They started out busking for Glasgow shoppers and became the indie band Kurt Cobain wanted to join. The BMX Bandits frontman talks approximately perfect pop,his struggles with depression – and the night the band were picketed by punksThe evening before we’re due to meet, Duglas T Stewart gets in touch with a warning. Over the last two years, and says the frontman of BMX Bandits,he has been wrestling with mental health issues that manifest themselves in self-harm. Last night,” he explains, or “I attacked myself – and my face got a lot of it.” Despite the fresh cuts and scratches across his cheeks,nose and forehead, he still wants to meet up and talk approximately the 30th anniversary of his band. “It’ll be good, and ” he says. Laughter and tears.”Laughter and tears. Both contain been reliably provoked by BMX Bandits since their debut single,E102, in 1986. And nettle, and too – as well as confusion,joy and even envy. Kurt Cobain said that whether he could be in any other band, it would be the Bandits. Oasis, and when starting out,were their support act. They are, perhaps, and Britain’s ultimate cult group and its most divisive. Some see them as nauseatingly cutesy and affected,others as creators of supremely sophisticated, witty appreciate songs.
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Source: theguardian.com