The group is made up of 3 young men born in the late 90s, their sound, look and influences however all seem to be decades before their births. “You've gotta have a bit of freedom with the way you dress”. The three members of Bilk are all from Essex but are as far removed from the Towie and Reem lifestyle that is often synonymous with the area, according to Sol “There's a lot of dickheads in Chelmsford (Essex), I always sort of stood out like a sore thumb”.

“It's sort of just suburban Britain, it's not busy like London but it's not right out in the country, it's just the suburbs there's not much going on. When we were like 14/15 we had to make fun for ourselves, I remember when I was like 14 going to my first house party and kicking balls around outside Asda, it was that kind of thing, boring normal life”

The group are most aligned with the likes of The Streets, Green Day and The Jam. Bands that dominated the ears of youth subcultures up and down the country in their prime years. The comparisons and the somewhat moulding of Bilk around these historic bands is not accidental; the three Bilk members grew up on the music of Oasis and Nirvana with those two groups specifically being frontman Sols' favourite bands to this day, Nirvana's MTV unplugged being the main influence behind the groups latest project ‘Bilk unplugged’. “I love Oasis and Harry loves Oasis, from then till now we've had this sort of bond over Oasis, we’ll get on it and at like 4 am be watching old Oasis videos, like how sick is this”.

While the group is obviously rock, there are influences of hip hop throughout their music with Sol often interchanging between singing and rapping. Sol was listening to a lot of hip hop while growing up, with a mix of artists from across the Atlantic and at home with the likes of Eminem, NWA, and Dizzie Rascal all featuring on a 14-year-old Sols’ iPod, “I’ve always rapped since I was like 14 because all my mates did it, like everyone I hung out with when I was younger, we would put on a beat and just spit”. It was at this moment that his love for rock evolved, hip hop was always a big influence on Sol and can be heard in his music but it was around this time that he discovered the likes of Nirvana who were “(the) first band that got me to pick up a guitar when I was like 14/15”, it wasn't only a love for the music but the discovery of this sound and lifestyle sparked a new chapter in Sol's life as he began to become more influenced and interested in band music and became influenced by the punk/grunge style.
Similar to the bands before them, Bilk have a firm grip on the British youth, their lyrics and songs often enunciating the thoughts and emotions of thousands of British teens across the country. Their fans love them and it's not just due to their style or incredible music, Bilk have created this relationship, having played gigs and shows up and down the country since their inception, the night often ends with Sol mixing in the smoking area, “A lot of the time I go outside the venue chatting to the fans, they're almost a bit baffled to why I’m out there”. “It's important to me that there's a close sort of relationship with the fans because we built it, we haven’t just come about and been plucked out by some major label, we built it organically, so

the fans that do fuck with us, I do really respect them for taking on something new that hasn’t been shoved in their face”. Bilk are regular lads and it seems that's exactly what they want to be, they've worked to get themselves in this position and seem utterly grateful to those who got them there and unashamed to let their fans know how important they are.”I've noticed in band music and music in general, there's this unspoken thing that a lot of artists wanna go to the gig and climb beyond the green room and not see anyone before they go on and have this mythical element about them, where I've never seen it like that. The reason I do music is to have a connection with the fans, to get the people to relate to what I'm saying in the lyrics”

Bilk started releasing music in 2018 making this year the 5th year of Bilk, a debut album and two sold-out nationwide tours is a good stage to be at in their relatively early careers. It's taken Sol a while to really appreciate the journey the group has gone on, “Over the last couple of years I've really learnt to take in the journey a bit more than I have before because things don't go how they are expected, when I was a lot younger I use to have this mastermind plan in my head as a teenager and how I was gonna rule the world… lifes unexpectedly the same way music is''. After 5 years the obvious question is what are the plans for the next 5 years, Sol answered this quite bluntly “Fuck knows man” before going on to say “I don't really try and think past next week, im sort of taking each day as it comes. As long as Bilk gets the respect, we could be played to 200 people or 2 million people as long as we've got the respect that what matters to me”. Bilk doesn't seem to be a group fiending for fame and limelight, Sol talks about respect as one of his main aims, the respect being the way in which Bilk's listeners embrace the music and relate to it.