The Cindys On Debut Album, Gradual Formation, And The Importance Of Fun

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We chat to The Cindys about their debut album, upcoming new music, and touring with shame and Getdown Services

For a band who played their first show together in April 2025, The Cindys have had quite the journey already. Last year saw the band tour with Getdown Services and shame, play around 50 shows, and even release their debut album in November. “We’ve been lucky,” frontman Jack Ogborne humbly shares.

As vocalist and songwriter, Ogborne fronts The Cindys, but not without support from a lineup plucked from some of the most exciting indie projects of the last few years. Having lived with Belishas frontman Ewan Ferguson previously, the two began to play together casually, before forming a three-piece with Finlay Burrows.

It was a no-brainer for Ewan to bring in fellow Belishan Isaac Green, with the pair having played together since they were 12 and just like that, with the addition of indie folk musician Naima Bock, The Cindys came to life. Just to add to the pot of musical talent, Minor Conflict’s Robbie Warin even played with the band at one point on drums.

Previously, Jack Ogborne was best known for his work as the elusive and experimental Bingo Fury. While playing with this project, he began to write other tracks with a simpler, poppier feel, without any idea of what to do with them. “I kept doing Bingo Fury and ignored them but then I couldn’t. I kept coming back to them and I was fond of the songs,” Jack shares. These songs finally found a home on The Cindys’ debut album.

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Some of these tracks, such as ‘Isaac’s Body,’ have been around since Jack was 19. “I’m 45 next month,” he remarks, completely deadpan. Ewan describes these tracks as “tiny little vignettes of memories” in a kind of ‘sketchbook’. “It’s a short but sweet postcard-sized album of all the memories we have together,” he perfectly puts it.

Alongside his work as a musician, Ogborne works as a sound engineer, cutting his teeth at Bristol’s Louisiana, in whose green room we chatted. Here, he would learn the ropes of engineering, seeing countless bands come and go, including Penelope Isles, who Jack would end up travelling around Europe with, when their engineer quit the night before.

“That experience impacted my life a lot because that was my first proper touring experience… they’re really wonderful people,” Ogborne shares, adding that many of The Cindys’ tracks were written on this very tour.

Another band he met while engineering at The Louisiana were Bristol’s Getdown Services. “I mixed a lot of their first shows here at the Louis to 10 people. It seemed like they were here every couple of months and I was always mixing them. That always put a smile on my face… It makes me really happy that they’re having the success that they are having,” Jack tells me.

It was through these experiences that The Cindys ended up supporting the duo on tour. Jack notes that they were very warm and welcoming, of course, but that the band struggled slightly to get their fans on board to their ‘poppy and quite earnest’ songwriting, compared to their shows with shame. “When you’re supporting a band where there’s a lot of comedy in the songs, people are there because they want to laugh” Naima Bock explains.

It is not only Ogborne that finds working with The Cindys refreshing. Both Naima and Ewan, who each front their own projects, agree that playing with the band is enormously rewarding. “It gives me another perspective of live performance, writing, arrangement,” Ewan shares. “Playing drums, a rhythmic instrument rather than a lead instrument is really rewarding. I’ve become a better musician and a better songwriter from that as well.”

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There is such a deep appreciation for these songs from all the members. “It’s just fun to play on songs that you really like because you get to see how they’re structured,” Naima adds, “I get to experience Jack’s songwriting that I really enjoy and I get to learn about it. It’s nice feeling part of a band again because I haven’t had that in quite a long time.”

This word ‘fun’ comes up a lot in our chat. From Jack feeling the relief of “getting everyone together to play some fun songs” to Ewan believing that “fun is the whole point of the project,” it is very clear how important this is to The Cindys; the sense of friendship between the band is very clear and, after 50 shows together, they’ve built an even stronger “musical chemistry”.

Though we were only treated to their debut album in November, we shouldn’t have to wait too long for more from The Cindys. “We’re recording our next album in April,” Jack shares, “This one’s going to be longer. Slightly longer. Maybe half an hour.” While the debut was an “accumulation of loads of different sessions from loads of different places and different lineups,” the next album feels more coherent, “recorded in the same place with the same lineup with the same intention.”

“It’s honestly the best stuff yet,” Isaac adds. “Probably some of the best stuff ever.”

Listen to ‘The Cindys‘ here:

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