Unwritten Law: Bombed Out.

Unwritten Law

Unwritten Law play the Loudmouth Stage at Livid at the RNA Showgrounds on Saturday.

Unwritten Law's guitarist Steve Morris was injured by a homemade bomb allegedly planted by his neighbour a month or so back.

“It was a dry ice-bomb. He was just angry at me for noise I supposedly made but it's kind of like a litigation so I can't really talk about it.”

On another note Unwritten Law are headed back to our shores for the umpteenth time for this year's Livid festival.

“We're really looking forward to it. I always am, I always am.”

Before heading our way Unwritten Law wrapped filming on an up coming special that will air on MTV. Apparently the band played in a rodeo full of bulls and horses on all sides, did a spiritual set with Crow Indians, played in a Ghost Town and Wade got into trouble when Park Rangers caught him naked in a local lake.”

A little controversy was also caused by Elva's very different artwork.

“It has spiritual undertones. A guy called Mark I'm not really sure of his last name did it. He's going to be like the next Picasso he's really good. All those paintings on the cover are four feet by four feet. We each got one of them; we bought them of course. If you have a look at them there's these two buildings on fire. He actually painted those two months before September 11. The record company tried to get us to take that panel off the cover or get us to take the fire out but we just kept it on there, it was never really an issue for us.”

Talking to Steve, he shows a spiritual side that many people might not know he had.

“Yes I am spiritual,” he states.

I ask him if he thinks spirituality is something not really talked about in the punk scene because it's not cool to be into that type of stuff.

“I couldn't really care very much for 'punk'. I think anyone who calls themselves punk is a fucking poser anyway. They probably don't really know what it's about and if they think that being 'punk' means that they can't like certain things it means they've got it all wrong. They're just a bunch of fucking retards; I don't give a shit about what they think. Fuck that.”

So does that mean Unwritten Law aren't or maybe never were a punk band. They just make good music?

“See the thing is we never really started out to be a 'punk rock' band we just got labelled as that. We're just a band but we still have that punk rock mentality and attitude still. Unfortunately sometimes it just gets us into fucking trouble. We've always been a rock band we've changed so much I don't know where the hell we're coming from all the old albums have different styles on them anyway so it's not like we're doing something new or anything it's just a natural progression you take as a musician. We're not kids anymore we've grown up, I mean I'm the youngest and I'm 25 when I started I was 16. So it's a natural thing as you grow up you become more experienced and just experience life. People got kids and wives and families now and it kind of comes through in your music. You grow up and you mature and your music grows with you and if it doesn't there's something wrong with that.”