SLIX: An Interview

SLIX are a 5 - Piece indie punk band who are eager to make a change with their original tunes talking about mental heath issues in adolescents.

Study's show that there has been a significant rise in adolescents with mental health issues young people in England reported having a long-standing mental health condition between 1995 and 2014 (from 0.8% to 4.8%) that is the increase of 6 times over the course of 20 years.

SLIX was recently nominated for an Inverclyde Community Champion for the musician of the year category the main reason for their nomination was because of the majority of their songs being about mental health and school stress.

We thought we should ask them a few questions about who they are as a band and how they're feeling about the nomination.

• How did the band name come about?

After hearing the word “Slizz” in a video Paul suggested it as the band name which became “SLiXZ” and then evolved into “Slix” and that’s what we’ve been using for ages.

• How do you all know each other?

Cameron (Drums), Robbie (Vocals), Niven (Guitar), Paul (Guitar) and Erin (Management) all met in a NPA Music Business class run at WCS and Harvey (Bass) was in school with some of the boys and we decided to make a band after continuous sessions of jamming.

• What is your favorite thing about being in the band?

Starting to write a song and seeing it slowly come together into a full thing, especially since it’s the kind of that none of us have really written.

• How does it feel to be playing in Glasgow and highlighting issues like mental health with your music?

Playing in Glasgow is great because there’s lots of great venues and a really fast-growing scene of punk and indie bands that seem to be getting a lot more buzz recently. We’ve never actively went out to write about mental health we just always wrote about what we heard and saw, real life issues in the world around us so this issue just comes naturally to us as we’ve all dealt with and know people who has as well.

• How does it feel to be nominated for an Inverclyde Community Champion Award?

Getting Nominated is quite mental because we didn’t have a clue who put us forward until especially because we’ve only played a few shows but we’re all really happy and buzzing about it.

• Does this mean a lot to know someone has put you forward because they believe in you?

Yeah, we are really grateful that people like our stuff before we’ve properly released anything apart from a few videos on Instagram and this makes us really hopeful for the future especially because our single “Chongawongabonged” is coming out on the 8th of march and doing a gig the week after on the 15th

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