Issue Nineteen
Viagra Boys The Orielles Insecure Men Drenge Baxter Dury
Who are Just Mustard Can you tell us who you are, where you’re from and about the music you make? Italia 90 We are from Dundalk, Ireland and we make noise and Can you tell us who you are, where you’re from and
trip hop inspired repetitive music with guitars, vocals and
about the music you make?
drums.
We are Captain ACAB, J Dangerous, Les Miserable &
What’s special about where you’re from? Has it inspired
Bobby Portrait. Together we are Italia 90. Formerly from
your music?
the South coast but all been in London together for the last Dundalk and its people have a very strong and legitimate
5/6 years.
sense of local pride and identity. The lack of anything to do Can you tell us the story behind one of your songs?
except eat or go to the pub definitely helps force people to do something creative, out of boredom.
The song Mobile Reassurance Unit is about the way that the police continue to operate in the same ways they always have, marginalising, profiling and attacking people, but they now do it from behind a cuddly and approachable image.
Creatures
The idea being that they have somehow changed their ways and cleaned themselves up from the inside. Mobile
Can you tell us who you are, where you’re from and
Reassurance Units are a real thing, and that song was
about the music you make?
written after seeing one out in central London. We’re Creatures don’t you know! All coming from villages in the Northamptonshire area we all migrated to London and finally settled in Clapton. Our music is a cross between crooner pop and dirty western desert riffs. Occasionally we throw in a Hawaiian number for good measure. How did you find each other? Quite awkward at first…
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Words by Elly Watson, illustration by Josh Whettingsteel
Desire
Cruelty
We’re Desire, the voice of the higher classes. Met in
What’s special about where you’re from? Has it inspired
Brighton but now London based. We just write as much
your music?
as possible and we play any gig. The bombay bad boy pot noodle in music form.
Cruelty was born in Bristol’s DIY Punk scene. We feel we are both a part of it and a reaction to it. There is
How did you find each other?
some incredibly exciting music happening in and around Bristol right now and we feel so honoured to be in such a
Drinks
supportive and creative environment. Bristol’s location is amazing as well, Cardiff has such a unique and exciting
What led you to form a band? A particular happening or
scene, and being so close we really try to be involved with
mutual love for a record or sound?
that.
Without sounding brexit we all love to get up and play
Can you tell us the story behind one of your songs?
British music. I guess playing in the hardcore punk scene rubs off on you too. We wanna make hits not knock off Fall
The lyrics for our single ‘Disgraced’ were written in one
tunes.
sitting and not really edited much afterwards. It was during quite a distressing time and was a cathartic outpouring of bottled up emotion. The words don’t really exist there to tell a strict narrative (although I’m sure a narrative could
Honey Lung
be applied), instead they were purely a reaction to mental health issues.
Can you tell us who you are, where you’re from and about the music you make? We’re Honey Lung, a 4 piece alternative rock band from
Hummah
the suburbs of London. Jamie sings and plays guitar, Harry plays lead guitar, Dave plays bass and Omri plays the
We are HUMMAH from London, we’ve been making
drums. We like to make melodic, introspective rock playing
sounds together for the last few months
heavily on the themes of depression, anxiety, loss and love. Can you tell us something that you collectively really What led you to form a band? A particular happening or
love?
mutual love for a record or sound? Happy endings We started out with basing the band on the concept of writing over the top riffy rock with a certain honesty and
Can you tell us something that you collectively hate?
seriousness to it. We still keep to that ethos, but over the past couple of years we’ve looked deeper into ourselves.
Bullies
We aren’t the same kids that we were when we first started out. The direction we’re heading into is a more lyrical, introspective narrative written with more layers, textures and sounds. Right now we’re listening to bands like Sparklehorse, Modest Mouse, Grandaddy, Wilco and The Brian Jonestown Massacre.
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