![]() And also we wanted to see if anyone would give a s***. A lot of people are saying ‘aren’t you doing any more?’ We physically can’t. “ would be saying ‘I’ve got these dates and five people want those dates’. “You’ve got three years’ worth of people trying to do gigs,” Archer explains. After just four posters appeared on the London Underground bearing their lurid yellow warning sign CCTV camera logo and a date, they sold out a reunion show at London’s Kentish Town Forum in ten minutes and would have played more if the dates had been available. The haircut is appropriate: it’s now 17 years since the band’s debut album Stars of CCTV ram-raided the UK charts, but Hard-Fi are undergoing a Semtex blast of popularity. He was champion of the skint but shot-crazed, a roaring mouthpiece for the left-behind street stars of surveillance culture Britain. He’s as energised as he ever was when leading some of the most raucous gig scenes this writer saw that entire disrespected decade, when entire Academies would be bouncing right back to the (drunk dry) bar to clock-off clubland punk anthems “Hard To Beat” and “Living For The Weekend”. ![]() Richard Archer, singer with Staines’ indie rock massive Hard-Fi, arrives at a Thames-side Richmond boozer with his bright blue eyes flashing and the jaw-length hair he sported pre-pandemic shorn back to his classic indie bovver-boy cut. ![]() ![]() For a second, it’s like 2005 has barged into the pub demanding respect. ![]()
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