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Faris: I dont tend to attack fans unless they deserve it
Gallows: In the Belly of a Shark
Lee: " Well, for one, they were all a bunch of crackheads. Frank definately doesn’t like being compared to Jonny Rotten. He doesn’t even drink. Musically I don’t even think we sound like them either. I think there’s a lot more going on in our music then there was in the Sex Pistols "
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Introducing the Band: An Interview with the Horrors
The horrors are (cringe worthy statement ahead) "the band of the moment". Hyped by everyone from the nme to q to radio one… so why exactly is it that experiments in living feel the need to interview them? Well – its because they also happen to be brilliant (oh and James Dean Bradfield liking them probably had something to do with it aswell)! We arranged to meet them before their gig at Junk in southend, and spoke to Faris... Thanks to Andy Fraser from somefriendly for helping to set everything up!
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Some say the world will end in Performance
When we started the band we were interested in the ways in which the idea of a band could be deconstructed and reduced to its essential components. Back then we were more preoccupied with the synthetic and the inhumane and we were interested in the theory of performing, performance as logic and a process through which ideas, identities, politics and sexuality are expressed
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At the height of our disembodied digital era, two disguised femme-bots descend to deliver their funkpunk message to undiscerning humanoids inclined to the sounds of artful proto punk, exuberant electro-pop and new wave expressionism. SUE DENIM and DEE PLUME are Robots in Disguise, two perfectly harmonizing automatons programmed to create crafty left-field punk-pop and paying tribute as female counterparts to the rock stage personas of David Bowie and Iggy Pop, respectively.
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Assembly Now is a four-piece indie rock band from London, England. Their first three-song demo was produced by John Fortis (Razorlight, Art Brut) and Howard Gray (The Cure, U2, Apollo 440) at Apollo Control Studios in February 2006. Two of the songs from this unreleased demo, It's Magnetic and Out On 24s, were subsequently released as a limited edition debut single in August 2006 to near-universal critical acclaim
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Sing it Out An Interview with Hope of the States
Their birthplace of Chichester may not equate in your eyes to the spawning-ground of legends, but if one thing is set to be achieved from the 'States all-encompassing greatness - it's that prior-laid conventions are set to be dutifully crushed... they are one of the UK's most daringly avant-garde cum post-rock alt-forces