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17 November 2025

Every Monday I will be bringing you an interview with an independent band, duo or music artist. This week, I caught up with Cardiff band Small Miracles to find out more…

Who is in the band, how did you meet, where are you from and how did you come up with the name?
Small Miracles are Finn Fatale (vocals/rhythm guitar), S Kenward (lead guitar), Jim Webster (keyboards), James Sarson (bass) and Lucas Eldridge (drums). We’ve been playing together since 2021. I actually can’t remember how the name came about, it was always just there. We liked the phrase “small miracles are happening all the time” and kind of rolled with it.

Who were your musical influences when you were growing up and who are your influences now?
I think something interesting about us is that as five songwriters we all come from very different musical backgrounds and have different tastes. There are only about 5 bands that we’re all super into. Red Hot Chili Peppers come to mind, Pixies, Everything Everything, Radiohead, Placebo too.

How would you describe your sound?
I think we initially tried to model the sound on late 70s New Wave and bring in some punk influences, but over time it’s evolved into its own thing. I think we’ve really found it and captured it on (upcoming album) ‘A Human Connection’ – it’s a lot more melodic and bright in a way. I think for all of us initially we needed to blow off a lot of steam through the music we were playing – now we’ve released that and it’s given us the chance to be more considered in our songwriting. It’s got loads of little earworms, it’s eclectic in style and it’s fun, in a melancholic way.

What is your latest release called and what was the influence behind it?
Our latest release is our debut album A Human Connection. The songs explore love, queerness, identity and the ways we connect with each other and the world around us. It was written mostly during 2023 and recorded at Giant Wafer and King’s Road studios in 2024. We worked collaboratively as a band, often writing from spontaneous ideas that grew into full songs. We also brought in guest artists like Minas, Aisha Kigs and Freyja Elsy to add new textures and perspectives. The record is about connection in every sense, both musically and emotionally.

What’s your local music scene like?
The Cardiff scene is great – it’s quite tight knit as we’re a small city without many venues. A lot of them have been closed down so a lot of the bands are in the same spaces. It’s very eclectic though and I think because there isn’t a ‘staple’ Cardiff sound, every band has the space to do their own thing and it’s very supportive. A lot of us drink down the City Arms at the weekend.

What do you have planned for the next 12 months?
We’ll be promoting A Human Connection with videos, interviews and hopefully some live dates around Wales and the UK. We’ve already started writing new songs and exploring some fresh sounds, so 2026 will be a mix of continuing the album’s story and seeing where the next creative phase takes us.

Is there anyone you’d love to collaborate with?
We’ve done a lot of collaborations on the album actually. They’re scattered throughout the tracklist, featuring Minas, Aisha Kigs, Freyja Elsy, Mirari, Gemini Anderson, Rachel Helena Walsh, Luciana West, Katy Mumford and Andrew Sanders who handled production and engineering. It was a great experience to bring in new voices and writing styles, from home recordings to full studio sessions. It helped make the record feel alive and dynamic. We’d love to collaborate with Albertine Sarges in the future. Their music is wonderful and we’re all big fans, especially of the vocal layering and textures.

Any funny stories surrounding your live performances?
Oh, just a bunch of injuries really. I went a bit hard at the shows in the first couple of years. I went through a phase of punching the floor and I kept saying I wouldn’t keep doing it but ended up with a couple of broken knuckles. I cracked a rib once from beating my chest and was getting injured a lot. I guess I was going through something.

Do you have any upcoming live dates and performances coming up?
We’re launching our debut album A Human Connection at Porter’s Cardiff on Thursday 27th November. It’s free entry and we’ll be performing the album in full for the first time. We can’t wait to share it with everyone in the place where so much of this record was born.

What is the one thing that you want readers to know about you?
We are a fully independent self-funded band and we do this for the sheer love of it. Our music comes from a place of release and is a way for us to channel and express our big queer feelings in a collective way, both as individuals coming together to create, and through sharing an experience with an audience in our performances. The feeling of it is everything to us, especially in a society which increasingly encourages emotional individualism and isolationism.

You can find out more about Small Miracles via Apple Music, Bandcamp, Facebook, Instagram, SoundCloud, Spotify, Threads, TikTok, X (Twitter) or YouTube, and you can find upcoming gig information here.