This Ain't A Scene: Moose Blood

When we decided to start a new magazine, we thought long and hard about the best way to introduce ourselves. Mission statements? Manifestos? Rambling paragraphs about what we stood for and how we were different? Nah. Not for us. Instead, we decided to catch up with some of our favourite bands. Not to try to group them together, or to make a new scene - just to say they’re great. That’s what Upset is about.

It’s been a special twelve months for Moose Blood. Over the past year, the Canterbury four-piece have gone from strength to strength; from releasing their long-awaited debut album ‘I’ll Keep You In Mind, From Time To Time’ to embarking upon their first ever headline tour and then some, it’s undoubtedly been a pretty exciting time to be in this band.

“It’s been great,” offers the band’s Mark Osbourne when asked about how things have been going. The band have just played their first ever sets at Slam Dunk (and packed them out for good measure) and they’re already looking ahead to their next challenge. “We’re very, very fortunate and very lucky to have done a lot of the things that we’ve done. I think we all feel very grateful that we’ve been given those chances to do those things. It’s evolved into something we never thought it would do.”