Jake Lipiec 
Super proud to have joined the Snareweight family! These incredible little tools have been a huge part of my sound (if you haven’t heard them, think the wallet, but better) since one decided to come home with me after a show in Manchester, way back in 2016. I took my snare out of its case and there it was, magnetised to the bottom rim. Thank you to whoever setup my chance encounter, it’s still with me today!
These photos were taken by Tess Janssen at Grauzone Festival, June 2022.
I am very proud to announce that I have joined the Big Fat Snare Drum family. I can’t think of a show or studio session over the past few years that I haven’t used their remarkable tools.
These photos were taken for BFSD in Jackson, MI, as a man in a trilby shouted over to me “everything’s vibrating, that’s the rhythm of the universe”.
86 dates, beginning in New York for a sold out Union Pool, then to Austin, TX for five shows at SXSW, a Europe tour, America tour, Barcelona for Primavera and carrying on around Europe for shows and festivals with Thurston Moore and DIIV, Canadian festivals, New York at Baby’s All Right, European festivals, finishing up back in New York for a final show in Rockafella Plaza – what a summer!
America, 2022. Kodak Tele-Ektra 32 on expired 110 film.
Europe, 2022. Kodak Tele-Ektra 32 on expired 110 film.
Drums, percussion and production for ‘Goodbye Suzie Q’ by Evan Torrente.
Drums and percussion for ‘I’m Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me’, the debut LP from King Hannah.
King Hannah’s debut album, I’m Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me, presents a group whose hearts belong to the American South, projecting their songs onto a desolate desert backdrop of broken-down blues and voodoo grooves.
Pitchfork
Read the full Pitchfork review here.
The lyrical openness is backed by Whittle’s dark and bluesy backdrops, which range from lo-fi to cinematic but are always underpinned by an unshakeable groove.
The Fader
Read the full The Fader review here.
Drums and percussion for All Being Fine by King Hannah.
“Flickering between stark realism and offbeat humour, expect tales from the Wirral Peninsula set to Americana desert sprawls. A Well-Made Woman sits somewhere between Mazzy Star’s sultry folk and Tom Waits’ sparse bar room theatrics”
Hero Magazine
Read the Fader review here.
Read the Paste review here.
Drums and percussion for A Well-Made Woman by King Hannah.
‘A Well-Made Woman’ finds Whittle’s dexterous scorched guitars decorate voodoo rhythms, while Merrick’s deeply sinister and darkly sardonic vocals slither and deliver a twist in the tail. “I wanna be a mother one day…something tells me I’ll be waiting a long, long, long time”.
God Is In The TV
Read the Stereogum review here.
Live Stream performance with King Hannah for Grauzone Festival 2021.
