Is This Band, Britains Best Kept Secret?
David Line, lead singer with indie band ‘Seafood’ remembers little of the sell out gig. Into their second live set Line suddenly collapsed on stage unable to breath. He was rushed to hospital where medics diagnosed a collapsed lung.
One year later Seafood are back on tour and still rock, better than they ever have before. They have come through a rough patch with more edge, drive and passion. With a band member leaving and Line’s lung deciding to deflate itself therefore having to cancel their tour and of top of all that, being dropped from their record label. That would be enough to crush any band, but not this one.
Sitting in the back room of the Birmingham Carling Academy, are a band desperate to be heard over the corporate, dull manufactured bullshit that dominates the music scene today. After all as Dylan said ‘when you aint got nothing, you’ve got nothing to loose’
At this stage the tour is going well so far, but they are still worried about the fact its all going too smoothly. If there was a time for modesty and arrogance to be mixed together it is now. They feel the need for arrogance as it’s the way you get heard, they are brilliant and survivors. They sure know it, yet they seemed grateful and surprised for any support they get.
Seafood are a difficult band to interview, and I’m trying to figure out why. I don’t know whether if they are just bored and uneasy with talking to the press, or if it’s just that they want to go and order pizza.
On the other hand, I find that they think the interview will be a waste of time. They have been Seafood for nearly ten years, and still haven’t hit it big. They seemed very frustrated, especially as they see manufactured ‘rock’ bands such as Busted and McFly becoming very successful. To Seafood it doesn’t seem to make sense.
‘The music scene makes no sense today. I mean we have been doing this for nearly ten years and it feels as though we are just being kicked under the carpet.’ Says Kevin, who for the past thirty minutes of the interview has remained quiet. It makes me wonder why they keep going, and persisting with the music business, as Kevin said
‘We need to be heard’ I ask why ‘Because we are brilliant’
Kevin says that so matter- of –fact, that I believe it. I am a fan of their music and I do agree with him, they are brilliant.
Seafood are from the outskirts of Surrey and lead singer David is from Lincolnshire. The band got together when they answered an ad for a flat in a magazine called ‘Loot’. Caroline and Kevin were looking for somewhere to live whilst David and Charles were looking for a drummer and a bass player, Kevin and Caroline fitted the bill.
‘We gave them an audition and it just all fitted into place. However we are quite contradictory as we argue a lot’ commented David
Seafood’s self defined music is enough to make fans ‘spaz-out’ on stage, brings tears to your eyes and makes you wonder why they are still not dubbed Britain’s best rock band.
However now in Britain it is becoming continuously difficult to become a successful band. Plugging your self for years can be at times disheartening, however Seafood have kept going, feeding on their passion for the band and love for the music. There is something admiring about the way they keep hanging on, they haven’t necessarily gone anywhere, or achieved anything ground breaking. Against all odds, they are just about keeping their heads above the water.
So that is where it all started, for two years they gigged on the indie music circuit. But what now, eight years on and being made label-less because of Mushroom Records being taken over by Warner Brothers it seems far from a success story, but more like a story about survival. There is something about them though and I can’t quite put my finger on it. But it’s endearing and it’s what’s missing from most of the music scene today.
So are Seafood really Britain’s Best Kept Secret, or are they just that band that will float around the music scene forever?
One year later Seafood are back on tour and still rock, better than they ever have before. They have come through a rough patch with more edge, drive and passion. With a band member leaving and Line’s lung deciding to deflate itself therefore having to cancel their tour and of top of all that, being dropped from their record label. That would be enough to crush any band, but not this one.
Sitting in the back room of the Birmingham Carling Academy, are a band desperate to be heard over the corporate, dull manufactured bullshit that dominates the music scene today. After all as Dylan said ‘when you aint got nothing, you’ve got nothing to loose’
At this stage the tour is going well so far, but they are still worried about the fact its all going too smoothly. If there was a time for modesty and arrogance to be mixed together it is now. They feel the need for arrogance as it’s the way you get heard, they are brilliant and survivors. They sure know it, yet they seemed grateful and surprised for any support they get.
Seafood are a difficult band to interview, and I’m trying to figure out why. I don’t know whether if they are just bored and uneasy with talking to the press, or if it’s just that they want to go and order pizza.
On the other hand, I find that they think the interview will be a waste of time. They have been Seafood for nearly ten years, and still haven’t hit it big. They seemed very frustrated, especially as they see manufactured ‘rock’ bands such as Busted and McFly becoming very successful. To Seafood it doesn’t seem to make sense.
‘The music scene makes no sense today. I mean we have been doing this for nearly ten years and it feels as though we are just being kicked under the carpet.’ Says Kevin, who for the past thirty minutes of the interview has remained quiet. It makes me wonder why they keep going, and persisting with the music business, as Kevin said
‘We need to be heard’ I ask why ‘Because we are brilliant’
Kevin says that so matter- of –fact, that I believe it. I am a fan of their music and I do agree with him, they are brilliant.
Seafood are from the outskirts of Surrey and lead singer David is from Lincolnshire. The band got together when they answered an ad for a flat in a magazine called ‘Loot’. Caroline and Kevin were looking for somewhere to live whilst David and Charles were looking for a drummer and a bass player, Kevin and Caroline fitted the bill.
‘We gave them an audition and it just all fitted into place. However we are quite contradictory as we argue a lot’ commented David
Seafood’s self defined music is enough to make fans ‘spaz-out’ on stage, brings tears to your eyes and makes you wonder why they are still not dubbed Britain’s best rock band.
However now in Britain it is becoming continuously difficult to become a successful band. Plugging your self for years can be at times disheartening, however Seafood have kept going, feeding on their passion for the band and love for the music. There is something admiring about the way they keep hanging on, they haven’t necessarily gone anywhere, or achieved anything ground breaking. Against all odds, they are just about keeping their heads above the water.
So that is where it all started, for two years they gigged on the indie music circuit. But what now, eight years on and being made label-less because of Mushroom Records being taken over by Warner Brothers it seems far from a success story, but more like a story about survival. There is something about them though and I can’t quite put my finger on it. But it’s endearing and it’s what’s missing from most of the music scene today.
So are Seafood really Britain’s Best Kept Secret, or are they just that band that will float around the music scene forever?
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