We became addicted to everything and tried as hard as we could to fuck everything up. Our attitude back then was sex, drugs, rock n’ roll and we lived that to the maximum of every bad cliche that you could possibly imagine. That meant our album didn’t come out for two years. Then 9/11 happened, with its devastating global effects and changing the world. There is no happy ending! We had a massive deal with Geffen, the biggest record label in the world and we were their priority.
9/11 was when we were originally meant to launch the album and our own festival, but it’s gone completely tits up again. It was at 9/11 when it started to go wrong for us. The end of the documentary was us finally having fucked everything up as much as we possibly could and turned it around into a fantastic success, but then COVID meant that the ending had to change.” Fitting that the documentary is called What Could Possibly Go Wrong, isn’t it? We have this documentary coming out called What Could Possibly Go Wrong. Having taken so long to rebuild ourselves into a position of strength, it’s a lot to take in. As the band debut the video for ‘Dark Days Dark Times’, the frontman spoke to NME about new album ‘Addict’, an upcoming documentary detailing their colourful past of drugs, destruction and serial killers – as well as holding a mirror up to these dumpster fire times we’re living in.īarry: “Well, we had the most amazing year lined up, the most amazing festival season, two UK tours, a European tour, releasing the album and doing our own festival. Still, it’s not the first time the band have had to fight back from adversity.
As favourites on the festival circuit, Ashworth is really feeling the pain of not being able to tour. Just like the rest of us, Dub Pistols’ plans for one hell of a year were flushed down the toilet. I decided there and then to get a taxi straight to the airport and get the last flight back.” “Then all of a sudden the military turned up due to COVID. “I was in Panama at Tribal Gathering in the middle of a jungle, surrounded by naked people on acid, in the middle of the most beautiful place that you could possibly imagine, having the time of my life,” Dub Pistols frontman Barry Ashworth tells NME, recalling the happier times of earlier in 2020.
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