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Nasty Cherry: Officially XCX-ellent

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31 Jul 2019 • 10:23 am

What qualifies as ‘hype'? Selling out your first ever show? When you have no songs out? And Charli XCX is your biggest cheerleader? And your main goal is to take over the world? All of those things are true of Nasty Cherry, who debuted in March with ‘Win' – a groovy, ramshackle, fuck-it song, co-written by HRH XCX.

So we gave the Cherries a ring, two of them, drummer Debbie Knox-Hewson and bassist Georgia Somary are in London, and the others, frontwoman Gabby Bechtel and guitarist Chloe Chaidez are in LA. They're chaotic in the best ways, and we've only seen the start of it.

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Nasty Cherry are about to drop their new single 'Her Body', written with Charli XCX

Nasty Cherry are about to drop their new single 'Her Body', written with Charli XCX

The band have a new EP coming up, which you can read all about in the April issue of Dork.

When we call, they're gearing up for their second show in New York, but what went off at the elusive debut? "It was fucking fun!" Chloe says, "We had no clue what to expect, we somehow sold out, with not a single song out in the world. I don't know what people came for; it's just a curiosity, so all of us were curious as to what was going to happen."

"Honestly, it surprised me, Debbie, I can fucking tell you that," Georgia replies.

The result was a new band to believe in - a Spice Girls/Runaways crossover with plenty a banger to release.

"We all knew Charli individually before becoming a band, to different degrees," says Debbie. "So I was her drummer for like the last five years, Chloe is another band called Kitten, and we toured with Charli as Kitten. Georgia is a really good mate of Charli's from London, and Gabs was in one of her music videos. So Charli hit us up individually and was like you know I wanna start a girl band, I wanna put together a girl band that's gonna take over the world, so that's what we're all tryna do. What a soundbite, God."

Obviously, some of the members had more experience making music than others. "Georgia's in it for the culture. She's learned bass to be in the band, I love that," says Debbie.

"You know what though, you know what, it's fun to sound like a band with good self-expression through it," Georgia replies.

But that's Nasty Cherry's whole ethos. Just doing it because it's fun. They want to inspire girls to pick up an instrument and just DO IT. Be confident, don't give a sod what anyone says, don't worry if you're good or not, HAVE FUN.

"If there's any young female musicians, or even non-musicians, I hope they create music with their friends if they feel like it, with their female friends, and I want girls to feel inspired to come together," Chloe adds.

Chloe adds, "I feel like when writing with Georgia and Gabby who've not done music in this way before, it's still refreshing, because for me, when I write a song, I have a lot of anxieties that come along with that, just because I've been doing it for so long. I'm like ahh is this the one? And Georgia and Gabby just sing melodies as they come into their head. It's really beautiful. They bring such a beauty to the project."

"I think I could get choice paralysis when it comes to writing and I could sit on an idea and then think about it and overthink it", Debbie says about writing ‘Win'. "Working with Charli, she's like a top line genius; she's like yep, that's good, do that again, we'll double that, and that's done, let's move onto a chorus. It was super fast, which is really exhilarating. I didn't really have time to doubt the song's potential or whatever, so I think that was the first song that came together fully. It felt right that it would be the first single."

So far, there's a new single on the way, it has a video, and they haven't decided what it's called yet. There's an EP on the cards, and lots of work with ‘exciting people'.

Taken from the August issue of Dork, out now - order your copy below.

Words: Abigail Firth

And that's reflected in the kind of music they're releasing. ‘Win' and ‘What Do You Like In Me' are the only songs we've heard (unless you've been to a show, of course) and showcase very different vibes for the group. Apparently, what's to come is a big mix too.

Chloe adds, "I feel like when writing with Georgia and Gabby who've not done music in this way before, it's still refreshing, because for me, when I write a song, I have a lot of anxieties that come along with that, just because I've been doing it for so long. I'm like ahh is this the one? And Georgia and Gabby just sing melodies as they come into their head. It's really beautiful. They bring such a beauty to the project."

"I think I could get choice paralysis when it comes to writing and I could sit on an idea and then think about it and overthink it", Debbie says about writing ‘Win'. "Working with Charli, she's like a top line genius; she's like yep, that's good, do that again, we'll double that, and that's done, let's move onto a chorus. It was super fast, which is really exhilarating. I didn't really have time to doubt the song's potential or whatever, so I think that was the first song that came together fully. It felt right that it would be the first single."

So far, there's a new single on the way, it has a video, and they haven't decided what it's called yet. There's an EP on the cards, and lots of work with ‘exciting people'.

Taken from the August issue of Dork, out now - order your copy below.

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