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wait to end so they could make their escape. ontinuing to explore the album, ‘Bad to be like.” This comment sparks a thought
Archie recalls, “Sheffield, England! There CBlood Rising’ offers ‘Back From The from Johnny, who says, “There is a differ-
was a nice café, but the show wasn’t that Dead’ and ‘Breathe’, the latter boasting the ence between an idol and a role model, an
good. The backstage area was covered in line, ‘If I could turn back time and so we quiz idol is the one you want to be,” and Archie
mould, the walls were covered in paper that the band mates about whether there is any- concludes the sentence, saying, “and a role
was hiding shit behind it. You couldn’t even thing they would like to change if they had model is who you want your kids to be like.”
piss in the toilet! There weren’t cockroaches, the ability to do so, but picking up from their
but I think they were the next thing to that!” previous comments they again stress the im- theme throughout Santa Cruz’ his-
The song features the lyric, ‘Still I don’t portance of looking forward and not back. Atory has been adrenaline; their afore-
know where I belong, it’s been a while now Archie tells Black Velvet, “The band is mentioned debut EP ‘Another Rush of
since I’ve seen a ray of sunshine’ and this, fine as it is so I wouldn’t want to change any- Adrenaline’ and their debut LP from 2013
coupled with the song ‘Drag Me Out Of The thing but if I could go back in time I’d like to called ‘Screaming for Adrenaline’ and the
Darkness’ reflect a couple of moments on open for AC/DC again. It was in the summer theme has continued in ‘Bad Blood Rising’
‘Bad Blood Rising’ where dark times are of 2015 in Finland and there were about with the song ‘Pure Fucking Adrenaline’,
mentioned alongside the positivity and party 5,000 people there, so not quite like the Johnny quickly explaining that every album
feel which the album has in spades. We ask crowd we get when we visit Camden! they have has a reference to adrenaline and
about experiences the band has encoun- “I’d also like to go and see Mayhem in it’s a theme they fully intend to continue in
tered with dark times. Archie quickly points maybe 1994. You know, Norwegian black the future. When we ask what gives them a
out that “it’s always dark in Finland!” metal was the most punk rock thing on earth rush of adrenaline, it is perhaps no surprise
Having already spoken about the diffi- at the time. You know they were shooting when Johnny says, “I think being on stage, I
culty they’d had with their old record label, each other in the head and stuff like that. It think you get hooked on that, especially
Archie continues, “Yeah, there were dark was crazy. So I would love to see that and when people are singing your songs. I re-
times, but it had nothing to do with the label what went down. And Oasis when they member the first time people were singing a
and what was going on there; it was about played at Knebworth.” song that we had written, and I think that is
your personal life. I don’t think people realise While still on the subject of ‘Back From the biggest thing you can feel on stage. The
that when you go on tour your personal life The Dead’, the song contains the lyric, ‘We rush you get from that is crazy.”
will never be the same when you get back ain’t no role models’, so we ask the band And an adrenaline rush is exactly what
home and you have to adjust to that. I found mates who their role models are and have you can expect from Santa Cruz, both now
myself in a dark place, which was when I been. Clearly recognising the importance of and in the future. An adrenaline rush which
wrote those lines and a couple of songs on such a theme, there is a rare pause from the is guaranteed to get your blood pumping and
the album. My advice is to never look back duo before Archie quips, “Donald Trump”, rising, and if they have their way, it will take
and always go forward. Don’t stay still in one which is met with more laughter before he’s them to the very, very top. Don’t worry about
place or get stuck, just fucking go on and do quick to stress a firm “No,” to his initial an- when Santa Claus is coming to town, make
what you’ve got to and don’t look back be- swer. Taking a more thoughtful tone, he rat- a date for when Santa Cruz are.
cause that is when you can get depressed. tles off “Slash, Liam Gallagher, all the guys
When you are a musician you can have a lot from Motley Crue… dude, there are so many Visit www.santacruzbandofficial.com
of free time so it is easy to be still and not go names, it’s hard to narrow it down to a few.
to the next place.” A good role model is just someone you want Words by Michael Coventry
to be. Maybe not someone with good man-
ners or good values but someone you want Photos By Viivi Kuuska

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