CROWN COURT - Trouble from London

Crown Court are a young new Oi! band playing out of London. They've just released a demo tape and hopefully there will be more to come soon. Questions answered by bass player Nick.

1. When and how did Crown Court come together?

N: Crown Court came together around November 2013, me and Charlie (Guitar) had been sitting on some songs we’d written that sounded somewhere in between Slaughter and the Dogs and L’infantrie Sauvage, and wanted to try bang out a demo. I’d known Tim from a while from punk gigs and met Trev through a chance encounter on the street, where it turned out we had mutual mates. We had our first practice around November and the other two lads had their input and improved the songs me and Charlie had been playing around with and that’s basically how the demo came together. 


2. Do any of you play in other bands? 


Yeah, I sing in a hardcore band called Arms Race and play drums in another band with Charlie, called Violent Reaction. Tim plays in way too many fucking bands, all of which are great: DiE, Love Triangle, Smear and probably a load of others I’m forgetting. Trev sings in an oi! band called Stomping Ground, and they’ve got a single coming out on Randale records in the near future. 


3. Both Oi! and hardcore/punk come thru in you're demo. What would you say is a bigger influence? 


The intention was definitely for this to be an oi! band but I guess if there’s a touch of hardcore that’s probably because we all have a background of playing in hardcore bands and love that sound. With Crown Court I’d say the biggest influence is proto oi! stuff like Slaughter and The Dogs, Menace etc which we try and blend with a bit of dark melody from the French. 

4. What are you're plans as far as gigs and releases go? 


The demo should finally be released as a physical cassette in the next couple of weeks on Quality Control HQ. Gigs are kind of on hold at the moment, Trev is in the army and so doesn't have alot of free time on his hands, but hopefully we can get a few things booked soon.



5. Any final comments? 


Thanks for the interview. 
You can check the demo out here:https://www.facebook.com/l/dAQGElvppAQGppJSjEJHsfeDXxVysd_OBi7TQN1U9dQQkEA/https%3A//crowncourt.bandcamp.com/ 
The demo will be out via:http://www.facebook.com/l/6AQFDF4yjAQHZUK2HKqpjmE_w_2lB2AZ71J7I8LThhGdltA/qualitycontrolhq.bigcartel.com/ soon!


Since conducting the interview CC have released their demo and it's a belter, so get yourself one while ya can!