Outblinker discuss their origins: Video interview

Outblinker's Jason Costello, Luigi Pasquini and Chris Cusack talk us through the band's formation and ethos – they play The Skinny's Pleasance Session at the Pleasance Theatre on Saturday 10 Oct, alongside BDY_PRTS, RM Hubbert and Blanck Mass (aka Benjamin Power, who is acting as producer on Outblinker's debut album).

How Outblinker came together:
"We all sort of knew each other from playing in these bands and being involved in Glasgow. Chris was one of the people who came up with the idea of putting us all together in this new project… it was a case of ‘Let’s get people in the same room who we sort of enjoy the company of, and who have intersections with our music tastes’".

On the Glasgow music scene:
“Incestuous is an interesting phrase, because to avoid that you have to come from a much bigger pool of people – New York, Los Angeles, London. There’s an irony in the sense that, the more incestuous a scene, the more it makes the quality of the bands better.

"People are all getting these other projects out the way, they’re working and learning with different musicians, and the actual bands that are breaking through are of a higher standard. No offence to Londoners, but the standard of band in Glasgow is much higher, and that goes for Leeds, Brighton, Bristol. Incest usually results in weaker genetic material, yet with music, it’s inverse in that respect.”

On the importance of their live show:
“If we had a constitution that would be one of the main things; no laptops. I think there’s been an element of performance lost in a lot of live music. Music is always a risk.”

“We wanted to have something that was dangerous. That could go wrong live. That could be different every time, had an unpredictable element, and was back to being visceral and created in the moment.

On their forthcoming album:
“We’re going to do seven days working on these tracks, going to make a record that captures the focused level of being in an intensive situation, allowing for lots of experimentation and ideas to evolve very quickly rather than over a number of months.