If there's such a thing as doing it "the right way" in the modern music industry then the LaFontaines are surely it. Their genre-melding style - some amalgamation of punk, pop and hip-hop delivered in broad Lanarkshire tones - and riotous live shows have earned them a devoted following, despite never having had any kind of major label push. Third album Junior cracked the top 40 but almost proved to be their epitaph - when the pandemic shut down the world the future of The LaFontaines looked bleak, and frontman Kerr Okan admits he was ready to pack it all in.
It wasn't until Jamie Keenan, drummer, fellow vocalist, and reliable comic foil, sent him the title track of forthcoming album Business As Usual that the spark was reignited and it's been described as the song that saved the band. Read More: 'It's a mess': Bikini Kill on why they're more relevant than ever in the age of Trump The Scots band using their DIY touring experience to help with Brexit red tape 'There's no place like Scotland': The Xcerts on their new album and home vs home Frontman Okan says: "The band (which also includes guitarist Darren McCaughey) was flying before Covid. "We’d just had our first top 40 album, we were just back from touring India and Asia, we had European shows lined up and our biggest shows in the UK after that.
“It was all laid out in front of us, at that point we’d been at it 12 years and it had been slowly building and it just felt like this was our time and it was about to take off.
