We Are Scientists playing Kendal Calling 2023 (Gary Mather)
We Are Scientists were a part of the Day 1 main stage.
We Are Scientists, The Lathums and Melanie C are among our highlights from the opening day of Kendal Calling 2023.
Keith Murray and Chris Cain have been on the festival trail after the release of their Lobes album right at the start of this year; ‘the name of a cereal of black spheres invented by Chris Cain’, according to Murray:
“Obviously, the record has little to do with breakfast, but I loved the associations that the word has with cerebral biology, and the evocation of sci-fi, and a sense of something both fundamentally human and utterly unknowable.”
“The word ‘lobes’ makes me think of the body horror films of David Cronenberg, but also of the chatty comedies of manners of Whit Stillman.”
I really love the reaction it evokes in people: everybody knows the word ‘lobes’, but for whatever reason, being challenged to define it consistently scares them, or angers them, or makes them laugh, or makes them tell me to shut up. What a great reaction to such a benign word. It’s also pretty fun to say. Lobes.