Hucknall band 'The Black White' release their first single

A band formed by a Hucknall student have released their debut single.

21-year-old Joel Goddon started 'The Black White' earlier this year and their first track 'landslide' hit all major music platforms on the 21st May.

Goddon who fronts the band and plays guitar also wrote the hit which he describes as having "a lot of garage, rough punk, rock energy to it."

"I'd been playing guitar already for maybe a couple of years now but in lockdown, I just started getting a few riffs, a few chords, a few ideas, recording them all on my phone and then trying to piece them into songs. It wasn't like a calculated writing process but it was just a case of throwing things together and seeing what sounded right to me, what sounded good.

"Especially when I was starting off with this sort of thing a lot of what came out of it was happy accidents or I'd get an idea, and I'd set my phone up and I'd sing it wrong or I'd play it wrong but from that maybe something even cooler would come from it. Or I really liked that one note or that one chord that I went to instead by accident and I'd be like well you know what I'll change that, I'll use that instead.

"So a lot of it was very much a learning process and kind of no structure or anything behind it but I just spent a lot time with my own thoughts, trying to put that into writing."

Goddon, who is currently in the final stages of completing an undergraduate degree in music at Nottingham Trent University, then hand-picked the rest of his band with Tom Owen-Anthony, James Lane and Joe Dodd selected to complete the line-up.

"It's not a group of people that would have met in any other circumstances or would have come together in any other set of circumstances; it was finely picked," he said.

"Tom, who's playing bass, I've known him for quite a few years now, great all round musician, great engineering head on him as well as a great producing head. He played a massive part in that sort of thing, trying to recreate the sort of sounds I was trying to recreate from albums I loved and stuff like that so Tom was a no brainer.

"Same with James, when I was first trying to do this sort of thing and I was putting my name out there on a join my band website, and I came across him through that, we've been good mates ever since. The feel that he plays with, the sounds he creates, the atmosphere he creates doing that was just exactly what I envisioned for this band. Finally, Joe on drums, I'd known of Joe doing some stuff locally through uni for a while. I approached Joe and he seemed really up for it, ever since we've been rehearsing, he's a really solid player."

'Landslide' is a lively, heavy piece that sits comfortably in the rock genre. Goddon sites 90s American grunge band Nirvana as one of his main influences and that comes across in the lyrical delivery and energetic guitar driven impulses that permeate the track. However, it is far from a copy of or tribute to the late Kurt Cobain. The effervescent drumming performance brings a heavy metal quality and coupled with the slightly political lyrics that are a "bit of a jab at the people in power who we put our trust into," make it a nod to great punk bands of the past such as The Sex Pistols. All of this give 'The Black White' their own unique but distinguishable sound that should help them to stand out in the crowded market place that is the music industry.

The band have their plans for the immediate future already laid out according to Goddon:

"We've got another song coming out in the next couple of months so that's exciting and from then onwards we've got seven or eight more songs to get recorded. The plan is to go in the studio, record two songs at a time and just keep drip feeding them for as long as we want to. We've got eight or nine songs fully written and rehearsed so we'll just keep going and just keep releasing stuff."

The band have in the last couple of days also been confirmed to play at Splendour, Nottingham's annual music festival held at Wollaton Park, on Saturday 24th July. They will play The Courtyard Stage at the event, which is being headlined by Richard Ashcroft and Supergrass, marking the most exciting chapter of the band's existence so far.

If you want to find out more about The Black White visit their Facebook page by clicking here .

To listen to the band's single 'landslide, click here .