Blue Bendy: the south London post-punk pop band who fried Wire’s brains

‘The weirder side of guitar music’ … (L-R) Harrison Charles, Joe Nash, Sam Wilson, Arthur Nolan, Olivia Morgan and Oscar Tebbutt of Blue Bendy. Photograph: -

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Blue Bendy singer Arthur Nolan is discussing the band’s early days. “Before post-punk got so lethargic and landfill we were trying to be like Wire,” he says. “We wanted to do stuff like them on the weirder side of guitar music. Pop was a dirty word at the time.”