Squid: No money and a lot of happiness

The Quietus interviewed "a genuinely exciting new group with the potential to be massive", London five-piece Squid. They were defined as being post-punk, a label they resist - "We are the first generation that’s been brought up with the internet in developing periods of our lives. It means that genre is much less definable, it’s not about living in the same city, it’s having something else that draws you together", bassist Laurie Nankivell told tQ. The members of the band are all 24 or 25, they've quit their day jobs and spent the summer playing, but - “I have the same financial problems I did when I was an agency worker, so I’m much happier doing this now,” as guitarist Anton Pearson says - “It’s all happened so fast in the last twelve months. Sometimes it just feels really silly, like a joke that’s gone too far. We’ve quit our jobs and everything! We’ve done a good job of surrounding ourselves with really nice and good people.”