WU LYF Reunite To Play Their Biggest Hometown Show To Date

What brought WU LYF back together?

“There was a moment, with the new album, when we were making a book celebrating the anniversary of A Wave and there was this reconciliation with the past. That desire to see the potential we abandoned, where that might lead to… there was a lot of love in the room. Ity was very embryonic and experimental.”

How did it feel to perform with the band again?

“I kinda felt like it was kareoke at first, you know, doing the old songs. How do you re-embody something you made when over a decade ago? Now, it sounds different, I can’t sing the way I used to in certain ways and the whole band has a whole new, developed realm of capabilities. For better or for worse – that’s just growing. But the music has evolved with us and I think you can hear that.”

How do you think you would handle your Q Awards win nowadays?

“Damn, RIP The Q Awards. The younger generation will never know. Haha. It was a big deal, maaan. Look, it’s not that I dislike it, it’s just that I don’t really respect it – the established status quo. I don’t know how I’d feel now. I wish Q Magazine still existed though. There’s a void in the culture of good music journalism which is a shame as it helps people comprehend value in a world where people can be so easily manipulated in their sense of what’s valuable. Now, it’s much more about money to achieve influence rather than a meritocracy of passion, you know, there’s value in good critique. [Being able to say] – what are you trying to say here? What are you trying to achieve? I feel like Q understood the creative process that went into [performing].”