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SCOTLAND’S The Snuts are keeping guitar music alive and making it exciting once again.
The four-piece, from Whitburn, West Lothian, sold out the 3000-capacity Corn Exchange in Edinburgh in six seconds.
Today, fans will get the chance to buy tickets for a gig at King Tut’s in Glasgow on March 13 and the band release their new song Coffee & Cigarettes – hot on the heels of their ode to Fatboy Slim – an anthem which melds guitars with the DJ’s big beats. Both are on new EP Mixtape.
Jack Cochrane (vocals/guitar), Joe McGillveray (guitar), Callum “29” Wilson (bass) and Jordan “Joko” Mackay (drums) should be your new favourite band.
Here, Jack tells us their grand plan…
Your videos are becoming talking points. Last year, the one for All Your Friends had the group stuck inside a TV shopping channel’s microwave and for Fatboy Slim you poked your heads up through the stones on Brighton beach. Where do you get your ideas? We have a super-stupid idea and take it to the team who do our videos and it gets reined in and they work out what’s actually possible.
It’s difficult for guitar bands to get out in front in the social media age.
We pride ourselves on our videos and attitude. Our videos are always going to be something interesting and not the four of us in a disused warehouse. That’s the worst. Guitar music has been so well done it’s hard for young bands to find a new way to play and showcase it. Why did you write a song about Fatboy Slim? As a guitar band, you have to keep challenging yourself or you’ll end up just a mundane indie band. So much has been done in guitar music –