NewDad on their cowl of The Treatment’s ‘Simply Like Heaven’ and touring with Luke Hemmings

NewDad spoke to NME at Glastonbury 2024 in regards to the main milestones they’ve reached this yr, in addition to trying in direction of their subsequent steps as a band.

Vocalist and guitarist Julie Dawson and bassist Cara Joshi caught up with us backstage, shortly after they carried out at Woodsies on Sunday (June 30). Their Glasto look adopted an enormous few months for the Galway band, who grew to become NME Cowl stars forward of the January launch of their acclaimed debut album ‘Madra’.

In Could, they launched into an “sudden” tour with Luke Hemmings. The 5 Seconds Of Summer time frontman just lately launched his second LP ‘Boy’, and NewDad opened for him throughout a slew of UK and European dates. The expertise, Joshi defined, was one which not solely had a private significance, but in addition led to the band being uncovered to a brand new viewers. “We’re each 5SOS followers, so it was a lot enjoyable to tour with Luke,” Joshi stated. “It was unusual and so thrilling.”

Joshi additionally recommended that, for Hemmings’ largely teenage following, seeing NewDad dwell could have supplied them a gateway into shoegaze music. “I really feel like there have been individuals who had been like, ‘I don’t often hearken to this kind of music and I don’t know who you might be [as a band] however I need to discover it now’.

“Often, while you’re a help band, individuals don’t pay an excessive amount of consideration to you,” Dawson added. “However these followers had been displaying up so early and appeared so excited by our music. They had been actually eager to see us and made such an effort.”

She continued: “It was additionally a possibility for us to play to a unique kind of crowd in comparison with what we’re used to – a wholly new demographic. They had been manner youthful, and appear to expertise live shows differently. It was so particular.”

On stage at Woodsies, the Galway band carried out a cowl of The Treatment’s ‘Simply Like Heaven’, which just lately did the rounds on social media after turning into a staple of their dwell set. Their gloriously trustworthy tackle the monitor led to a Twitter observe from Robert Smith, Dawson stated. “There are such a lot of wonderful songs by The Treatment that we may cowl, however all of us gravitated in direction of that one. It’s enjoyable to place your individual spin on a track, and hopefully we do it justice.”

Additionally they hinted at what the remainder of 2024 holds for NewDad, together with their first dwell reveals in Japan this October, alongside beginning work on their second full-length album. “We’ve been doing a number of writing. I don’t suppose we’ve actually found out the place we’re going however we’ve got a number of nice songs that we’re simply attempting to nail down,” Dawson stated of album two.

“We’re so busy with dwell reveals in the mean time however hopefully after Christmas we will get again into the studio. We’re writing some actually good tunes. I’m so, so excited for the following step.”

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