Interview with "The Soil Under My Docs"

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I decided to interview the Working Man: a member of a pretty good English indie rock/punk band named The Working Man. Fully formed at the start of 2015, The Working Man have, in a short time, crafted a set that showcases each member’s musical prowess, as well as their showmanship. With costume changes, props and an enormous array of riffs, The Working Man are a band you will like for his committed side.

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• Who are the members of the band?

The band is composed of 5 talented persons:

The Working Man – Vocals

White Baby Jackson – Synth

Amy Brickshithouse – Bass

Chocolate Brain – Drums

Ray Danger – Guitar

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• Why did you have the idea of creating a band together?

The band has gone through numerous line-up changes since its inception but the working man was the chap that created the band, he heard a man shout “THEY CALL ME THE WORKING MAN” in Blackburn market, there was also a story of a “the hardest man in Blackburn” and he ended up going into a pub, declaring it, he got punched once in the head and was laid out flat.

That was how the name started but the music started from messing around at work (I work in a music shop).

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• Are you enjoying what you do?

We enjoy what we do immensely, our first aim is always to rub people up the wrong way or at least make people think about things, this can be by shocking them, sickening them or running at them at a live show dressed as a police agent with a rubber pig mask, but mostly by making them more critical with everything and to develop critical thinking.

We’d like to play to more people however, most gigs we play we get a great reception so it’s just building on that.

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• Is this your full-time job?

This isn’t our full-time job, we all have day jobs ranging from sales assistants to council workers. We’re everywhere, I doubt you’d spot us mind on account of all the masks etc.

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• What’s the song you preferred to play and to write?

My favorite songs are all yet to be written, recently we’ve recorded 2 songs which will be on our new EP which will be out soon but we have some songs we’re working on called:

Chief Shitehawk

Manhandling McCann

 

I always get excited about getting new songs recorded but I move on quickly to the next lot.

I also really enjoy exploring new genre’s for example for “chief shitehawk” we’re going to explore spaghetti western Ennio Morricone style.

My favorite song to play is “Royal Crud” because I get to dress up like Queen Elizabeth in a funny way.

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• Can you describe in one sentence the identity of the band?

The band consists of extremely talented musicians, costume changes, controversial lyrics and songs you’ll tell yourself to stop singing in public.

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• Do you plan to do some concerts in England, and at international level?

We are playing up and down England this year, we’ve managed to get on a few festivals so far such as:

the Nice N Sleazy festival (The exchange, Morecambe 25th May),

Darwen Live (Sunbird records, Darwen, 29th May),

and  Rebellion in Manchester for a Prog gig (1st July)

And we’re also playing a lot of pubs and clubs.

We’re hoping to get over to Germany at some point too to do a handfull of gigs.

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• Finally, an actuality question, what do you think about Brexit, 6 months after?

In regards to Brexit, I personally never vote for anything and I’m pretty sure I never will. It’s a fantastic pantomime though just not as good as ours.