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KICKING LIFE’S ASS

ilson are here to rock you to the core with a sound that refuses to be pigeonholed into
Wa genre and can only be described as Full Blast Fuckery. They've been touring relent-
lessly since 2010 and making a name for themselves by playing each and every show like it’s
their last night on earth. This band of party crashers consists of vocalist Chad Nicefield, drummer
Matt Puhy, bassist James Lascu and guitarists Jason Spencer and Kyle Landry. We chat with
Chad about their hometown of Detroit, life changing decisions and kicking life’s ass.

ack when Wilson was formed, it sonal beliefs that are just that, personal,”
Bwas just a bit of banter between five says Chad, talking about Wilson's stance
debaucherous Detroiters. “This band on religion. “I was persuaded as a young
started out as a way for us to get free beer kid to attend bible studies, but mostly be-
while Jason was going to college in Lans- cause my friend’s parents took me with
ing, MI,” Chad Nicefield tells us. “We their kids. I remember this one Sunday
wanted to play house parties, etc. As it School place told me I couldn't continue to
started to spread further than that and we attend if I was planning on being a Boy
started getting positive feedback from our Scout still. I was really into it back then. I
peers about the project, we decided to said "fuck that" and never went to church
swing for the fences!” again. My parents supported my decisions
Despite Wilson starting off as a bit of a and never pushed me to go in a specific di-
laugh, Chad already knew that music was rection. I know what it is to ‘sin’ and the very
what he wanted to do with his life. He came foundation of morality. That's how I base
to this realisation after he was involved in a my life choices.”
car accident when he was sixteen. “I was In mainstream Christianity, the devil re-
playing music with my friends in high belled against God - so it’s no surprise that
school when it happened. It really shook me the rebellious Wilson have a song entitled
to the core... as losing your life a few times ‘Hang With The Devil’. When we ask what
can do,” Chad laughs. “It was while I was the most angelic thing they’ve done is,
recovering at home and missing out on all Chad replies, “I think it's just as simple as
the shows that my band was playing at the treating others the way we'd like to be
time that the overwhelming feeling of being treated. Don't take any shit. We stand up for
lost without that outlet really hit me. From what we believe to be right.”
that point forward, I knew that this was what The devil appears to have enticed Chad
I wanted to do with my ‘extra lives’ that were in the past - as he tells us that 'Waiting For
given to me.” The World To Cave In' is “actually about me
making the terrible decisions that I can't
ilson have recently released 'Right stop making, and how those decisions af-
WTo Rise,' the follow-up to their fect my loved ones. Flirting with disaster
2013 debut 'Full Blast Fuckery'. It was their because I'm a glutton for punishment.”
first time writing a record as a band with all He continues, “The record as a whole is
five members contributing, Chad tells us. about those struggles of being up against
“That old school process of being in a room the wall, pushing your way through in the
with your best friends hashing out tunes best way you can, as men and women.
never fails. We lacked that previous to this Every day there is a new struggle, and every
record, because Jason and I had been the day you are afforded the opportunity to
primary songwriters due to member make that strife your bitch and show the
changes in the developing years of the world just who the fuck you are!”
band. With this current line-up we find our-
selves in a very comfortable place of trust- ilson titled their debut album 'Full
ing our peers. It feels great.” WBlast Fuckery' because it de-
Not only that, but 'Right To Rise’, along scribed the feeling you get when you listen
with all of Wilson's previous work, has been to the record. We ask if Chad gets the same
recorded the old fashioned way, with real in- feeling when listening to 'Right To Rise'.
struments and analogue gear. “That's al- “We will never move away from fuckery,”
ways been my ethos,” Chad explains. “I'm Chad tells us. “We just define it differently
a blue collar guy! Up until one week ago I in our songs. We are a band that embraces
had never downloaded a record from any the good times that rock ‘n' roll produces.
digital platform. I own vinyl and still enjoy We don't have the time or energy to sub-
flirting with death in my car while shuffling merge ourselves in any of the other dra-
around for ‘that one CD with that one song matic bullshit. That to me is living and being
on it’ while driving with my knees! There's full blast and full of fuckery. The feeling
just something romantic about that and the something gives you that is too good to ig-
feeling of creating music that REAL way, it nore. It forces your body and mind to par-
really chubs us dudes up!” ticipate... because life is already too short.”
'Right To Rise' is full of real, red-hot Talking of life being too short, 'I Am The
tunes like 'The Flood', in which Chad sings Fly' is a song about taking chances and
about religion. “None of us are God-fearing staying cut-throat to what you want. “That
men. We have thoughts and our own per- song is me saying I may not be perfect, but

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