01Profile
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Opus Kink
Musicians — Brighton
03Interview
Name, where are you from?
Angus, Sam, Fin, Jazz, Johny & Jed. Brighton.
Describe your style in three words?
Dulce et decorum.
What’s the best gig you’ve ever been to?
Every time we’ve seen Ezra Collective, for the raw energy and joy in the room and also TJ Koleoso’s two-step.
If you could be on the line up with any two artists in history?
I saw a Glasto lineup with Ian Dury and Fela on the same bill. If we could be the filling in that sandwich...
Which subcultures have influenced you?
The dogging community, because they’ve shown us that taking risks in the dark can bear fruit. Also any subculture with good trousers.
If you could spend an hour with anyone from history?
Leonard Cohen, because I feel like having a conversation about tuna sandwiches with him would ensure peaceful sleep forevermore.
Of all the venues you’ve been to or played, which is your favourite?
Our first show was at Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar in Brighton, now sadly deceased. There’s nowhere else like it in town; it left a hole. Raise a glass ye faithful.
Your greatest unsung hero or heroine in music?
I don’t think Karen Dalton is as exalted as she should be. I guess that’s the nature of a ‘cult’ figure... but her small output was so powerful. That voice is rain against the windowpane.
You can listen, purchase or stream Opus Kink's EP, 'Requiem For A Quarantine' via opuskink.bandcamp.com. All profit from the EP will be donated to local Brighton venue The Green Door Store and the Black Lives Matter organisation.
02Playlist
04Playlist Notes
The first track you played on repeat?
That’d be 'No Woman No Cry' by Bob Marley, little me trying to puzzle out how something could make me feel so good and so sad at the same time.
A song that defines the teenage you?
'Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again' by Bob Dylan. A bit giddy and incomprehensible.
One record you would keep forever?
'And No More Shall We Part' by Nick Cave. I’ve been hearing it my whole life and I love it more every time. 'God Is In The House' is serious and terrible yet pure fun, like lots of the best things.
A song lyric that has inspired you?
"In Manhattan’s desert twilight,
In the death of afternoon,
We walked hand in hand down Broadway,
Like the first men on the moon."
From 'Thousands Are Sailing' by The Pogues. Shane MacGowan, sheer poetry.
The song that would get you straight on the dance floor?
'My Queen Is Harriet Tubman' by Sons of Kemet. It’s undeniable. Most things that Shabaka Hutchings does have the same effect, to be bloody fair to the man.
A song you wished you had written?
'Vitamin C' by CAN. Understated dirty perfection. Everyone wishes they’d done this one. I’ve lifted the "losing, you’re losing..." part, in broad daylight, Noel Gallagher style, it’s a homage so you can’t @ me about it.
Best song to turn up loud?
'Roadhouse Blues' by The Doors. When driving, or eating a boiled egg, or chopping logs, or at your dad’s 60th, or doing long division, or ransacking, or waking up in the morning and getting yourself a beer.
A song people wouldn’t expect you to like?
I’m well into ROSALÍA. Her new one 'Dolerme' is sick. That’s the kind of vocal take I’m aiming for.
Best song to end an all-nighter on?
'Tezeta' by Mulatu Astatke - 6am, sun poking sweetly over the fence etc... incidentally this is also my funeral song, though I don’t plan to check out after an all-nighter, touch wood. No accounting for morbid taste.
Any new music you are listening to right now?
'Congratulations' by The Golden Dregs.
'Frame of Reference' by Drug Store Romeos.
'Writhing Comedy' by Legss.
'Space Drum Machine' by Mauskovic Dance Band.
'The Link is About To Die' by Los Bitchos.
'Azo Toke' by KOKOKO!
03Interview
Name, where are you from?
Angus, Sam, Fin, Jazz, Johny & Jed. Brighton.
Describe your style in three words?
Dulce et decorum.
What’s the best gig you’ve ever been to?
Every time we’ve seen Ezra Collective, for the raw energy and joy in the room and also TJ Koleoso’s two-step.
If you could be on the line up with any two artists in history?
I saw a Glasto lineup with Ian Dury and Fela on the same bill. If we could be the filling in that sandwich...
Which subcultures have influenced you?
The dogging community, because they’ve shown us that taking risks in the dark can bear fruit. Also any subculture with good trousers.
If you could spend an hour with anyone from history?
Leonard Cohen, because I feel like having a conversation about tuna sandwiches with him would ensure peaceful sleep forevermore.
Of all the venues you’ve been to or played, which is your favourite?
Our first show was at Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar in Brighton, now sadly deceased. There’s nowhere else like it in town; it left a hole. Raise a glass ye faithful.
Your greatest unsung hero or heroine in music?
I don’t think Karen Dalton is as exalted as she should be. I guess that’s the nature of a ‘cult’ figure... but her small output was so powerful. That voice is rain against the windowpane.
You can listen, purchase or stream Opus Kink's EP, 'Requiem For A Quarantine' via opuskink.bandcamp.com. All profit from the EP will be donated to local Brighton venue The Green Door Store and the Black Lives Matter organisation.
04Playlist Notes
The first track you played on repeat?
That’d be 'No Woman No Cry' by Bob Marley, little me trying to puzzle out how something could make me feel so good and so sad at the same time.
A song that defines the teenage you?
'Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again' by Bob Dylan. A bit giddy and incomprehensible.
One record you would keep forever?
'And No More Shall We Part' by Nick Cave. I’ve been hearing it my whole life and I love it more every time. 'God Is In The House' is serious and terrible yet pure fun, like lots of the best things.
A song lyric that has inspired you?
"In Manhattan’s desert twilight,
In the death of afternoon,
We walked hand in hand down Broadway,
Like the first men on the moon."
From 'Thousands Are Sailing' by The Pogues. Shane MacGowan, sheer poetry.
The song that would get you straight on the dance floor?
'My Queen Is Harriet Tubman' by Sons of Kemet. It’s undeniable. Most things that Shabaka Hutchings does have the same effect, to be bloody fair to the man.
A song you wished you had written?
'Vitamin C' by CAN. Understated dirty perfection. Everyone wishes they’d done this one. I’ve lifted the "losing, you’re losing..." part, in broad daylight, Noel Gallagher style, it’s a homage so you can’t @ me about it.
Best song to turn up loud?
'Roadhouse Blues' by The Doors. When driving, or eating a boiled egg, or chopping logs, or at your dad’s 60th, or doing long division, or ransacking, or waking up in the morning and getting yourself a beer.
A song people wouldn’t expect you to like?
I’m well into ROSALÍA. Her new one 'Dolerme' is sick. That’s the kind of vocal take I’m aiming for.
Best song to end an all-nighter on?
'Tezeta' by Mulatu Astatke - 6am, sun poking sweetly over the fence etc... incidentally this is also my funeral song, though I don’t plan to check out after an all-nighter, touch wood. No accounting for morbid taste.
Any new music you are listening to right now?
'Congratulations' by The Golden Dregs.
'Frame of Reference' by Drug Store Romeos.
'Writhing Comedy' by Legss.
'Space Drum Machine' by Mauskovic Dance Band.
'The Link is About To Die' by Los Bitchos.
'Azo Toke' by KOKOKO!