With his olive green coat, faded jeans, steel toe capped boots and gradually receding hairline, Goldy looks more like a farmer than a guitarist whose band has successfully managed to dominate the mainstream world of NME twaddle whilst maintaining the support from the punk scene that honed them. “It’s made no difference apart from the amount of emails we get from shit promoters or people who make music videos” he says, although he does believe it’s something good to show the parents. “It’s something they can relate to ‘cos they used to get it when they were kids. It sort of justifies what you’re doing to them as opposed to saying “hew Mam, we playin’ with Fucked Up tonight’”.

Eagulls formed in the summer of 2010 in the city of Leeds, although none of them are from Leeds with Goldy being from Durham and the rest coming from towns across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Since forming they have released a demo tape entitled Songs of Prey, a 7’’ single through Not Even Records and a split 7’’ with Mazes via Italian Beach Babes Records.

With things moving so fast they decided it was best to find themselves a manager. “We want to concentrate on writing new songs so it seemed logical. It’s not like our manager wears a flash suit and drives a sports car, he looks like badly drawn boy and lives in a bedsit, he’s at most of our gigs getting pissed with us”. The main reason they decided to hire a manager was to filter the good promoters from the ‘shitehawks’. “There are great promoters who do it for selfless reasons and do not expect to financially profit from it, they’ll make the effort to cook you some nice food and hang out with you. If only there were more of them in the world. Some promoters put on several gigs every week therefore it become almost a job so understandably they take a profit from it, it might go into them putting records out or having funds to fall back on when they don’t make bands guarantees, they might spend it on coke and shit clothes. If the gig has been promoted well, we are paid our guarantee, been fed and watered and if applicable put up for the night then we are generally happy”.

Before forming Eagulls, all the members were somehow involved in the hardcore punk scene. Most prominently with Goldy playing in Hordes and fellow guitarist Liam Matthews playing in Fast Point. But they haven’t quite turned their back on hardcore yet, “the amount of gigs Fast Point and Hordes were playing, we were inevitably at more hardcore shows or whatever; but now most of our spare time and cash is taken up keeping Eagulls going. It’s just how it is. We still go round Leeds basement gigs or get over to Sheffield gigs when we can. There are still plenty of bands we’re into; we just don’t have an active role in it at the moment”. Although with that being said they don’t plan on returning to bands from their past as rumors about a Hordes reunion began to circulate. “No, we talk about it now and again when we are wrecked but none of us have the time and I doubt anyone aside from our mates would be bothered about coming to see us anyway”.

“The one thing I do find annoying is that we have to lug our own cabs and drum kit about most of the time since a lot of bands we play with don’t play with those set ups”, he says on the twee sounds of bands Eagulls have encountered recently, “but if we wanna be loud that’s our problem”.