Review Fix Exclusive: Novacrow’s Kitty Staunton Talks ‘Fight the Horde’ and More

Review Fix chats with Kitty Staunton, lead vocalist and guitarist for Novacrow, who discusses the band’s origin, standout work and goals for the future.

Review Fix: How did the band get together?

Kitty Staunton: Jonyx and I formed Novacrow at the end of 2013 and we met Federico and Torben when relocating. I think we were all drawn together by a mutual love of acting like complete idiots onstage and the fact that we’re four of the most uncool people in Liverpool.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Staunton: For most of our songs, including all of the material on our new EP, the tracks have been ones I have primarily written, which we have then tweaked and altered as a band. Usually I get an idea of a melody in my head before picking up the guitar and then focus on a phrase or theme for the lyrics.

Review Fix: What’s your standout song?

Staunton: It would probably be Fight The Horde!!!, which was released as a single and is featured on our new EP Black Syrup.

I think it gives a good indication of our sound, as it has heavy riffs, big choruses and has the sort of tongue-in-cheek horror vibes that we all love. It is one of my very favourites to play live. Plus we have a really cheesy zombie music video to go alongside it, which just makes me enjoy the song even more.

Review Fix: How was it written?

Staunton: Fight The Horde!!! came together incredibly easily. I already knew exactly how I wanted the choruses to sound when putting together the demo. I’d had the idea for the melody whilst walking and actually stopped to record the tune on my phone. The main and intro riffs were actually variations on an instrumental track which I had written years ago.

The lyrics are light-hearted and fun. I love zombies, so wanted to work this into a track. The storyline of the song is loosely based on The Last of Us (such an awesome game!), following Joel and Ellie’s relationship.

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2016?

Staunton: We have our EP, Black Syrup, coming out 12th of March, which I am extremely proud of. We’ve organised a huge launch party show, with bands, burlesque and zombie face-painting for everyone (more info www.novacrowofficial.com/ep).  Following that, we’ll be playing a host of gigs across the UK. Our primary objective as a band is for world domination. Whilst I appreciate that we may not achieve that in one year, we hope to seduce as many people as possible with our tasty music and orgasmic live shows.

Review Fix: How do you want your music to affect people?

Staunton: In my opinion, there is nothing better than a kickass live show and ultimately we want people to WANT to come and see us. We put at least 169% into every performance and aim to make each one as memorable as possible. I want people to leave a Novacrow show chuckling to themselves and thinking ‘Holy shit! That was so much fun.’

Also, whilst there are plenty of absolute firecrackers, there is a weird lack of female musicians in the rock and metal scene overall. I think if I could inspire even one badass girl to pick up a guitar that would be the ultimate personal achievement for me.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Staunton: Gigs, gigs and more gigs! On top of that, we have a new music video scheduled and we will be focussing on spicy new material. Make sure you come and catch us at a show near you.

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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