# The Slow Readers club. 25.8.22

- Link: https://newcastlegigs.com/the-slow-readers-club-25-8-22/
- Published: 2022-09-15T15:03:00+00:00
- Author: nails

Fresh from a recent tour supporting The Pixies, and on the cusp of their own European
tour, there seems to be no let-up for Manchester’s The Slow Readers Club.  Damian
Robinson caught up with Aaron Starkie to find out more about the bands tour and 
upcoming new music.

Hi Aaron, The Readers were read hot on their recent tour with the Pixies and the
Newcastle City Hall was full up with Readers fan for your support set.  Did you 
enjoy the tour?

Thanks, yeah we really did.  We don’t do too much support work but when it’s a band
like The Pixies you have to pinch yourself that you’re working with such an iconic
act.  We learnt so much from being around and watching The Pixies, like how the 
set changes each night and sometimes even in the moment, so that’s great to be around.

It must be pleasing when you play support and a lot of the audience have come in
early to see you?

It’s great yeah, we’re really lucky because some people have seen us play numerous
times and they’re really loyal to the band.  We really appreciate that and it’s 
always great to see people in and listening to the support act at shows.  That’s
really important to the health of music.

And you’re getting ready for your own tour now, how’s that going?

Really good.  We’ve done a number of shows this year and we feel we’re playing well
so that makes touring much easier as you’ve got good momentum.

There’s talk on your socials of new music being written and recorded at present,
is that true and can we expect new material soon?

The new album is pretty much all done but I’m not sure we’ll play anything from 
that on this tour, that might be it’s own thing entirely.  But we are planning to
play a lot of the lesser played songs on this tour so that’s exciting to us and 
hopefully gives the audience something new before they hear the new songs.  So we’re
planning to play songs from B-sides and non-singles to keep things fresh and interesting
for us and the audience.  Then we’ll do the new music on future tours.

And being a northern band is there anything special about a North East and a North
West crowd?

We always have a good time when we play in the North, including Scotland, and sometimes
the crowd just seems rowdier.  There’s a Scottish lad who tends to come to our North
East shows and always have his top off, without fail, and it just seems like Northern
crowds are happy to go out and enjoy themselves and we hope we can help people have
a good night.

The Slow Readers Club play Newcastle Student Union on September 16.

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