"You don't owe it to anyone to be the same person that you were yesterday, tomorrow, the day after."- The Throwaway scene Interview

This interview is with The Throwaway Scene, who supported Mouth Culture at the parish alongside Leeds band Front page news who opened. The Throwaway Scene are a Post Hardcore band from Sheffield, touring their Debut EP, “On Death& Dying”.

In the middle of the gig, their singer spoke about their battle with depression and how they have been struggling with it for a while. What they said, really resonated with me as at points I have felt the same. This magazine was created out off the period of trying to find who I am and at points has been a reason to carry on being creative. There were often times where id want to give up on everything but this magazine really did help me to not want to give up as it has allowed me to express myself and others.

Here is the quote from the gig-

"Legends. Cool, so... Yeah, this next one's gonna be an absolutely uplifting club classic. It's about depression. Hear me now. Yeah, so I've been struggling with that with depression for a long time. I've not been at work for nine months now.

I am not doing well, I suppose, ultimately. I've sort of forgotten who I was and

tried to find myself again. Don't know where that ended up. And then, you know, I'm just fucking spinning around in the corner.

I'm like your nan on cod. I'm just shooting at the fucking wall, you know? I don't know what I'm doing, man. I don't know who I am anymore, but I think that's okay, because I don't think... There was a quote that I'm now going to absolutely fuck up.

Well, here we go anyway. So, you owe it... Yeah, I fucked it already. You don't owe it to yourself or to anyone, to your mum or dad, your friends, your family. You don't owe it to anyone to be the same person that you were yesterday, tomorrow, the day after.

Fuck that noise. You are you. You are you as well, etc. Next day and so on and so on. Just do what you fucking have to do. But talk to people as well. That's... The main thing is I've kind of... I did go through, you know, counselling and therapy and then it sort of abruptly ended and I went, well, that's fine, because I'll cut my nose off to spike my face and say, well, I didn't want it anyway.

In fact, it was helping me stay alive. Now I'm sort of closing myself off from three of my best friends again most of the time. It's not good, so I now need to talk to people again. So please, if you need to talk to people, just do that.

I know it's hard, but... We need to do that, guys. Come on. Two last things just before we continue with our, as I say, uplifting evening. I'll snap back into the happy persona in a minute. On you go.

Yeah, two last things. If you've not listened to a single fucking word up until this point, I don't care. Just remember these two things. Know that you're loved. Know that you're not alone. Thank you."

Now, here's the interview with the singer from the Throwaway Scene.

What’s your favourite video game?

Favourite of all time has to be Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. It’s the first game I really got lost in.

What’s your favourite takeaway?

Anything that’s vegan friendly cos I can’t be too picky!

Why are you here?

That’s a poignant question, when this band started we began with two questions: “is this it?” & “am I where I should be?”. Maybe we’re here to figure that out.

Tell us a bit about your band?

Each collection of songs is based around a narrative and aesthetic, with each of these 'scenes' we try to explore pertinent stories and themes that resonate with us as a collective.

What made you want to be in /start a band?

An enveloping love for music and the desire to create the kind of music we want to listen to. It’s also the one outlet that allows us to completely be ourselves and do whatever we want.

Tell me about your most recent release and what it means to you?

‘On Death & Dying’ is our interpretation of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’ 5 stages of grief, it follows the character “Ross” traversing through the stages after the tragic loss of a loved one.