The Coin Flip Interviews: Wedgy

Stub caught up with Wedgy at the defacto home of the Coin Flip Interviews; the New Headingley Club. For those not in the know about the premise, the flip of a coin decides the questions put to the band. Heads, a serious one. Tails, something a bit weird. 

Tails: Would you rather have a drum kit that screams every time it’s hit or a bassist who slowly turns into a pigeon during the encore? 

Ben: Well, as the bassist I think I’m going to go with the drum kit that screams please. Is that alright Will? Sam? 

Sam: Yeah, I’m alright with that. You can already do that with a midi pad can’t you. 

Stub: You would be very close to egg punk basically.

Will: Either of them would give ‘an edge’ in my opinion. 

Conor: It could replace Ben’s patter between songs. 

Sam: It’s just in the encore though, right? Would he turn back to Ben after?

Stub: Well, no, this is a one-way pigeon. 

Conor: Well, we’ve not done an encore so Ben’s safe for now. 

Ben: Well, let’s hope we never blow up enough to deserve an encore. 

Will: Because it’s goodbye Ben if so. Well, I’d go and see a band whose bassist turned into a pigeon at the end of a set. 

Ben: It would be a few extra ticket sales and a good TikTok video. 

Heads: Stub quarterly is a celebration of the past, present, and future of the Leeds music scene. 

We want to know, first, who are your favourite Leeds band that are no longer with us (to clarify, disbanded, not dead)

 **Collective thinking time**

Will: Eagulls are the first band who come to mind to be fair. 

Ben: Eagles?

Will: Yeah, with a ‘u’.

Stub: Seagulls without the ‘S’. Eagulls would be our answer, so that really is the perfect answer. 

Will: What happened to Eagulls? 

Stub: Well, there’s a couple of side project bands now. The front man is in Honesty? who are signed to Partisan. A couple of the other guys were temporarily in a band called Eternal Vape who were around in 2025, released one EP and have dipped basically. Check out Eternal Vape though, they were great. 

Secondly, who are your favourite Leeds band currently? 

Will: I’ve listed to a lot of Fuzz Lightyear; I’ve seen them a lot live, and the new EP is really good as well. 

Ben: I’ve really enjoyed the last two Static Caravan shows. They played the Brude and they were on the line up with us at the Fenton. They’ve got a good range of left field songs with poppy vibes even though it’s firmly rock music. 

Conor: I’d go Adult DVD. 

Will: Yeah, they are killing it aren’t they. 

Ben: That would have been my real answer, but they don’t need another plug. 

Last part, hot tip, who is the future of the Leeds music scene? 

Will: During our first real gig as a band, we played with Contrail and they are killing it. They are releasing their next record with Private Regcords and we are playing Back to Back Festival in January alongside them as well. 

Conor: Fossick as well off the back of that. 

Will: Yeah! I meant to say Fossick as part of the last question to be fair. I think Fossick are the most blown away I’ve been by a band in Leeds. 

Stub: Sheer volume? 

Will: Yeah, it’s just like big noise and they are ace! 

Stub: We saw them supporting Treeboy and Arc in January 2025 at Hyde Park Book Club. They were shaking the tables upstairs so yeah, it was loud.

Ben: Yeah, we were there as well. They had two percussionists; one on a kit and one on drum pads. 

Will: It’s all been great to be fair. The Leeds music scene has been great. I moved back from Bristol just over a year ago and I was a bit disappointed to move back as the music scene was great there. I just never realised how good the music scene was here. Everyone’s so nice, supportive of each other, and we’ve made loads of friends in the scene. Have you seen Dinnerbone? They are great.

Ben: I would say Kiosk as well. Their first single is great. I saw them at a Worn Path show playing with Normal Village. That Kiosk set was something to behold. 

Heads: Which celebrity or person of interest would you like to see wearing your merch? 

Sam: Well for me, Lewis Hamilton as I’m a big one F1 Fan. 

**Collective Disagreement**

Sam: What!? He’s a well-dressed man! 

Ben: I don’t really have any heroes; I might have to come back to this one. Conor have you got an answer?

Will: These serious questions have got us.

Conor: I don’t really have any musical heroes right now. 

Sam: I can’t believe Lewis Hamilton got shot down so quickly when we can’t even think of any others

Ben: What about Jim E. Brown? We’ve been talking a lot about Jim E. Brown. I was listening to ‘The Queue at Greggs’ on the way home yesterday. I just can’t imagine him ever wearing a t-shirt though because he’s always wearing a turtleneck.  

Conor: The opportunity was there; we were playing at the same time as him! 

Ben: That’s true. He was playing Mabgate Bleach on the day we were doing our headliner at Headrow House. We should have made some time to pop over and give him some merch. 

Conor: Who did you message, what’s he called, Big John (Media Personality, known for ordering Chinese Food. Also known as the ‘The Boshfather)? 

**Collective approval for Big John**

Ben: Big John was at York Races on the day we were playing the Fulford Arms so I popped him a message saying ‘Hey Mate, I know you are going to be walking past the Fulford Arms on your way back to your hotel from the races so pop in as there’s going to be some lovely rock and roll music playing, if you want to call it that’. Let’s go with Big John…and that was a serious question! 

Tails: If your music could make one inanimate object dance, what would choose, and would you apologise to it afterwards? 

**Collective awe**

Ben: We sort of had this conversation… 

Stub: This came up recently?! 

Ben: …Well, we’ve got a mate, George Townend who has his own art project called ‘In the Flat Field’. He also plays guitar in Treeboy and Arc. He did a lovely rubber hose cartoon style storm cloud for us for our t shirts. That’s like our only iconography right now and the closest thing we’ve got to a logo so I guess the answer is a storm cloud as we already have that. It would be great for that little character from our t-shirt to rock up to a gig one day, have it dance around, and give it a high five afterwards. I don’t think we would say sorry. If anything, we would say you’re welcome because we brought you into existence and you have a wonderful life ahead of you. 

Conor: Is it not firing lightning out of itself because it’s so excited by the music? 

Stub: Sounds fucking dangerous. 

Conor: Yeah, we might say sorry to the crowd afterwards.

Heads: You gave the world your debut EP in November, what comes next? 

Will: We did the music video for ‘The Realm’ which was great. The EP went down really well. It’s the first time it’s not just been me in my bedroom recording it. We are working on some new tunes now which we played at our headline gig at Headrow. 

Ben: Yeah, there’s a couple I’m particularly keen to record and put out. They are a little bit different to the stuff that has already been released. A bit jammier. 

Connor: I think the new ones that are coming out/ have been written are the first songs, for me and Sam, that weren’t already there when we joined the band and there’s been more collaboration on them which has been nice.