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astille are an odd band. Already this summer they’ve found themselves sandwiched between Run The Jewels and Frank Ocean at a festival in Denmark, shared a lineup with the likes of Rammstein and System of a Down in Germany and played before Rod Stewart at the Isle Of Wight Festival. They started off as a DIY bedroom indie band but second album ‘Wild World’ is a little bit of everything; Tarantino films, genre shuffling mixtapes and real world reflection. “We just felt quite liberated on this record to do whatever we wanted. That was the point,” Dan Smith explains. “Whatever people’s perceptions of us are. I feel like, in everything we do, there’s very much a sense of we love doing this. We got to do kind of everything that we wanted to do.” They are, in their own words, rubbish at being rock stars but there’s a devilish grin to everything. Their last headline run saw the band take their fake news company-slash-government department to the big screen, with a fictional politician overlooking the whole thing “in this sinister Big Brother way.” In the build-up to the general election, it started to look a lot like Theresa May, and that was no accident. More recently, they stripped things down in a church, only to rebuild it with a gospel choir, a string section and some brass. “[It’s something] we’re going to do a concert hall tour of later in the year,” teases Dan with a smile. “We feel very
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an we just note that our manager is standing two feet away right now, so there’s going to be a lack of complaints and a lack of truth,” jokes Shame frontman, Charlie Steen. The band erupt into laughter, as they gather in a nearby pub for another night in another city that makes up their unstoppable 2017 so far. “I mean, we’ve been banned from a few countries, and haven’t been turning up for shows actually!” continues Steen, providing an insight into the humour, spills and fun that the South Londoners are currently rolling through, as arguably one of the must-see attractions of this year’s festival season. And there’s a clear reason why. After making a name for themselves in the pubs and function rooms scattered around London, one of the best-kept
secrets in live music are finally having that moment where heads are a-turning at a staggering pace. With the menacing yet undeniably fixating presence of Steen, Shame are leading a new brigade of bands, one that may centre around South London but whose influence is set to be felt not only across the UK but Europe too. “Yeah, the other day our manager went to see a show in France, and there was someone there in a Shame shirt,” exclaims drummer Charlie Forbes. “It’s been nice to see an actual progression of things, you can tell you’re getting tighter when you’re playing, and it’s been nice going between doing these live shows and then off recording.” “You can see a progression with the audience too,” notes guitarist Eddie Green, sitting back in-between swigs of his pint. “There are people coming back every time we play in certain cities, and then there’s going to places we’ve only been before when supporting someone,
and now doing headline shows.” “It’s been nice to see people at shows that are there to see Shame rather than just playing support slots to people waiting for the headline band after,” continues Forbes. And it’s those crowds that have been continuously growing over the past 12 months, flocking to a live sensation that doesn’t just whip you along for the ride but forces you to stare into every word and every sound. Seeing Shame live isn’t just about catching a glimpse of a new band playing a few songs, it’s an experience of exactly what live music is all about. A tangible feeling that this band, in this room, can take on the world - and progression and journey that truly kicked off right at the start of last year’s festival season. “It all kinda started at The Great Escape last year,” reflects Forbes. “We did it, and the show really kicked off and was great, and from that, we got picked up and noticed by so many people for this summer. It led us to play Pitchfork Paris,
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