If you are unfamiliar with Tina Sandwich, where have you been? Tina Sandwich is a local artist from Glasgow and has been making some big moves lately in her career.
Just recently she played a sold-out show at St Lukes with Declan Welsh & The Decadent West and the help of United Hospitalities in aid of the charity Islamic Help.
“We started planning that back in October last year, Straight away hit the ground running. We needed to do something for the people of Palestine.
The goal of the show was to unite everyone and show their solidarity with the people of Palestine. They encouraged people to change their spending habits and acknowledge the impact that can have on things like the ongoing conflict. The sold-out show was able to make enough money to be able to send two surgeons for a full term to Gaza.
After such a momentous show there was no stopping for Tina as shortly after she released her latest single “I Want” on the 27th of June.
Her latest single was named Tack of the Week by BBC Introducing Scotland, where the BBC themselves said the song was an “anti-capitalist call to arms.” Tina herself said the single is about the “notion of escapism actually being kind of dangerous.”
The song discusses the downside to the return of recession pop and that mindset of wasting your money every night.
Shortly after the release of the single Tina announced her debut EP “For the World,” set to release on the 8th of August. Tina best explains the sound of the album herself:
“It straddles the two musical worlds that I’ve put out before, it’s got your Joni type of stuff and then it’s also got heavier stuff as well.”
The premise of the album is to show the two worlds’ artists like Tina’s face. Tina Sandwich is just her stage name it’s not who she really is, this album explores those two sides.
“I’m most interested in people to listen to the album tracks! Because a lot of the time you’re like ‘Oh we need to do a single.’ So, it’s nice to have the opportunity to put something out that’s a bit smaller or stranger.”
Not even ten days after the announcement of her EP she was releasing the music video for her previous single ‘Joni.’
The music video, which features some familiar faces (Tom from SOAPBOX) is set in an office karaoke party that takes a sombre turn, just in time with the lyrics.
And if that wasn’t enough news for you, she recently announced she will be supporting LEAP on their European tour for seven dates!
With so much going on surely, she would be stressed out right? Wrong. Tina is managing it all perfectly.
“It’s been a really busy time; this isn’t even my main job. So, I feel like I work like 300 hours a week.”
But despite it all Tina loves what she does.
“I’m really passionate about my music, anti-imperialism and being pro-Palestine. I think if one of those things felt soul-destroying and I was only doing it for the money, I would feel terrible.”
“But I’m getting by knowing that these are things that are really close to my heart, and I will fight for them to happen. It feels good that.”
‘For the World’ comes out on the 8th of August on all streaming platforms and tickets for Leap’s European tour are out now!
