Fight Club
Armed with a sense of humour and a willingness to take the kind of risks other bands shy away from – check our cover shoot if evidence is needed – Fight Like Apes are among the few Irish bands who seem to go looking for trouble. In addition to wrestling with their fans, dissing their mates and merrily using the word ‘cunt’ in a song, the title of their new album alone might just land them in jail. With a bit of luck, that is.
Peter Murphy, 01 Sep 2010
Yes, they do. Fight Like Apes that is. So much so that venue staff hire extra security at their gigs in order to protect the punters from the band.
As we join May Kay, Jamie, Tom and Lee on a Friday morning in the Library Bar a couple of weeks before the release of their much-anticipated second album The Body Of Christ And The Legs Of Tina Turner, and before the wedding lampoonery of their first ever Hot Press cover shoot, the evidence of which is all over these pages as you read, singer May Kay (aka Mary-Kate Geraghty) is showing us the rather nasty-looking cuts she sustained on her forearms during wrestling bouts with members of the audience after a brace of recent gigs. (You can see those in the pix too).
“Post-gig wounds,” she explains, almost shyly.
“She bashed two lads,” adds
bassist Tom.
Do tell, we say, not without some trepidation.
“It was a loosely termed ‘wrestling match’ after a gig last week,” the singer elaborates. “I did win though. Well, on the Friday I won, on the Saturday I got beat.”
Has this become a regular occurrence? Should we be worried about asking prickly questions lest we be subjected to a spot of the old GBH?
“It’s not something any of us planned,” May Kay laughs. “It’s crept up on me really! It used to happen sometimes after gigs, ‘cos when we first started playing, we’d play like twenty-minute sets, and coming up to fifteen minutes is when you’d start to feel the adrenaline go. So then twenty minutes happens and the gig’s cut, and we’re dying to play more and we just end up having a fight afterwards.”
“Leg wrestling,” adds Tom, somewhat gnomically.
Which is all very well when you’re playing to audiences of two men and a terrier down the Dog & Duck, but now FLA are filling bigger venues, one wonders if May Kay is besieged by scary stalker-types looking for a tussle on the tiles?
“Quite honestly I’m pretty sure I hunted this guy out last weekend! It’s not like someone came over and was like, ‘There she is! I’ll fight you!’ I was like, ‘You!’”
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