Words by Alice Hoddinott
ELITE:UPRISING
now) at such a young age really
helped me realise I can achieve
anything I want regardless of
any misogyny in the industry.
Hailing from the underdog talent capital of the UK,
Brighton, Evertim are feeling better than ever about
their place in the scene. We had a chat to the band
just after they got their first ever Radio 1 play, and
it’s safe to say they’re a pretty happy bunch!
Who are Evertim and why should people check you out?
We are a high energy four piece emo/pop punk band
from Brighton. People should check us out because we
put a lot of passion into our live shows and our band
name is a meme.
Your latest single ‘Knots’ got a spin from Daniel P
Carter on Radio 1. How did that come about?
Georgia: Ben and I were lucky enough to meet him a
couple of months ago and gave him a copy of ‘Learn
to Swim’. He was such a lovely bloke! We didn’t think
much of it and in April released our Split EP with
Fruitcake. Anyway he tweeted us saying that he was
going to be playing ‘Knots’ on the Radio One Rock
Show. Pretty mad!
Having a female rhythm section makes you guys
a rarity in the business. How do you feel about
representing women in rock and do you feel there is
enough talk about this kind of girl power?
Georgia: Personally, I feel that I had many idols to
look up to in terms of important women in rock when
I was growing up. It sounds lame but being exposed
to someone like Avril Lavigne (even if she’s terrible
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Ben: We are a band that’s
focused on making the best
music we can, and when you
listen to our music you can’t
really tell what gender or lack
of gender the musicians are, nor
should gender really influence
the listeners’ enjoyment of our
songs. Having said that we don’t
hide from the fact it is quite
uncommon in our scene to have
boys and girls in a band and
it’s something that should be
encouraged, we think it’s great if
we can promote that.
Wildcard question: it’s October 31st 2017 and
Evertim are throwing a huge Halloween party.
Where do you hold it, who do you invite and what
do you go as?
Alex: Half of Evertim adore Paramore. We had this
chat recently that we’d dress up as them (Riot! era)
and do some covers. And yes, this means I would be
dressing as Hayley.
Phoebe: I would like to invite all the Stranger Things
kids because they are the coolest!
As young musicians in a thriving scene like Brighton,
where do you draw inspiration from so that you
stand out from everyone else?
Ben: Though most of our music is written by one
person, I’d still like to think: we don’t really attach
ourselves to a genre, we write the kind of music that
we’d like to listen to. And our inspiration comes from
a range of bands like Jimmy Eat World, The Story So
Far and Paramore.
What does the future hold for Evertim?
Phoebe: We’re hitting the studio next month to
record our new EP with Neil Kennedy (Trash Boat,
Boston Manor, Milk Teeth) and we’ll have some more
announcements coming soon.
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