Asylums

The last few months have been busy for Asylums;

They've spent the summer playing UK and European Festivals, with BBC Introducing inviting them to play Glastonbury Festival. The week before Glastonbury their then single "Joy In A Small Wage" was added to the BBC Radio 1 daytime playlist. It also picked up its first daytime play on XFMfrom Jo Good, and countless plays on BBC 6 Music (especially from Steve Lamacq), with a glowing Roundtable appearance seeing NME journo Leonie Cooper describe the band as "stadium Cribs". Oh, and it reached #7 on the Spotify New Music Chart, while the accompanying video made appearances on Soccer AM and Sunday Brunch.

Really not bad for four Missing Persons who were sat in their bedrooms eighteen months ago with little more than a dream, writing a song.

How did the support dates with Ash come about?

Ash were sent some of our music by our live agent and we heard soon after that they were into the music, over the summer we played a show together at Y Not Festival and soon after they asked us to do their UK tour. We were so flattered and we are so excited to do it, we cant wait, they have such a killer back catalogue.

How do you feel about the UK dates you have coming up- are they bigger than previous shows you have supported on etc?

We have done a lot of big shows now with the likes of Black Grape, The Vaseline's, Killing Joke, Carl Barat but most of them have been in London apart from festivals. Being from a small seaside town like Southend it's not easy to forget how much passion there is for music outside of the capitol and we are so excited to get out into the country and connect with that energy. We are all huge believers in de centralised culture, localised creative communities; personally I also love to find out about new record shops while we are out on tour, as we run our own record label in Southend called Cool Thing Records.

What should audiences expect from Asylums live?

We are pretty energetic, full of manic nervous energy, we just love having fun on stage and making sure the audience has a good time too. I think the songs are pretty good too, but I'm biased. Its maximum rock and roll without the clichés.


Asylums play The Leadmill, Sheffield on December 20.