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Miss Black America hail from Bury St Edmunds, a life growing up there
has had a marked effect on their young, bored, articulate) lives. They are in the vanguard
that that lit the turn-of-the-century fuse. I like
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The main influence was just boredom
and the prospect of never knowing anything else; having nothing to do except look for shit
jobs and go down the pub.
We didn't want to end up like everyone else, working in Tesco or the chicken factory or
some godawful soul-destroying office job for the rest of our lives.
Me and Mike had just failed our college courses, Neil was doing A-levels and the three of
us met at a drum 'n' bass gig in Cambridge one night.
Mike walked up to me and said, "You're in a band! Buy me a drink!" so I
bought him a half of cider and he said "Be in a band with me! I'm a bass
player! And he's a drummer - oi! Neil! Do you wanna be in a
band?". And this long-haired indie kid turned around and said, "alright,
dude".
Two days later, we had our first practice, and two weeks after that, we played our first
gig. Gish joined about a year later, in October 2000, when I had an accident that
stopped me playing guitar. But I was shit anyway, and he's brilliant, so fuck
it.
We rehearse at Mike's parents' farm. The cows don't object to the noise. And
even if they did, I don't speak cow. |
