Seventy-two hours shy of the band’s second birthday, counted from taking part in their first-ever gig, Tom and singer Bert – an instantly likeable pair with broad Brizzle accents and an endearing Jay and Silent Bob stoner-skater manner – are telling this to Kerrang! from a dressing room at Obtain. Their second yr on the bounce at Donington is only one banner date in a calendar that’s featured a summer time of exhibits with, variously, A Day To Bear in mind, Knocked Unfastened, Amira Elfeky, doing Slam Dunk, doing 2000trees, going to America for a headline tour, having already been there as soon as already, opening for post-hardcore legends Thursday and Silverstein…
So we’re being unambiguous: Cut up Chain – Bert and Tom, guitarists Jake Reid and Oli Bowles, and drummer Aaron Black – are one of many hottest and finest new bands in Britain. This Friday, their debut document, the much-anticipated and completely sensible motionblur, will lastly arrive on U.S. punk powerhouse Epitaph Information, the place the band can now rely Architects, Parkway Drive and Rancid amongst their coworkers.
“Even the title, motionblur, is sort of a reference to how mad all the pieces’s been since we began,” laughs Bert of Cut up Chain’s lightning quick, ahem, chain response of occasions. “We began simply to put in writing some songs and play some exhibits in Bristol. We booked our first present ourselves, and for some cause thought we should always simply begin with a headline present – and it bought out! Then we began getting competition gives. I used to be like, ‘How the fuck is that this taking place?’”
This comes up rather a lot from each of them. As they inform you the story, you’ll be able to perceive why. Instance: they have been in a Wetherspoons in Liverpool whereas on tour when the e-mail got here by from Epitaph. As a lot as the rest, with no experience or connections in showbiz, Bert remembers his ideas being, fairly innocently: “What does this imply?”
Tom had by no means even performed a present earlier than Cut up Chain. Bert had, in an outdated band, “however we did nothing”. Any ambitions had been, nevertheless far-fetched, in skateboarding, the place the pair had fostered the same old teen desires of going professional. The band had been an identical factor.
“We thought we’d simply be taking part in exhibits in Bristol,” says Bert. “The final music [recorded for] the album, who am i? is us simply going, ‘Why us?’ It’s about imposter syndrome. Even within the studio, as we have been struggling to complete it, it simply highlighted all that. ‘Why is that this nice stuff taking place to us? We’re no person!’”
