The Wholls, consisting of Tordy Cocchiarella (Vocals/Guitar), Santino Cocchiarella (Guitar/Vocals), Joe Stevenson (Bass/Vocals), Daniel De Feo (Drums/Percussion), are 4 piece alternative rock music group who are quickly making their presence felt across the UK – Writes Isabelle Pollock. The lads have performed gigs and played at festivals all over the UK and even performed on BBC Introducing in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire earlier this year. You can listen X21 from the band below.
All we can say about the band name is that we urge you to look it up in an Italian slang urban dictionary. Then teach us how to spell proparlee.
What made you decide to want to be in a band and create your own music?
It was a lack of pocket money. We all wanted to chip in together and buy Bluebeards Prison Island Lego Adventure Set For Boys but all we could afford was some rhythm and a couple of big riffs so we started to play with them instead really. That and girls.
What music inspires the band?
We’re on a continual quest to find new and inspiring music. Being able to take a retrospective look at certain bands careers and see how they’ve developed and continued to change and grow over time is something we aspire to in the long run (Primal Scream and Arctic Monkeys for example have been amazing at that over the years) but in the now we could be driving to a show listening to Anderson Paak, playing pacman and eating a pack up whilst spraying paco rabanne. If you get me. There’s actually a bunch of incredible new, young, hungry guitar bands around in the UK right now. Strange Bones, Paves, Jackals Rose, Hello Operator, Broken Witt Rebels…we could go on and on. Dig a little and ye shall find.
What has been your favourite venue to play at so far?
Probably Isle of Wight Festival as a show and Brixton Electric as a venue. Amazing experiences for different reasons. But the best show is always the next one.
If there was one music artist/band you could go on tour with, who would it be?
Can we say Chuck Berry?! Or if we’re talking now then I reckon us on tour with Foals would be a match made in Devon.
Do you have any gigs coming up soon?