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The Rills have shed a skin or two to reach this point, on the eve of their effervescent debut album ‘Don’t Be A Stranger’. Produced by Dave McCracken (Ian Brown, Sports Team, The Snuts), ‘Don’t Be A Stranger’ sees these three young friends take the untapped energy that made them viral sensations of the grassroots scene and direct it something more heartfelt.
Mitch Spencer & Callum Warner-Webb met in their native Lincoln as young teens, losing their spare time in a skate park. A few years later, that same urge to kill smalltown boredom saw them pick up guitars and start jamming together. A brief stint living in Sheffield chasing some of that Arctic Monkeys magic saw them soon return home to university where Essex lad Mason Cassar joined.
They didn’t have a lot of choice when they came out of uni, hungry to make a break when COVID shut the world down. “We were just a little idiot band,” admits Spencer. The band quickly found themselves with millions of likes on TikTok, thousands of streams, and a healthy following on social media. “All of a sudden, it blew up, we had fans and we were talking to the NME.”
“For a lot of that early period, we were writing hype songs; we were writing songs for people to fall in love with the moment,” says Mitch. “But now, we want them to fall in love with the songs.”
Mitch Spencer & Callum Warner-Webb met in their native Lincoln as young teens, losing their spare time in a skate park. A few years later, that same urge to kill smalltown boredom saw them pick up guitars and start jamming together. A brief stint living in Sheffield chasing some of that Arctic Monkeys magic saw them soon return home to university where Essex lad Mason Cassar joined.
They didn’t have a lot of choice when they came out of uni, hungry to make a break when COVID shut the world down. “We were just a little idiot band,” admits Spencer. The band quickly found themselves with millions of likes on TikTok, thousands of streams, and a healthy following on social media. “All of a sudden, it blew up, we had fans and we were talking to the NME.”
“For a lot of that early period, we were writing hype songs; we were writing songs for people to fall in love with the moment,” says Mitch. “But now, we want them to fall in love with the songs.”
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