Fletchr Fletchr Interview: ‘We're not slowing down now we've started’
Fletchr Fletchr, with The Groove. Image credit: Chuff Media
‘We are individuals, but we shine together. We highlight each other’s strengths, rather than being one entity.’
Fletchr Fletchr make loud music out of large feelings. Think Sam Fender’s brutally honest lyricism, Imagine Dragons’ stadium sounds (who the band supported earlier this year), and Nothing But Thieves’ angular vocal intensity. Comfortable merging influences across jazz, indie, and liquid drum and bass, alt-rock is a loose definition on what to expect from the rising quartet.
Backstage at The Dome in London on the afternoon of their final tour date, Adam Sanders and Rohan Fletcher sit in synchronicity, leaning back with laughter before moving to another identical position when it’s pointed out. They’ve lived together for nine years, calling each other ‘brothers’ – duplicating Rohan’s surname to form the band’s name.
The Groove spoke to the founding members about their first headline tour, new EP ‘We All Feel The Same’, and what’s on the horizon. Their bond is subtle but ever-present, talking over each other without interrupting, rooted in a comfortable honesty that’s clearly communicated in their music.
Read the full interview with Fletchr Fletchr below.
Fletchr Fletchr, ‘We All Feel The Same’ EP. Image credit: Chuff Media
This interview has been edited for clarity.
Interviewer: You describe yourselves as brothers, so why not start by introducing each other with something only a brother would know?
Rohan: Without incriminating each other…! So I'm gonna introduce Adam – he is the lead guitarist and producer in the band, and something you may not know about him; he is amazing at coffee art.
Adam: This is Rohan. He is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of Fletchr Fletchr. And he broke his arm three times when he was growing up, from skateboarding mostly.
This is your last night on the tour, how has it been?
Adam: The tour's been amazing, honestly, some of the best times we've ever had. A very long ride though. We've had trouble after trouble. We broke down last night, that was fun. 1 AM on the side of the M25 until 3 in the morning. We got stuck at Dublin ferryport for nine hours.
Rohan: On the ferry through 13 ft waves. The boat was rocking the whole way. We arrived back in Wales… our trailer sets on fire…
Adam: …The trailer has proved to be the bane of our lives. It's been fun, a learning curve for sure.
Did you say your trailer set on fire?
Adam: There’s a wheel on the front that balances it out, and the wheel fell down when we were on the motorway. I was sat in the back like this trailer… definitely sounds different. I peeked over, and it was burning hot, loads of sparks firing out and burn marks all over. That was another side of the motorway fix. Become very fond of the side of motorways…
We are going to talk about your new EP, but I did want to bring up your song ‘Whenever, Whenever’, partly because I like the concept of you saying everything twice.
Rohan: We had a joke about that, any time we did interviews, we’d speak in double words. But that proved to be really confusing… we stopped that one pretty quickly.
I'm curious – how did you make it? It’s got that really interesting… would you call it a drop?
Rohan: We used to play a lot of pubs around local towns, and no one was into indie rock. So we were like, why don’t we do a drum and bass song to catch everyone's attention? So it's a mix of rock and roll and drum and bass, and we were loving liquid… Hybrid Minds, at the time. Just thought it blended really nicely. We were writing about feeling a bit lonely.
Do you tend to write songs from one person's life experience, or do you blend it together?
Adam: When we're writing, I mainly produce and Rohan writes, but we kind of do it all at the same time. So Rohan will come in with an idea and then it’s putting your perspective on it and sometimes it opens up really nice ideas, not being pigeon-holed into just one thing.
Rohan: With ‘Whenever, Whenever’, we wrote up to the verse, and then I'd go to work, come back and Adam's like, listen to this, this drum and bass drop no one was expecting.
“It helps on stage, looking over and having that connection. If something goes wrong, you know quite quickly the other one needs a look over and a little bit of support, and you can use that and bounce off each other.”
