We're No Heroes: Butterflies In Your Loins and the Urge To Twist Deep in Your Feet

Cardiff-based trio We're No Heroes are the perfect mixture of funk, rock and soothing vocals, delivering indie-disco hits guaranteed to get you on the dancefloor. Each song different from the last, it's clear why this band have amassed a substantial fanbase (they boast over 40,000 followers on Twitter alone). I was fortunate enough to chat to the lovely Luke Llewellyn (drums and vocals) to find out more about the band:

Firstly, let's get to know you – introduce yourselves, who does what in the band? Hi Kirsty. In We're No Heroes we have Tom Collins on the six string electric guitar with effects, Michael Owen a.k.a Dewey back in School on the four string electric bass guitar. Myself on drums and vocals but we all chip in a harmony or two. At what point did you know you wanted to make music and how was We're No Heroes formed? We all came together at the time we were all at school where we were doing music class anyway. So for us all I think I can say some of our earliest memories were of music and wanting to do it. Myself & Dewey were in and out of bands with dodgy names together at school for years. We're still in a band with a dodgy name to be honest. We eventually found ourselves without a guitar player to jam with but we knew specifically what we wanted them to sound like and what kind of music we wanted to play. Tom is Dewey's cousin and recommended him. Our very first jams together were around that time in a factory after working hours between machinery and office chairs. We're No Heroes formed out of that a few years later in Chicago. That's another story. What can you tell us about your upcoming single, YOUTH? It's gonna give you the butterflies in your loins and the urge to twist deep in your feet. You played at Truefest earlier this month, how was that experience? It was a nice stage to play on. You're always going to enjoy playing under the sun at a festival to a beautiful group of people who are well up for it. It's one of the more unique festivals we've done and it was a lot of fun. We couldn't stay too long unfortunately as we had to drive off to another festival the next day. Do you have a favourite song to play live? At the moment we're all really in to playing a new track we've just added to the set. It's yet to have an official title and hasn't been recorded yet which we can't wait to do. I think it's the most fun we've had on stage playing a song and so far it's had a great reaction from the crowds we've played it to. It's all about pressure. Pressure is all around you whether you like it or not and sometimes you just can't get away from it. We've tried to make the track sound like it's building like that and then just explode, which is something all three of us have been feeling a lot of recently. What do you guys do away from music? Toms a graphic designer when he puts his guitar down and does posters for local gigs. Dewey is a dog lover and spends long periods of time running around the Welsh mountains with his pack until he needs to come play a gig in which we have a special whistle we blow that only he can hear. I do nothing but play drums and sing. It's no exaggeration. It's all I can do to be honest. I tried everything else and failed so I took that as the universe's way of saying stick to your guns. If you could tour with one artist (dead or alive) who would it be? Rick James & The Stone City Band 1978 line-up. Can you remember the first record you ever bought? The first record I bought was the very first Ramones album which I always get accused of trying to sound cool when I answer, but the first song I requested on the radio was Spice Girls; Spice Up Your Life on Dragon FM. What’s been the best show you’ve played? We've played many we love. One that sticks in our minds when we get asked this question is 60 Million Postcards in Bournemouth. We gave out around 40 fake tattoos we'd won on the arcade machines on the sea front to people in the crowd. Things got real frisky after that for some reason and there was a lot of shenanigans to be had that night. We had to pull some guy off of dancing on our merch table. We were like "dude, those are our T Shirts man?!". Festival Number 6, Truck Fest, Liverpool Sound City, SWN, Dot To Dot & HUB Cardiff jump to mind as great gigs too. What have you got in store for the rest of the year? We're looking to put out new music we've been recording in the future and just get this new live set out to as many people as we can. We're real proud of it and I think its the best we've ever sounded live for sure.