Cheap Feel: Wesley Gonzalez (Vocals/Guitar), Jenny Green (Vocals/Guitar), Callum Duffy (Synthesizer/Piano),Gwen Reed (Vocals/Bass), Jack Blenkinsop (Drums/Percussion)
Cheap Feel are a new band hailing from London, born out of the ashes of Wesley Gonzalez & Wild Garlic, primary songwriter Wesley Gonzalez has released 3 solo records and during the touring of his 3rd album Wax
Limousine put together a backing band consisting of Jack Blenkinsop on Drums, Callum Duffy on Keyboards, Jenny Green on Guitar/Vocals and Gwen Reed on Bass/Vocals. Throughout the touring cycle the assembled band grew tighter as musicians and closer as friends, they started to feel more like a
legitimate band rather than a solo artist’s backing band. Wesley Gonzalez Explains “After leaving my first band in my 20’s I swore I’d never enter into that dynamic again due to infighting and dysfunction, but whilst
touring my 3rd solo album I felt I was starting to struggle with the idea of being a solo performer. I felt so close with my band, who at the time was going under the name Wild Garlic, and realised the wealth of talent I was
lucky enough to be touring with. I felt that the next project should reflect that, leading to the birth of Cheap Feel”.
Cheap Feel started recording in a renovated church studio in Ramsgate with Producers Jamie Neville and Ben Romans-Hopcraft at the helm. Taking influence from 1980s sophisti-pop such as Prefab Sprout & XTC,
1970s New wave from the likes of Devo & the B52s and a host of other influences ranging from King Crimson to Aretha Franklin the songs differed from Gonzalez’s solo work after taking a new approach.
Gonzalez Explains “ I feel the main difference between what I was doing on my own and now with Cheap Feel is the songs aren’t from my own point of view, of course some of my thoughts and feelings seep through but the majority of this new work with Cheap Feel is written under the guise of different characters, which also lends itself far better to having both Jenny and Gwen take the helm as the lead singers over myself”. The recordings were finished off with Saxophone and Flute being provided by Fat White Family’s Alex White. The Lyrics take on modern day capitalism, struggling in a world that has priced the younger generations out, leading to the name Cheap Feel “the state of the current climate means you often feel cheap” explains
Gonzalez “and the most you can hope for in this day and age is a Cheap Feel” other subjects tackled in the new songs Cheap Feel were working on include the January 6th storming of the capital, esteemed 1970s Film Directors, SSRI medications and competitive couples comparing Honeymoons.
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