1. Growing Up
My first musical memory is Christmas eve with Hot August Night by Neil Diamond playing – such a great album and as an adult I would have to listen to it to put up the Xmas tree to get in the spirit. I don’t really celebrate Xmas now though, but I still put that record on around December.
2. Inspirations
A huge inspiration for me is PJ Harvey, she’s just a brilliant songwriter and an intriguing, mysterious woman with huge talent who doesn’t really seem to care about what is popular. Also Kim Deal inspires me, another woman who makes groundbreaking music and is kooky and likable but unknowable. I like the mystery they both have and their talent is amazing to me but I love that they are always ahead of the curve, true originators.
3. Your Band
Screamfeeder is comprised of four people. We’ve been together so long I don’t even know how… we are connected through the life-affirming nature of making loud music in small rooms, the restorative nature of fucking loud rock’n’roll.
4. The Music You Make
We are fortunate enough that our back catalogue spanning around 20 years and seven albums is being reissued by the kind folk at Poison City Records. We’re grounded in the early ’90s approach of scorching sonic guitar attack, massive distorted bass guitar, pounding drums and melodic vocal-driven fucking massive pop songs and downright bombastic sludgy rock. I guess.
5. Music, Right Here, Right Now
Music and art is cyclic. True originators and scene drivers evolve underground and rise to the top and are usually usurped by imitators who water it down for mass consumption. Having said that bands like Violent Soho are owning the place and for that we are high-fiving all and sundry. It’s wonderful that amazing bands like Sounds Like Sunset are still active and making glorious sounds. We need bands like this. Zea Horse and The Laurels too, thank God for them, I mean get on your fucking knees and THANK HER!
Screamfeeder play Newtown Social Club on Friday October 3 with support from The Laurels and Freak Wave.
