Indie's newest band Cheeky Cheeky and the Nosebleeds speak
Frontman of Suffolk 5-piece Cheeky Cheeky and the Nosebleeds, Charlie, spills the beans on being in band, meeting his heroes and being mistaken for the Cheeky Girls!
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With a name that hardly trips off the tongue, Charlie confesses that they once played at a party where disappointed revellers were expecting to hear choruses of ‘touch my bum’ from the Liberteen-esque band. He quickly added that they didn’t wear hot pants for the performance, but frequently wears a 90p romper suit on tour, ‘it feels like you’re naked, without actually being naked’.
The band are about to embark on a month long tour of the UK to promote the release of their second single You Let Me Go out on November 3, on Twenty Years of Boredom. Listening to their tracks to easy to see why they were described as ‘a frenzy of angry sweaty boys, ripping each other apart’ by the NME, the mod meets punk, laced with Arctic Monkeys inspired realism. The Pete Doherty bandwagon is still rolling, picking up bands with memorable hooks and ragged vocals. With an average age of nineteen, the band’s music is filled with all the youthful exuberance and angst you would expect from teenage boys.
The single was produced by Iain Gore of Brakes, Kid Harpoon and Larrikin Love fame, also having previously hit the road with Joe Lean and The Jing Jang Jong and The Wombats, the band are accustomed to being in the company of indie heavyweights. However, Charlie recounts seeing hero Adam Green of Moldy Peaches during a gig at Proud Galleries in Camden, ‘I was in the toilets putting in contacts when I spotted him [Green] using the urinal behind me through the mirror. I got nervous and ended up poking myself in the eye’. Not surprising considering that
listening to Moldy Peaches, Ian Drury and filthy French house music while bunking off school inspired them to start a band, ‘listening to punk you realise that the recording is shit and they can’t play for toffee’, Charlie explained, so they hit the barn at Charlie’s house in deepest Suffolk to form Cheeky Cheeky and The Nosebleeds.
‘I love touring, it’s tiring but so much fun’ Charlie goes on to say, ‘we’re about to play at Wolverhampton Civic Hall, it’s an enormous venue and we’re not entirely sure what it’s about. Bit of a mystery gig’. The band have done the festival circuit this years playing Glastonbury and Latitude, ‘we saw Black Lips at Latitude, it was an amazing gig we were listening to it from a boat in the lake and then went in, the crowd was going crazy’. Other gigs that Charlie citied as being his favourites was watching The Pixies at Reading Festival a couple of years ago and Arcade Fire when he was 16-years-old.
Word of bands energetic and chaotic live shows has spread far and wide and has been named in the top ten new bands to see this summer by the NME. This is illustrated by bassist Thom having the title of debut single Slow Kids tattooed on across his chest after an all night party, ‘too dinked to go to a proper tattoo parlour’ he stopped at a place he describes as Claire’s Accessories minus the accessories and add the stench of meths, not surprising that the tattoo actually reads Slow Kios in childlike handwriting. The touring kicks off in Exeter in October before heading all over the country.
First published 02.09.2008
With a name that hardly trips off the tongue, Charlie confesses that they once played at a party where disappointed revellers were expecting to hear choruses of ‘touch my bum’ from the Liberteen-esque band. He quickly added that they didn’t wear hot pants for the performance, but frequently wears a 90p romper suit on tour, ‘it feels like you’re naked, without actually being naked’.
The band are about to embark on a month long tour of the UK to promote the release of their second single You Let Me Go out on November 3, on Twenty Years of Boredom. Listening to their tracks to easy to see why they were described as ‘a frenzy of angry sweaty boys, ripping each other apart’ by the NME, the mod meets punk, laced with Arctic Monkeys inspired realism. The Pete Doherty bandwagon is still rolling, picking up bands with memorable hooks and ragged vocals. With an average age of nineteen, the band’s music is filled with all the youthful exuberance and angst you would expect from teenage boys.
The single was produced by Iain Gore of Brakes, Kid Harpoon and Larrikin Love fame, also having previously hit the road with Joe Lean and The Jing Jang Jong and The Wombats, the band are accustomed to being in the company of indie heavyweights. However, Charlie recounts seeing hero Adam Green of Moldy Peaches during a gig at Proud Galleries in Camden, ‘I was in the toilets putting in contacts when I spotted him [Green] using the urinal behind me through the mirror. I got nervous and ended up poking myself in the eye’. Not surprising considering that
listening to Moldy Peaches, Ian Drury and filthy French house music while bunking off school inspired them to start a band, ‘listening to punk you realise that the recording is shit and they can’t play for toffee’, Charlie explained, so they hit the barn at Charlie’s house in deepest Suffolk to form Cheeky Cheeky and The Nosebleeds.
‘I love touring, it’s tiring but so much fun’ Charlie goes on to say, ‘we’re about to play at Wolverhampton Civic Hall, it’s an enormous venue and we’re not entirely sure what it’s about. Bit of a mystery gig’. The band have done the festival circuit this years playing Glastonbury and Latitude, ‘we saw Black Lips at Latitude, it was an amazing gig we were listening to it from a boat in the lake and then went in, the crowd was going crazy’. Other gigs that Charlie citied as being his favourites was watching The Pixies at Reading Festival a couple of years ago and Arcade Fire when he was 16-years-old.
Word of bands energetic and chaotic live shows has spread far and wide and has been named in the top ten new bands to see this summer by the NME. This is illustrated by bassist Thom having the title of debut single Slow Kids tattooed on across his chest after an all night party, ‘too dinked to go to a proper tattoo parlour’ he stopped at a place he describes as Claire’s Accessories minus the accessories and add the stench of meths, not surprising that the tattoo actually reads Slow Kios in childlike handwriting. The touring kicks off in Exeter in October before heading all over the country.
First published 02.09.2008
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