INTERVIEW
In every musical career that extends beyond a couple of records, there are times when it seems appropriate for a band to return. And maybe the summer of 2018, with its heat-haze shimmer overlaying a country uneasy with itself in the wake of the Brexit vote, represented just such a moment for Cornershop.
This, after all, is a band that first came to attention in the early 1990s during the dog days of the John Major administration, when Cornershop were one of few all-male bands allied to the radicalism of the Riot Grrrl movement. And it’s really not so far from feminist punk, arguments over Maastricht and Morrissey saying questionable things to #MeToo, Brexit and, well, Morrissey saying questionable things.