WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU…
Shedding band members but swaggering on, The Treatment are betting on their fortunes taking an upturn with fifth album Waiting For Good Luck. All this while telling tales of liquor, vampires, serial killers and getting pranked by Alice Cooper.
Words: Henry Yates
SAM GALE/PRESS
Adecade is a lifetime in rock’n’roll. Back in 2011, we first met The Treatment on the heels of their cracking debut album This Might Hurt, and got friendly with a juiced-up gang of longhairs who shared a love of AC/DC, a squalid flophouse outside Cambridge and dreams of world domination. Back then, as they opened for Alice Cooper and treated the title of debut single Drink, Fuck, Fight like a to-do list, it seemed that the universe was destined to bend to The Treatment’s will. “We love doing this, and we’re always going to be doing this,” singer Matt Jones told us, with an easy grin.
“I remember doing the Alice Cooper tour,” drummer Dhani Mansworth says now, “and it was the worst thing I’ve ever experienced on stage. We went out, and all my gear was covered in talcum powder, we had a geezer in a chicken suit chucking eggs at us. They even put double-sided gaffa tape on the floor. So, like, none of us had any shoes on by the second song.”