Fake Club are a raucous girl-group who aren’t afraid to speak their minds. Their upfront punk style is raw yet anthemic and their LP which is due to be released next year will surely become a staple of any hard-hitting rocker’s record collection. We speak to Rosie Bones, the lead singer of the up and coming band, about bizarre names, gigs in Italy and late nights at Koko nightclub... You’ve just released your new single ‘Midnight at Koko’, where did the influence for the song come from? It came out of a jam at our studio in Holloway. We thought we might want to do a bit of a slower tempo track amongst a heavy-rock set, so we started writing it and ‘Midnight at Koko’ came out. We all thought it was quite a cool concept as we’ve all been at ‘Koko’ nightclub at midnight before, so it’s something we could all relate to. Is there any particularly memorable night you’ve had at ‘Koko’ that your new single is based on? There’ve been so many. We once played ‘Koko’ at ‘Club NME’ which was awesome. It all inevitably descended into chaos though... You had a launch party for the new single in Camden, how’d that go? We had two amazing bands play and it was both of their first gigs so there was some cool new talent going on. Kate Nash also came down and DJ’d and then we had a big party back at our warehouse! Your track, ‘Beauty Queen’ seems like it’s portraying an anti-celebrity message. Is that an ongoing theme for the band,
being against “celebrity worship”? Well the thing is we’re not necessarily anti-celebrity. We just want to be a real band, play real gigs and touch people with proper music! If we were to get famous, sell lots of records and do what we want to do, that would just be a bi-product of us being good, not because we got naked in a magazine! Leading on from what you were saying about playing ‘real’ gigs, you never play or record to a metronome, is there a reason behind this? Our main thing as a band is the live show, so we want any recording we do to be a good representation of that. We try and record as live as possible. We like it when it’s a bit rough around the edges, it doesn’t need to be perfect! Do you have any plans for a tour next year? Well, we’ve already done some international gigs. We played in Berlin and we did a little tour in Italy. Next year we will literally be touring our faces off. Any final words of wisdom for our readers... Do stuff because you enjoy it and love it, not because someone else tells you to. Make sure you do things for the right reasons. Have fun and buy our album!
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