Fear Of Flying

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We interviewed Fear of Flying on our tenth show. Listen to it on our pop up player on right.






From: London, UK


Label: Young & Lost Club


Singles: Routemaster (Young & Lost Club), released July 30th 2006

Crossthepond 10 saw our team accost Fear Of Flying’s Jack LB, Charles Cave and Harry McVeigh after the riotous party that greeted the launch of their debut single ‘Routemaster’. We also happened upon front man Harry’s mum, and the fact that Mrs. McVeigh a) didn’t look all together out of place at the launch and, b) if we may be cheeky, is quite an attractive woman, says it all really. Each aged 18, Fear Of Flying have the sort of enviable talent that would depress even the most head strong of mid twenty year olds.

The Fear Of Flying story doesn’t begin in a classroom or at a battle of the bands, but at a Red Hot Chilli Peppers concert. Growing up in the London suburb of Ealing, Charles and Jack had known each other from a young age, but not until they both went to see a post Californication Chilli’s, did their musical minds meet. They then stumbled across the junior Paul Banks’ vocals of Harry through a mutual friend, and a couple of name changes later, Fear Of Flying we born.

The Chilli Peppers partialities have been long since cast aside, as Fear Of Flying now exhibit the spikiest of spiky guitar music. The first ears to be utterly turned onto FOF belonged to London’s foremost taste-making singles label, the Young & Lost Club. Sneaking into play label shows at venues which shouldn’t have legally let them anywhere near the door, dividends was paid when Fear Of Flying followed in the footsteps of Vincent Vincent & The Villains, Larrikin Love and Good Shoes, and released the aforementioned debut single with a Y&L imprint. And for anyone whose school days seem like a distant memory, one listen to ‘Routemaster’ will tell you that the future looks annoyingly bright for this young trio.

Like this, try this: Good Shoes