Its the industry standard that people use specific programs and I want to brighten up the spectrum again and let people know that I’m here to try and make good sounds and soundtracks to peoples lives rather than just trying to stay with a fad. Music, in my opinion, has gone a bit two dimensional lately – you kind of know what the formula is going to be and that’s not for every artist. I feel like modern music is missing certain elements that those bands brought and its about time for it to come back I feel.Īre you trying to bring those elements back through your music? I loved anyone who had a guitar and a Manc accent – Oasis were the big band for us. I have a bigger brother, and he would learn everything from my uncle and teach it to me. It was anything that my uncle was listening to. I was listening to Joy Division, New Order, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and The Smiths. You said the music scene when you were growing up in Manchester was amazing. Obviously, we had poverty like no other, but the family vibe in the council estates in Manchester has always been massive so growing up there I was surrounded by love and danger I guess. There were loads of cool people, and the football was great – it was just a fun place to be. Growing up in Manchester was fun, dangerous and super unique especially in the late eighties, early nineties there was so much fantastic music coming from and coming through the city. What was it like growing up in Manchester then? I’m really loving your second single Dirty Old Town which is an ode to Manchester. On Salt of the Earth, Shotty Horroh, born Adam Rooney, arrives like the fire-breathing love child of Liam Gallagher, Alex Turner and Sid Vicious: spilling the true blood of Manchester’s council estates, snarling at a system built to hold him down atop crunchy, melodic riffs it’s the sound of a nation - indeed, a world - in crisis, told by its prodigal son. Mark Millar catches up with Shotty Horroh to talk about what it was like growing up in a Manchester council estate his musical influences and the recording of Salt of The Earth.
Listen to track “Shudehill” below.Shotty Horroh releases his debut album Salt of The Earth, on October 12. Unrelenting in delivery, his rapper’s flow built with the defining guitar heavy sound of 80′s and 90′s Manchester rock, Shotty Horroh brings opinion and prowess to Salt of the Earth. Witty, but honest and critical (“Look buttercup we don’t care about all your likes / Holla at us when you figure out there’s more to life”), Rooney offers the swagger and ambition, mirrored with the character of a fighter, a survivor bringing light to a greater issue. Known as a deep lyricist, the artist behind the music, Adam Rooney, pours his heart and mind into the record, speaking out against the government, staying loyal to personal ambitions, and the lies of others. It’s rock n’ roll like no other, and listeners can feel the urgency and raw energy in his words (“Oh I reside by the underside, where the money hides from the public eye”), uttered with conviction. – telling his story as a Manchester native, the love and danger of his youth, to today. The former battle rapper combines his hip hop roots with an exciting alt-rock/punk style
Shotty Horroh has released his debut album, Salt of the Earth.
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