Issue Twelve
Goat Girl Cabbage
Sleaford Mods Neon Waltz
Dead Pretties
Lice
The Big Moon
Insecure Men
Dream Wife
Our first magazine of 2017 and a new era for So Young. Issue 12 brings us face to face with ‘The Scene’ as well as the exciting sounds from outside of the capital. Goat Girl grace our cover as we unlock their dissatisfaction with being labelled ‘leaders of scene’. Cabbage stumble in from Moseley near Manchester and we talk about Trump’s likely assassination amongst other things. Jason of Sleaford Mods talks to us about being an ageist target, whilst The Big Moon inform us of fans with lyric tattoos! Keep digging and you’ll find chats with Bristol noise makers LICE and we re-ignite our love for Neon Waltz with a conversation that brings John O’Groats a little closer to home. Who Are You? returns with another round of fresh sounds. Hear from Hotel Lux, And Yet It Moves and Yowl to name a few...
4 Neon Waltz
25 Instant Hit
8 Goat Girl
29 Dead Pretties
9 Cabbage
37 Sleaford Mods
14 Who Are You?
39 Lice
16 Insecure Men
42 Dream Wife
Land’s End to John O’Groats
It’s a Community Thing
Children of The Fall
Get to Know
All Time Classics
The Scene is a Socialist
Social Experiment
A Sad Old Mod
Little John Waynes
Spice Girls
17 The Great Escape The New Breed
19 The Big Moon I’ll Be Formidable
Illustration by Laura Rose Wade
Bill Callahan by Wilfrid Wood
And Yet It Moves
Sports Team
And Yet It Moves are a truck stop whore hell bent on
We just moved to London where we’re living way out west, 6
revenge. No limits. And Yet It Moves are from what’s the
Second Avenue. Influence wise, it’s all over the shop. A lot of it
news on Neptune Neptune.
just comes from growing up in the commuter belt; Wheatsheaf carveries, mock Tudor semis and the thrill of a Dyson Airblade.
We have no influences. We create in a vacuum. That’s a lie
Ricey wants me to point out AC/DC.
and you know it cunt. Sleep well sleep well sleep well. Get it while it’s going. Mamma gone home. The Britanys Girl Ray
The music is really in the songs, guess if there’s anything that we’re really about is the songs - living in songs.
Poppy, Iris and Sophie. Music to cry or cartwheel to. Aiming high with Beach Boys, Beatles, Bowie and ABBA.
We really don’t leave our apartment or neighbourhood much. Easy to get stuck in a bubble. Our days usually consist of
Aims and plans for 2017?
playing music or playing soccer and there’s a bar with a pool table around the corner from us.
Release an album, tour big, Olympic hurdles. YOWL
Hotel Lux
We’re YOWL (Gabriel, Mike, Ivor, Tom and Jake). We’re from We are Hotel Lux - Lewis, Sam, Jake, Craig and Cam.
all over the place, but we’ve currently set up our soiled nests in
Originally from Portsmouth, now occupants of London.
South East London.
The puke on your shoes, the piss on your bed sheets and the
If you could change one thing, be it personal or global what
frequency of car horns on the Mile End Road.
would it be? We talked at length and decided that it’d be nice for everyone if
IDLES
free range eggs were cheaper.
The best show we’ve played, for me was at The Bristol County Sports Club for Simple Things festival. It was carnage. We came
Matt Maltese
on after Shame who killed it. What came next was nothing short of a perfect gig, the room was full of love and I’ll never forget it.
I’m a piano guy from Reading who likes to think he’s making sleazy Tom Waits music, but maybe sometimes sounds like an
If you could change one thing, be it personal or global what
emo Robbie Williams. I’m also Adam Sandler’s biological son.
would it be? What can we expect from you as we go deeper into 2017? Reverse Global Warming completely, I guess. That or have two worlds, one for us and one for them.
More emotional piano songs and a high profile scandal.
Illustration by Josh Whettingsteel
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Our feeds are becoming difficult places, I’m not talking
We can’t tell you who, or where, but join us on the Friday
about which petition to sign next or unfollowing ‘that’
for a very special night.
uncle, I’m talking about which festivals you’re going to attend this year as they all announce killer line ups. The
So who else should you see? For those of you that follow
summer provides a tricky decision, but before then, we
‘the scene’ and those linked to it, you will find HMLTD,
have a very easy one to make. The Great Escape returns
Dead Pretties and Yowl in attendance. Expect guitars,
this year, delivering your favourite artists and an array of
social unrest and make up. Lots of make up. The Magic
eclectic sounds in one city. The festival takes over Brighton
Gang return home to Brighton as they begin their first
on May 18th until the 20th. The Great Escape is yours, and
festival season under a major label. So far it’s delivering
we mean that because your Great Escape will be completely
only hits with ‘How Can I Compete’ fighting for pop song
different to somebody elses. It doesn’t place itself within
of the year already. For those of you on an adventure to
one genre, it specialises in them all. Attracting the best of
find your next favourite noise makers, you should look no
the best. But more importantly, from our point of view, it
further than Cabbage. The northern boys bring their national
introduces us to the new breed. Our next favourite bands.
dissatisfaction, sung with a smile to the south coast, expect
Slaves top the bill this year with Rag ‘n’ Bone man adding
queues! If it’s headliners that sell the festival to you, then
to a radio dominant year. Try and avoid that song.
2015 saw Slaves walking upon shoulders, armed with their instruments and still managing to keep a song together.
The Great Escape 2017 is that little bit more special for us
Their second album ‘Take Control’ was released last year
this year because we are proud to announce that we will be
and there’s no doubt a fresh set will satisfy your need to
hosting our very own stage.
pogo for an hour.
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Words by Sam Ford, illustration by Josh Whettingsteel
Why I Smell Good by Dave Singley
Artists
Josh Whettingsteel Marcus Oakley
Editors Sam Ford
Josh Whettingsteel
Writers
Lucy Bourton Rob Knaggs Sam Ford
Josh Whettingsteel Sophie Diver
Georgie Jesson Matthew Fogg
Rhys Buchanan Emma Snook
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