Issue Seventeen
IDLES Courtney Barnett Matt Maltese Hotel Lux Hinds Boy Azooga
Issue Seventeen takes us into festival season with Courtney Barnett on the print cover. We catch her in the midst of a European tour to chat about her artwork, the new record and trusting in the moment. Bristol’s finest, Idles take our call to chat about signing to Partisan Records, the communities behind the new record as well as the joys of touring the world with your mates. Flying over to New York, we talk to Bodega who have quickly become one of the most promising guitar bands around. Having recently recorded with Parquet Courts’ Austin Brown, we chat to them about the process. In the capital, Hotel Lux have released another testing single in ‘Daddy’, we met them at the pub to dismiss their ‘working class hero’ tag. Manchester carries a weight of history and we spoke to one of their modern leading lights, Spring King, about how the world needs a positive
Denmark’s Iceage have released a new record called
‘Beyondless’, we dug into the record and touched on why the world doesn’t need anymore hardcore records. You’ll
do well to listen to any decent radio station and not catch Cardiff’s Boy Azooga. They invited us backstage to talk
bass lines. Matt Maltese has swapped the lonely keyboard for a full band and thrown on his pink suit. We get heavy
and honest about his new album ‘Bad Contestant’ and the struggles of being a full time musician. To finish, Hinds released their second record ‘I Don’t Run’ in April and
it was only right that we sent them some Qs to catch up.
As always we introduce you to some of our favourite new sounds in Who Are You? Look out for quick chats with
Fontaines D.C., Mellah, Yassassin and more. Plus, Georgie
Jesson puts the industry in it’s place as Instant Shit returns.
spin.
3 Hotel Lux
27 Boy Azooga
8 Courtney Barnett
29 Who Are You?
12 Iceage
31 Spring King
15 IDLES
33 Instant Shit
19 Matt Maltese
36 Latitude Festival
25 Lice
37 Bodega
26 Confidence Man
40 Hinds
Daddy Was a Bad Guy
Tell Me How You Really Feel
Beyondless
Colossus
Bad Contestant
Exhibition
Confident Music
1,2 Kung Fu
Get To Know
A Better Life
Fruit and Flowers
Here Comes the Summer
Endless Scroll
I Don’t Run
Opposite, So Young Illustration Competition Winner, Anna Rupprecht (Solange)
WHO ARE Alaskalaska
Mellah
Can you tell us who you are, where you’re from and
Can you tell us who you are, where you’re from and
about the music you make?
about the music you make?
We are Lucinda, Fraser, Gethin, Joe, Calum and Fraser
My name’s Liam I’m from Forest Hill SE23, I make pop
(yeah, we got two). We all live in London but are from
songs about death and war.
different places originally - Wales, Merseyside, Norwich, Birmingham. We make music for dancing and kissing and
Can you tell us the story behind one of your songs?
crying to. People have labelled it ‘art-pop’ but really it’s just whatever we feel like making together, inspired by lots
The latest release from my new EP is called Numb. In short
of different things.
it’s about inequality.. I believe people are inherently good but for whatever reason, be it fear, apathy or whatever they let injustice wash over them.
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Fontaines DC
Yassassin
We’re Fontaines DC, we’re from Dublin City. We make
Can you tell us something that you collectively hate?
music that involves two guitars, a bass, a drummer and a lyricist. Our influences include The Dubliners and Girl
Rude sound engineers
Band. What’s special about where you’re from? Has it inspired Can you tell us something that you collectively really
your music?
love? London teaches you to be thick-skinned, unrelenting and We all have a profound love for the Sherlock Holmes
inclusive. I’ve always tried to inject the same attitude when
audiobook reading by Greg Wagland. His reading in
making music.
particular is what sends us to sleep most nights. (This is sincere).
Emerson Snowe My name is Jazz, but I perform under the moniker Emerson Snowe. I grew up in a small town in Australia called Townsville. I moved to Brisbane when I was seventeen. The project has had a heap of incarnations — as I’ve grown, the music has grown and changed as I have. I don’t have a live band, the current set up is myself with a thirty minute set recorded onto a tape that I play in a cassette player and basically karaoke the vocals over the top.
Lady Bird We are Sam, Joe and Alex, from regal Tunbridge Wells and we make something like punk music. What led you to form a band? A particular happening or a mutual love for a record or sound? A Grand Don’t Come For Free definitely was a big influence. The way the story resolves with a really deep revelation, but could just as easily be taken as face value commentary or just top tunes.
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Latitude Festival As the summer rolls in and brings with it the beautiful
The festival’s BBC Music stage sees James, Mogwai and
sunshine, we can finally look forward to standing in a field
Jon Hopkins headlining while the stage will also play host
with a can of cider in hand, basking in the sun or getting
to sets from the likes of Tune-Yards, Alvvays and our Issue
drenched in mud and watching your favourite bands. With
Seventeen cover stars Idles who will be causing chaos in the
the British festival scene becoming so saturated and various
tent. The festival’s Lake Stage sees some of the best newer
events taking place every weekend of the summer you
bands around heading to Suffolk with Boy Azooga bringing
might need some help on where you should be taking your
their debut album 1,2 Kung Fu! to Latitude, Sorry, Irish trio
rucksacks. This year’s Latitude festival is bursting at the
Whenyoung and the hugely exciting New Yorkers, Bodega
seams with an amazing variety of entertainment to keep
will all wow this year’s goers.
everyone happy; taking place at Henham Park in Suffolk on 12th July through to 15th July the festival promises to yet
The festival will see some of the world’s biggest acts head
again be another summer highlight.
to Suffolk but will also play host to some of the best bands this country currently has to offer with Scottish four piece
This year’s event will see arguably Latitude’s biggest ever
Spinning Coin, Phobophobes who will get to show off
headliner in The Killers taking to the Obelisk Arena on the
their excellent debut album Minature World to the Latitude
Saturday with Solange closing the first day out and Alt-J
faithful, The Orielles will get to prove why they are one of
closing this year’s festival on the Sunday. The festival’s
the best live bands around at the moment and Leeds band
Obelisk Arena also boasts some of the most exciting bands
Caro will take their melodic riff filled songs to the fields.
around at the moment, including The Vaccines bringing
Dutch singer-songwriter Pip Blom will bring her band to the
their latest album Combat Sports to Suffolk, Wolf Alice
east of England while Superorganism and Confidence Man
will be sure to prove why they’re future festival headliners
are both sure to bring a summer party to the festival as well
and Parquet Courts bringing their magnificent new album
as Spanish four piece Hinds who will show off their latest
Wide Awake! to these shores with their only UK festival
album to Henham Park.
appearance of the summer. Other acts appearing over the weekend include Belle and It’s not just the Obelisk Arena that holds a plethora of
Sebastian, Black Honey, Bloxx, Confidence Man, Femme
amazing bands with Latitude having various other stages for
Fatale, Fickle Friends, Gang of Youths, Japandroids,
you to explore with plenty of bands to delve into.
La Femme, Lucia, Preoccupations, Superorganism, The Breeders, The Charlatans, The Ninth Wave and Trudy and the Romance.
Words by Callum McCormack
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