Bad Nerves
Garage-rock pace and power-pop melodies collide, and the results can be infectious.
Bobby Nerves is an adrenaline junkie. A high-speed drummer in previous bands, and having grown up singing in a Bowie-loving household in Colchester, the Bad Nerves frontman spent years feeling torn between a love of catchy power-pop melodies and the fast-paced heaviness offered by punk and rock. It was only when his current band Bad Nerves assembled that he decided to combine the two.
“I used to think: “Right, I’ve got to write songs that are three and half minutes’,” he tells us. “I’d gotten a bit disillusioned. I’d started to think maybe I’m just shit at this. But this was the first time I stopped worrying about all that. I just thought: ‘What do I want to hear?’ ‘What feels good when I play or write it?’ I started to really enjoy the whole process. It’s so exciting to write in-your-face, balls-out rock’n’roll.”