It’s 5pm on a Bank Holiday weekend. Central London is sunny and packed. Eureka Machines have piled into an old Soho boozer (about the only one without football crowds, or Sunday roasts flying overhead) ahead of their gig at the 100 Club later, when Chris Catalyst has a revelation. The sort that tend to come near the end of your first pint, as you contemplate a second round, surrounded by people who’ve known you for ever.
“I think pissing around is really important,” the frontman/songwriter-in-chief declares between sips of stout. “I’ve got a friend who goes to [male suicide prevention charity] Andy’s Man Club, and he says it’s been fantastic, because as he got older, and people started having kids, getting married and working away and that kind of thing, his social circle really got smaller. So having this, to get together with your mates and piss about, I think it’s important.”
