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t’s been a couple years since Leeds outfit Eagulls released their
swaggering debut LP, and since then they’ve played on David Letterman’s show in the States and written a brand new collection of tracks, due for release later this year. Teir music is edgy without being hardcore, opinionated without being aggressive, and is all round downright great. I spoke to drummer Henry about pig’s brains and ginnels ahead of their gig at Norwich Arts Centre this month.
20 / February 2016/
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How did you get together? Were you in a band beforehand? Weirdly I used to play in my garage with George’s older brother. But basically it was that all of us moved away from home, met like minded people who liked similar music and it stemmed from there. It was like “you play guitar, you play drums,” and then we had to find a frontman. I grew up with George who sings in the band; we’ve known each other pretty much our whole lives and I knew he was always very interesting. He hadn’t been in a band before but I knew him as a personality and mostly through his art; he’s an illustrator as well. From seeing how good his illustrations were I knew he’d have something. I was living in Leeds and he was in Lincoln, so we convinced him to come across cos we had these songs we’d put together, and it happened like that really, the rest is history. What’s the music scene like in Leeds at the moment? We’ve been here for eight years now. It’s good, I think it dominates quite a lot in the North, it’s really strong and diverse. Tere are certain areas of town where you’d go to see a punk or hardcore show, or a psych show, but the community is so strong in Leeds and it’s not the biggest of places but a lot of the bands know each other and are friends. You often get
mixed bills which is always amazing; in one night you could see a singer/songwriter with 50 pedals making weird noises, then a post punk band with 80’s influences followed by a hardcore band. It’s a real melting pot, and obviously the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds is regarded as one of the best venues in the country. You have a track called Council Flat Blues and the covers of your recordings often show run down urban landscapes. Is part
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