'It’s Hard To Push Back The Fear': Jay Watson Steps Into The Light As GUM

Tom Hersey, Journalist

Features / Music
affliction addiction
“Every tour gets crazier and crazier, but we’re very humble, so we just have to kind of take in all the stuff that’s going on around us but at the same time keep our heads down and focussed on what’s coming up, sort of thing.”
Features / Music
Playing It By Ear
“We’ve never really sat down and talked about how our career should progress and what we should do with the music. It’s always been more like ‘we can book a tour here’ and ‘we could try to write an album there’."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: PiL, We Set Sail
Sexist pig? Misunderstood provocateur? Doddering blowhard? As long as John Lydon can perform shows like he does tonight, keep old white people dancing in a euphoric haze of memories from ‘that one trip to Ibiza’, is it really going to make much of a difference?
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Grinspoon, Kingswood & Emperors
Whatever the reasons behind their unexpected nostalgic turn, the end result is something that keeps an entire room of Oz rock fans very happy.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Off With Their Heads - Home
It’s not all doom and gloom though, Off With Their Heads manage to redeem themselves in the moments where Home finds its own sound among the punk rock milieu.
Features / Music
Quality Control
“It’s really exciting, we had to scrap most of what we’d done before because it didn’t make us feel like we do now; this stuff sounds like the Caddies but is new and fresh."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: KISS, Motley Crue, Thin Lizzy & Diva Demolition
We wanted the best, and we got the best.
Features / Music
Dutch Courage
“We’ve got a couple of songs but they’re not finished yet. We’ve got five or ten songs for the next one, but it’s probably not going to be released until mid-2014.”
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Cold Calling
“I don’t think something new that we hadn’t thought about came of seeing all the other bands play. We saw a lot of good bands and some poor ones in between."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Presidents Of The United States Of America, Hey Geronimo & Lilly Rouge
Even if their encore fails to hold the crowd’s attention after stellar numbers like Naked And Famous, The Presidents Of The United States Of America’s set is a resounding triumph.
Features / Music
Live And let Die
“There’s times where we all get completely lost in it. Luckily we’ve been playing these songs for so long that we don’t usually get lost in them, but it is a problem."
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Spring Loaded
"We want to get in the faces of the people who have come to see us and try to push them, so they really can feel the adrenaline of the music.”