Interview and Photography by William Woods
Interview: Unfun
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The gig was pretty crazy so setting up a photoshoot was pretty much impossible and we arranged the interview afterwards via email. I had alot of fun hanging out and partying with Unfun I can’t thank Lenny enough for taking the time to do the interview after touring and sleeping on floors for a month and a half and then flying back to Canada.
First of all, it was great to see you guys make it over to Ireland! Thanks for coming. Can you introduce yourselves for anyone reading? I’m Lenny and I sing and play guitar. We just got home from tour and we’re all scattered. Tyler is in Calgary & Declan’s in Toronto
I know you wern’t here for very long but did you notice any immediate differences in touring Ireland or Europe compared to Canada or The United States? Ireland and the UK were pretty close to shows in Canada and the US. I mean, even though there’s hardly and squatted venues in North America, there’s tons of houses and collective spaces here to play. We play at those venues most of the time and sometimes bars.
You have a really distinctive sound. I think due in no small part to your characteristic gritty sounding vocals combined with the melodic guitars. Can you give us an insight into how you achieve that sound? Well, I have no idea... We all come from a distorted background. Hardcore, metal and punk. I think we just wanted to be more aggressive than other bands that do the ‘pop thing’ and present something a little more fucked up. We tend to turn up louder than most bands were paired with and all that. Our approach to a typical show would be to get pretty fucked up and turn up to 11 and go.