CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE ISSUE 2: PLATFORM

The Spook School
Entertainment is one of their
greatest goals in performing live,
as guitarist Adam Todd describes.
“I don’t think any of us have
particularly long attention spans
for watching music or in a live
setting, so we try and make sure
that a show that we would do
would be a show that we wouldn’t
get bored by.” Especially considering
the heavy topics covered by
their songs, things that the crowd
might be going through themselves
and finding it tough to get
through, it’s important to them
to offer not quite an escape from
them, but a celebration in spite of
them. “We really like making sure
that the people coming to the show
know that they can celebrate and
be joyous and that kind of stuff,”
drummer Niall McCamley adds;
“It’s easy to wallow, when it’s
really fun to fire tiny party glitter
things on yourself and roll about
on the floor.”
In addition to that, they write
songs for people to relate to and
feel less alone when they hear
them, and then take the next step
to make the space feel safer for
everyone involved. Diet Cig, who
they toured around the UK, Europe
and the states with for a good
couple of months last year and