Mit zwei Nummer-1-Alben und sechs Top-20-Singles in Großbritannien sind Hard-Fi wahrscheinlich erfolgreicher als man spontan denken würde. Sicherlich nie die coolste Band der Post-Libertines-Welle, aber mit zumindest dem Indie-Ska-Pop-Album „Stars of CCTV“ und seinen beiden besten Singles „Hard To Beat“ und „Tied Up Too Tight“ doch der Erinnerung wert. 2011 erschien noch ein drittes, nicht mehr ganz so erfolgreiches Album, danach war für 15 Jahre Ruhe im Hard-Fi-Karton bis nun verspätet Album Nummer 4 veröffentlicht wird.

* Your three favourite Punk singles/songs?

** Solitary Confinement – The Members

** Anarchy In The UK – Sex Pistols

** Smash It Up – The Damned

* A record that will make you dance?

Miss You – Rolling Stones

* Your favourite song lyrics?

„Hey tell this jerk to take a hike
There’s somethin‘ ‚bout that boy I don’t like“
„Well sugar he don’t mean the things he said“
„Just get him outta my way, ‚cause I’m seeing red
We got plans to make, we got things to buy
And you’re wasting time on some creepy guy“
„Hey shut up chick, that’s a friend of mine
Just watch your mouth babe, you’re out of line”

Wham – Young Guns (Go For It)

* The best “new” artist / band right now?

London Bones: Some older blokes who’ve been there and done that and don’t give a shit about getting likes and shares with great lyrics

* Your favourite song about rebellion/revolution?

Street Fighting Man – Rolling Stones

* Your favourite song last year?

‘This Is What It Sounds Like’ – Kpop Demon Hunters!!!

* Your favourite movie about music – and why?

Back Beat – not perhaps the best but found is so exciting when it came out and they did a great job of making the band sound raw and live.

* The best song you’ve ever written / recorded?

I still really like ‘Move On Now’ and it always takes me right back to the moment I wrote it.

* Arctic Monkey, The Libertines or Franz Ferdinand – which one do you prefer and why?

Probably Franz because „Take Me Out“ is such a banger

* Your favourite german song/record?

DAF – Der Mussolini

* Your favourite record of all time?

Change Is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke

(Antworten: Sänger Richard Archer)

Das neue Album von Hard-Fi, „Sweating Someone Else’s Fever“, erscheint im Juni 2026