TTH Blueprint: On The Turntable — Marseille
Derby’s most exciting new band on songs, sound, and why making music you love is the only rule that matters
Derby. Post-lockdown. A Marseille tracksuit. And a band name that accidentally shares history with a 70s glam rock act featuring Neil Buchanan from Art Attack.
Only in football, only in music.
This month’s On The Turntable features Marseille — a young five-piece out of Derby with a sound that pulls from Madchester, Merseybeat, hip hop rhythms and Motown melodies, and somehow makes it entirely their own.
Lead singer and songwriter Will Brown sat down with Scott to talk craft, conviction, and why making music you actually love is the only rule that matters.
We talk about:
how Marseille came together after lockdown, built around friendships and an open mic find
why the band’s influences span further than most would expect — Motown, hip hop, Northern Soul — and how that ends up in the music
the songwriting process: from voice note rambling to bedroom production to handing the lads their parts
why a first album is always a band’s truest statement — and what goes wrong when artists try to second-guess it
the grassroots gig dilemma (yes, he went to Oasis, and he’s thought through the maths)
and a quiet exclusive — a new single, an EP, and what’s coming next
There’s a maturity here that you don’t always expect from a young band still finding their feet on the circuit. The songs come first. The sound is genuinely theirs. And the conviction behind it is real.
And if you want the exclusive? Hallelujah My Baby Is Free is out now — the first taste of their upcoming EP The Sun Will Shine Again. Will Brown told us before anyone else. You heard it here first.
Find Marseille on Instagram and Facebook: @marseilleband and Marseille - Band on Youtube
Worth your time. Worth your 10 quid at the door when they roll into a venue near you.
Watch on YouTube | Listen on your favourite audio streaming platform:
https://player.captivate.fm/episode/ee08cacf-f461-4ec3-b2c6-ba62a4ca5c70/
Music · Indie · New Music · Derby · Marseille · On The Turntable · Grassroots Music · EP Release