Luna Pines

This week, Leeds-based duo Luna Pines had a chat with our friends CLOSEUP for our Artist Spotlight feature. They discuss their favourite highlights, top three festival picks and more.

Luna Pines, it’s great to have a chat! We love your music as you well know. Tell us about your highlights of the last 12 months?

Thank you! We’ve been gigging loads playing some really cool shows and a couple of sold out London headline shows which were great. We’ve also been releasing some new music which got picked up by Spotify on New Music Friday, Hot New Bands and a tonne of other huge playlists which was amazing for us. We’ve also been working with some super cool people and trying to cement ourselves in London since moving from Leeds last September. Since then we’ve been writing ALOT and have about 50 new demos that we’re working through!

What part of the musical process do you enjoy most, and why? is it performing live, creating your tracks or..?

I’d say live is the best part. It’s just this feeling and atmosphere around live music that is hard to explain but is just so amazing. You also get to play with great bands you’ve often not heard of and make new friends in the same world which is cool too. So many of our gigs with bands we’ve not heard of have ended in us collaborating with for a song or two which is really nice.

Your tunes have been listened to thousands of times across the world as Spotify informs us, Spotify is now such a big player in the industry, how important do you think it is for acts?

It’s number one for sure. That and live are the two most important things now. I work for a big indie record label myself and I know that your Spotify monthly listeners are the paramount stat people look at first when checking you out. It’s unfortunate that that often determines whether or not people will hit play, but that’s just the way it is and we like the challenge to be honest! Spotify is such a great way to discover music and we’re very lucky to have gotten such a great amount of love from them!

If you created a Luna Pines Festival, and could pick three headliners, who would you go for?!

Ooooo good question. I’m going to go with Tycho, Julien Baker & a band called Ruby Haunt who made my favourite album of last year called ‘The Middle of Nowhere.’

How have you been coping with this COVID-19 nonsense, tell us how it’s shifted things for you as a band and the live side of things especially?

We’ve had to obviously shift back live dates we had planned, which is annoying but not the end of the world and does give us more time to refine the set. It’s such an awful situation but I count myself very lucky to be part of the privileged few who have a space to write music and stay inside with a job I can work from home, so you can’t really complain. Other than that we’re not letting it get us down – our next single ‘The House We Lived In’ comes out May 29th and we’re super excited for that. Not to do too much self-promo haha but if you’d like to Pre-Save it you can here: https://smarturl.it/le18eo