GAZELLE

Gig date: 15th December 2018 

Dryden Street Social, Leicester

Words: Greta Kaur-Taylor

Photography: Greta Kaur-Taylor

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Gazelle are a band that will have you dancing into next week and after watching them play to a packed out Dryden Street Social on a cold December night, I have no doubt about that.

We first heard about Gazelle when we were reading the newspaper and stumbled across a piece written about them talking on the bands success; if almost by magic I got a message asking if I was going to their headline show, a day later and an interview is arranged and now here we are.

This is a band that knows how to own a stage and the crowd lapped it up, beer spraying everywhere lads sitting on the barrier loving it, until being told to get down. Gazelle are a band that are only going to continue to grow and thrive as people start to crave that indie rock sound from the past. Here’s what we said on a cold December’s night in a Leicester beer garden.

The band recently had acclaimed ‘This is England’ and ‘Boardwalk Empire’actor Stephen Graham star in their music video, when we got chatting to the band they said “We was in Nottingham to watch Noel Gallagher and we happened to get talking to some bloke at the bar who was mates with him, and he said he’d have a word with him. So we just took it with a pinch of salt. Then we got an email a couple of months later not knowing if it was legit or not. We thought it was fake until we met him, we thought it could be someone taking the piss. It was really good”

We also bought up the topic of their headline show that night and how they felt about the current climate of the music scene that they are in, they said “There’s not many bands that I would see particularly at the minute, but that is sort of why we do It. I think the scene is changing a bit now, it’s got the kick up the arse that it’s needed.”

Gazelle are a band that have been floating around in the scene for the past year or so and they have undeniably grown and flourished as band.

Frontman Ryan Dunn says “We did the 02 academy last year and headlined that and we had a big turnout then, but I think we didn’t have a real follow up to it. It’s been a case of actually locking