In late 2009, Kilmaley music blogger MP3Hugger releases the 21st album in the two- year history of Indiecater Records. To celebrate the milestone, Andrew Hamilton chats to Utah folkster Adam Sanders, one half of Adam and Darcie.
The city of Provo in the state of Utah, population 117,592. Home to Rock Canyon, the Osmonds and Brigham Young University - the largest Mormon finishing school on the planet. Yep, it’s a long, long way from Clare to here. But not so long, it would seem, for Clare music blogger MP3Hugger. His latest release, ‘California Trail’, features Provo’s finest, Adam and Darcie. “It all happened in a really cool way. A few months ago, we were playing a few shows with one of the bands that we really like here in the States, The Very Most. They mentioned that they’d been working with Indiecater Records and it all happened from there,” says Adam. “It’s a really great label. As we learned more about the other bands on Indiecater and got to know the MP3Hugger and his approach to things, we liked it more and more. He’s got a really natural, relaxed way of doing things. We were close to finishing the album and were wondering how to get the music heard outside America - Indiecater was brilliant for doing that for us.” Adam and Darcie features Adam and his partner Darcie, along with an ever-changing collection of band members. It can be a good thing and a bad thing. We have so many friends who are so talented. This is a big university town and a lot of people tend to come and go. So the people we play with are always changing. People might be here for a few months and then they turn up on the west coast or the east coast. Most of the writing for the songs comes from myself and Darcie, but the band adds an awful lot, especially when we start looking at the live side of things. Because the people are always changing, it’s always exciting, there’s always a breath of fresh air being put into the songs,” said Adam.
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