Lice
Bad Vibrations is delighted to welcome back LICE to London's The Shacklewell Arms on 18th March 2020.
On their return, the band have said: '2020 will see us begin to reveal the vital new material we have been developing over the past year - envenomed against the anaemic conventions of this landscape. Showcasing this work in our first full run of UK headline performances, we deliver the punching fist to this wavering, insipid age.'
Tickets on sale Friday 6th December. Please do not buy secondhand tickets outside of the Dice waiting list or See tickets exchange system. This is to protect you from scam and ensure tickets are legally yours.
"Lice sound like they’re going to fall apart at any given second."
- NME
Alistair on his writing process
From an interview with Loud And Quiet Mag:
LICE’s method of writing is a little unconventional, especially Alistair’s approach towards lyrics, which, he explains, was borne out of the writers’ block he experienced when he first joined the band.
“What I do isn’t really melody based,” he says. “It’s more about kind of, like, rhythm. So originally, in the early days, I didn’t really know what I wanted to write about; I didn’t really have any ideas for lyrics. I’d try writing lyrics and they were always fucking terrible. Like these guys said they were good, but they didn’t fit properly. And so for a long time I was so discouraged. I’d turn up to practices and wouldn’t want to be like, ‘sorry I don’t have any lyrics’ – I didn’t want them to find out – so I’d hold the microphone dead close to my mouth and just slur and make phonetic sounds, and add loads of reverb and stuff because there was a mixer in the practice room. And these guys didn’t know.
“I’d always record on my phone and afterwards these guys were like, ‘Oh I couldn’t really hear what you were saying but it sounds good man.’ I’d get back home and literally just have noted down in dots and dashes where to put the syllables and stuff. So I’d be like, ok, if that line has seven syllables and I add the stress there and there, it doesn’t really matter what I say. As long as it fits in there it’ll sound good. I was really, really into the Teasers and I wanted to have a go at writing satirical stuff, so after months of not having lyrics for this song I wrote the lyrics in half an hour. And ever since then that’s basically been it. These guys play a song, I record it in practice, go home, work it out, come back.”