Bicker

My twin sister and I learnt to jam together when we were 10 years old and have never stopped since. From entering music competitions, playing at local pubs, clubs and festivals, to touring a new city for University, playing weddings and getting onto main stages at festivals! We have gone through the learning phases together, the whole way! Learning to be on stage, to speak in front of crowds and to play our music together- all the while being 11 and 12 years old! 15 years on and we think we may have gotten the hang of it! We host open mic nights, we help encourage budding musicians to get up and give it a go, and we absolutely love jamming together! We have similar and differing music tastes, so our sets cover a range of genres. We write our own stuff together. There’s nobody that knows the other more, so when writing songs about our experiences, we’ve got two sets of opinions to input into the piece. (As well as potentially bicker about it!) Our Dad comes from a rock and roll background and our Mum comes from a choir and brass band background. We have had an unreal amount of influences when it comes to our music. We’re so lucky to come from such a musical family! From our parents giving us our first guitar and drum kit, and progressing onto many (MANY) different kinds of guitars and learning how to play a cajon. Although we have put so much effort and hard work into our music, we did want to get our degrees too. Molly has a BA Honours degree in French and Italian with TESOL and an MA in linguistics. Lucy has a BA honours degree in Education with Psychology and Counselling and an MSc in Psychology. Music is where our hearts are though. We play out instruments together and we harmonise. We can communicate through music. We know each other inside and out when it comes to playing live. We play the likes of folk, pop, rock and indie covers and originals. We like to be experimental and we love to push ourselves. We have learnt songs in Hindi and Bengali for Refugee Service events, the Mela Festival and the Bangladesh Awards. We first started learning these languages at University when we joined the Indian Society and sang with them for the Sheffield Hallam Festival. It opened a whole new avenue for us! We love to play the big events with lots of people, of course! But we also love those small intimate, unplugged gigs where we can really meet the owners and audiences of the venue. We’ve played music together for most of our lives, we’re not planning on stopping any time soon!