My Music Episode 689 - FLOK

Graham kicks this one off with a case of mistaken identity involving a pub, a band name and an office furniture manufacturer in Manchester which tells you something about the kind of conversation this is going to be.Jake is one of the people behind Flok, a four-piece from Manchester who used to be called Blue Train Lines, named themselves after a local pub on something of a whim, and are currently in the middle of a twelve-gig run across eight weeks while spending a lot of money on petrol.In this episode, Graham and Jake get into what it actually takes to build a following from scratch in 2026, why Flok respond to absolutely everyone who reaches out to them, and what it felt like to go from playing in front of nobody to a room full of people who already know the words.They also talk about the Manchester rehearsal studio run by a bloke called David, who has an unexplained obsession with monkeys, why a room that is too clean is the enemy of creativity, and the one song in Flok's set that they have seriously considered never recording in a studio and why that might actually be the point.New single out now. Twelve gigs across the summer. Bristol on the horizon. Well worth your time.