Hinds

Patterns, Marine Parade, Brighton, Friday, February 26

RIDING a wave of hype and screeching guitars, over the past year the world has not stopped turning for Hinds.

The all-girl garage rock four-piece from Madrid in Spain have spent the last 12 months embarking on their first world tour and making their way into critic’s choice lists across the globe.

“The whole year has just been absolutely non stop,” says Ade Martin, bass player.

“We have not been home yet and it has just been very intense, very good, with crazy, crazy touring. Only now is it all starting to finally make sense”.

Formed in 2011 as a duo called Deers with duel vocalists and guitarists Carlotta Cosials and Ana García Perrote, after a brief hiatus they began to make their first waves in March 2014 with the single Demo.

After the addition of Ade on the bass and Amber Grimbergen on the drums, Deers became Hinds at the start of last year after a threat of legal action from Canadian indie rockers The Dears.

But after the name change the band’s momentum shifted up a gear and as they hit Thailand, Australia, and the United States before spending the summer building a following at festivals across Europe.

Now with big name drops from the music pages of The Guardian and video hosting service Vevo it seems Hinds could be on the cusp of something big.

“Every step we make sometimes you have second thoughts,” Ade says.

"It is not that we do not want it. But as with everyone in life when you take another step there is point in your brain when you start to doubt.

“But when one of us starts second guessing all the others come together. Every couple of days one of us is more tired than the rest, missing home more than the rest, or more hungover than the rest and that is when you are relying on the support of the other three to pull you through because we all really like what we are doing.”

Hinds will be performing at Patterns on the Brighton seafront as the last date on their UK tour before jetting to Europe and America only to be back in England for festival season.

Having spent the last year pin-balling around the world, Ade says “We were friends before but this kind of friends.

“It not because we are special but the tour life is impossible to understand unless you have lived it. There is a kind of connection which brings the band members together.

“Of course sometimes you hear stories of it ending up horribly with some bands, but it is very powerful experience.

“You know the other people so well, you know what they want, and it makes this union so much stronger and it makes everything greater.”

But the non-stop touring has meant Hinds have not been focusing on producing new material as Ade admits “we do not write on tour”.

She says “When you are on tour you are really tired and there are not many chill moments, you do not have time to really sit down and write some things.

“Those sorts of moments are when you are at home at the rehearsal place and there is nothing else in your mind.”

Hinds have a close relationship with their home city of Madrid and its close knit garage rock community, but it is connection they try to rediscover in the cities they visit across the globe.

“Every city is special for us, but Madrid is just something else,” Ade says, “The more we go out in the world and talk, eat, party and drink we just feel more connected to it.

“There is something about the way people are there and everywhere we go we realise how special it is.

“Touring is more like you just get to a city, you get to the venue, soundcheck, do interviews for half an hour, chill, go to the stage, party for a little bit, then you wake up and then you are in another city - that it is what it is every time.

“We started doing this thing on the tour where we go jogging every morning and it is more to see the city than to feel fit.

“Having half an hour not to care before thinking ‘oh my god I am in another venue’ is nice.

“But we get to know the cities more with the people who come to our good, the way people act, look at us, talk to us after our shows and the way we get along, it is so different between every city and every country.”

Henry Holloway

Starts 7.30pm, tickets from £10. Call 01273 894777