Winchester 7 & the Runners

There are a few bands who are naturally funny and professionally evolving themselves all over the world. The talented Winchester 7 & The Runners are one of them. Merging different styles of rock, having an unusual lineup as a band watching their humorous music videos they are beyond interesting. As they have their latest EP, Argos Holiday out in the open, we couldn’t help but setting up an in-depth interview with them and well, that’s where everything started to loose… 

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Garage rock outfit Winchester 7 & the Runners are a trio that recently stopped by MoggBlog to chat about writing processes, dream collaboration, their latest release ‘When the World Stops Spinning’ and how the internet has impacted the music business. 

To anyone new to your music, name 3 words that best describe your sound. 

Jack Kane: Indie 
Winchester 7: Ukulele 
Phil Voorhees: Rock 

What’s your writing process like? Do you write the music or lyrics first? 

Winchester 7: It always seems best when it begins…

The last time we wrote about Winchester 7 & the Runners was the album ‘The Forgotten World‘. Now, the unique one man band project released the new album entitled ‘Argos Holiday’. This album has 9 original tracks, well 7, plus 2 bonus tracks actually. As always, Winchester 7 is the man behind everything. Singing every lyric, playing every note, producing the whole project from top to bottom. 

This new album ‘Argos Holiday’, is filled with electric riffs, distorted guitars and even though this is a one man…

One of the first tracks that really caught my attention was "The Golden Age" 

This song starts with a cresending fuzzy electric guitar introduction that leads into the quiet but powerful halfharmonic vocals, the drums are simple but do the job of keeping the song in track. 

The electric guitar and bass work well together and the vocals remind me of very early pre2005 Arctic Monkeys songs. 

"When The World stops Spinning" feels like a Reytons track, also including the fuzzy rock sounds of "The golden age"…

Please introduce your band 

I'm Winchester 7 and am based out of Atlanta, GA. Our bassist, Phil Voorhees, resides in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and drummer, Jack Kane, is itinerant within the United Kingdom. We call our style indie ukulele rock as we're certainly indie; I play an electric ukulele, and we're much more of a rock band than the ukulele bit would seem to imply.

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