CPI Archive 2008: Anointed since conception, karate rockers Fight Like Apes are about to fulfill their musical destiny. Ahead of the launch of their debut album next week, Andrew Hamilton chews the fat with head monkey, Maykay.
FIGHT Like Apes are a band of contradiction. Too filthy for pop, too sugary for punk and too technologically inept to be takes seriously in the world of electronica. Devoid of a category they invented their own, and are now the undisputed kings of the world of karate rock. Yet the contradictions don’t stop there. Whether through their live set (all head-butts and handstands), general image or lyrical references to cutting people with glass, the Apes have garnered a reputation, in some quarters at least, for being that bit aggressive. That image is something they were keen to ad- dress when putting together their debut album. “People will hear a different side to us in this album. I think that songs like ‘Tie Me Up In Jackets’ and ‘Knuckle Head’ are a bit of a new side to us, something that people maybe haven’t seen yet. I mean, those songs were written a long time, back at the same time as ‘Jake Summers’ or ‘Digifucker’, but they are different,” says Maykay.
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