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any one group or anything, but we feel January 6th in America
[referring to the attack on the Capitol in Washington in 2021]
happened because of a push of a button, and I would say that
was pretty culty."
"It's probably a bad thing and, generally, people are rational
thinkers", Tony is keen to express, before Danyell clarifies with
a big smile, "We're a cult too, but we're a good one, so it just
depends on which one you are joining."
"If you're in our cult, everything is cool," Tony enthusiasti-
cally concludes.

ead Posey initially formed in 2016. They released EPs
Dentitled ‘Freak Show’, ‘Malfunction’ and ‘Malfunction X
Broken Down’, before bringing the full-length ‘Are You In A Cult?’
album into the world in 2024.
Danyell tells us, "As an artist, I feel having an album is such
a gratifying feeling because it's such a body of work and it puts
you into a certain world for that album. For us, just getting out
of the EP pigeonhole, it has been such a satisfying experience
and I feel, because of it, we have gained more fans who have
gotten into this world we have created. And being able to bring
this to our live show atmosphere has been everything.
"So, it is very important and we are already looking towards
album number two."
Tony adds, "We grew up with albums like a lot of music and
rock fans, and, in this day and age, it's so easy to just put out
singles, which is what you are supposed to do. You are sup-
posed to feed the algorithm and keep new things coming, but
there is something to be said for having a collection of songs in
a certain order, and I think a lot of fans still appreciate that.
"And yeah, the album can have its own world, so it's very
gratifying and we are definitely going to keep making albums,
even if a lot of the stuff does come out as singles."
Jumping in, Danyell offers, "That's the difference now. You
might milk it out with seven, even eight singles instead of two or
three, so, by the time the album comes out, there are only two
or three songs that haven't already come out because you're
milking a different system now, but we still like to have the col-
lection of songs at the end of it."

hree of the album highlights, 'Can't Take Me Down',
T'sorry i'm not dead' and their cover of 'Blue Monday'
carry a theme of defiance.
Danyell explains, “'sorry i'm not dead' was, very much so,
about any kind of toxic masculinity kind of thing..."
"Are you talking about me?" Tony interrupts, to question with
a playful laugh.
"Just in general in the world," Danyell continues, assuring
that her partner-in-crime is not at fault. "Once in a while, I still
get the trolls online saying, you know, misogynistic shit, and I'm
not bitter about it, it just makes you stronger, and it makes you
write more interesting things, sometimes. So, that one was very
much a ‘fuck you’ to that.
"There are a lot of females in rock now, but, for some rea-
son, even now, on the radio, there is still such a ratio mismatch,
so it's also a bit of a ‘fuck you’ to that as well.
"And ‘Can't Take Me Down’ was just about the music indus-
try. They'll cock-block you if you're not in the right systems and
stuff, so we just keep making our own and building our own cult
following and we feel it is very important to have that. And I feel,
because certain doors have shut on us, it's, weirdly, made us
stronger and more resilient.
"Whereas, if we'd had everything handed to us, maybe we
would be more like fat, happy house cats, kinda just sitting and
chilling and I feel that, because we're more like street cats, we
have to fight for our meals.
"Even with this headlining tour. We would have never
thought to have done our own shows this year. We did them be-
cause we weren't getting much in our inbox. And so we thought,
‘Well, fuck this, let's go and play our own shows. We have our
fans, who cares if there are 30 or 100 people, let's do it!’
"But we are in a system where the industry says, ‘Don't go
and play your own shows’, because, if you don't have enough
people, they will frown on that and think you're shit.
"I go back, though, to the roots of punk rock. You're playing
in little bars and building a cult following and I feel 'Can’t Take

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