Counterfeit: "It's about rising above the doom, gloom and bullshit"
With their debut album done, Jamie Campbell Bower had a moment of reflection with bandmate Tristan Marmont. They've known each other since they were eig...

With their debut album done, Jamie Campbell Bower had a moment of reflection with bandmate Tristan Marmont. They've known each other since they were eight, and twenty years later they're closer than ever. On paper, though, they "shouldn't be mates". "He's a very intelligent guy with a degree in computer science, I'm this crazy musician, actor thing," explains Jamie. So what drew them together all those years ago? "Tristan said, ‘You're a weird dude, I'm a weird dude. I saw that, and I wanted to share in our weirdness'." Simple, really. That spirit of community, of being weird, of banding together and celebrating who you are is the beginning, middle and glorious end of Counterfeit's ‘Together We Are Stronger'. Written in the latter stages of 2015 and shaped by a year on the road, Counterfeit's first full-length has been a long time coming, but now it's time to relinquish control. "There are days when I wake up and realise, ‘Oh God, I've got to give this away now'." There are nerves. There are always nerves. "It's in my nature." But that doesn't take away from just how excited, stoked and super-happy the band are to let people in on what they've been building. "If you had told me three years that I'd be making a record, releasing it with my best mates, touring the world and having a really good time doing it, I would have told you to go away," laughs Jamie before dialling up the denial. "I would have told you to get fucked."





