Witchingseason - London's Quintessential Music Professionals

Tom Reynolds - Guitar/Vox

If you have an appreciation for real, determined, grungy and qualified rock music then, ladies and gentleman, we present to you, Witchingseason.

We caught up with the band last week at London’s The Islington, to see what all the fuss was about and can gladly report that the hype is completely founded.

Born just last year, Witchingseason have honed an expert skill of performing dark, gruff and passionate songs to an incredibly high set of standards. These guys know how music should sound both artistically and technically and strive to ensure that this is delivered on stage.

Spiders, is a key specimen of dirty guitar perfectly unified with those gruff vocals which will identify this band immediately for years to come. Impressively both factors come from leading man Tom Reynolds.  

The band's various influences scream through most of their tracks but perhaps no where more than in our favourite song from Witchingseason , The Healer, which channels Queens Of The Stone Age but with a grittier dimension which only a British Hard Rock band could add. That extra darkness really works and we've been singing those tiny high lines for a week.  

Wayne Summers - Drums

Honestly, it feels a little odd seeing Witchingseason on a stage of this size because they could, and should, be playing bigger. But one of the wonderful things about this band is that they are so focused on the music and getting that sound out that I genuinely don’t think they realise how big the venue should be. It’s a hard thing, to be a new (ish) band in London, but if you're going to do it…do it like these guys do. With the utmost respect for music, the willingness to constantly progress and blot out the schmoozing where you can.  

James Willans - Bass

The most remarkable thing about this band by far, is that it’s a work in progress. So much so that there was a song on the set list that drummer, Wayne Summers, could only refer to as ‘New One’. That excites us more than anything else because if this is what they're producing now then the future is going to be all kinds of amazing. 

Check out Witchingseason's Facebook here and listen to a few of their tracks on their Soundcloud here. Let us know what you think of them in the comments below! 

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