An Insight Into The Night Cafe

With all of the artistic prowess and creative majesty as the man himself, Vincent Van Gogh - these boys know how to put together a track ~ what will TNC surprise us with next?


A multitude of singles and EP's followed by the announcement of a heavily anticipated debut album has given us an exciting few awe-filled years. If previous releases are anything to go by, or even a glimpse into what's to come, then we're in for a treat.

The upcoming album will no doubt be teeming with mesmerising 'sound track of your day' tunes that you'll eat, sleep and breathe - there's no humming or hawing with these boys - they get the job done and do a bloody good one at that...

I recently had the pleasure of having a chat with Carl from the band, with the opportunity of asking a few questions to gain a deeper insight into the indie-infused quartet.

Here's what he had to say...


Okay so, the band name - did you get it from Van Gogh's painting?

We had to change our name for copyright reasons. We had a bunch of names that were contenders like 'The Blue Velvet Cafe', haha imagine that. We were looking at names of songs, books, everything that could be a band name really, and then one of the lads said ' The Night Cafe' and was like it's also a painting by Van Gogh, so from there on we just stuck with it.

An Interview With BLOXX

Following their huge performance at Manchester's Castlefield Bowl, frontwoman Fee agreed to a little interview with myself to get more of an insight into the immersive world of BLOXX...

Q: As a band, who is your biggest musical Inspiration?
A: For me, it's probably got to be Bombay Bicycle Club, Jeff Buckley, and at the moment from Indian Lakes! I really like all of these artists and what they've done/ are doing for music. Creativity is key I guess.

Q: Do you have any plans in the works for albums or ep's? 
A: We are working on a big piece of work at the moment yeah!

Q: What is the best concert you've played to date?
A: I think maybe Community Festival or Reading and Leeds last year. Both crowds were great. We've had some good shows in the last year especially!

Castlefield Bowl: Sounds of the City 06/07/2019

Venue: Manchester's Castlefield Bowl
Capacity: 8,450
Status: Limited ticket availability 


A monster of a line-up accompanied by some rare Manchester sun combined together made for a night to remember. Previous performers of the festival have included, Catfish and the Bottlemen, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Noel Gallagher, The Last Shadow Puppets and The Courteeners.


The lethal combination of high stakes adrenaline fuelled fans, three-person shoulder situations and half-full cups of mystery liquids resulted in a (very wet) bruised ridden night of concert antics. The entire crowd raved and screamed back every lyric verbatim to every song, jumping and thrashing around without a care in the world. Bumper cars and walking disasters in a ocean of sweat and booze - Wombats fans are the craziest of them all.

Our current modern glitch meant that hundreds of phones were constantly in the air capturing every second, every strum, every lick of the drum, every syllable expelled by Murph, all of it on permanent record to be reminisced - there's a certain beauty in being able to relive moments such as these...