Review Fix Exclusive: Winter Hotel’s Charlie Wignall Talks Band’s Origin And Goals

December 14, 2020 Patrick Hickey Jr. Music 0

Review Fix chats with Winter Hotel’s Charlie Wignall, who discusses the band’s origin and goals for 2020.

Review Fix: How did the project start?

Charlie Wignall: The band started when Liam (guitarist) and Warren (vocals) met in a pub in Bangor, UK in 2017. Once they realised they were both musicians they immediately started bouncing ideas off each other, and then brought on 3 more members to begin ‘Winter Hotel’. The band has since gone through a couple of lineup changes, introducing myself filling in for drums and James on bass. 

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Wignall: Songs will start off by both Liam and Warren sharing lyrics and writing pretty much a 50/50 split of all the band’s lyrics. Liam will then lay down some chords for both me and James to follow and work on. We have a complete mixture of influences from each member of the band, which results in a blend of genres of metal, which is what we believe makes our sound unique.

Review Fix: What’s your standout song? How was it written?

Wignall: Our stand out song would probably be ‘Exit Strategy’, it’s the first song Liam and Warren wrote and performed together and has stayed with us since. It tends to be quite a crowd pleaser too, being one of our heavier songs.

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2020?

Wignall: With not much of the year left and COVID-19 still kicking about, our only goal is to keep ourselves busy with what we can. During the pandemic this has included releasing 3 singles, while also doing other bits in the background. We really hope to be gigging next year though, there’s a gig shaped hole that needs filling.

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

Wignall: I guess we want it to do two things. Obviously we have some louder, more brutal and thrashy parts to our music which can have a result on audiences, we’ve had circle pits and walls of death before. We also try to present lighter parts to our songwriting, with deep meaningful lyrics and clean, delicate guitar.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Wignall: We’re always working on something these days, but shortly we’ll be releasing part IV to our 5 part collection titles ‘Vacancies’, with part V following up. You can find chapters I, II and III on all major platforms as well as YouTube.

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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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