★ HIGH HOPES
Tigercub
After the album session from hell, these Brighton alt.rockers have earned their stripes.
“In my head we’re Meshuggah-heavy, but you could hear it on Radio 1.”
IT’S MARCH 2020. A grave-faced Boris Johnson announces the first national lockdown. Meanwhile, in Brighton’s Electric Studios, the members of Tigercub wonder what they have to do to catch a break. “We’d just got a drum sound when Bo-Jo made his announcement,” recalls frontman Jamie Hall. “It felt like the band was crumbling, right on the brink of collapse. This album was sink or swim.”