When Boston Manor were in the studio working on their new album GLUE, they had three words written on a whiteboard to sum up exactly what they were aiming for in the process: ‘Write cool shit.’ “The one rule that we had was to not think about the bigger picture,” says frontman Henry Cox of their follow-up to 2018’s explosive Welcome To The Neighbourhood, due out on April 10 via Pure Noise Records. “And we didn’t even think about how we were going to do it live, either. It was just, ‘Write cool music, and figure out how to channel that into everything else later on.’” It’s an approach that has worked wonders for the Blackpool quintet, taking the band – completed by guitarists Mike Cunniff and Ash Wilson, bassist Dan Cunniff and drummer Jordan Pugh – even further away from their me...
