Last Years Youth
Biography
Present for the interview, conducted in the cold amidst finest Sheffield drizzle: D-Generate (D) - guitar : Andy Vacant (A) - drums : Jake 'the-man-who-can' (J) - Bass and me (BP) mouthy shite and typer of this interview. Which means my answers get to be the longest. ~ Last Years Youth was formed one drunk night by me & (D) cos we were shit bored in our little village and wanted to do something to pass the time. Owen surprised us all by sobering up long enough to teach himself the bass in about...
Present for the interview, conducted in the cold amidst finest Sheffield drizzle: D-Generate (D) - guitar : Andy Vacant (A) - drums : Jake 'the-man-who-can' (J) - Bass and me (BP) mouthy shite and typer of this interview. Which means my answers get to be the longest.
~ Last Years Youth was formed one drunk night by me & (D) cos we were shit bored in our little village and wanted to do something to pass the time. Owen surprised us all by sobering up long enough to teach himself the bass in about 2 days and a good friend, Rick, was our original drummer. Andy was originally our one and only fan, and when Rick announced that he wanted to leave Andy stepped in. When we started we genuinely could not play at all but we all enjoyed it so much we carried on regardless. Eventually something like tunes started to appear and amazingly a small but significant number of people took us to their hearts and told us we were still shit, but nowhere near as shit as we used to be. We knew we'd made it! We all jacked our jobs in, bought a massive great removal van and spent a couple of happy years playing gigs around europe, chiefly in Belgium, beer capital of the world. It was the people of Belgium who really made it all worthwhile for us - we couldn't get any gigs in England, but here were these people treating us really fucking great, and really going out of their way for us. We recorded a couple of studio tapes and sold a few (although never had anything released) and then just stopped practising. We never actually sat down and said 'we're splitting up', we just all drifted off. Anyway, to keep it brief, the CD got released, we started getting the sort of interest we'd always dreamed of in the first place, someone mentioned reforming and it all seemed like a great idea for a giggle. And now here we are....The line-up is basically the same as it ever was (BP, D-Generate, Andy Vacant & Owen Money) but we've got Jake filling in for a bit as Owen is temporarily indisposed...
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