumming is pretty unique and adds a bit more groove than maybe some of our
biggest influences had in their tunes,
but the main focus of any of our tunes is the riffs, we’d be nothing
without them.
How would you say your music differs between recordings and
live performances?
I think on our latest record ‘There's A Fool’ we’ve managed
to bridge the gap much better than in the past. This is definitely down to
Greaves who recorded us in Leeds and Bradford, he’s a fucking wizard and has
finally managed to make the instruments sound as ‘real’ as possible, something
we’ve definitely lacked on some of our earlier tunes.
You’ve got your gig at Jimmy’s with This Feeling on
Saturday, Black Thorn Music Festival and Liverpool Calling, any more gigs and
festivals lined up?
There’s definitely some stuff in the pipeline, of which I’m
not sure we can discuss yet. The main focus is getting this tune to as many
ears as possible and then cracking on with releasing the E.P. and smashing
festival season. There’s gonna be some mega gigs to talk about soon though, let
me tell you that.
What else are you working on at the moment?
We’ve got a four track E.P coming out later this summer
which we can’t wait for people to hear. There’s definitely a fan favourite on
there in the form of 'Give Up Everything', but all four tracks are absolutely
class. It’ll be a proud moment when that comes out, and we know people are
going to dig it.
What bands in the underground scene are you digging at the
moment?
White Room are on a different level, as are The Blinders -
we definitely take a lot of inspiration from those two bands. Also, watching
Avalanche Party live in Edinburgh earlier this year was a highlight.
Who are the bands you grew up listening to that made you
want to become musicians?
Arctic Monkeys, The Beatles, Oasis, Pink Floyd, The Cribs,
The Rolling Stones, The Stone Roses,
Black Sabbath, Kasabian, The Black Keys, The Smiths, Led Zeppelin, (I
just wanted to be one of) The Strokes, Queen, Peace, The Libertines… If they’ve
got riffs, we wanna be them.
The track is a banger from the moment it starts, the instrumental introduction instantly reminded me of a lot of 70s prog rock bands (e.g Rainbow, UFO etc) when Dean's voice comes in it only amplifies this old school rock and roll sound. The energy is intense throughout the entire song, it's definitely one that would leave you sweaty and exhausted after a good boogie watching it live. What I like the most about this track is how it high lights each instrument at some point throughout. When you watch live performances of bands from the 70s there's always some mad solo or a really strong instrumental part that makes you just stop and think 'man, THAT'S rock and roll!' and I feel like we don't see very often anymore, but when listening to There's a Fool there were sections of the song that reminded me of that.
The track is a banger from the moment it starts, the instrumental introduction instantly reminded me of a lot of 70s prog rock bands (e.g Rainbow, UFO etc) when Dean's voice comes in it only amplifies this old school rock and roll sound. The energy is intense throughout the entire song, it's definitely one that would leave you sweaty and exhausted after a good boogie watching it live. What I like the most about this track is how it high lights each instrument at some point throughout. When you watch live performances of bands from the 70s there's always some mad solo or a really strong instrumental part that makes you just stop and think 'man, THAT'S rock and roll!' and I feel like we don't see very often anymore, but when listening to There's a Fool there were sections of the song that reminded me of that.
Interview by Holly Beson-Tams
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