Little Man Tate lay into fellow Sheffield bands

Little Man Tate have admitted they were surprised by the reaction of Sheffield bands in the aftermath of the city's recent flooding problems.

The group played a fund-raising gig for the victims of the recent severe weather in the city at the Plug venue on Saturday (August 4).

Speaking about the event, singer Jon Windle told NME.COM: “I was surprised that more Sheffield bands weren’t playing. I think there were people who have more power in the industry could have done something, but I guess they were too busy or something."

Windle also revealed that the band were working on songs for the follow up to their debut album ’About What You Know’, which came out earlier this year.

He said: “We’ve started demoing the new songs, so hopefully we’ll be able to play some of them. We played three already - ‘What Your Boyfriend Said’, ‘Boy In The Anorak’ and ‘A Time For Anything’. So we might be able to play them.

“The songwriting has moved on a bit. It’s hard to write about the same things again. Musically it’s more mature. Lyrically it’s less giddy. When we wrote (the songs on their debut) we didn’t really think it would go on an album, I think that with these ones we want people to talk about us as a good band. We don’t want to disappear. We don’t want to appear gimmicky. We want to prove that we’re a proper band.”

The band are set to play a big show at Blackpool’s Empress Ballroom on December 15.

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