KUBB Chat To ilikemusic.com

ILM: So maybe it was fate then. Maybe you were supposed to find it a struggle so you'd end up with Youth.

Harry: You're absolutely right. As an album, as something that I've recorded and made and my part in it, it's the deepest thing that I've ever done, the most true sounding thing that I've ever done, and I'm really quite chuffed with it, and I don't think it would have sounded like that if it'd just been easy, if we had gone in and made it work on the first day.

ILM: What musical influences have you had from growing up in Tobago? And how much of a culture shock was it going from Liverpool to Tobago to Cornwall?

Harry: You're right, it was a culture shock, but I've never thought of it like that. I used to have a line of little black kids following me home from school in Tobago when I'd just got there, because I was talking in a Liverpudlian accent in Tobago! And they'd be like, 'heh, little white boy, let we hear you talk, say something, we want to hear you talk.' And I was fuming and like 'fuck off' even though I was only five I hated it. So I lost my Liverpudlian accent totally in about two weeks. And that's my nature, when I moved to Cornwall I lost my West Indian accent, because there weren't any black people in Cornwall, and I thought I'd stick out like a sore cock and I didn't like that so, I've got what I've got now, which isn't a Cornish accent, but a bastardization of everything I've ever been through. Me and my little bro sound exactly the same.
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