Road To Bloodstock 2022 – Mother Vulture

It’s that time of year where we set out to interview as many of the Sophie, New Blood, and Jager bands as we can in the lead-up to one of the most anticipated festivals of the year, Bloodstock. Answering our questions here are Mother Vulture who play the Sophie stage on the Thursday.

Simple things first – where are you guys from?

We’re based out of Bristol, but we’re from all over the place really. Georgi’s Bulgarian, and the rest of us are from various places up and down the country.

How long have you been playing together as a band?

We met at Uni, and started writing music together about 7 years ago, but didn’t actually start playing together as a band until the start of 2019 really. We’d done a few shows here and there with different drummers, songs and styles. But decided we wanted to make a proper go of it about 3 years ago. So in 2019, we played as many shows as we could fit in, and when word started getting around that we’re a bit nuts, people started wanting to book us more, which was great! Because all we wanted to do was play shows. It’s still all we want to do really.

Where does the name of the band come from?

The name actually comes from our original drummer. We were doing some work at Rockfield studios, playing for some student recording sessions and talking about the classic re-brand that so many young bands go through haha. To be honest, at the time, ‘Mother Vulture’ was just the least awful name that he’d come up with. And we were all a bit fed up at that point and so just decided to go with it. We hadn’t even thought about the fact that we might end up touring under that name a few years down the line. We’d not even released a song yet!

Describe your music. What makes you unique?

We like to think our music is a somewhat accessible mash of styles, which is kind of hard to pin down. It’s mainly just hooky riffs, but then sometimes things get a bit heavier than you might expect, especially in our live set. And then some of the new stuff we’ve been working on is dare we say, leaning on the pop side of things…mainly in the sense that they’ve got big hooky choruses. We’ve all got pretty different tastes, and that comes through in the music. We like to think there’s something for everyone in a MV set, because we just write the music we want to listen too.

What’s your live show like? Why are people going to watch you instead of another band?

It’s chaotic to say the least, haha. Our live show is always pretty different, depending on the venue, stage size, what there is to climb and how easy it is to dive headfirst off stage. But there’s always a ton of energy, doesn’t matter if there’s 2 or 2000 people. We like to keep things interesting…sometimes we even surprise ourselves with the stupid stuff we come up with on stage!

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Have you played Bloodstock before? If so, when?

We were meant to last year, but Covid took us all down and we were devastated. But this year nothings going to stop us, and the shows going to be even better. In 2021 we’d not gotten to play together much, but now we’ve got a spring/summer of touring and festivals under our belt and a bunch of new tunes which we think the Bloodstock crowd are really going to dig.

How/when did you find out that you’d be playing the SOPHIE stage?

We found out early 2021 we had a slot on the Sophie stage, which of course we didn’t get to play. Which was both hilarious and very painful, as the day of the show we were getting messages from people showing photos of a massive crowd and saying things like “look at all these people waiting to see you!” and we’re just lying in bed with Covid crying, like we’re being mentally tortured from hundreds of miles away.

What sort of setlist can we expect?

We try and tailor our set lists to suit the crowd, so for Bloodstock you can expect the heaviest set we’ve ever played. And it’s only a short one, so it’s going to be foot to the floor, dropkick to the face and ear- punishingly intense. If you’re into that kind of thing, which we’re thinking the Bloodstock crowd just might be. Definitely going to be pulling a few new and old tracks out that we’ve either not played much before, or in a long time.

Which other band do you most hope you’re not clashing with so you can see them play?

Seeing Lamb of God would really scratch a childhood itch of playing Laid to Rest on Guitar Hero 2, aside from that Sleep Token are probably our pick of the Festival!

What are you working on at the moment?

We’ve got a lot of new music coming, which is so close to being done, and us being able to talk about it in a more. But we’re pretty excited about it! Aside from that, we’re focusing getting back out on the road as much as possible, which is for the most part going well! Despite the many, many obstacles bands are facing at the moment making it more difficult and expensive to get out on the road. But nothing’s going to stop us!

What’s the wildest thing you’ve seen or done at a live show?

If it’s a list of stuff we’ve done, it would be pretty endless. We’re very silly and are always getting up to shenanigans. Mainly breaking bones and getting down in the mud. Recently Brodie fell backwards head first off the stage at Bristol O2 when we were supporting Reef. Less wild, more stupid haha.

There was someone hanging upside down from the ceiling like Spider-Man in a very small, very hot, packed out venue which there’s a video of somewhere. Always gives us a laugh to watch that back.

What drink do you throw back to get yourself fired up before going on stage?

Water! We have to fill up our reserves before we sweat it all out on stage. We might grab a beer or a box of wine mid set, but that’s usually to throw over the crowd, so watch out!

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