Some ’90s rock bands reunite for pay to play festivals or alternative rock tours. The original members of Sixpence None the Richer got back together just to make music again.
as a singer Leigh Nash and guitarist Matt Slocum Tell advertising billboardBehind the Setlist podcast, the band members’ lives happened to intersect again for the first time since 2002. rosemary hill The EP was released on October 4th via Flatiron Recordings, and the band is currently on a US tour that will end in Los Angeles on December 15th.
“Leigh and I started writing new music during the pandemic,” Slocum said. “Dell [Baker]our drummer, started lending a hand. He comes to Nashville regularly as he still works as a session musician in town and in his hometown of Durham, North Carolina, and he tours quite a bit.
Soon after, Nash, Slouch and Baker were talking over dinner about making music together. That conversation led Nash to contact bassist Justin Cary. “It ended up being very serendipitous,” Slocum said, “because he and his wife owned a bakery in Albany, New York, and they decided to close it.” Nash called to ask Cary if he wanted to do it again Making music, “he was ready to jump in.”
To be honest, Rich Man’s Sixpence never really went away. The group’s 1998 breakthrough single “Kiss Me,” which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 the following year, was streamed 70 million times in the U.S. last year and had nearly 48,000 radio plays, according to Luminate Second-rate. The song has also been featured on TV shows, including a 2016 episode The Simpsons — can recently be heard in BLACKPINK member Lisa’s new song “Moonlit Floor,” which uses an interpolation of “Kiss Me” and takes its title from the song’s lyrics (“Kiss me, under the milky twilight / Lead me out on the moonlit floor”).
Nash hopes “Moonlit Floor” will help the band attract new fans and introduce them to rosemary hill To the younger generation. “I’ve seen a huge increase in the number of people and followers on our social media platforms, and there’s no doubt that these are young people. So I’m excited to be able to impact a new generation with the new music that we’re putting out. It’s going to be A crazy blessing.
“It’s so cool to see how it connects with people around the world and makes a generational leap,” Slocum added. “Moonlit Floor” songwriters Ryan Williamson and Jessie Reyez chose to use “Kiss Me” to “show that it’s timeless,” he said.
Listen to the entire interview with Leigh Nash and Matt Slocum to learn more about the writing and recording of the show rosemary hill EP, performing again for the first time in over a decade, covering The La’s “There She Goes” and meeting The La’s frontman Lee Mavers in London in 2015. Go to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeart, Amazon Music, Podbean or Everand.
