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Tommy Lefroy on their new tour, the origins of their name and the indie artists they love
Feb 9, 2025
At Barn on the Farm festival in Gloucester, we had a chat with Tommy Lefroy just after their afternoon set.
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Tommy laphroa thank you for joining us
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and having a little chat how is your
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Festival season going so far
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it's good this is our first Festival of
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the Season nice it's a good place to
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start we are just getting started on a
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UK tour so this is like our first stop
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yeah
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nice and did you enjoy your performance
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yeah it was really fun there was a lot
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of wind everyone was having a good time
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yeah it was really good and what are
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your first impressions of farm on the
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farm I mean we love Yeah and we've been
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here and it's just it's a really good
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space for artists like the community
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it's it's such a chill place it feels
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like it's a good place to try new
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material and we just completely reworked
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our lives at this is our first time
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playing it oh nice it's the best place
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to do it yeah it's just really Community
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focused and a really positive chill
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environment it is yeah that was some
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hardcore fans in the audience I filmed
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like this huge guy getting on his friend
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so did you see him yeah he's amazing
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yeah they're awesome I think they were
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at our set last year too awesome it's
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really cool to see them but you might
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not have seen he tried so many times to
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get on his friend's shoulders and I
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filmed each take it was brilliant yeah
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sometimes it takes like a real like yeah
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[Laughter]
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um okay and for those who don't know can
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you talk about your name and where the
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name Tommy laphroa came from yeah yeah
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so Tommy La Frey is kind of an Ode to
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Thomas laphroa who is the alleged
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Heartbreaker Muse of Jane Austen so the
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idea was kind of like it's like a
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non-deflum of sorts and also we're both
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writers and there's this sort of Trope
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of the sad you know heartbroken female
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writer we thought it would be funny to
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sort of embody the other side of that
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being the one that got away and so that
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was kind of a character really taking
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out of the band yeah oh amazing I didn't
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know that that's so interesting
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um you're about to go on tour what can
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fans expect from the tour
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yeah I mean Winter's on base now so
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that's a big change yeah which is really
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exciting we've made a lot of changes to
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this that we used to both be on guitar
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um now I'm playing bass and we're gonna
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be playing songs from the second EP
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um some of them we've never played live
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before so that's really exciting
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um fun cover
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yeah yeah yeah we really reworked the
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set and and honed in on a lot of things
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that we didn't have time to before and
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so we're really excited it's just kind
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of a new feel your Rivals eat your
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Rivals EP tackle some big themes
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particularly women being pitted against
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each other is that something you've seen
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a lot in your experience in the music
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industry
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yeah yeah
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you
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so I mean yeah I think it's I I think
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it yeah yeah but it's it's subversive
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yeah you know nowadays maybe it's less
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fashionable but it still exists and I
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think I think we've been really
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fortunate and in Indie music the
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community uh
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can be more friendly and there's less
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concern about gender and I think but in
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in certain genres and some of our
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friends we've really seen them go
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through it um just
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yeah the comparison game and yeah
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feeling like there's limited space yeah
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yeah it's definitely something we've
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seen but I think it's more subversive
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it's it's sort of that pressure that's
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maybe even unspoken but it's definitely
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still a felt
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and do you mainly tackle that through
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your lyrics do you think or like
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the song You performed last and you're
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like this one's about feminism like do
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you feel like that's a strong message
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that you have to most definitely
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incorporate into your lyrics it's like
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you almost feel like it's your moral
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responsibility to do that kind of thing
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I mean it's funny when we wrote Dog Eat
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Dog it was it was really hard to write
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because we had this idea and this thing
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that we wanted to say but we didn't want
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to do it in a way that felt
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to on the nose yeah
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and so when we say that too it's kind of
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like
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a bit of a joke like yeah I think we
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also use yeah humor as a coping
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mechanism a tongue-in-cheek yeah and
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sometimes when presenting these more
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serious conversations it feels like we
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sort of approach it ingest because
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that's how we cope with things in our
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life and so that's a big part of it and
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I think it's important to feel like
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people get that and they're in on that
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with us yeah yeah because it's like we
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all know
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that there's still issues in those but
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it's also
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I think it's important to to maintain
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Liberty and like and and take it with a
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grain of salt and
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um it felt like a more empowered stance
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to sort of talk about it in that way
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yeah definitely we know you're greatly
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influenced by boy genius and you just
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did an amazing Lana Del Rey cover who
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else have you been loving right now or
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what else is inspiring you right now
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um we love Samia we just did a support
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tour for Samia in the winter I'm like
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what day is it earlier earlier this year
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we did four times and that was
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incredible getting to watch her set
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every night we're huge huge fans of hers
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um we love like Pine Grove Alex G Big
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Thief the national yeah yes
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right yeah
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I don't know it is a hard question
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because there's so many but then when
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you ask you something to forget everyone
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here I know it's yes we love like we
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just love music yeah we're here so
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yeah I feel like we're always listening
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to eat always something there's this
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band called Slaughter Beach dog oh yeah
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I also love Florence and the Machine
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I've been revisiting her latest record
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yeah yeah
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yeah amazing amazing
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um songwriters yeah well and actually
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we're doing a US tour
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um in the fall and we asked like two of
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our favorite artists like we got
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Victoria bark and Haley blade who are
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also wrote incredible Indie female
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songwriters that we're gonna have on
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tour with us which is really exciting
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yeah
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yeah and like genuinely big fans of
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their music we're really excited for
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them yeah are you sure yeah no I'm
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really stoked a highlight that's so cool
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yeah I bet you're so excited
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um and finally are you guys staying
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around when are you going who are you
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hoping to see next whilst you're here
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yeah so we're we are having to leave
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tonight because this is the beginning of
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our UK tour right
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um but we want to catch Dylan Matilda
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man uh we caught our friend Kate set
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um yeah I think there's just like
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there's so much talent at this Festival
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yeah we're so excited it is yeah amazing
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thank you so much yeah thank you you did
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it I know it is kind of funny this I
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feel like I was like leaning a lot in
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there I was like not sure what to do
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over here I feel like I know you so well
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now
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