Owen Adams from Mad Colours recorded our first EP on the basis that we promised to record another bands first EP one day and Nick Chantler from Seize the Chair and Liam Bardell recorded the Throwing Up EP just because they wanted to as well. From day one we were really surprised how much everybody helps each other out. Ed and Callum from AD are at the helm and have started recording bands then putting them out just like the good old days.
We recently built one with our friends in Avida Dollars, Radical Boy and Pet Rock called Delicious Clam Studios. Every band has their own studio basically which makes things a million times easier. LS: Sheffield is really good as you can rent unused buildings for not much money. There’s only one breakup song on the album and its not even that intense, which I think of a debut is something to be proud of.ĪJT: You’re from Sheffield, right? I used to live nearby, there’s such a tight scene there, how’s it looking at the moment? LS: Its a bittersweet coming of age tale with loads of other stuff going on, songs about eating toxic waste, feeling weird, the end of the world etc.
Totally Insane, you’re setting expectations high with that title. Lewis Sharman: In a pretty boring way really, we just met at uni became friends and started the band.ĪJT: Your debut album is set for release in July, it’s titled Hot. An absolute shredder worthy of its awesomely ridiculous title, the LP packs one hell of an exuberant punch, vibrating with an intensity that never wavers.Īlex James Taylor: So tell me a bit about how you guys first got together… Totally Insane (set for release in July) and it’s all muscle. Together they build a wall of grungy, surf rock that fizzes with an effervescent joie de vivre trapping you in a memory of summers past, nailing that balance between sophisticated yet lo-fi it sounds carefully constructed yet on the verge of falling apart.īest Friends keep good company, having put in time touring with the likes of Swim Deep and fellow Sheffielders Nai Harvest, they are now readying their debut record Hot. Sharman’s vocals recall the snotty tone of slacker rock’s finest and while Gaymer’s drums are thoroughly bludgeoned, the band churn out some stellar melodic guitar riffs. With a shared love of SoCal lo-fi bands they swiftly found themselves metabolising their influences with ease. Individually the band breaks down into Lewis Sharman (guitar and vocals), Tom Roper (guitar), Ed Crisp (bass) and Jonny Gaymer (drums), having first met at uni around six years ago they became Best Friends (no apologies for the pun). Totally Insane, Sheffield quartet Best Friends have got some great advice for us, If you think too much your brain will fall out and Shred til you’re dead. In the form of song titles on their debut LP, Hot.
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