MAGNETIC TAPE ZINE
PLAIDS.BANDCAMP.COM
PLAIDS
NOTTINGHAM / PUNK
How did Plaids come together
as a band?
Joe C: Me and Phil were playing in a failed (but very
enjoyable) post punk / wierd pop kinda band called
La Boite Diabolique and I was playing guitar and singing
quite technically, I had an urge to do something really
simple and hardcore punk based. Around that time I
saw Greenberg (guitarist) had put an advert on CollectiveZine (UK DIY/punk music website) looking to start a band
in a kinda 90s meets 80s hardcore style, which got my
attention. I chatted to him and it turned out I had heard his
old band and he had heard mine, so we organised a jam.
Nick (drummer) ended up doing bass/vocals in local posthardcore band Without Maps when he returned from a
year living in Japan, but had mentioned he’d like to keep
up playing drums in a band somehow, and I had mastered
his old band Dead Spex’s stuff and knew he was a great
and incredibly tight drummer.