FLETCHR FLETCHR

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Fletcher Fletchr are excited to share their debut single, Jet Black via FF Records. Listen HERE

The young British guitar band waste no time at all in a breathless few minutes of melody-heavy, angular indie-rock. It’s a relentless statement of intent that threatens to take the roofs off the grassroots music venues that Fletchr Fletchr will be touring for the first time later this year, but with arenas very much front of mind.

To celebrate its release, the band will headline Camden’s Elephant’s Head tonight (5^th September), making it a trio of Camden pub shows following sell outs at The Hawley Arms and Dublin Castle over recent weeks.

The four-piece were formed by three schoolfriends (vocalist/guitarist Rohan Fletcher, lead guitarist (and Jet Black’s producer) Adam Sanders, and drummer Oli Williams who Fletcher and Sanders nabbed from another school band). The trio all chose to study at the same university where they plotted the plight of their new band together. Bassist George Green arrived when Fletchr Fletchr were already almost fully-formed, ushered on stage for a show merely days after joining. 

Naming your band after the vocalist follows a curious lineage (Van Halen, Florence & The Machine, Mumford & Sons, Ben Folds Five to name but a few), yet the actual reasoning is somewhat sweeter. Firstly, it’s in tribute to Rohan’s father, who passed away as the band’s biggest fan and source of encouragement. And secondly, when Adam moved into Rohan’s family home, working at their pub alongside Rohan, it was commented by friends that the pair had become almost inseparable, with Adam welcomed as a genuine part of the family Fletchr – and thus Fletchr Fletchr were born.

The very adult but relatable emotions of anxiety, love, and grief are already at the heart of what the band are writing their nascent songs about, and are quickly finding a kinship with their young fanbase by tapping into those themes. None of it goes hidden, instead rocketed out verbatim in these dizzying guitar songs. 

Jet Black is their opening bow <here>, which Rohan Fletcher explains,

“Jet Black was written when my girlfriend moved away to the city to start her career, and it felt like our relationship was changing in a way that felt out of my control.

“I feel like the backing vocals and the pace of the song sounds like shouts of heartbreak and should hopefully ring true with anyone who’s in or has been a relationship, as all relationships inevitably change over time.”