There was a cartoon image that made us laugh doing the rounds earlier this month. A little boy gets in with the “wrong” crowd and ends up pop-punk’d up to the eyeballs, a speech bubble emerging from his mouth reading, “I hate this town.” It’s a sentence so associated with the scene that it’s encouraging parody.
Aberdeen pop-punks Campfires have no time for the stereotype. They love their town. They love the everyday, the potentially mundane. On ‘Same Streets’, they celebrate it.
“Our first single Same Streets is all about doing the same things week to week in the same places with the same people but we enjoy it at the end of the day anyway,” the band explain. In the official video, the band showcase just that. “The video was a lot of fun to make, as footage was taken from summer hang outs, river swimming, BBQS and also playing a live sweaty pop punk show. However the Scottish river water was still very cold!”
So whilst some are busy hating their hometown and getting all angsty about it, Campfires are pretty much just having fun. We’ll give the river a miss though.
Campfires formed from the ashes of Autumn In Disguise. Their self-titled debut EP is scheduled for release on the 15th January 2016, preceded by their first ever live performance at Aberdeen’s Cellar 35 on the 12th December of this year.