Macc-Attack!

Hey there. Well I haven't quite finished all my work yet, but hopefully by the time you read this I will have done. But yes, as promised here is my interview with the Maccabees. Last year Random Access reported on the rather anticlimactic NME New Bands tour, which featured the Horrors, the Dykeenies and Boy Kill Boy (what a bloody awful line-up it was), anyway the gig's one saving feature was the fact a rather ace band called the Maccabees was playing. I jumped away merrily at the front with the teeny-boppers and sung along to "X-Ray" and "Latchmere" with gay abandonment, but yes I met Orlando Weeks (The Maccabees frontman...wow i'm using too many brackets today...for that I apologize) in the bar during the BKB set (best place to watch that band..*cringes*) and got on really well with him. I said that the next time the Maccas were in town we'd love to interview them, and so when they came to the Arts Centre a couple of weeks ago that exactly what we did. I was lucky enough to grab 10 or so minutes in the company of Felix, the guitarist from the Maccabees, and had a lovely chat about everything from the band's fondness for the memories of childhood to charity-shopping. Must say that Felix was a jolly nice fellow and that the Maccabees played a stunning set as well full of promising new songs. Can't wait to hear their album which comes out in a couple of months or so.

To download the interview click: here