Madeline Jarman is a freshman telecommunication student, who has dreams to one day become a teacher in the field of mathematics. Madeline is an active member in Swamp Records and RUB Entertainment on campus. But coolest of all, she is a bassist in a local indie rock/alternative band called Flipturn, whose EP is set to come out in late March. Her Campus UFL sat down with Madeline to ask her about Flipturn and her experiences in the Gainesville music scene.
Her Campus (HC): How did you get involved in the band?
Madeline Jarman (MJ): The guitarist and I were good friends for a long time, so I talked to him. We started jamming out with some people, grabbed our musician friends and played around one summer, and (we) started making music. Then we got booked for our first gig at a charity event for Relay for Life. We loved (it) and decided that this was what we wanted to do, so we continued from there. It started out (in) just our in the garage. In the beginning, our music was super “poppy,” but it has matured, for sure. We have a fuller sound from when we started.
HC: What famous musicians do you admire or gather inspiration from?
MJ: There’s this band that I love a lot called Hippo Campus. They’re really young like we are. They’re doing really well playing at famous music festivals. I look up to them because I think we can get to where they are. I look up to bass players a lot. I was at Firefly Music Festival in 2012, and a band named Silversun Pickups was there, and they have a female bass player. I was watching them and I just thought, “I want to be like her.” I want to play in a band, and I want to play bass. So that’s when I started learning. If I ever got a chance to meet her, I would definitely tell her she inspired me.
HC: Where do you play in Gainesville and how often?
MJ: The only place we have played is the High Dive. We play there again March 1. Every month or every two months we play here to keep that fan base.
HC: How can fans gain access to your music?
MJ: We have a Facebook page, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube. We have a lot of our songs on YouTube because our EP isn’t released yet. But, we have finished recording it, and it’s set to release March 31. [The songs are] all originals, and we are pretty proud of it. We are definitely still working on new music and still trying to create to hopefully get to that album stage or produce another EP.
HC: How can students find live music in Gainesville?
MJ: There’s different music scenes in Gainesville. Venues like The Wooly and The Atlantic (Nightspot) feature harder punk bands–we don’t really fit into that category, so we wouldn’t get booked there. But, the High Dive is more our music and our style. They always post on their Facebook page of concerts coming up. A lot of it is word of mouth, too. We always post on the UF class pages, and people have come up to me before and recognize me. So I know it works, and I continue posting.
HC: What advice would you give to an aspiring student musician?
MJ: Follow your dream. Just do it. It takes a lot of work;you may want to give up, but you just have to keep pushing through. There’s been times when we question if we should keep going, and the answer is always yes. If you have a passion for it, you should keep doing it because you want to be doing something you love. Also be prepared for it to take up a lot of your time. So my main advice is just do it, and follow your dream. It’s awesome. You won’t regret it.
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