Moreish Idols

Name, where are you from?
Solomon J Lamey, from Blackpool, UK - drums and beats in Moreish Idols.

Describe your style in three words?
Dark, colourful, prepared.

What’s the best gig you’ve ever been to?
The one that really sticks out in my mind is Arcade Fire at Empress Ballroom on 03/12/13. Dress code: Fancy - I danced with Cleopatra and The Cat in the Hat with a headful of mushrooms all while witnessing the swirling disco/punk reinvention of Win and co’s 'Reflektor' just up the road from my childhood home. Their music had been the soundtrack of a lot of highs and lows in my late teens and early twenties and their set even included a surprise cover of the Ramones song 'Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World' which was pretty deep. It was a whirlwind of emotions and a catharsis of euphoric boogies and pogoing into the night as the climax of the performance saw them take to the decks and spin their favourite songs, from LCD Soundsystem to Talking Heads and David Bowie, While the band joined the revellers in the crowd and danced together with us. I remember so clearly fist-bumping Win Butler under the disco ball with confetti stuck to his face. Details are a little neon-foggy.

If you could be on the line up with any two artists in history?
I’d have to time travel, to play with Moreish Idols as the opener for Canned Heat and The Velvet Underground & Nico circa 1965 at the liquid light show performances in NYC, tinged with experimental light and noise, wacky dance performance and mind-bending psychedelic art: to hang out with Andy Warhol and his mole people, to witness the birth of the modern rock show, and to really see if it is all it was cracked up to be, because supposedly everyone was so high that really you’d have to see it for yourself to get a true account- we certainly wouldn’t fit in but it would have been something to tell the grandkids about.

Which subcultures have influenced you?
I’ve always held an ideological affinity with the punk subculture, not necessarily in a traditional fashion sense (I’ve never had a mohawk or a studded leather jacket) but more with the values of anti-establishment, freedom of expression, DIY ethics and the destruction of accepted tradition. Britain is in need of a new punk revolution methinks, another, and then another.

If you could spend an hour with anyone from history?
David Bowie. I’d ask him what planet he came from and why it seems everything has gone seriously tits up since he left us and how he got so cool.

Of all the venues you’ve been to or played, which is your favourite?
I went to see LCD Soundsystem do their thing at the Store Street Warehouse Project in September 2017; a neon bathed air-raid shelter (now a car park) beneath Piccadilly station in Manchester. Essentially an underground bunker railway arches tunnel, that was packed to the brim with ecstatic ravers and rockers all making the stone floor ripple with thunderous gambol that night. This cavernous place had the vibe of some post-apocalyptic party before the last morning of civilisation and LCD absolutely killed it of course, prior to this I thought I’d never see them again.

Your greatest unsung hero or heroine in music?
Has to be Taylor Kirk of Timber Timbre, I feel he’s relatively unheard of but Kirk’s croon, his words and the composition are just out of this world. The whole band, of course, are integral to the sound but there’s something so enigmatic about this shy sombre-soul singer which just hits so differently which I hope in the future is more celebrated. Vocal chord and delivery reminiscent of Cash, Elvis, Richard Hawley and even Spiritualised, but of course something altogether entirely different.

Moreish Idols recently released their new single 'Hangar', taken from their forthcoming debut EP 'Float'. Pre-order or pre-save it via ffm.to/moreish_float.