FUR It’s one thing releasing a perfectly packaged, Buddy Holly-
I can tick off the bucket list that I’ve been mugged off by
inflected debut pop song so early on into your career,
someone from The Fall.
but it’s quite another when it starts amassing millions of views on YouTube and gathering a dedicated fanbase in
What did she say, again?
Indonesia… Brighton quartet, Fur, are treading an exciting path that even they can’t get their heads around.
She said it needed Viagra and that it’s too derivative of that time and I think that’s fair enough; its only an opinion on
The way I was introduced to the band was through ‘If
one song. Some of our music is a homage to that era so it’s
You Know That I’m Lonely’ which has got something
pretty obvious that it would sound like it, that’s kind of the
like 2.4 million views on YouTube, so I kind of just
point. Unfortunately, we couldn’t give her the Viagra that
wanted to know how that happened.
she needed.
It was really weird. It went fairly steady over three or four
What is your favourite scientific discovery?
months, it was at around 20,000 views probably, which was really sick for us and then yeah, it just started to get a little
I heard one the other day where this scientist was at a
bit crazy.
restaurant and there was a lobster in the lobster tank that looked really different to the others and he asked if he could
Where did you film that video?
buy it for a stupid amount of money to take it home and dissect. He did loads of studies on it and he found out that
The New Forest. It’s actually where Ed (Zorab), the
that particular species of lobster could regenerate its cells at
director’s from; it’s just round the corner from his family
such a perfect rate that they’re technically immortal and can
house so we’d spend every evening there, get fed pretty well
live forever unless they’re killed by a predator… penicillin
by his mum and then just go out to this amazing woods and
is alright, too.
fields. I’ve done soundtracks for some of his films. We kind of do favours for each other and I think his style goes hand
What have you got coming up next?
in hand with the music. The funny thing about the video is that it looks like summer but it was actually 7am and -2
I don’t know how much we can say. We’re working on
degrees with Murray getting water tipped over his head. The
something a bit more substantial; we’ve got a lot of music
new video we recorded was in the middle of summer and
that isn’t necessarily that new. The songs that people know
we’re all wearing jackets and turtlenecks.
of ours are not where we would see ourselves at. Uploading and putting out a new video, knowing how much people
I was listening to Steve Lamacq the other day and he had
loved the last one… you just don’t know how people are
you on his roundtable. Miles Kane gave you a glowing
gonna take it. We’re massive perfectionists as well so
review but then it came to Brix Smith… I just wanted to
we get super anxious to release any music and we just
know what you thought of her comments?
want everything to be perfect. We don’t want to re-record anything so when we put something out, we want to know
Josh messaged our group chat and he was like, fucking Brix
that it’s there and will stand the test of time.
from The Fall has just mugged us off, but you know what, I think it’s fine and I think being 21,
21
Words by Harley Cassidy, illustration by Josh Whettingsteel
