It’s been a great year for all girl band ThunderMother. They’ve signed with Warner Records, released their debut album “Rock n Roll Disaster”, played the Sweden Rock Festival and most recently supported Michael Monroe on his tour of Sweden. The band which consists of Irish lead singer Clare Cunningham, Swedes Filippa Nassil on lead guitar, Linda Strom on bass and Tilda Stenqvist on drums and Italian Giorgia Carteri on rhythm guitar, kick off a tour of Ireland and the UK on 7th November. That tour includes a show in The Pavilion, Belfast on Sunday 9th November. Ahead of the tour I spoke to Clare in Stockholm via Skype. Unfortunately we had a few technical issues so the whole interview wasn’t included on the Friday NI Rocks Show which was broadcast on 24th October (and is now on MixCloud -http://www.mixcloud.com/NIRocks/interview-with-clare-cunningham-from-thunder-mother-on-the-friday-ni-rocks-show-24th-oct-2014/)
but we managed to broadcast most of it. A transcript is provided below.
With a proven live track record, always giving their
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