Neu Building Bloxx

Bouncing around like possessed jelly beans, and veering wildly off topic at every turn, it’s a mean feat to get a word in edgeways at the best of times with Uxbridge’s newest upstarts, Bloxx. It’s particularly tricky when the dual distractions of table tennis and a sprawling bubble tea menu are tempting the four-piece from the other side of the room, too. Going off on tangents ranging from their passionate gripes with Wetherspoons’ new order-to-table app (three quarters of the band originally met through working at the bevvy utopia and have strong feelings on the matter) to constantly taking the piss out of one another to the point that almost every original point of conversation is instantly derailed, it’s a wonder that this lot ever get anything done. And yet, taking stock of the music itself, it’s apparent they’re doing something very right indeed.

“If we took this seriously, it’d be too much like a job,” starts guitarist Taz Sidhu. ”We’re mucking about 99% of the time, even when we’re writing music. We keep it nice and laid back.”

It’s an approach that’s won out for the band so far. When Bloxx first popped up last year, playing raucous gigs in packed East London vintage shops, and penning the infectious, unfiltered sort of songs that seem custom-made with the stage in mind, they showed a raw kind of promise that soon caught the attention of the discerning Chess Club Records, and won them support slots with INHEAVEN, Sundara Karma and Will Joseph Cook along the way. “Since those tours, it’s seriously levelled us up,” frontwoman Fee Booth says. “We’ve shown thousands of people our music who would never have heard of us otherwise.”