Complete this sentence: Public display of affection will:
Liam Maloy : …continue to serve Satan in corrupting 'the youth' whilst bringing ear-gasms to the world.
What do you think that you can give to the Nottingham community that no other band can?
Liam : Sordid tales of resurrection, confusion, hot-rodding, wheelchairs, loneliness and jealousy.
Failing that, a bag full of broken plectrums.
If you could go back and restart your music career would you change anything or do you think everything has happened as nature intended?
Liam : We have very little control over the speeding fireball that is Public Display of Affection.
Matt Fleetwood : I think it's been a very natural progression for us, write songs, erase songs, write more songs, erase more songs. For a year we just wrote and never gigged, I think it's paid off. You learn from your mistakes so I wouldn't change anything… except, maybe my amp settings.
Liam : "Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper." – Albert Einstein
What were your first thoughts when seeing the final product of your fall from grace ep in selectadisc and is there any new recording in the pipeline anytime soon?
Liam : We were overjoyed to see it nestled in next to Public Enemy and Public Image Limited. Made up.
We have a handful of new songs ready to follow up this six-track epic. Recording will take place when the planets align and our lottery numbers get drawn.
Matt : It's funny, makes us actually feel like a real band.
What bands/ names in Nottingham other than yourself do you think we should be looking out for? Imagine it's your job to put 3 local bands on a bill whose gunna be on it?
Matt : I really liked the last Lo-Ego EP and the new Punish The Atom album is killer. Bedford Rascals were an awesome band, a couple of them left for London mind you, so they haven't been as active recently. I'd put them on for sure.
Liam : I live a monk's life and am rarely seen out after dark, so best to ask the others. I watched some class hip-hoppers at Stone at Drop in the Ocean who blew everything else I'd seen out of the water. Gertcha!
Matt : I think the other guys would say something like Felix or You Slut! to finish the bill. You should also check out Boxes Of Foxes, Spotlight Kid and Love Ends Disaster! too.
Aiming at people who haven't yet been to one of your gigs what can they expect?
Liam : Blood, noise, sex, Rickenbacker abuse, aural and physical beauty beyond human comprehension.
Matt : Ultra-violent guitar noise terror your Mum could sing along to.
Gordon Brown or Tony Blair?
Liam : Gordon Brown only because the next election campaign can feature the Strangler's ode to heroin. Cynicism is dangerous. The Tories are poised to shaft us all a big one, so think long and hard.
You have 24 hours left to live. We're being nice though. You can go and see any band, alive and possible, before that time comes. Whose it going to be?
Matt : I'd love to see Bj?and God Speed You Black Emperor! before I die.
Liam : If I could jump in the time machine, I would go and see James Brown in about 1967, the big soul/funk review with the dancers and the moonwalking and everything you hear on 'Live at the Apollo – Volume 2'. Failing that it would have to be the healing hands of Ian Svenoniuos with either the Make-Up or Weird War. That guy saved my life, no shit.
Is there anything else you want saggy pants readers to know and have you got any shoutouts?
Matt : We just want to let readers know that we exist really. We'll eventually be releasing more music in some kind of format in the new year but until then check out our EP, if your willing to part with a fiver.
Liam : Anyone who is running a small independent music venue in Nottingham deserves a medal. Promoters that are doing it for the love, big yourselves up… and obviously my dear old mother. Happy Birthday mum!
Matt : MASSIVE, MASSIVE thanks to 'FarmYardRecords' and Kelly Bee's 'Default This Promotions' who are really putting their heart and souls into making sure overlooked Notts bands like us go unnoticed. Six.By Seven, Broni and Kree, everything Liam said and yourselves 'SaggyPants'. Ta!
