Working for a Nuclear Free City at Leeds Festival 2007

The boys from Working for a Nuclear Free City dropped by our sofa for a chat after performing on Leeds Festival's Topman Unsigned Stage.

Here's what John, Phil and Gary from the band had to say for themselves.

How did your set go down today at Leeds, guys?

Phil: It went down alright. We were on the unsigned stage, but we’re signed. So that was a bit weird. It’s just like “the shit band stage”.

Gary: or the “not quite there yet” sorta stage, maybe.

How did that all come about? Obviously, when you first got the call...were you signed then or not?

Phil: We’ve been signed for about a year and a half now.

Gary: I suppose there’s being signed, and being signed.

Phil: Oh yeah, we’re signed to a shitty little indie label, so we never get any decent gigs anyway.

Gary: It’s a small label and the money’s not there for, you know, publicity and the stuff that goes with the bigger bands. You know, plugging to get on radio etcetera. But it means that we can get a CD out. We got the call to play this, so you can’t really knock it.

Playing a festival like Leeds must be quite different from playing intimate gigs back home, where you see lots of familiar faces. But today I imagine you saw lots of faces you didn’t know. Was that quite scary?

Phil: We don’t get any familiar faces coming to our gigs anyway.

Gary: Oh, we get a few.

John: We get a few psychos following us around and stuff. Like, Myspace you get the crazy people who email you...they are pretty mental.

Working for a Nuclear Free City - it’s quite a mouthful to say. Where did the band name come from?

Phil: It comes from a sign that used to be in Manchester that said “Welcome to Manchester, Working for a Nuclear Free City”. We didn’t really think it through actually...

Gary: The thing is, we initially came up with the concept of recording an album, and then try and come up with the band name later. But we just kept arguing about it and arguing about it, so we just went with the album title.

John: It’s sort of the way the world is, innit, like nuclear and shit.

You’ve got a side project underway at the moment with an equally baffling name. Is that still in existence?

Phil: It was a guy that I used to live with - a French guy, and he was really good. That’s about it really. It’s kind of like song-based more traditional stuff, but with a similar kind of production as [Working for a] Nuclear Free City.

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Published: 02/01/2008 at 04:20
Author: John Russell
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