Issue Eighteen
Amyl and the Sniffers Sports Team Slaves Sleaford Mods Gently Tender Fontaines D.C.
Festival season is becoming a distant memory and it’s time for the tours to commence. Following their big show at Scala, Sports Team take the cover and they invited us to a local haunt in West London to chat about their rise. Amyl and the Sniffers are the Australian punks that no one can get enough of. We gave them a call to discuss how they went from potentially never playing a show to touring the UK and US. Slaves have just released their third record and to some critical acclaim. We speak to both Isaac and Laurie about the album as well as the debut release from their label, Girl Fight. In the midst of their latest release, we give Sleaford Mods’ Jason Williamson a call during his family holidays. He took the time to chat about social media and tell us why he thinks indie music is ‘horrible and tired’. Flying over to Dublin via email, we sent some questions to Partisan Records latest signings, Fontaines D.C. The Dublin boys have caused quite a stir and ahead of their tour with Shame, we dug into their inspirations and aspirations.
Palma Violets will hold a place in the hearts of many, but from it’s embers, Gently Tender are expanding on their
previous projects sound. We met them for a pint in Kings Cross to talk about their spiritual shift from concrete to earth as well as bringing in Celia from The Big Moon. Deeper into your read you’ll find Canadian collective,
Crack Cloud, who have been challenging the norm and
discuss how their disassociation with their surroundings has inspired their content. We’ve managed to fight through the Indonesian fanfare to have a chat with Brighton’s Fur. The
band have just signed to Nice Swan records and we caught
up with them to discuss criticism from members of The Fall
as well as being perfectionists. Sistertalk finish off the band features as the London buzz band keep things short and tell us what’s going on around them at the minute. As always
we introduce some of our new faves in Who Are You? This issue features The Murder Capital, Krush Puppies, Jacob
Slater, Sons of Raphael and more. Plus, Dan Pare takes us to The Five Bells in New Cross to talk about what’s been going on down there.
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6 Slaves
29 Sports Team
11 Amyl and The Sniffers
33 Who Are You?
18 Sleaford Mods
35 Our Girl
21 FUR
38 Fontaines D.C.
26 Crack Cloud
39 Sistertalk
2 Chords Good
The Year of the Culture Vomit
Acts Of Fear And Love
Britain’s Bridleways
Big Attraction
Forget Indie Music Right Now
If You Know That I’m Lonely
Rehabilitation Outlet
Get To Know
Stranger Today
Chequeless Reckless
Bowser’s Castle
Opposite, So Young Illustration Competition Winner, Antonio Giovanni Pinna (The Beatles)
Who are Krush Puppies Can you tell us who you are, where you’re from and about the music you make? Blue Bendy We are five mates from South East London that make scrappy, grungy, catchy pop songs.
We’re Blue Bendy, a six-piece group from New Cross in South London. We get described as discordant pop, art rock
What led you to form a band?
or post punk depending on what gig we’ve just played.
It makes us less embarrassed of our days jobs.
Can you tell us something that you collectively hate? Carrying equipment on the tube.
Jacob Slater What’s special about where you’re from? Has it inspired
Sons of Raphael
your music? We are two brothers from North London, our throat is an Maybe it will one day but I find its normally people, not
open grave; we use our tongues to deceive.
places that spark something off. What led you to form a band? What led you to make music? Ronnel: I was writing a lot in boarding school, I’ve turned I started making music because at its best its as close to
my room into a studio and started recording, but it wasn’t
magic as you can get. I didn’t think I’d be happy doing
until the ‘Eating People’ video that it became apparent we
anything else.
were going to form a band together.
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The Murder Capital
The Talk Show
We are The Murder Capital. We’re from all corners and
We’re a proper pick n mix of ideas and styles, I guess
stretches of Ireland.
you could say it ends up feeling somewhere in the wiry hinterland between post punk and new wave, but I think
The music we make is informed heavily by our
there’s plenty of things in the music that’s just us.
surroundings, experiences and our drive to affect those that become a part of what we are creating, including ourselves.
Can you tell us something that you collectively hate?
Can you tell us something that you collectively really
Seagulls. The bullies of the seaside.
love? The poem ‘When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be’ by John Keats is a great source of love and inspiration for us.
Guru We are collectively known as Guru, but you can call us Tom, Kieran, Ferg & Ivan to our faces.
Squid What’s special about where you’re from? Has it inspired How did you find each other?
your music?
Me and Ollie met through a mutual friend from Bristol and
Living in a cultural cul-de-sac like Maidstone forced us out
used to make some electronic music together in each other’s
into the high rent utopia of Brighton, East Sussex.
bedrooms when we moved to Brighton. Can you tell us the story behind one of your songs? Let’s talk about Norovirus... Leeds Norovirus. One of our forthcoming singles has a lot to do with the time we all went to Leeds and Arthur had Norovirus but didn’t know. 2 out of 5 Squid boys were infected whilst the rest of us lay dormant. There was lots of moaning, groaning and lying on the floor in the studio.
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