Amy Love and Georgia South
(Picture: Corinne Cumming)Backstage at the Le Transbordeur concert hall in Lyon, France, Nova Twins have just finished a final soundcheck ahead of their next live show. The heavy alt-rockers, made up of childhood friends Amy Love and Georgia South, are in the middle of a headline tour and are busy making a name for themselves as one of the most unique – and loudest – alternative acts on the UK scene.
While they’re now the rock act of the moment, when the duo kicked off in 2014, they were largely ignored by a music industry unable to understand why two mixed race women wanted to make genre-defying rock music that fused punk, metal, hardcore, rap and grime. “We had a lot of rejection”, Love recalls of the time. “The industry was like ‘What is this? Where do we put this band? When we showed up to festivals, we’d be the only women and people of colour on those bills.”
