Scanners

Formed in 2004, London post-punkers Scanners are a four-piece who have been exciting all the right people for a while now. Their first album 'Violence Is Golden' was released in the UK in 2008, receiving a wealth of great reviews from salivating music types. They've been compared to popular indie bands such as Bloc Party, The Killers and The Cardigans and celebrity blogger Perez Hilton has endorsed them. Is there any greater accolade? Now, with high hopes and expectations for 2009, they will soon release their second album. Ahead of a gig hosted by Twisted Licks at the Macbeth in Shoreditch on 21 Feb (more info here), here are the band's answers to our Same Six courtesy of bandmember Matthew Mole.

Q1 How did you start out making music?
The usual way. I failed my exams and started in a band.

Q2 What inspired your latest single?
We don't know what our next single will be yet as we are just finishing our second album!

Q3 How do you go about creating a track?
There's no one way of doing anything, is there? Every good song comes in a different way and there's no knowing when or where it's going to hit you.

Q4 Which artists influence your work?
Too many to mention! It is probably easier to talk about the music we do our best to not sound like.

Q5 What would you say to someone experiencing your music for the first time?
Did you buy it? Or did you get it free off the internet taking food from my children's hungry mouths? Only joking, we don't have any children.

Q6 What are your ambitions for your latest album, and for the future?
I would love our second album to reach many more people than the first one did. People are forever coming up to us and asking why they've never heard of us. I want people to hear about this new album as I think it's really good. So buy it folks, it'll be called 'Submarine' and will be in shops near you by the summer!

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