“You did all the things I didn’t like doing, like paying for brunch – you kept taking my wife out for brunch. Needham moved into their loft for a couple of years when he had to move out of his own place: “We shared you quite well,” Smith tells his bandmate fondly. Smith met his wife, a mental health nurse, in Leeds (“a 4am snog in Bad Apples”). Until we actually bluntly acknowledge that we profited from the slave trade and colonialism, we’ll never understand why we are” – he corrects himself – “were a rich nation. I can’t get my head around it.” Education, he thinks, is one of the biggest problems: “We don’t teach kids in schools about what our past really was. “We’ve never faced our past head on.” We’re speaking in the same week that Tory leadership candidate Rishi Sunak declares he wants to punish anyone who “vilifies our country”. “I think all of modern Britain is a hang-up from colonialism,” Smith says. Even the instrumentation has a suspicious quality to it, thanks to the moody bass that prowls beneath the band’s oddball harmonies. “Though there is beauty in a whole truth/ The knotty roots of a shameful past, will never let it be,” he croons on “Land of the Blind”. Ozzy Osbourne: ‘I will get back on stage if it f***king kills me’Įlsewhere on the album, he reckons with an innate selfishness that seems to permeate much of post-Brexit Britain, along with a stubborn refusal to face up to our own history.Pillow Queens: ‘We all grew up in a culturally Catholic country… that seeps into our music’.Bret McKenzie: ‘It was different writing songs that weren’t d*** jokes’.“Was that good?” he asks, then puts on his best Westminster boys’ school voice: “I do a very good northern accent as well.” “Grazie,” he says to the waitress clearing away his plate, in a passable Italian accent. They thought it was a ‘state of the nation’ thing, anti-Brexit, anti-Tory.” He’s lounging in his chair at a restaurant in Sicily, where Yard Act are performing as part of Ypsigrock festival. I felt like they’d missed the angle I was coming from. “A lot of people seemed to get the wrong impression of us but still praised it. He’s referring to their excellent debut The Overload, released in January and shortlisted for this week's Mercury Prize. “It’s weird, I feel there were a lot of good reviews for the first album that I disagreed with,” the 32-year-old says.
But Yard Act’s wry yet good-humoured take on post-punk always had that extra dose of salt, Smith’s tongue firmly in cheek. Eager comparisons were also drawn to the Sprechgesang (spoken-word singing) scene populated by IDLES, Sleaford Mods, and Black Country, New Road. Early singles – the juddery “Dark Days” and the foot-stomping “Fixer Upper”, with its funky “Fame” guitar squalls – saw the four-piece (completed by Ryan Needham on bass, Sam Shipstone on guitar and Jay Russell on drums) lumped in with London bands such as Dry Cleaning and Black Midi.
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