How do you feel about people constantly referencing your similarities and ‘brotherhood’ – how far are you happy for that to go?
Rohan: I don't think we finish each other's–
Adam: –sentences. (laughing)
Rohan: We lean into it, fully. We are individuals, but we shine together. We highlight each other’s strengths, rather than being one entity. I think we get the vibe of each other pretty quickly.
Adam: It helps on stage, looking over and having that connection. If something goes wrong, you know quite quickly the other one needs a look over and a little bit of support and you can use that and bounce off each other.
Your EP will be out by the time this interview is up, how are you feeling about those unreleased songs being heard?
Rohan: Really excited. I think through the tour, we've realised ‘Blink Of An Eye’ is sort of a fan favourite. That, and ‘Find Happiness’.
Adam: I love all of those songs, it's been a long time coming, that EP. Now, finally, that goal is there, it's going to be a very sweet moment when it comes out. Now we can, not move on, but enjoy the songs and just keep on getting out new music.
Rohan: And we've got a lot to come. We're not slowing down now we've started. We've got songs for the next two years ready to go.
Who’s an artist you would love to love your music?
Rohan: We’ve recently been getting really into Kingfishr. We went to the gig and sent over our EP and Eddie the lead singer said he loves it, which was a really cool moment.
Adam: Growing up, I always loved Tom Misch. It's really far away from our music but I think him being like pretty good song, I’d be happy with that.
Rohan: We've always had different musical tastes and then we share a common passion on rock. So that's how the songs have been influenced.
The lyrics in ‘Feel The Same’ feature a lot of colours, was that intentional?
Rohan: That was a big message of the song, blending all the colours. ‘...black lines down the side of our eyes / cause another white lie’s got us thinking that we're falling in love’, that was the starting lyric…
Adam: …And then the second verse is ‘...white lines to escape from our lives / cause another black tie…’. So like, flip them around.
Your aesthetic is pretty black and white, is that how you plan to keep it – or is that last song on the EP you introducing colour?
Adam: I think it's a blank canvas. We’re not stuck on black and white, but see where it takes us.
Rohan: It’s evolving. We have always talked about introducing a little bit of colour as the world grows.
I saw that your ticket sales today are partnering with the charity, CALM. Are you happy talking about your decision behind that?
Rohan: Well, the whole message of the EP, ‘We All Feel The Same’, is to do with mental health and showing that we all actually share quite a lot in common. We've had a few friends that have gone through stuff recently, we thought it would be really nice to try and just give back.
“When people come to the shows, we want them to feel this is a safe space, they’re literally singing about their feelings up there, I can turn to the person next to me, and go, I’m feeling that as well.”
Adam: As a band, as we said we're brothers, we can talk about everything. It's always good to talk because you can bottle it up inside, but as soon as you say something to someone, it just makes it so much better.
Rohan: We want the gigs to feel that way as well. When people come, we want them to feel this is a safe space, they're literally singing about their feelings up there, I can turn to the person next to me, and go, I'm feeling that as well. Our song, ‘Life’, the amount of messages we’ve got from people that have gone through similar grievances saying that song has really helped them through it. It’s quite amazing.
There's also an element [in the EP] of just growing up, you've gotta face everything head on. And it's learning as you get older, you're not quite on your own. We just want to say a massive thank you to everyone that's come out to the tour. We’ve had a really amazing time. We're excited for you to all hear the EP.
What are your hopes for 2026?
Rohan: We want to double the size of the tour. So finish in a 600, maybe up to a thousand [capacity] room.
Adam: Our dream venue is Camden Roundhouse. Getting there next year would be amazing. Us and our boys saw Ocean Alley in there and it was a real moment. That was the gig that we were like, we've gotta get to that stage, one day we'll all be up there.
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Check out pictures from Fletchr Fletchr’s London finale in our gig gallery, and listen to the new EP, ‘We All Feel The Same’, out on all streaming platforms now.