As you grow older it becomes harder and harder to make new friends. When you combine this with the mobility that many professional careers demand of people and the uprooting this leads to every few years, the job of finding solid social networks becomes even harder. This is the context in which the origins of this project are lodged.

We both moved to Birmingham to begin our PhD research in late 2019-early 2020 and met because of our shared love of Nils Frahm and eagerness to explore Birmingham’s music scene (in other words we both had no friends!).

Late 2020, after I had the luxury of moving back to my parents' house in Newcastle whilst Chee Man groveled in student accommodation, we moved into a flat together and into a second lockdown.

In attempt to stave off boredom and insanity during this period, we began to make lot’s of strange, ambient noises which we never thought would see the light of day. We grew increasingly attached to these noises and decided to spend the next six months arranging them into the EP ‘Dancing in the Dark’.

As Chee Man comes from a background of sound design and I from a more ‘traditional’, instrument driven background, much of the first six months involved negotiating how to write songs given our very different approaches. Following this we spent another six months thinking about how we could play them live and this is where we are today. 
Expect many more tunes that, I dare say, will be slightly less Avant Garde, have a greater sense of structure, and ultimately reflect the fact that we are no longer locked up inside.

A Loaded Gun Speaks is following

A Loaded Gun Speaks is not following anyone.