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Kinesis interview/Youth and individuality.

KINESIS

James Berry talks to Boltons brightest young upstarts this side of Badly Drawn Boy, Kinesis. …AND THEY OBEY, a three track EP has just been released on Crystal Songs.

03/03/2002

Youth and individuality. Rock and intellect. Depressing origins and desire. Surely they don't all have to be characteristics mutually exclusive of each other? Do they? They are? Well in that case you're first in the firing line of rock's latest young avengers Kenisis. Best get the hell out the way we reckon.

Hurtling straight out of Bolton in northern England as fast as they could early last year, school friends Tom, Mike, Neil and Connor - none over 16 at this point - started knocking around as a band to alleviate the boredom and depressing realities of the life that was developing all too quickly around them. Within 5 months they had a demo tape together which they sent out to as many people as they could think of, 200 as it happens, each accompanied by a personal handwritten letter. This demo, never intended for release, turned into their first mini-album, 'Worship Yourself', which in turn sold out quicker than Dave Grohl could collect his next royalty cheque. This was only sign of how things would start turning over.

With a hint of the Llama Farmers or Idlewild about them, only with a fat whack of intelligence to boot, the raw power of Nirvana and The Pixies, the melodic brilliance of the Flaming Lips and Smashing Pumpkins and that youthful muscle we presumed had evaporated with Ash's teenage years they've spent the last 6 months tearing apart any stage that'll have them. We spoke with guitarist Connor on his mobile, stopped by a garage just outside London for a toilet break and confectionary refill en-route back up North after one such whirlwind of gigs…

Crud: What exactly is the point to Kenisis then?

"We're kind of singing about everything from right-wing Europe to the problem with authority and government and race in our home-town. We're taking a wider look at the world rather than just talking about our own personal experiences and our love lives. We're just taking an objective look at the world."

Crud: So being a band from a provincial Northern town, we guess you'll be pretty tied to your roots then?

"No. Not at all. Well, it's kind of like a ticket out, y'know. Rather than having a 9-5 job and getting drunk every Friday night. Instead of getting drunk we were at band practice, or reading a book, or something. Just trying to get away from that."

Crud: Instead of every just getting drunk every Friday night though, isn't it going to end up every night pretty soon?

"Well we haven't really got much interest in that to tell you the truth. Some bands, or a lot of bands, get into the industry because they want to take drugs, fuck models every night or whatever. But we just want to make the perfect record and bring some intelligence to music."

Crud: You are though, it has to be said, pretty damn young. We're staring to get used to the more styled breed of media darling, at least over the voting age.

"We've got no real interest in being cool or being the NME's favourite band, because all the best bands put themselves on the line to look ridiculous. We don't think we fit in with any trend or culture at the moment and this is probably a good thing. There are quite a few bands, good bands, our age or older coming through. But none of us are part of any scene, we don't sound similar. Bands like the 80s Matchbox B-Line Disaster, even bands like the Cooper Temple Clause we feel an affinity with. At least they're trying something. I'm not sating they pull it off, yet, but at least they're trying y'know."

Crud: The thing is, you look young but you don't seem it.

"We're more concerned with being a good young band than we are with being a, erm, young good band. Y'know? I think it just happen that we're young. It might work in our favour to start off with, but we're going to grow up. As long as we're good and we're challenging people and we challenge ourselves. The only benefit youth has is naivety. We get patronised a lot but hopefully we'll prove them wrong."

Crud: Well away from your average 16 year olds nu-metal listening patterns, we hear more early-90s post-grunge perspective from you.

"I think if anything we're a reaction against Linkin Park and all that. That stuff just sounds so contrived. I can't relate to how bad a white middle class American life is. I can't feel his pain! I come from a town where most people work in a Warbutons factory. I think a lot of those band s from the late 80s and early 90s, Nirvana, Pixies, Flaming Lips and these days still with Fugazi, At The Drive In, Trail Of Dead, you can just hear a lot of truth in their music, y'know, and we just want to portray the truth no matter how ugly or how beautiful it is. Music just seems so self obsessed at the moment. You've got the louder bands talking about how terrible their white middle class lives are, you get acoustic bands talking about how great it is to be in love. A lot of bands just don't warrant an opinion and there's no point in having any strong opinions on them because you're wasting your energy."

Crud: When we first saw you one thing that caught our eye was the slogans on your t-shirts, 'sanity is not statistical' and 'shopping is not crating'. What's going on there?

'Shopping is not creating' is a Douglas Copland one. We all live in an MTV world where everything is degenerated down to bite-sized chunks, slogans that are in your face otherwise you won't listen. And that perfectliy sums up or attitude towards 21st century consumer culture. Sanity is not statistical is George Orwell from '1984', It's more talking about being an individual and not just in the nu-metal sense of the word. Just because you're going against the grain and taking people on your own terms doesn't mean that you're insane. Sanity is not about what the majority of people think of it. It's about believe in the truth and following it trough. We have no aims to sell 10,00 records. We have aims to sell 2 million and compete with Britney Spears! We got played on daytime Radio 1 and Gorillaz got played after us. So there's us talking about American foreign policy and then there's we're followed by some cockney who thinks he's black. We're taking pop on our own terms and that's the biggest victory we could have."

James Berry for Crud Magazine 2002©



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