FIGHT! Interview- Scuzz
(S= Scuzz, 'Spikes'-nickname for Tyson, 'Elmo'- Nickname for Callum)
Starting off with by chance meetings,
FIGHT! have brought themselves up in their local areas as an up coming experimental metal band. The 6- piece London based band are all set to release their 1st single, Faceless with local girl, Abi Taylor, and Scuzz have got an interview to let the band show the world who they are and to see what will be next if the band pull off the release.
S: So what's going through your minds as you enter the final days to the release of your debut single?
Tyson: It's really weird, we were going around with other bands and a lot of us thought that we would be so far behind the other bands in our chances.
Shawn: Tyson's right that it's been weird but it's also like a dream coz each day just passes and we all expect to wake up in our old lives but we don't and it's a massive rush that it isn't an illusion. We want to do well and I'm not planning on messing up this chance.
Enoch: I'm terrified! I'll probably sound terrible and it won't sell at all.
S: I'm sure you're still the great singer on the local albums you guys did, that was very good for 2 bedroom recorded albums. Hows the recording process in a studio feel?
Enoch: It was so different to how I thought it would be, I thought it would be all of us in one room sorta jamming or something then playing it all at once. Still an amazing experience.
Charlie: My uncle was cool with us using the studio but Rio took out a pane of glass, I swear its next to impossible to throw a drum stick through that glass...
Rio: I'll said I'm gonna pay for that!
Charlie: You said that about the 12 lottery tickets as well!
Callum: And you owe £50 for Fifa!
Rio: Shut up Elmo! Your not helping!
S: Anyway, back to the point... How confident are you guys that you can pull this off and land a label contract? At least that is the point, right?
Shawn: Obviously the point of the single is to give us more popularity and to let everyone hear our music. It would be a dream come true if we could land ourselves a label but ultimately we've had some success so far being label less, however small the success is, its still progress.
Tyson: We are getting this pushed onto a bigger stage and hope that we could get noticed and maybe that will lead to a signing. We all want this and we are all in for the long haul, this is no tea party. All 6 of us want to make some sort of impression and we hope it'll be a grand a memorable one.
Enoch: If it's not then that'll suck. But this life is a difficult one. It's hard enough already.
Rio: That's what she said (Laughs).
S: You mentioned in your statement about the single release that you're trying to get your album going. Is there any progress on that front?
Enoch: Not really. We have a album load of songs, and more. But the main problem is getting a producer. If we can't get any professional producer or up coming producers and worse comes to worse we are planning to get Charlie's uncle to give it a shot. No offense to him...
Callum: We've not had much contact with producers but we have talked to a few amateur guys but we aren't sure yet and it's hard getting the producers to agree, never thought it would be this hard.
S: If you could get any producer to help you with the album, who would you recruit?
(Band all put on their thinking faces)
Shawn: Ooh, that's a tough one... I dunno to be honest...
Tyson: There's that young producer guy, rap producer or something?
Rio: Ooh! Ooh! MattY! I think... pretty sure. He owns MattY Productions. Yeah, he would be a great choice to do the album.
S: Even if the album is so different form his genre style?
Rio: I'm sure he's a flexible lad and the album would be sorta rappy but its heavier with loads of killer riffs instead of the consistent beat behind and we have singing instead of rapping... so sorta the same...
Callum: That's nothing like rap...
S: That brings me to my last question actually. What was the inspiration for your songs in the single, which I'm guessing isn't singing anybodies praises?
Enoch: Me, Shawn and Tyson wrote most of the songs for the album and the single was Spikes own work. You could say some of it could sound political and I think that might be the way to describe it, ask Spikes.
Tyson: Yeah, Faceless is to do with how police can get away with stuff that any civilian would or could get years for.
Shawn: Airplanes was just a random cover because we all liked the song and Open Your Eyes is about trying to get people to open their eyes to the fact that every government is flawed and despite what they tell us all each election, fuck all happens.
Tyson: And unfortunately it's gonna stay that way until we get some actual honest fucker in there! If you haven't guessed, Me and Shawn are the guys who listen to the news each night.
Enoch: I'm just sorta there, I'm the sad song guy, I'm told. At least I still pay attention. (Falls off his stool) (Band Laughing).
FIGHT!'s DEBUT SINGLE, 'FACELESS' IS OUT ON THE 8TH OF NOVEMBER
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