In exciting and unexpected TV news: Charli XCX is executive producing a show about the girlband she formed, Nasty Cherry. Charli created the four-piece alt-pop girlband, with members from London and the States, earlier this year - and now, excitingly, they’re getting their own six-part Netflix series to document the trials and tribulations of making it in the music business.
It looks almost as good, if not better, than Spice World - the greatest film of all time{
In May, Charli spoke to Grazia about why she decided to form the band, and sign them to her label Vroom Vroom Recordings.
‘I’ve always wanted to work with a girlband, a girlband who are kind of punk inspired – like, referencing The Runaways – and are really in control of their own shit,’ she told us a few hours before her performance at Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Middlesbrough.
‘I had these four friends [singer Gabbriette Bechtel, guitarist Chloe Chaidez, bassist Georgia Somary and drummer Debbie Knox-Hewson] who I knew and I asked them all individually like, “Have you ever felt about being in a band?” like maybe we could put something together for fun.
‘They were all down - so they all started hanging out, and they clicked really well. They all moved to LA together and started making music in this house in Glendale. I would come round and hear what they were doing and it was beginning to get really, really good so we kind of thought “Let’s just do this for real”.’
I’m With the Band: Nasty Cherry arrives 15 November on Netflix. And we actually can’t wait.