Blue Bendy: the south London post-punk pop band who fried Wire’s brains
The six-piece have shaken off the grotty post-punk associations of their scene to gleefully mix up inspirations that range from orchestral pop to industrial rock

From London, England
Blue Bendy singer Arthur Nolan is discussing the band’s early days. “Before post-punk got so lethargic and landfill we were trying to be like Wire,” he says. “We wanted to do stuff like them on the weirder side of guitar music. Pop was a dirty word at the time.”