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Local Music: I Know A Ghost

Sunday, 28th August 2011 Written by: Tenacious T

Well here at Lincolnista we promise to bring you details of every single kind of music and I think that we really have brought you something different this time…

I Know A Ghost refer to their style as ‘metalcore’  and for those of you who haven’t heard it before you can most probably paint a mental image of what you would be hearing in your head and you might need a couple of Asprin afterwards!

Lincolnista sat down with guitarist and vocalist for the band Simon Pritchard, who also has his own musical side project which he calls ‘Fleets’. “I Know a Ghost is for your angry days and Fleets is an acoustic more mellow side of me coming out – my nicer days. Fleets has only been around for around a month and it’s just me. Like Alexisonfire and Dallas Greens City in Colour side project, it was kind of inspired from there”. I know a Ghost and Fleets styles really couldn’t be any more different. Fleets has only a single song so far and it is very chilled and relaxed whilst any of I Know a Ghosts repertoire is much more for the listener who maybe likes to have a bit of a head bang.

In the relatively short time that they’ve been around I Know a Ghost has garnered a good sized following locally and internationally and Simon seemed rather happy at the bands exposure and popularity; “We’ve been around since 2009 and yeah we’ve managed to get a fairly decent sized fan base. Our Facebook page has almost 9000 fans worldwide; our first EP went on sale on ITunes and sold well. Our first batch of T-Shirts sold out in less than a week. It amazes me that people in Australia are walking around wearing our T-Shirts, even more that I saw someone wearing one in Lincoln!”

The band certainly has a unique name and Simon revealed just where that name came from and much like his inspiration to start Fleets he was inspired by a band for the name; “The band were named from the song lyrics of one of my favourite bands; The Devil Wears Prada it’s a song called Danger Wildman.”

IKAG most recently played the Walkabout festival and are currently on a hiatus until October. “There were some questions about the future of the band but then I decided to carry it on.” If you listen and think they sound familiar then chances are you heard them on a night out at SCY.  “Mutiny have played our music when they were at SCY and we also played there earlier this summer”.

While most budding musicians would probably want every penny they could get, the band decided to go for a different, more fan friendly approach. They actually took their music off of ITunes and chose to distribute it for free which you can get through a link on their Facebook page. Simon and the rest of IKAG have had a lot requests to take their talents outside of Lincoln and even outside of the country; “We get a lot of requests asking us to go all over the world and hopefully one day we can do it but right now it’s a little out of reach unfortunately but luckily for us Lincoln is definitely in reach”.

So why not give I Know a Ghost a go and maybe if they aren’t your cup of tea give Fleets a go. As we say at Lincolnista, Lincoln will have something for everyone so why not give the band a try at their Facebook page?
http://www.facebook.com/#!/IKNOWAGHOSTOFFICIAL?sk=info