Interview with The Metros

The songs the Metros they’ve amassed so far suggest they’re all set to be the latest in a line of knavish but gifted London-based ne’er-do-wells that stretches all the way back to The Small Faces, via Madness, Squeeze, Flowered Up and The Libertines. Outline caught up with bassist, Charlie before the start of their first headline tour…

Your debut single ‘Education Part 2’ is coming out on the 17th March; with its critique of the school system I was wondering if any of your teachers have given you any feedback of what they thought of it yet?

We haven’t, but the singer has! It was the singer who wrote it and he’s had a bit of trouble at school; he went through about 4 secondary schools and then ended up leaving and not bothering with any of it after getting a GCSE in Music and Drama - that was it!  He went to a circus school in Austria for a couple of years where he did circus skills instead of maths. So he’s had a bit of a weird education. He can juggle amazingly but he can’t count how many balls he’s juggling. None of us have done particularly well at school I suppose, but none of us have had as troubled a time as him.

So who got the best results at school?

Jak the lead guitarist, he did alright; he’s got some A-levels as well. None of us managed to make it to A level -  we’ve all got GCSEs apart from the singer, but we all faded out one after another. Jak stuck it out and we’re all quite proud of him.

The songs the Metros they’ve amassed so far suggest they’re all set to be the latest in a line of knavish but gifted London-based ne’er-do-wells that stretches all the way back to The Small Faces, via Madness, Squeeze, Flowered Up and The Libertines. Outline caught up with bassist, Charlie before the start of their first headline tour…

Your debut single ‘Education Part 2’ is coming out on the 17th March; with its critique of the school system I was wondering if any of your teachers have given you any feedback of what they thought of it yet?

We haven’t, but the singer has! It was the singer who wrote it and he’s had a bit of trouble at school; he went through about 4 secondary schools and then ended up leaving and not bothering with any of it after getting a GCSE in Music and Drama - that was it!  He went to a circus school in Austria for a couple of years where he did circus skills instead of maths. So he’s had a bit of a weird education. He can juggle amazingly but he can’t count how many balls he’s juggling. None of us have done particularly well at school I suppose, but none of us have had as troubled a time as him.

So who got the best results at school?

Jak the lead guitarist, he did alright; he’s got some A-levels as well. None of us managed to make it to A level -  we’ve all got GCSEs apart from the singer, but we all faded out one after another. Jak stuck it out and we’re all quite proud of him.

The songs the Metros they’ve amassed so far suggest they’re all set to be the latest in a line of knavish but gifted London-based ne’er-do-wells that stretches all the way back to The Small Faces, via Madness, Squeeze, Flowered Up and The Libertines. Outline caught up with bassist, Charlie before the start of their first headline tour…

Your debut single ‘Education Part 2’ is coming out on the 17th March; with its critique of the school system I was wondering if any of your teachers have given you any feedback of what they thought of it yet?

We haven’t, but the singer has! It was the singer who wrote it and he’s had a bit of trouble at school; he went through about 4 secondary schools and then ended up leaving and not bothering with any of it after getting a GCSE in Music and Drama - that was it!  He went to a circus school in Austria for a couple of years where he did circus skills instead of maths. So he’s had a bit of a weird education. He can juggle amazingly but he can’t count how many balls he’s juggling. None of us have done particularly well at school I suppose, but none of us have had as troubled a time as him.

So who got the best results at school?

Jak the lead guitarist, he did alright; he’s got some A-levels as well. None of us managed to make it to A level -  we’ve all got GCSEs apart from the singer, but we all faded out one after another. Jak stuck it out and we’re all quite proud of him.