Yo,
So The Crack magazine, a North East based music/film/listings magazine has a little feature on me in this months issue. Here it is;
“A cursory listen to ‘We Are Nothing’, the first track on The Casual Terrorist’s ‘The Lost EP’, will throw up the lyrics: “We talk about love, freedom, revolution and peace but we still treat each other like shit. LIKE SHIT”; and “We can look up at the stars for as long as we like and it will never explain as to why we all feel so fucking miserable”; and “WE ARE NOTHING, AND THIS IS JUST FAR TOO EMBARRASSING”. In short: we’re very far from the land of The Black Eyed Peas. The Casual Terrorist (not his real name – it’s Cj Reay) put this five-track release together in response to the death of his best friend in the summer of 2009 and – while not exclusively about that – there is an understandable vein of anger, confusion and trying to pin-point his meaning in the world coursing through these tracks. He’s a 21-year-old from Fenham in Newcastle and his fury (and angsty tenderness) is channelled through a playing style which sounds like The Wedding Present’s David Gedge let loose with an acoustic guitar. Incendiary, well worth checking out, stuff.”