Life for an independent pop band can be tough – so much so that it nearly led to long-standing Bristol/London collective Bare Jams calling it a day in early 2023. Instead, the various members decided to plough on and start work on a new album, which is due to be released in September. Band member Seb Skelly takes up the story: “The way things are for independent artists, especially bands in the UK at the moment, the opportunities and the cashflow is often quite an issue. “And at the start of the year last year, we’d had a fairly good year but things were still not easy, and it kind of got to a…