With the stench of the fishing industry looming over what was voted the “grimmest place to live in the UK”, an inspiring scene was bustling under the movement of deprived musicians, at the end of the M62, where nothing, ever happens. Out of this highly underrated and undiscovered music scene, The Talks emerged in the summer of 2006. Since then, they have been at the forefront of the city’s music scene, selling out shows with their unique bass driven, reggae/punk influenced sound.
Given the public’s response, the band decided that with little money, they’d set out touring all over the UK and Europe, in an effort to put Hull’s music scene on the map. Surviving the mud stained UK festivals like Glastonbury and Leeds/Reading, spending many cold nights in the back of the van, plus numerous encounters with the AA along the way, the tour continues.
Over the last two years, The Talks have become known by some, to be a band with a social conscience; writing songs about current topical issues and playing shows and guerrilla gigs to support causes that all four members believe to be essential aspects of modern life.
The band continues to record in their bedroom studio, with a very DIY approach to creating their music; producing and editing their own videos and starting the label ‘All our own Records’.
With the first single ‘Picture this’, selling out in the shops within the first week, achieving playlists on radio stations, and in clubs nationally, the band decided that the second single, the darker, grittier ‘Killer Sinner’, should encompass the bands frustration towards the increasingly apathetic, UK music scene.
‘Killer Sinner’ is due for release at the end of February with The Talks debut album on its tail!