CPI Archive 2008: Northern sounds: In music, timing is just about everything. As they prepare for their moment to shine Andrew Hamilton chats to Sanzkrit frontman Dave Marron, the latest offspring of the new northern scene.
FEBRUARY 2006, and the world begins to spin for Sanzkrit. Tipped by Hotpress and others as one of the hopes of the year, the Monaghan four-piece seemed on the very cusp of something. An EP was released and well received, and all seemed just right for take-off. But even then, as the buzz began to gather around them, the band showed that most unusual of characteristics, patience. Still adjusting to life as a four- piece, somewhere deep inside the Sanzkrit psyche they knew that the timing wasn’t right, they just weren’t ready. Their time would come, but just not then. “Yeah, that EP was the first thing that really launched us nationwide and a lot of things started to kick off for us from there. The reviews were positive so we knew that we were moving in the right direction. There was a bit of a buzz in the area with bands like The Flaws starting to get a lot of interest from record labels who were coming to the shows. We were playing at a lot of those shows with The Flaws so instead of splashing out and getting a loan to record an album then, we decided to hold out and see would a deal come through. We held back from doing it all DIY at that stage. I guess we were very young and we didn’t have the fan base. I think it might have been a waste at that time, you know, we didn’t want to record an album that people wouldn’t hear. We want- ed our debut album to be special and the last thing we wanted was for our first real piece of music to be falling on deaf ears,” said Dave.
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