Guitarist Dan Fatal has paid his dues. Name a music venue in the capital? Dan’s gigged it. Previous bands include The Fatels and No Picasso and for a time he played guitar for Punk visionaries The Homosexuals with Bruno Wizards. But it’s with new band CuT that Dan’s relentless determination seems to be paying off. CuT’s first single ‘Let’s Go’ caught the attention of all the right people and new single ‘Page 59’ has rightly earned itself a place on the playlist of BBC 6 Music.

It must be good to be getting some recognition! You feelin’ good?

It’s a real pleasure to hear our band on the radio and have hero’s that you’ve listened to as a child such as Steve Lamacq and John Kennedy championing us. It restores faith in all the hard work you put in over the years. We realise how lucky we are to get this exposure and support. We just want to focus on writing and recording music and releasing it as quickly as possible.

Getting Blur’s first Manager Andy Ross on board is a pretty big deal.

Andy’s great, a real legend who’s been there and done it all the way to the top. He’s very calm and collected which is just what a bunch of foolish rock’n’rollers need to keep our feet on the ground and keep focused. Rok Pete from our record label, Ra Ra Rok Records which is based at ‘Out on the Floor Records’ on Inverness Street in Camden wanted Andy Ross to manage us all along; it was his master plan. Pete managed to get Andy and his wife Helen to a gig of ours, we smashed it, they loved it, the rest is history.

The elusive “made it” in music is a lot like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow in that the nearer you get, the further away it seems to go. Do you have specific goals or are you just enjoying the ride?

The only goal we have; and I think I can speak on behalf of the band, is to keep making music ‘til the day we die. To stay inspired and hungry, to keep the rage and love in our hearts at a maximum, until we got nothing left to give. In 2015 we want to make one cohesive collection of songs and release the album. Enjoying the ride is the only way to live, even when you’re at your lowest, it’s all part of the journey. We are the lucky ones living charmed lives.

The band have strong ties to Denmark Street, are you pissed about the plans to regenerate the area?

It’s very sad the way they destroy our history without a care in the world just for it to be replaced with shitty corporate buildings and sterile music venues pumping out dull, mind control weak ass Muzak for this mass of consumer zombies once called humanity. However, the underground music scene will always find a way to generate alternative vibes and break through anything the concrete of corporation tries to snuff out. Out of the ashes…

What other London based bands are you into? Can you give us some tips?

London is an amazing city for the arts and innovation; it’s got bands coming out of its arse. Bands we know and like are: The Sticklers, The Violet Hum,  Slowgun, NOVA, Shark Dentist, Kurtz, The Dash, Beans on Toast, The Rusty Suns, Dumbjaw,  Emile Bernard, Arrows of Love, The Bohicas, Boxed In, LTNT, Plant Plants, Celestial Trax.

People should get more business savvy and take the James Brown approach to music. Engage the system, get the money and power and influence the system from within. Much like Saul Alinsky talks about in ‘Rules for Radicals‘. The infrastructure of business/politics, law and order are there for us to use to fight the power and gain victories for the little people. We need to find a way to bring about a new civil rights movement for the 21st century to bring these global monolithic multinational corporations back into line so they don’t destroy the environment and so they benefit local communities. Make peace profitable. Easier said than done, but that has to be the ultimate goal or its game over for humanity. We’ll end up living in a cooperate police state with our children thinking 1D, Bieber and Taylor Swift are rock’n’roll! As Gandhi said- “Be the change you wish to see in the world”. Rant over.

Blow your mind and read ‘Ferlinghetti’s ‘Poetry as Insurgent Art‘.

New single Page 59 will be released 2nd Feb, even newer single This Way, That Way is penciled in for the first week of April.