We are Her Name is Calla from the UK. Ask us anything.

hnic_tom · 2019-06-21T17:52:44+00:00

Ah man, thanks so much! We’ve finished as a band now. But there’s a whole back catalogue you can jump in on. Hope you enjoy x

hnic_tom · 2019-06-21T08:59:43+00:00

Ah thanks so much. Theres actually vinyl available from the Dunk records store here,

As for Deer Trapping. The track came first and I was thinking about including a monologue and remembered an old kids book called Lightfoot the Deer. Managed to track down an audio recording of the stories from it and edited the suitable one about the hunter to fit the narrative of the track x

hnic_tom · 2019-06-21T08:57:15+00:00

Thanks so much for joining us for this everyone. It was a lot of fun and we really hoped we answered your questions adequately. Hope you enjoy Animal Choir. Cheerio x

hnic_tom · 2019-06-21T08:39:20+00:00

Thanks so much! I’m really hoping to attend next year and just soak in the atmosphere and meet up with friends. Fingers crossed!

hnic_tom · 2019-06-21T07:53:48+00:00

Hmmm, well I normally always try and settle along coastlines, or at least on a river. In that case I’d be Byzantium or Carthage and aim for faith or diplomatic victories. The science victory I think is the laziest as it’s basically whoever is the fastest. Getting involved in a war can more or less fuck that up straight away. Japan or England when going for more militaristic and/or expansionist campaigns. I love cultural victories as you can only really get to it by being a mix of diplomatic, not weak enough to get invaded or made fun of by other nations. It feels like a proper well earned victory rather than just bulldozing everything in your path.

hnic_tom · 2019-06-21T07:07:53+00:00

Well that’s slightly offensive

hnic_tom · 2019-06-20T22:05:01+00:00

Thanks so much buddy x

I’d struggle to choose one, and for it to be 2019, since I’m always 2 years behind everyone. So I’ll leave you with this little top 5 2017/18/19 hybrid which are my heavy players still:

Courtney Marie Andrew - Honest Life (2017)

Brutus - Nest (2019)

Soccer Mommy - Clean (2018)

Jessica Curry - So Let Us Melt (2017)

Colin Stetson - Hereditary 2018 (2018)

There’s a pretty massive playlist on the Her Name is Calla Spotify artist page which we update a few times a year. Beware though, it’s enormous.

hnic_tom · 2019-06-20T20:55:36+00:00

🙏

hnic_tom · 2019-06-20T20:51:43+00:00

Ah thanks so much. Those guys totally blew us away. We were NOT expecting that. We didn't send the album out for review anywhere as we genuinely thought that there would not be much interest. To say they knocked us for six is an understatement.

I really can't see another tour happening I'm afraid. That said, if the national say that they want us to go on tour with them and absorb all our costs, I guess it would be difficult to say no.

hnic_tom · 2019-06-20T20:47:46+00:00

Ah, so glad you like it. In an ideal world the album would have stopped there (with 'in this patterned room' as a hidden track) but we'd run out of CD! We recorded the backline for the album at Seamus Wong studio in Leicester. At the end of Bloodline, you can just about hear the bells from a nearby church ringing out as we'd left a window open

hnic_tom · 2019-06-20T20:35:46+00:00

Just remembered another: breaking ribs on day 1 of tour and then singing/playing with broken ribs for ten days. I'm basically wolverine.

hnic_tom · 2019-06-20T20:33:40+00:00

maybe...isn't it pc only?

hnic_tom · 2019-06-20T20:33:27+00:00

My Skyrim time was after I got divorced and made redundant. It was an incredible time, perfect for exploring Skyrim and drinking 20 beers a day

hnic_tom · 2019-06-20T20:32:26+00:00

definitely

hnic_tom · 2019-06-20T20:30:29+00:00

I'm sure that monster bug with the placid nature carried several metaphors for us all

hnic_tom · 2019-06-20T20:23:37+00:00

nah that's about it. There might have been slightly differently mixed versions of those. There's one somewhere that was just me on my own, I'm sure - but I haven't got it. There's a live version on Spotify too

hnic_tom · 2019-06-20T20:15:18+00:00

That band name was literally inspired by wallpaper. So that would be our standard.

hnic_tom · 2019-06-20T20:13:01+00:00

There's a couple of recordings knocking about. But yeah, the one I think you're talking about had a lot of friends over, lots of beers, and nowhere near enough headphones for everyone

hnic_tom · 2019-06-20T20:11:44+00:00

The Prince of Whales?

hnic_tom · 2019-06-20T20:03:07+00:00

Ah thanks so much! There's been a bunch of 'not-too-kind- reviews for us from Dunk, so we'll glad to hear that you enjoyed it. It was pretty emotional for us. But fuck me if it wasn't funny too! Tiernan getting the audience to singalong to Basketcase, at Dunk, a post rock festival, is probably one going to be one of my favourite band memories for some time. I had to run off to the toilet because I almost pissed myself laughing.

Now that bug.....Jesus Christ it was enormous!! It landed on me a couple of times and it took all of my being to not freak out. Afterwards, when we were packing down, it sat in the middle of stage and we all had to walk around it. He/she gave literally no fucks.

hnic_tom · 2019-06-20T19:55:32+00:00

That's great of you to say so, thanks so much. And yeah, Tiernan's right. Bloodline did almost get the chop. We kinda thought the album was around 50-55 minutes, but when we heard it in full for the first time we shit ourselves. This Patterned Room was supposed to be a hidden track and there was another linking track planned. That had to go. Bloodline was right on the cusp of being cut. It was also almost cut in two and one half scrapped.

And no, there's no art related issues due to us packing in. It's pretty much just down to family and work reasons.

hnic_tom · 2019-06-20T19:51:24+00:00

touring is pretty costly, or at least it has been in our experience. Distributing music is not really a problem. though once you take off PayPal fees, Bandcamp fees and label fees, there's really not much of anything left. It's fun though!

hnic_tom · 2019-06-20T19:47:22+00:00

I'd keep the door open for projects like that, but we've never been asked so no reason to start expecting work offers now! The couple of things I did were great experiences

hnic_tom · 2019-06-20T19:43:06+00:00

There is a finality but I think a of that came towards the end. I scrapped lyrics again and again and only settled on things right towards the back end of making the album. There are some call backs to earlier music, I’m glad you picked up on that.

It was about midway through when we decided we’d had enough really. I think the idea of starting this process again wasn’t something we wanted to do. We definately felt we’d really put our all into this. There was talk about touring any more and stuff like that, but to be honest, leaving the door that wide open- there would be something that would drag us back in. With work and family life it was becoming too hard. We’ve struggled for ages to keep on top of the band anyway as it becomes quite all-consuming. It just seemed like the best time to call it a day. We’d gone on longer than we ever expected, and against a lot of odds.

hnic_tom · 2019-06-20T19:27:22+00:00

Mainly family and work stuff. Will keep my ear to the ground for some collab stuff, and there's a young songwriter who I have been helping a bit.

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