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Jamie Ainslie
JAMIE AINSLIE

Former frontman of Hartlepool band Aces & Sinners,
Jamie Ainslie, tells us about his new release, Recover

amie starts his new musical venture
with a departure from heavy rock
Jmusic and has shifted towards a some-
what folk acoustic core with a collection
of songs influenced by artists such as Oa-
sis and Frank Turner. Prior to “Recover”,
Jamie’s releases have been through Aces &
Sinners EP’s Feel the Fire (2015) and Aces
& Sinners (2016) respectively. The power
trio’s achievements include finishing run-
ners-up at the Soundwave Music Com-
petition in 2015 and performing for JAR
Music Live’s “Ones to Watch” showcases,
both of which took place at Newcastle’s 02
Academy.
from that vision and then it ended up
Inspiration: developing towards more mental health
Well, I began working on the track a themes, whether it was intentional or
couple of years ago in my old flat, I unintentional I genuinely can’t remem-
had a bit of a goal to try and make an ber! I know there can be still a bit of a
acoustic track I had never considered stigma behind that sort of thing but the
trying before. The original concept I had track isn’t necessarily from a gloomy
for the track was envisioning it being a perspective, if anything it’s trying to find
soundtrack for a film scene, where a char- an upward inflexion throughout. The re-
acter is hungover in their house and they curring theme in the verses is essentially
are just slowly bringing themselves back highlighting the bad times that everybody
from the dead the next morning, with the goes through in life whether it being
song being played quietly in the back- breakups, grief or just general low moods.
ground. So when I started writing it, the The idea when writing this sort of thing
lyrics were loosely based on describing down was to reiterate in such scenarios
exactly that, which I guess is where the that time is a healer, there is a light at the
song title and the chorus came from. end of the tunnel, a lot of things can iron
themselves out and for people to look
Over time the lyrics began to shy away forward.
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