Orange Spotlight: Tribe of Ghosts

Who are Tribe of Ghosts?

Beccy – Hello, we are Tribe of Ghosts. We are an industrial post-hardcore band from Brighton, UK.

Adam – We’re currently here at Dalton’s, which, and they’ve been wonderful and let us use the space for this morning.  So it’s kind of one of our home away from homes almost. 

How long have you been a band? 

Beccy – Oh, well, we debuted as a four piece sort of around the summer of 2022 with some single releases earlier on in that year.

I think our fifth or sixth gig was Bloodstock in 2022 and we have been on the sort of underground circuit since then. 

Who’s in the band?  

Adam – So there’s there’s me and Beccy. My name is Adam. I do guitar and vocals and I do the electronic production stuff. 

Beccy – I’m also one of the vocalists in the band as well. We also have Danny on drums and Ben on bass. 

What does Orange bring to the band? 

Beccy – So in a wider concept of what we do, especially with the direction we’re going in, is trying to combine and mutilate organic sounds.

Orange to us is one of the few brands out there that we think really delivers that concept for us. 

Adam – It’s like not just in terms of, oh, they’re the best sounding. They are for me. They’re the best sounding amps. The reason they are the best sounding amps is tonally where they sit within our mixes, is it has a beautiful pocket within the mid range, especially within kind of like the 400 to 800 hertz kind of area where we’ve got so many mad electronics going on. There’s insane noise soundscapes that we’ve got going on. We’ve got me (Adam) and you (Becky) singing like permanently. Danny’s hammering the drum kit to pieces, Ben’s bass is like going absolutely ham,

Beccy – And the low tunings that we play in as well. Sometimes you find in particularly in the metal scene and when you play the sort of venues that we do, it’s really important to have a very well balanced performance and frequency width as well. Orange is able to give us that so the vocals cut through, you still got that low end, but you get the grit that you need in the mid range. So it still sounds aggressive and it’s not lost. It’s something that we always get feedback on from from the audience, from engineers that we’re a pleasure to mix live and the sound is something that almost sounds beyond the venue itself. Orange really gives us the ability to do that.

Adam – It’s it’s really again, like we said, it’s it’s important for us to hit with the frequency ranges and these two (Rockerverb 50 MK3 and OR30), the Terror Bass, the cabs, even my torpedo captors, I use Orange IRs for those. Even when we’re going direct, they still cut and it’s that joy of being able to cut through the mix without fighting anything, the fact it just sits without complaint. It sits without needing to be altered within a mix as dense and insane as ours. It’s exactly what we need. It just fits. That’s why we love them.

What are Tribe of Ghost’s influences?

Beccy – This is the joyous question that we always get because it is kind of anything and everything. We obviously have extreme metal influences and heavy guitar bass bands. So things like Old Man Gloom is one of our favourites, Converge,

Adam – End is a really big one for us.

Beccy – and then it goes into industrial things like Nine Inch Nails,

Adam – Author and Punisher, those kind of different bands. Health is a massive influence on us.

Beccy – I’m going to more synth electronics, again, Health, but things like Perturbator as well. Sort of more industrial noise. Yeah.

Adam – Load of noise. You get like there’s so many influences. There’s so much influence from different like noise artists or electronic stuff. We get loads of influences from kind of like, a massive one for us is a lot of the hyper pop kind of scene and like break core scenes. So Sophie is a massive influence on us. Stuff that Charli XCX does. A lot of the stuff that she and Ashton Cooke have done. A lot of the K-pop scene we love, like Blackpink.

Beccy – Yeah. Love Blackpink. I’m really into Cat’s Eye at the moment. Yeah and it’s always majorly influenced by sort of like iconic pop artists. Like there’s been many songs that I’ve really brought in like what would Britney Spears do? What would Max Martin do here? Yeah. Massively and I think there’s just a wider scope of bands that are like fearless in their genre mixing, such as like Rollo Tomassi. Yeah. Just like fearless with mixing up genres and pushing boundaries and that the limit just doesn’t exist and that’s something that we love to do, just to see what we can do, what we can get away with and just be completely childishly creative. 

Adam – Yeah. We’re the joke of like, oh, you know, we’ve got so many influences and we take it from everywhere. We really do. Like it’s in all of our music through and through. Everything from all of the stuff from the noise, the electronic, the scream, that stuff. It isn’t just, oh, we take some kind of influence. It is embedded deep within everything that we do. 

Beccy – In our recent writing practise, there was one section of a song, which maybe coming soon, that I just went, oh, I really want this to sound like En Vogue.

Adam – Yeah, the harmonies were so good. With the things that are coming soon, this (OR30) is actually on all of it as well. Didn’t get this one in time (Rockerverb 50 MK3), but this one’s (OR30) on all of them. So, yes, very excited to get that out. 

What have you got coming up? 

Beccy – Well, we’ve got some gigs booked, We’ve actually got one tomorrow.  

Adam – Yeah, it’s going to be very fun. 

Beccy – Whenever this comes out, it’s probably in the past. So we’ve got a few gigs, things like Alton and we’re playing Bournemouth in October.  A few more gigs to be formally announced for the rest of the year. There’s some things we can’t formalise yet, but stay tuned from September onwards. Keep an eye on our socials because we have some lovely end of year surprises.

Adam – Yeah, it’s going to be very exciting.