‘Your mother doesn’t love ya / She didn’t wanna have you / Forgot to wear a rubber / And now we have to suffer’ are lyrics from Sad Night Dynamite’s latest single, ‘Sick of Your Sound’, which was originally written to soundtrack an upcoming Disney movie. “We were approached by Disney to do a song. They told us the one thing we can’t do is be offensive - this is a kid’s film, they said, so write with that in mind,” explains one half of the London-based duo Josh Greacen. “It was a fight scene that we were scoring so it needed to be angsty. We wrote the lyrics unchanged as you hear them now and in our heads that was tame. We didn’t even swear. But weirdly we never heard back from the film.”
“We threaten to break someone’s legs and put them in a coffin…I can’t see why they didn’t go for it,” adds bandmate Archie Blagden. The pair grew up together in Somerset on the outskirts of Glastonbury and started making music whilst still in school. Having spent the most part of their childhoods together, they officially formed Sad Night Dynamite in 2020 and released their first EP the same year. Since then, they’ve racked up millions of streams, supported Glass Animals on tour and even got a Gorillaz stamp of approval via Noodle’s Spotify playlist. There was also the almost-Disney moment, though this wasn’t the first time an opportunity has slipped through their fingers: “This has been a running theme for us. We’ve missed out on other opportunities because we send people the lyrics and they go ‘what the f*ck?’” Greacen explains.
