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Tender Trap


Interviews


Interview (2010)

Tender Trap - Interview

Rachel Williams speaks to indie pop group Tender Trap about their new line-up and first album in four years,'Dansette Dansette'


Interview (2002)

Tender Trap - Interview

One of the most influential figures in indie pop, Amelia Fletcher has fronted various bands including Talulah Gosh and Heavenly. She speaks to Anthony Strutt , with fellow band members Rob Pursey and DJ Downfall ,about her new group, Tender Trap


Live

100 Club, London, 15/12/2010

Tender Trap - 100 Club, London, 15/12/2010

Despite front woman Amelia Fletcher battling flu, Anthony Strutt sees Tender Trap play an infectious and summery set of indie pop at the 100 Club in London


Brixton JAMM, London, 22/7/2010

Tender Trap - Brixton JAMM, London, 22/7/2010

John Clarkson finds the indiepop scene flourishing on a five band bill out on by club night and label How Does It Feel to Be Loved? and headlined by Tender Trap at the Brixton JAMM in London


Reviews


Ten Songs about Girls (2012)


Fabulous fourth album from London-based indie pop group Tender Trap, the band of former Talulah Gosh and Heavenly front woman Amelia Fletcher


Dansette Dansette (2010)


Deeply serious but yet hilarious third album from Tender Trap, whose 60's superficial girl pop influences are underscored with a gritty sense of feminism


Girls with Guns (2010)


Superb free download single from indie pop act Tender Trap, which finds front woman Amelia Fletcher retruning to the punk energy of her earlier bands Talulah Gosh and Heavenly


Fireworks (2009)


Stunning comeback single from the recently expanded Tender Trap, the latest project of Talulah Gosh and Heavenly's Amelia Fletcher


6 Billion People (2006)


Appetising second album from Tender Trap, the latest band of former Talulah Gosh and Heavenly star Amelia Fletcher


Language Lessons (2005)


Near perfect new EP from Tender Trap, the current band of ex-Talulah Gosh, Heavenly and Marine Research singer Amelia Fletcher, who has returned to music after taking some time out to have a baby


Oh Katrina (2002)


Refreshingly "cool" debut EP from indiepop pioneer, Amelia Fletcher's new project, Tender Trap


Film Molecules (2002)


Eclectic and experimental debut album of new project of former Talulah Gosh/Heavenly/Marine Research girl Amelia Fletcher


Related


Interviews

Interview Heavenly - Interview

Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey speak to John Clarkson about the reformation of their 90’s indiepop band Heavenly for three gigs and the vinyl reissue of their albums.


Interview Rob Pursey - Interview

Rob Pursey from Talulah Gosh, Heavenly, The Catenary Wires and Swansea Sound, talks about his and Amelia Fletcher's new label Skep Wax, and its new compilation 'Under the Bridge' which features acts who were signed to the influential indie label Sarah Records as they are now.


Interview Catenary Wires  - Interview

Talulah Gosh, Heavenly and Tender Trap's Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey speak to John Clarkson about the expansion of their current band The Catenary Wires from a duo into a five-piece and 'Birling Gap', their just-released third album.


Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey
Interview Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey - Interview

Talulah Gosh, Heavenly and Tender Trap's Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey speak to John Clarkson about their current band The Catenary Wires' forthcoming third album and their three other new musical projects, European Sun, Swansea Sound and The Drift.


European Sun
Interview European Sun - Interview

Short Stories' frontman Steve Miles speaks to John Clarkson about his new band European Sun, which he has formed with Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey from Heavenly, Tender Trap and the Catenary Wires, and their eponymous debut album.


European Sun
Interview European Sun - Interview

The Short Stories' Steve Miles speaks to John Clarkson about his new band European Sun which he has formed with Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey of Heavenly, Tender Trap and the Catenary Wires, and their debut single 'The Future's Female'.


Amelia Fletcher
Interview Talulah Gosh - Interview

Influential indie pop artist and front woman Amelia Fletcher talks to Paul Waller about her first band Talulah Gosh, who have a new compilation album out, and her other groups Heavenly, Marine Research and Tender Trap


Tender Trap
Interview Miscellaneous - Interview

In their third Pennyblackmusic interview, Anthony Strutt speaks to twee pop group Tender Trap about their musical history and forthcoming fourth album, 'Ten Songs About Girls'


Amelia Fletcher
Interview Part 3 Talulah Gosh - Interview Part 3

In the third and final part of our interview with Amelia Fletcher, she talks about her work with Heavenly, Marine Research and Tender Trap, and the suicide of Heavenly's drummer, her brother Matthew, in 1996


Amelia Fletcher
Interview Part 2 Talulah Gosh - Interview Part 2

In the second part of our three part interview with Amelia Fletcher, she speaks to Anthony Strutt about breaking up her first band, indiepop group Talulah Gosh and forming her second group Heavenly, and her brief, disastrous career as a dance musician


Amelia Fletcher
Interview Part 1 Talulah Gosh - Interview  Part 1

Amelia Fletcher has fronted various influential indie bands including Heavenly, Marine Research, Sportique and her latest group Tender Trap. In the first part of a three part interview, she talks with Anthony Strutt about her first group Talulah Gosh.


Live

Catenary Wires (1)
Gullivers, Manchester, 19/7/2019 Catenary Wires  - Gullivers, Manchester, 19/7/2019

Dixie Ernill finds indie veterans the Catenary Wires still cutting it live at Gullivers in Manchester.


Fortuna Pop! Fifteen Years of Fun
Scala, London, 1/11/2011...3/11/2011 Miscellaneous - Scala, London, 1/11/2011...3/11/2011

At indie pop label Fortuna POP's fifteenth birthday celebrations, Anthony Strutt enjoys sets from among others Bearsuit, the Primitives, Tender Trap, Darren Hayman and Allo' Darlin'


Tender Trap
Gullivers, Manchester, 26/3/2011 Tendertrap - Gullivers, Manchester, 26/3/2011

At Gullivers in Manchester, Dixie Ernill watches Amelia Fletcher's band Tender Trap play a spellbinding set of classic-sounding indie pop


Albums

The Decline and Fall of Heavenly Heavenly - The Decline and Fall of Heavenly

In our Re:View section, in which we look back at albums from the past, Tommy Gunnarsson finds that iconic indiepopsters Heavenly's 1994 third album, ‘The Decline and Fall of Heavenly’, which has just been re-released on on vinyl, still stands the test of time.


Heavenly
P.U.N.K. Girl EP Heavenly - P.U.N.K. Girl EP

New Pennyblackmusic writer Rachel Williams reflects on Oxford-based twee pop act Heavenly's dark 1993 'P.U.N.K. Girl EP'







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