LeeFest Presents: The Neverland takes over John Darlings Farm near Tunbridge Wells this weekend for three days of magical fun including mermaids, pirates, hot tubs and tiki bars. A bunch of Dork’s favourite bands are also heading over, including Fickle Friends, Shame, Catholic Action, Fish, Kagoule - and
Wild Beasts, who've also not long released new album, '
Boy King'.
Hello Tom from Wild Beasts. You've had a quiet start to 2017, how does it feel to be back on stage?
We've had a few months where we've been quiet but last year was really fucking full on, which it should be. You release a record, we made it in January, it was released in August, and then we were on the road the whole time. Now we're getting the whale back in the water. It's nice to be out. Different members of the band feel differently about this, but I always feel like I leave part of the real me onstage. That's the release valve for all the petty pressures of life, that's where I found it
Yeah, it was a lot more divisive than I thought it would be, I thought it was an obvious step. The idea of being an indie band thankfully died, because it never felt like we were that. Obviously, we had similarities, but we wanted to make our differences obvious, it was a record we had to make. ‘
Present Tense' was the apex of what, intellectual synth music and this one was the sound of our final fuck flying away. It was a hugely fun and cathartic record to make, I think maybe we've lost a few fans and gained some others, but that's what you've got to do. We can't make five more ‘Two Dancers'. That can't happen.
