Seafood are frequently described as "A London post-grunge band". This is patently not true. Kevin and drummer Caroline Banks are from Uxbridge in Middlesex, while David Line (guitar/vocals) and Charles MacLoed (guitar) were brought up in Guilford, Surrey. "It's all outskirts of London," says Kevin, defensively. "It might mean something I reckon, coming from that area. I found it pretty dull, personally." Nobody around here has yet managed to work out what 'post-grunge' actually means. Seafood's biographies often claim that the band formed via an advert in Loot, for a flat. This is extremely true. Caroline and Kevin wanted somewhere to live. David and Charles were looking for a boy drummer and a girl bass player. Kevin and Caroline (right sex, wrong instruments or right instruments, wrong sex, depending on your state of mind) just about fitted the bill. After two gigs in the summer of 1997 Seafood has already set the indie underground's wires buzzing. After three gigs they could have been signed to Fierce Panda but that label's A&R department got pissed at the Kerrang! party and turned up too late to see them. At their fourth gig - upstairs at Highbury Garage in October '97 - they were finally snapped up by a more sober Fierce Panda. Everything else is just confusion, pure and baffling. "We're a very contradictory band," muses Kevin. "We argue a lot," fidgets David. They aren't wrong.
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