Field Music To Take Hiatus; Start Side Projects

One third of Sunderland band Field Music, David Brewis, is to launch a new side project with School Of Language a band made up with collaborations with fellow North-East musicians.

With Field Music set to embark on a UK tour followed by North American dates in March they have already planned a break once the tour is complete.

The main reason behind the hiatus says Brewis is to reinvigorate the bands creative juices after they’ve been sucked out of them promoting the latest album ‘Tones Of Towns’.

He told Pitchfork: "Even rehearsing for us is not a particularly creative experience-- it's an interesting problem-solving challenge.

“We make good music, and it's quite enjoyable for performance, but it's not usually creative. When all of that time goes out, we realized that we don't get a lot of time to spend writing new music or having ideas percolate.

"So the ambition for all of us for the months after March is to find ways to get into the habit of being creative...All three of us have got quite a bit of stuff which is just not Field Music. So we're going to have to find other ways to do it."

Speaking about his own new project School Of Language he says that he’d prefer people not to think of it as a band at all.

"People think of a band as being a set of people, and I'd prefer to think of a band as being an idea, like a set of rules or a concept that works in one way.”

“That can change over time, but it's not entirely dependent on the people who are doing it."

Collaborators are to include Futureheads’ drummer Dave Hyde and bassist David 'Jaff' Craig along with Craig’s girlfriend, the former Kenickie guitarist Marie Du Santiago.

"I'm going to get them to do some singing for us, because Marie’s got a really beautiful voice, and Jaff is really good at harmonies, and I just want to get some other voices on there” said Brewis.