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Glasvegas frontman James Allan has admitted feeling disillusioned over the knife crime culture which is currently sweeping the UK.

The singer has admitted that every time he reads about a stabbing it "strikes" him with "total shock".

He said: "I guess there's a big list of potential roots to the problem. There are definitely frustrations in the youth which have been in our culture for quite a while.

"But no matter how many times you read about it, it strikes you with total shock, the lack of humanity. Or like I say in (album track) 'Ice Cream Van' 'pure community, freedom of faith, act of citizenship'.

"You know, there's no-one's actually saying, 'Grow a heart, man'. How could you actually harm another person? What's happening to us man?"

The singer, whose band's forthcoming debut album features the track 'Flowers & Football Tops', which is lyrically inspired by the murder of a 15-year-old Glaswegian who was abducted near James's home, stabbed 13 times and drenched in petrol, said knife crime was common in his hometown.

He told The Guardian: "It's been in the news a lot in London, but in Glasgow it's always been like that. If you grow up in Glasgow, you've been chased with something. I've been chased with a five iron!"

Between April 2007 and March 2008 up to 7,409 knife crime attacks were reported in London alone.

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