Isn’t it also that many smaller venues in Sweden disappear because of gentrification and that there’s not that many clubs to play? But you can’t really compare bigger cities to smaller places.
#THE FEWS BAND FOR FREE#
The main thing I miss is to go to a gig every night of the week, usually for free entrance or like six or seven Euros to see great bands. Jay: I compare all the time to London because that’s where I started playing music. I guess that’s why people live in Malmö if you’re Swedish band.īut how is for you to come from the British scene to Sweden which is tiny in comparison? In the UK there’s loads of bands coming from Nottingham or Sheffield and many smaller cities because it’s cheap rent.
I guess it’s like living in Stockholm compared to Malmö. It makes the band a shitload harder being in Sweden because we could play loads of UK shows supporting bands there, and the cost of travel isn’t that much, but living in London is fucking ridiculously expensive. Jay: It will probably be a million times easier to do this band if we lived in the UK, but not living in London because rent everywhere else is cheap as fuck. If you compare to Stockholm and Gothenburg, Malmö is much cheaper.īut we don’t play that much in Sweden, just a couple of shows in Malmö, one in Stockholm and one in Gothenburg, we mostly play in the UK and Germany. You don’t need a full-time job to pay the rent, you can actually put your efforts into music, that’s why I live there. Jay: I just followed them and it’s a bit cheaper to live than in the UK.ĭavid: Things like that. Why would you stay in Sweden rather than relocate to a place more interesting in terms of music and inspiration? I read somewhere that you said that the Swedish scene is too crowded, there’s simply too many bands and they all sound the same which makes it a bit boring. Jay: Maybe we should approach him directly? We didn’t really expect it to happen either to be honest, it was just a fun thing like “I wonder if he ever going to hear this?”. Sweden: Cheap living, boring music sceneĪs a start, I’m just curious if Zlatan ever got back to you after you dedicated a song to him?ĭavid: No, never (laughs).
When the four-piece made a stopover in Hamburg to play Molotow Skybar we sat down with David, Fred, Rasmus and Jay and talked about their latest album “Into Red”, the financial decision of living in Malmö and David pulling himself out of the band. “Into Red” pushes the sound further, and it might just be Fews’ most fulfilling collection of songs to date. Working with legendary producer Dan Carey they redefined the psychedelic and kraut-inspired elements from “Means” on “Into Red” and created a wave of glorious droney post-punk, drawing accolades from both fans and critics. Maybe it’s just a matter of poor taste in music?
They also tried to reach out to Swedish international superstar football player Zlatan Ibrahimovic and wrote a song in his name, but Zlatan never replied to their homage or mentioned the song in social media. Malmö four-piece FEWS, an American/British/Swedish kraut-inspired post-punk story, signed a record deal after sending a demo link to their Soundcloud page to a “random person” at record label PIAS, ending up in the release of their first album “Means” in 2016 – with that random person as their manager.
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