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Ali Welford talks to Bad Amputee’s Phil Tyler about their track Gwanggaeto the Great, which features on our 14th birthday compilation album
We celebrate our 14th birthday with a free to download compilation of tracks by North East artists. Download your copy via our Bandcamp site. We hear more from Bad Amputee about their track.
Cards on the table: for me, Bad Amputee are quite simply the best band in the North East right now. Led by local folk luminaire Phil Tyler, the three-piece’s stark sonic palette and dulcet slowcore harmonies coalesce on some of the most mesmeric songs to come from the region in many a year; the best of which have already been laid down for their soon-to-be-released full-length debut.
“This is a song perhaps about things that did or didn’t happen in Northumberland one lost weekend,” is how Tyler explains their track.
