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Live Review: New Found Glory – Liquid Room, Edinburgh, 26 August 2015

28/8/2015

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New Found Glory are 18 years and eight albums deep at this point. They’ve been going for a while.

The Florida four-piece have certainly got an appropriate amount of street cred for their time on the scene of course. Many credit them with being one of the pioneers of the modern pop-punk genre, and one of the groups battling to still keep the wobbling genre afloat.

The good thing about going to see the band live, though, is that it doesn’t matter how fragile a state the genre is when you go to the gig. It wouldn’t even matter if they were the only pop-punk group left on the face of the earth when you walked through the doors.

As soon as you hand over a ticket to see NFG, you walk into a time warp; entering a room where everyone in attendance seems to wish they were back in the pop-punk hay days of the early 2000s, at least for a few hours of the night. 

JFC: New Found Glory, My Friends Over You - Clip

New Found Glory killed it tonight at the Liquid Rooms, Edinburgh... Review to follow!

Posted by Just For Culture on Wednesday, August 26, 2015
New Found Glory aren’t one of those bands you go and see whose fans have aged to the point that they’d rather stand, watch and clap their way through a setlist than crowd surf, scream and mosh till their feet bleed.

When the group sold out the Edinburgh Liquid Room on August 26, the crowd were absolutely insane from start to finish. They knew near enough every word to every song blasted from the stage, they sang along like their life depended on it and they moshed like they’d just discovered the American pop-punk legends a couple months before.


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Live Review: All Time Low – Corn Exchange, Edinburgh, 25 August 2015

26/8/2015

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Alex Gaskarth fronts All Time Low in Edinburgh... Photo, Twitter account: @giuli_ATL
Pop-punk isn’t quite as big as it used to be these days. So, often when a huge group from the genre come to town, the fans go along with the hope of hearing as much material from ‘the good old days’ as possible; tolerating the new stuff in return for a healthy dose of the old. With All Time Low though, that most certainly was not the case.

The scream when lead singer Alex Gaskarth asked who in the Edinburgh crowd had been to see the band before was impressive. The scream that followed when he then asked who was seeing the group for the first time, though, was arguably even more so.

All Time Low have been going for 12 years now. They’ve released six studio albums. The fact that they’re still not only staying relevant and selling out gigs around the world, but actually attracting a whole new generation of fans as well, is something to be seriously commended.

Now, we didn’t have our decibel metre out – and yes, we did just Google “what do you use to measure noise” – but the screams after each of Alex’s enquiries above were near enough exactly the same. Who knows, maybe teenage girls were doing that thing where they scream after everything the dude on stage says, even if they inadvertently end up answering his question wrongly and confusing our poll with their shenanigans...


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Exclusive Interview: OPM

14/8/2015

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JFC TALK NEW WORK, THE DEATH 
OF THE MUSIC SCENE AND 'HEAVEN 
IS A HALFPIPE' WITH OPM

It’s been a full 15 years since the release of chart-smash, cult-skate classic ‘Heaven is a Halfpipe’ from South Californian five-piece OPM.

Chances are that if you walked into any room filled with 80s or 90s kids and sung the famous chorus though, the rest of the room would sing the song right back at you. Either that or you’d get some seriously strange looks for walking into a room full of strangers and airing out your vocal chords, anyway.

The song was more than just a commercial success and an award winner. It became the anthem for a generation of skateboarders, an inspiration for a new generation to buy themselves a board, and more importantly, evidence of the size and weight of the skate movement at the time.

Since the release of ‘Heaven’ 15 years ago and OPM’s iconic debut album ‘Menace To Sobriety’, the group have dropped three more albums, three more EPs and shared stages with the likes of Iggy Pop, Limp Bizkit, Wheatus, The Bloodhound Gang and Linkin Park.

I just tapped into my childhood for inspiration when I was writing 'Heaven is a Halfpipe'. Literally daydreaming of my youth. Skating had the biggest impact on my childhood. It was my culture...
Now they’re back with the new, rather boldly named EP ‘The Minge Dynasty’, and they’re returning to the UK to tour the record extensively.

We caught up with frontman John E. Necro to talk new OPM, old OPM, and how the scene has changed since the famous release of ‘Heaven is a Halfpipe’ some 15 years ago. Needless to say, that was where we had to start.

“When we wrote [Heaven is a Halfpipe], I felt like it was going to be a hit,” admitted John. “But then again, I think every song we write is going to be a hit!

“At the time we were writing, a record label had offered us a deal based on two or three songs, but they wanted to hear a whole record. I just tapped into my childhood for inspiration. Literally daydreaming of my youth. Skating had the biggest impact on my childhood. It was my culture.

“My best memories of my childhood were spending summers out in the fields building and skating half-pipes, listening to cassettes on my boom box. I had no idea at the time I was writing a song that so many other people would relate to though. Being at the centre of that was like a high. I wouldn’t trade it for anything.”

Do you still skateboard now? “I still love skateboarding with a passion and still live the culture but I blew out a couple discs in my back and now have full blown scoliosis of the spine. It’s a bit rough. It’s mostly surfing and BJJ [Brazilian jiu-jitsu] these days for me. It’s easier on the bones!”

While it’s been a long time since the “Heaven is a Halfpipe” release, OPM still run on the same principles. The new EP features the same feel-good, relaxed, irresistible looping reggae-meets-rock-meets-pop beats that their music has always had – it’s the SoCal way, and it’s the OPM way.


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