Liverpool's Modern Music Scene, 28 Costumes & Seal Cubs feature

Drowned In Sound focus on Liverpool's wealth of talent, including The Seal Cub Clubbing Club, 28 Costumes, Hot Club de Paris, The Wombats, goFASTER>>.

"Nik Glover, frontman of The Seal Cub Clubbing Club, prog-pop masters who are one of Merseyside's most original acts of the moment, leads a band that like The Coral comes from 'over the water' on the Wirral peninsula. They still class themselves as a 'Liverpool band'. But, he also thinks that the 'friendly' scene in the city can also have the air of an exclusive club about it sometimes, for those outside this tight-knit circle:

"There's the whole lifestyle thing about Liverpool," says Nik. "I've got no problem with that, I wouldn't mind being part of that if they actually had a good venue to play at. But we're actually quite choosy about the venues that we play at, because we want really, really good sound. But we can't be part of that scene whether we want to be or not, but I don't think we really sit in with any of the Liverpool groups. We're not weird enough to play at Class A Audio (more of them later) and we're not cool enough to play at Korova really."

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