March 2014

March 2014

Contents:

Editorial



October 2013

October 2013

Contents:

Editorial

Our 10 October 2013 showcase

10-12 October
Norwich Sound & Vision 2013

DOE

Horse Party

The Mondegreens

Our next full gig –
Friday 13 December 2013

our 13th birthday and Christmas party

Drugstore

She Makes War

BUOYS



June 2013

June 2013

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 7th June 2013

Loom

Die You Now

Darwin & the Dinosaur



April 2013

April 2013

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 26th April 2013

violet violet

Cthru27

Arrows of Love

The Nightingales


Recommended:

April 2013 @ NAC



January 2013

January 2013

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Wednesday 23rd January 2013

The Joy Formidable

WE//ARE//ANIMAL


Recommended:

January 2013 @ NAC

21 January 2013, Blood Red Shoes @ NAC



December 2012

December 2012

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 14th December 2012

Cold In Berlin

Tortoise Family Connections

There's Someone In The Pond


Recommended:

December 2012 @ NAC



October 2012

September 2012

June 2012

June 2012

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 22nd June 2012

Yeti Lane

collider

The Thinking Men


Reccommended:

Norwich Arts Centre selected June 2012 highlights




May 2012

April 2012

April 2012

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 13th April 2012

Drugstore

Fiel Garvie

Port Isla




February 2012

February 2012

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 24th February 2012

Electricity in our Homes

Octagon Court

Invisible Cities




December 2011

December 2011

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 16th December 2011

Magoo

We Can't Dance

Khan

Tim Clare

John Osborne



October 2011

October 2011

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 7th October 2011

The Victorian English Gentlemans Club

Olympians

The Shadow Project



September 2011

September 2011

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 16th September 2011

Sarabeth Tucek

Alloy Ark

Rory McVicar


Reccomended:

BBC Music Video Festival

Norwich Sound & Vision convention



June 2011

June 2011

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 17th June 2011

Underground Railroad

Fever Fever

The Day The Robots Came




April 2011

April 2011

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 8th April 2011

Talons

Deers

Embarrassing Machines




February 2011

February 2011

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Friday 25th February 2011

Blue on Blue

C.O.L.L

Typewriter Radio




December 2010

October 2010

September 2010

August 2010

August 2010

Contents:

Editorial

Our next gig -
Sunday 1st August 2010
Waterloo Park Walkabout Our compere

Black Vox

Blue on Blue

Glory Glory

Hellhound Oconnor and the Winkles

KunK

Olympians

These Ghosts



June 2010

We Cut Corners
We Cut Corners © AAA Photos

We Cut Corners headline wombatwombat on Friday 14 September 2012 @ NAC

online tickets from the button at the bottom of this linked page.

We Cut Corners: for fans of…

Ryan Adams, brevity, The Walkmen, quiet, Titus Andronicus, loud, Joanna Newsom.

There's bound to be intrigue and possibly some confusion at the diverse style and delivery of your music – from mega-loud ranting and raging to lo-fi folk-tinged pop but always with killer singalong lyrics and the hookiest of hooks – how deliberate is this musical schizophrenia and what makes it such an enticing proposition that the people of Norwich really have to check out We Cut Corners live?

It's not deliberate at all – we really treat every song as an autonomous entity that is in no way obliged to sound like its siblings. When settling on the songs that would appear our album we could have picked 10 quiet songs but that wouldn't have been representative of what we do, hence the mélange.

During our live show, the quieter songs give the set an undulating quality and provide moments of respite amidst the faster, louder tracks.


Buy this gobsmacking album direct from The Delphi Label using this link

You're playing wombatwombat as one of a limited number of dates to help promote the UK release of your debut album, Today I Realised I Could Go Home Backwards, a year after it hit the streets in your native Ireland to critical acclaim and began a buzz on either side of the Irish Sea. Having already played well-received high profile showcases this year, eg Eurosonic, The Great Escape and Southsea Festival, what do you hope to achieve as a result of this current run of gigs…

We've found UK audiences really receptive to our songs and we're keen to make our visits here a more frequent occurrence. It's such a fertile environment for music and to dip our collective toe therein is a really exciting thing for us.

…and which tracks will be blaring in the tour vehicle for your road trip?

Bombay by El Guincho
Oh Sailor by Fiona Apple
Hold My Breath by Holy Ghost!
Psychic City by Yacht
Snowy Atlas Mountains by Fionn Regan

What inspires your songwriting and how do you share responsibility for music and lyrics?

Every song has a different genesis and gestation. Some begin as drumbeats, others as simple piano motifs, which gradually germinate into fully-grown songs. Being a spectator/participant to that germination is possibly the most exciting aspect of being in a band.

Which WCC lyrics best reflect John and Conall as individuals?

"It is a brave new age and I've been cowering in the corner" from Are You A Man Or A Mannequin?

Please tell us a bit about your amazing array of videos…

We've been terribly spoilt in having worked with some amazing artists who have shown incredible creativity, ingenuity and generosity in taking our songs and creating visual foils for them. They range from graphic, stream of consciousness animations to the more abstract, 3-D study of Polaroid photos by the German artist Axel Roessler for our song Yet.

Which other duos share some kind of affinity with WCC?

I believe we share a certain numerical affinity with the majority of musical duos.

What else do we absolutely need to know about WCC?

We wrote our first song together aged 19. It is a six-minute power ballad called Conall and John's Song. Shortly after its composition, we moved to Austria together to study and, instead of writing more songs to accompany it, we just played it over and over again. It's emotionally earnest, lush in its orchestration, formulaic in its movements and everything we've ever done since seems to be a reaction against and, simultaneously, irrevocably tethered to it.

It's puzzling.

Which other Irish bands should we tune-in to?

There's a guy from the south-west of the island called Deaf Joe who makes the most beautiful Sunday morning music. So beautiful, in fact, that we listen to him on other days of the week too.

Social media snapshot

Which social media do you use and how do you rate them in terms of the best way to promote your band, with 1 being the best?

Ranking

Social media

URL

1

Label's website

thedelphilabel.com

2

WCC website

wecutcorners.net

3

Facebook

facebook.com/wecutcorners

4

Twitter

@wecutcorners

YouTube and/or Vimeo We don't have our own channel but have found these media to be central to spreading word on the band.

Who cuts corners?

Conall sings, plays drums and sometimes keys.
John sings and plays guitar.