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Posts tagged Minutemen
WQHS Interviews Tom McClung of WU LYF
WU LYF is nothing, four dumb kids calling out heavy longings for a place to call home, two brothers greet two brothers and play heavy pop. I don’t feel at home in this place, like your hearts drunk on kerosene and all you need is a spark. A lil’ flare of Lucifer.
Those four dumb kids from Manchester (but don’t call them a Manchester band), England made their North American debut at Philadelphia’s Making Time event last Saturday night (11/5) at Voyeur Nightclub. WU LYF (short for World Unite Lucifer Youth Foundation) has made quite the name for themselves, as much for their early refusal to speak to press or publish photos of their faces as for their interesting musical style (they call it heavy pop) and their soul-rousin’-foot-tappin’-finger-lickin’-good shows. Despite playing a fairly short set this weekend, they did not disappoint, spitting out each song with a frenzied yet earnest intensity, somehow managing to do justice to a collection of songs recorded in an abandoned church across the Atlantic. It was a raucous celebration of youth, and Philly was feeling it. Before the show, I got the chance to sit down with bassist/vocalist Tom McClung to talk about creativity and the recording process and even play some word association. See the interview after the jump.
