CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE ISSUE 2: PLATFORM

THE TUTS
about a past manager who promise
to get them connections, but did
nothing up until they fired them
after realizing he hadn’t known
anyone of importance since ’82.
Living in London as well, where,
as bassist Harriet Doveton points
out, “you think every gig is a
corporate con,” finding the DIY
scene there allowed them to take
part in a system where promoters
were actually paying people fairly.
It does take a toll, however; as
many in a DIY scene can understand,
and as another proudly DIY
band Dream Nails said recently,
being a band that runs yourself
means 95% admin and 5% actual
music. The Tuts realized this with
the release of their debut as well:
“When we released Update Your
Brain, we were so busy emailing
people about magazine features
and stuff, that we fucking forgot
about being a band and writing
new music,” Nadia explains. “We
almost took the fun out of it for
ourselves, and The Tuts is about
friendship and having fun, and the
three-tone message, and so we felt
a little bit overwhelmed.”
While they are working on new
music, though, they’re avoiding
the same course and focusing
more on the music. “We didn’t
want to fall back into bad habits in
the anticipation of releasing new
stuff,” Harriet says, “and if we
do it, we have to go into it with
a healthier mindset.” That’s why,
where often they say what’s next
for them is world domination, this
time it’s “world domination, but
have mental sanity as well,” as
Bev says. “Instead of Update Your
Brain,” Nadia confirms, “Take
Care of Your Brain,” which might
mean everything from taking time
for themselves, to spending more
time with their friends and family,
or putting more of themselves into
the music. Nadia wants to make
more material, but also “making
sure that it’s true and genuine, and
comes from a good place, because,
when you’re constantly on social
media, you can start to compare
yourself to other people, and you
get jaded with what you’re seeing
online. I don’t want to produce
stuff of what is expected of me. I
want to produce stuff that I want
to do, and is true to me.”
For Nadia, on top of work with
The Tuts, that means delving more
into an acting career. Recently,